Spasms are contractions of muscles that can affect any part of the body. When muscles tighten and refuse to relax, it can lead to pain, stiffness, or discomfort. There are many kinds of spasms that you can experience. Spasms can occur in your muscles, internal organs and even blood vessels.
Your body is made up of approximately 36 billion cells. Every day, these cells divide and multiply to produce replica cells. The old ones die and are ultimately removed. It is the great game of life being played out on a minute to minute basis. Occasionally, some cells become senescent.
I don’t know how old you are. But growing up, we had vast swathes of time doing nothing. We also spent a lot of our time doing just one thing. But today, attention is an acquired skill. You need to work on it to be able to pay attention
Most of us spend our days surrounded by artificial light. From the moment we wake up, we switch on a bulb, look at our phones, sit under ceiling lights, and work on screens. What does artificial light do to the human body? We do not realize is that artificial light
When was the last time you built up a sweat? In the world of natural healing, few things are as underappreciated as sweating. So, anything that promotes sweating helps. A diaphoretic is a substance, often herbs, that helps the body induce perspiration. Simple as it may sound, the process plays
When someone experiences asthma, the first instinct is often to breathe faster. It is easy to believe that breathing faster would mean taking in more air. In reality, rapid breathing can make asthma worse. Fast, shallow breaths reduce the time for proper gas exchange in the lungs. Gas exchange is
We often think of uric acid as a problem caused by eating too much protein. But is the actual cause fructose? Fructose, in case you are not aware, is one of the three sugars that you consume. Along with glucose and sucrose, that is. Fructose is a simple sugar found
We often speak about a clean, healthy lifestyle. One in which we are eating healthy food. But perhaps it might help to ask the question in reverse. What does an unhealthy diet do to you? Your body is designed to sense nutrients. This capacity allows you to turn the tap
Every child should learn to play the piano. In fact, actually, every man, woman or child should. Not merely as an artistic pursuit, but as a scientific exercise in developing the brain. Let me explain why. The piano is unique because it engages both hands and, in many cases, both
There is a new debate on the internet. Should you have strength, should you be fast or should you have endurance? So what should it be? If you are confused about what these terms mean, let us first define them. Strength could be defined as the ability to lift at
We breathe approximately 25,000 times every day. Depending on where you live, the air you breathe contains microscopic particles known as particulate matter. Tiny fragments of dust, soot, smoke, and metal travel deep into the lungs and eventually enter the bloodstream. How does this really affect you? When foreign
Thoughts are what we call emergent. They arise as an outcome of something else occurring. This may come as a surprise, but the primary driver of thought is your physical body. Breath, heart rate, hormones. Nutrition even. Thinking is not just something your brain does. It emerges as your brain