The Oura ring for monitoring and improving sleep and activity
There are lots of wearable devices available now to monitor different aspects of your health. Today we’ll review the Oura ring that monitors sleep and activity. […]
Storm in a coffee cup | Should we be drinking coffee?
Coffee is probably the most popular beverage in the world. This is despite its history of negative research. So was that all a storm in a coffee cup? Should we or shouldn’t we drink our cup of coffee? […]
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber
We frequently consider sleep as a waste of time. We are too busy. Gosh, by the age of 90, on average we will have slept 32 years! Our minds automatically question what else we could have done with that time. So what does the latest research tell us about why we sleep? […]
Websites to check | zerobreastcancer.org
Zero Breast Cancer (Zerobreastcancer.org), or ZBC, is a non-profit organization based in Marin County, California. Both Kathie and I write a book review blog post for them once a month. But we haven't spoken much about them on our own blog...so [...]
Kara | Guided meditations for cancer patients
You know I’m one for acronyms, what with the name CALMERme, and our programs for clients -CAPABLEme and RESTOREDme. So when I heard about the website named KARA, I wanted to check it out. KARA, the acronym, stands for Kindness, Awareness, Rest and Allowing. But what is it? […]
A Laughter Box | The perfect gift for someone who is ill
Tuesday’s post gave some healthy holiday gift ideas that I hope caught your eye. Today, I want to focus on just one gift that is a lovely idea for someone who is ill. Whether it is a family member or friend, whether they have cancer or some other chronic illness, or maybe it’s someone who finds the holidays especially hard, why not consider putting together a laughter box for them… […]
Melatonin’s anti-estrogenic effects | Melatonin and cancer
We’ve looked at some studies that showed significant effects of melatonin on cancer and quality of life, but how does melatonin achieve this? There are several different mechanisms, but today we will focus on just one: melatonin’s anti-estrogenic effects. This might be important for breast cancer (BC) and other hormonal imbalances. […]
The Blue Zones Solution | Book review
The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner from National Geographic was one of my favorite health books from last year. It’s inspiring subtitle is “Eating and living like the world’s healthiest people” Dan’s research reveals how the world’s longest-lived people actually live their lives. It’s all about adding life to years, not just years to life. […]
Melatonin for palliative care | Melatonin & cancer
Melatonin is seen to have anti-cancer effects, as we saw in last week’s blog post. In addition to those benefits, it may also have other effects which could be useful in palliative care of cancer patients, when there are no other treatment options. […]
Melatonin and Cancer | How we make it and how it helps
If you’ve heard of melatonin, it’s probably in the context of sleep and preventing jet lag. It is often called the “sleep hormone”. But melatonin is far more than that. This series of blog posts will look at the different beneficial effects of melatonin, above and beyond its role in sleep – including it’s anti-cancer effects. […]
Getting your body and mind ready for surgery
I read an interesting paper published this year [1] entitled “Can we measure surgical resilience?” It is just a hypothesis at this stage, but the authors are looking at whether there are biomarkers in patients that can measure psychological resilience associated with improved surgery recovery and healing. […]
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