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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.
5 Tips on How to Cope With Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is one of those "hidden diseases" where you usually can't physically see what's going on, but it's still there. Because of this, doctors tend to write it off as something else or just outright say there's nothing wrong with you. What do you do when people say it's all in your head, and you genuinely feel like you're going crazy? Or when this illness is taking over and ruining your life?
By Savana Verret8 years ago in Longevity
Living With CP & Embracing Life as an Artist and Disability Advocate
My name is Emily Beatrice Goss and I am a disabled artist. The last year has been an incredible journey. The summer of 2016 began a new chapter of my life once I received my BA in Performing Arts at Boise State University. I officially became the first college graduate in my family, which became a HUGE milestone I will always be grateful for after the years of hard work and countless sleepless nights packed in a dark theatre for hours on end. On top of juggling back-to-back shows and an overwhelmingly packed school schedule, I continued living my life with Mild Cerebral Palsy. Professors, colleagues, peers, and close friends would constantly see me darting across the quad, running to auditions or production meetings or classes in my bright red motorized scooter with my production binders and scripts in tow. The whole process became a routine that I grew to love, and an experience I will never forget. The road certainly has not been easy, but I feel it's time to tell my story...
By Emily Goss8 years ago in Longevity
The C Word
When I woke up on October 21, 2012, I had no idea that my life was about to change for the worst. Before I begin to tell you my story, we must first go back a couple of years. Seventh grade summer going into the eighth grade, I was at my all time high playing softball every weekend and practicing every day. It was 2011 and I was a catcher so I was used to hard work. Life was good and free and I was enjoying my youth. Everything seemed perfect until one day, I noticed a lump on my throat. No biggie, like I said, I was a catcher. I was used to swollen lymph nodes because dust was constantly being thrown in my face. Usually, it would go away after a day or two, but not this lump. This lump grew.
By Taylor Barry8 years ago in Longevity
The Cons of Smoking Cigarettes for Smokers
Smoking cigarettes not only smells bad, but it is just as bad for you. The smell that lingers causing secondhand smoke that they banned from bars and restaurants is something to avoid. Ever wondered just how bad it is for your lungs and bodies or others around you every time you go on a smoke break? It's worse than some people think or like to admit. Every cigarette that you smoke takes away seven minutes of your lifetime. Doesn't sound like much, but if you do the math it adds up like it's black tar that builds up in your lungs. If you smoke one pack a day for a year that's 33 days out of your life and $2,920 dollars out of your pocket.
By Ruby Estelle 8 years ago in Longevity
What It's Like to Live With POTS
Upon standing, the body naturally disperses your blood to your legs and your belly, which causes low blood pressure because there is less blood flowing back into your heart. In the normal, healthy human body, baroreceptors near your heart and in the arteries of your neck sense this low pressure. In return, these receptors send a signal to your brain to make your heart beat faster and pump more blood, which stabilizes your blood pressure. POTS, which stands for Postural (obviously the position of your body whether it be standing, sitting, or laying) Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, is a form of low blood pressure that occurs when you sit up and stand from a laying down position.
By emily green8 years ago in Longevity
