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Chronic Loneliness Can Invite Chronic Disease

Written by J.J.

I recently listened to a friend of mine explain how she was fighting a medical diagnosis of Depression. "I'm not depressed," she insisted, "I'm lonely!"  Her fight will resonate with three of five Americans who reported experiencing loneliness even before Covid isolationism spread across our country. Chronic Loneliness isn't medically treatable but can trigger serious health conditions that require medical attention. One in three older Americans live alone and are disproportionately impacted by the mental and physical effects of loneliness.  Are you lonely or know someone who is? 

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Finding Opportunity in Change

Written by J.J.

It's natural to feel discouraged, worried, fearful or overcome by change. When we experience changing circumstances in our personal lives while we try to cope with an outer world of change and transition seeing anything clearly can be difficult. Yet, one of the best ways to avoid the harmful stress often triggered by change is to look for the opportunities it brings. If you've just suffered a loss or trauma it may be too soon to see with objectivity yet a time may come when letting go of today's re-orientation will point to opportunities in tomorrow. Sourcing for opportunity is a skill anyone can develop.  If you're ready for some techniques to strengthen your resilience and find opportunity please read on.

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Will DNA Tests Guide Us To Optimal Health?

Written by J.J.

You've probably heard of 23&me or seen the Ancestry ads about surprising DNA analyses. What we're learning from DNA testing broadens our self knowledge and is propelling the nascent science of Nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics doesn't evaluate ancestry yet it's results can be similarly surprising.  Nutrigenomics studies DNA to reveal how food influences our gene expressions and how genetic variations may dictate our individual reaction to certain foods. One size, it turns out, doesn't fit all in nutritional recommendations. In fact, it's not so much that we are what we eat. Who we become is more influenced by how we eat.

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Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are And Please Wear a Mask

Written by J.J.

Mayors and Governors of most states are beckoning us now to come out, come out. Cautiously we're getting a haircut once more, going to the doctor again and perhaps eating in restaurants as before. The intrepid ones are enjoying gatherings or celebrating with groups of friends. Of course, some of you provide "essential" services and never stopped going out. You held the economy up and provided groceries and medicine for us all. Thank you. I hope you're staying safe. Sooner or later we knew the moment would come when the quarantine would ease or end. Yet unlike the Munchkins, who emerged to the urging of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, to find that the Wicked Witch of the East was dead, our Wicked Corona virus can't be killed by a falling house, a bucket of water, or magical thinking. So, how will we ever get back to Kansas?

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