For lupus patients, the immune system is triggered to fight healthy tissues and organs of the body. This can cause inflammation throughout parts of the body, and symptoms ranging from redness and swelling of the skin to soreness and pain in muscles can occur. Autoimmune diseases can often lead...
When you experience stress, your body goes into “fight or flight” mode, diverting its attention from healing and digestion. Instead, it goes into emergency mode, pumping your body full of adrenaline to prepare it to survive what your body perceives to be a life-threatening event. Many peop...
If you’ve been hearing about the ketogenic diet in relation to treating or eliminating inflammation in the body, there’s good reason: aside for being great for weight loss, the ketogenic diet is a naturally anti-inflammatory diet. When on a keto diet, you reduce your carbohydrate/sugar int...
Find Your Community, Fight for Your Care I started Spoonie Chat (a Twitter hashtag and weekly forum for anyone living with ankylosing spondylitis), a chronic illness, or an invisible disability) as a welcoming space for women and people of color. Then my life just switched to online. And ...
This purplish, marbled rash looks webbed like lace. Inflammatory conditions (like lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome) can cause it. You’d usually get this on your arms and legs. You might notice it more in the cold. There’s not much you can do to treat the rash itself, but your docto...
Gilroy is known as the queen of herbs and used to treat various conditions. Learn the uses, nutritional facts, health benefits, and side effects of this herbal shrub.
number of times your chest rises and falls until the timer goes off. It may be helpful to enlist a loved one or care provider to help you measure your respiration, as observing your own breath may cause you to breathe more slowly than you naturally would, leading to an inaccurate result....
However, short stories and novels are different—so naturally, how you write them has its differences, too. Short stories are often a fiction writer’s first introduction to writing, but they can be frustrating to write and difficult to master. How do you fit everything that makes a great ...
I was diagnosed with herpes virus for the past 4 months, it wasnt easy for me cause the outbreak was really showing up than i expected,i really had to fight for my life cause it was not easy for me. i wont really wish anyone to experience what i passed through, BUT that was definit...
And last but not least, we address the habits of mind that can directly damage bone — stress, worry, anxiety and other negative mental states. Very few medical practitioners understand that the body’s first response to stress is to destroy bone in order to support the flight-or-fight resp...