Healing and Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health provides a comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative treatments for mental health, with information and research on their effectiveness for treating specific disorders. Twenty-two chapters document research and the current practice of using complementary and alternative therapies in treating a number of disorders, including depression, […]
Exercise May Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
Exercise encourages the brain to work at optimum capacity, causing nerve cells to multiply, strengthening the neurons interconnections, and protecting them from damage associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Exercise can also help diseased and damaged nerves. Exercising causes nerve cells to release proteins called neurotrophic factors. One in particular, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), triggers numerous […]
Is It Mad Cow or Is It Alzheimer’s?
On the television show “Boston Legal,” William Shatner’s character was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but refers to it as Mad Cow. This is because many people who have Alzheimer’s are suspected to actually have the human version of Mad Cow Disease. Unfortunately, a diagnosis can only be made after death. Mad cow disease is a […]
Paleolithic Diet
The Paleolithic, or caveman diet, is a reversion to the foods eaten by humans prior to the advents of civilization, agriculture, and technology. Before those developments, the human diet during the Stone Age is thought to have consisted largely of lean red meat and vegetation. Some dietary experts also think that the original diet of […]