Finding Drug-Free Solutions For Your Aching Back

Understanding what happens when we sleep  Scientists have identified four different sleep stages which reoccur during the night. Their frequency and duration will vary during the night and each one has a distinct purpose. A sleep cycle is composed of multiple sleep stages. Typically each sleep cycle will take between 90 minutes and 110 minutes [...]

Why sleep is so important for our health We all spend, on average, one third of our life asleep. The need to sleep is hard wired into all animals and yet we still don’t fully understand why we have to sleep.  A lack of sleep impacts everything which we do and the symptoms will be [...]

Meditation – The Most Practiced Types Vipassana or Buddhist Meditation The objective is gain insight into the subject being meditated upon. The traditional subject is the impermanence of the world and the nature of suffering. The mind has to be stilled in preparation for Vipassana meditation. For many people Vipassana meditation and the many forms [...]

Looking At The Alternatives To Antidepressants Let’s talk about natural alternatives to taking antidepressants. We can list the most popular alternatives as follows: Addressing Chemical Imbalances Zinc supplements – The brain is where zinc tends to be used and a lack of this vital mineral has been shown to result in mood swings, mental functions [...]

Antidepressants, Suicide, Murder and Big Pharma Could Prozac be a driving force behind suicides and murders? Are the pharmaceutical companies hiding the dangers behind this widely used drug? How can we see this in perspective and more importantly what can we do about it? Key Facts Back in 1991, the FDA held a hearing to [...]

Omega 3 Benefits We’ve known for years that eating fish is good for the heart, helping to keep cholesterol and triglyceride levels in check . . . and we’ve heard that fish is “brain food,” and may even offer protection against Alzheimer’s disease. Recent studies have shown yet another benefit associated with eating fish: a [...]

Why I Tried The Alexander Technique Back pain can be with you all your life. Whilst there can be no cure it is always worth listening to how other people have dealt with it. This is my personal story about back pain. Sure this was never the continual debilitating pain which many people have to [...]

We spend over one third of our lives asleep but how often do you stop to think about what is the best sleeping position? We all have our favourites and rarely change them across the years. Each sleeping position has it’s own benefits and there are those who also believe that you can infer what [...]

Are Herbal Supplements Safe? Herbal ‘natural’ drugs are a huge market. From the acai berry to St. John’s Wort; for every ailment there seems to be a herbal solution. Yet what many people don’t realise is that herbal drugs are not subjected to the same trials and tests as those considered medicines. This means that [...]

Not Just A Headache Following on from our previous post on migraine causes and treatments which highlighted the importance of understanding any triggers and anticipating the onset of attacks, we would like to talk a little about non-drug based migraine remedies. Before we get into the nitty gritty let’s step back a little and just [...]