Enjoy the outdoors! Being active outdoors in nature provides more brain benefits than the same amount of exercise would when done in a gym. A 30-minutes nature walk performed 3 or more times per walk as been shown to be as effective as anti-depressant medications in reducing depressive symptoms in mild to moderate depressed individuals. […]
Taking Charge of Your Aging
The new science of aging is shedding light on the coveted fountain of youth. Our midlife represents both risk and opportunity. As we creep into our middle years, we often begin to experience disruptive symptoms and face increased risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. It is at this critical time […]
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The Five Step Guide to Fighting Age Related Weight Gain
The Clear Cut Guide to Fighting Age Related Weight Gain Despite our collective obsession with counting calories, we are now the fattest generation in history. Obesity levels in Canadian adults have increased from 3 per cent in 2003 to 18.5 per cent in 2012, according to Statistics Canada, with the greatest rate of increase seen […]
How to Rekindle your Sexual Desire
How to Rekindle your Sexual Desire With Valentine’s Day soon approaching comes the question, what is the fix to a languishing libido? While men have many treatment options available to boost their sexual function, women have none. Despite how common the complaint may be, sexual health concerns and a languishing libido remains a complicated and hard to treat […]
A Complete Plan for Breast Healthy Living
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure When it comes to Breast Cancer, leading science can now take us beyond the Race for the Cure to root out disease through Prevention and Risk Modification Breast cancer results from uncontrolled growth of breast cells. About 1 in 8 Canadian women will develop invasive breast […]
How to Maintain a Healthy and Fit Brain
Maintain a Healthy and Fit Brain Our brains are more adaptive than we ever imagined. Neuroplasticity describes the amazing ability of our brains to reorganize and adapt itself to form new neural connections throughout life in response to interactions with our environment. Scientists have now shown that brain maps are adaptive and malleable and can […]
5 Things To Do Now For A Long, Healthy Life: A Doctor Explains
By Dr. Jennifer Pearlman Your health is not entirely predetermined by your genetic code. In fact, lifestyle and environment play a big role in determining how your genes get expressed, how healthy you will be, and how well you will age. In other words, you can age proactively. But to age well requires that we first […]
How To Expertly Navigate Menopause
By Dr. Jennifer Pearlman Menopause is an eventuality that all reproductive women will reach; her final menstrual period. It is, however, a somewhat useless term as we define the menopause only 12 months after the fact. This means that during the time a woman is likely to be most symptomatic she may not realize that […]
