Stress Directly Triggers Addiction, New Study Shows
Direct Link Between Stress and Addiction Found - https://t.co/rwLwvh4egR via @neurosciencenew #Addiction #mentalhealth #alcohol #substanceusedisorder #health #lifestylemedicine #pavingwellness #HealthyLivingCommunity #WellnessJourney
Letting Go of Others' Urgency Expands Your Peace
Your peace expands every time you choose not to make someone else's urgency your responsibility.
AI-Powered Personalization Boosts Diabetes Control and Reduces Medication
The transformative use of AI in healthcare isn't just about discovering new drugs and treatments — it's also about applying the known science to our daily behaviors in new ways. A great example comes from a recent study by Dr....
AHA’s 9‑Step Diet Blueprint for Better Heart Health
https://t.co/WV8Wkh9pPV 9 steps to improve heart health, per new dietary guidance from AHA The AHA’s guidance outlines 9 core components of a dietary pattern associated with improved cardiovascular health: 1. balancing calorie intake with physical activity to maintain a healthy weight 2. eating a...
Three Moves to Strengthen Core, Hips, Relieve Back Pain
Low back pain Often it comes down to a lack of strength and control around the spine and hips. These 3 exercises help with exactly that. They improve rotation, strengthen your core and hip flexors, and build better control of your hips. The...
Harvard Professor Explains Rise in Youth Meaninglessness
Since 2008, the number of young people who feel their life is meaningless has exploded. Harvard professor @arthurbrooks has a theory about why — and a plan. https://t.co/seL4Dca2Pg
Positive Game Review Boosts Hormones, Performance; Negative Harms
Research on professional rugby players found that watching what they did wrong after a game led to elevated cortisol and worse performance the next game. Watching what they did well had the opposite effect, a bump in testosterone and better...
Build Physical, Cognitive, Social,
Lift weights to build your physical reserve Educate yourself to build your cognitive reserve Build relationships to build your social reserve Work smarter and harder to build your financial reserve You will thank yourself in 50 years as you'll be levels above everyone else
7 Steps to Keep Connection Through Conflict
How To Maintain Connection During Conflict: 1. Practice Active Listening. 2. Use "I" Statements. 3. Validate And Empathize. 4. Take "Timeouts.” 5. Be Curious, Not Defensive. 6. Take Accountability. 7. Express Appreciation.
Structured Exercise Boosts Recovery After Colon Cancer Chemotherapy
Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/Q2DtXIX8vI #exercise #cancer #lifestylemedicine #health #exerciseismedicine
Join Breathwork Lab at BSMS – Email Dr. Colasanti
Do you practise breathwork? And can attend a lab session @BSMSMedSchool? If so, email Dr Alessandro Colasanti: a.colasanti@bsms.ac.uk https://t.co/SWJ95MtPyD
Atraumatic Joint Pain: 5 Surgeon Tips You Need
Having been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years...5 things I wish someone had told you before you walked into my office — in atraumatic joint and tendon pain. Most of you will present with atraumatic joint and tendon pain... traumatic injuries...
Money Won’t Make You Happy, Science Shows
The science suggests our minds are often wrong about what makes us happy. We think more money will make us happier, but this is usually a strategy that leads us astray. If you’re convinced that you’ll only be happier when you get...
Thriving Together: Caring for Kids and Ourselves
Stephanie Malia Krauss on her #newbook How We Thrive: Caring for Kids and Ourselves in a Changing World https://t.co/dp09iKD6dT @Getting_Smart
Recovery Mode: Easy 5K Boosts Marathon Confidence
I had my 23 mile long run on Saturday and then I took a bad spill in the gym on Sunday. I felt mostly OK, but just sore all-over for a few days (that includes my bruised ego). I paused...
Midlife Wellness Blueprint: Nutrition, Sleep, Mindfulness, Exercise
Looking for information about menopause? This book is for you. 📕 From Amazon- "Women in midlife and beyond are bombarded with multiple stressors: aging parents, children or childlessness, health issues, work, and home issues. To live a healthy and vibrant life, women must...
Shift From Disease Treatment to Building Durable Health
When 'Normal Labs' Are Unhealthy We sit down with Dr Sandeep Palakodeti —an Ivy League–trained internist who left elite institutions—to unpack why so much of healthcare reacts to disease instead of building durable health, and how treating your body like your...
Progressive Load, Not Rush: Protect Your Season
When intensity is layered onto a system that is not prepared, the result is predictable. The cardiovascular system adapts quickly, but connective tissue does not. Tendons, fascia, cartilage, and bone all require time and progressive loading to develop resilience. When...
Trim Visceral Fat to Neutralize High Lp(a) Risk
Lp(a) is the new Voldemort of cardiology—a genetically determined risk factor that can raise your risk of heart disease by >200%. And while elevated Lp(a) is largely written into your DNA, there’s good news: You may be able to neutralize its...
Breathwork Lab Hosts EMDR Therapist Jocelyn Rose
Breathwork Lab meeting today. EMDR therapist & PhD candidate @BSMSMedSchool, the great Jocelyn Rose. https://t.co/V5n71aZzfl
Macro Tracking: Perfection Unnecessary, Embrace Daily Variability
If you’re counting macros, please don’t get hung up on everything being “perfect” or aiming for the straight zeros at the end of the day. Why? Because one, it’s exhausting. Two, there’s a 20% error allowed for calories and nutrients...
New Framework Elevates Workplace Wellbeing Standards
Introducing a New Professional Framework for Workplace Wellbeing @ABPsychologists @AffinityHAW https://t.co/AsRFT4jjML #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Rest Is a Biological Need, Not a Productivity Reward
In case you keep forgetting: Rest is not a reward for being productive. Rest is a biological need. Please stop calling yourself lazy or unmotivated when you’re actually exhausted. Sincerely, A Psychologist
Choose One, Skip Two: Eat Out Without Gaining
The 1 not 3 rule to staying on track when eating out🔥 Alcohol, appetizer, or dessert. Comment “PLAN” below to get stronger and lose body fat. I’ll reach out to send you info on personalized coaching 👇🏽
Skipping Power Training Increases Death Risk Sixfold
What’s more dangerous than doing power work? Not doing it. A 2025 study of 3,889 people found those with the lowest muscle power had a nearly 6x higher risk of death than the highest group. Slow training builds slow people. Slow people die...
Learning to Let Go and Feel Honestly
There was a version of me who held everything together so no one else had to. Now I’m learning how to feel without managing the room. How to be honest without disappearing. If you’re in that space too — I see you.
Slowing Down Tamed My Reactive Nervous System
Learned how to control my emotions through slowing down. I used to snap on people because my nervous system was shot.
Design Health Solutions That Empower Real, Neurodivergent Users
If you want to build health products or content that: - create real behavior change - reduce friction instead of demanding more discipline - get attention without fear-mongering - are designed for real humans, not ideal users - help neurodivergent (ADHD, AuDHD) people too - make...
Yearly Blood Panels Enable Adaptive, Sustainable Health Tracking
This is all true. But, the blood panel (and doing that yearly) and tracking to my health metrics, and a possible nutrition data set, both things that need to adapt as you age could be a sustainable value proposition.
Stay Focused, Support Each Other Amid Publishing Challenges
Been a rough week in publishing (it’s Tuesday, Lemon), and I’m reminding myself of the advice I try to give everyone else. Focus on what you can control. I’m doing my best to check in with colleagues, see what support I...
Simple 120‑lb Sandbag Fuels Fast, Effortless Movement
This 120 lb sandbag I have is really just an awesome way to get some quick movement. Kid plays outside and I just walk up and down the driveway, backward and forward carrying in. I'm not even using this thing to its...
Five Strategies for Leaders to Combat Healthcare Burnout
Five ways future health care leaders can tackle burnout in the workforce https://t.co/Fxd56CgOJE via @medical_xpress #burnout #MedTwitter #health #Wellbeing #healthcare
Quick Reset Trick for ADHD Kids After Discipline
A child psychologist trick: the fastest reset when an ADHD child shuts down after correction
A 60‑minute Nap Runs Brain’s Cleanup and Consolidation
Just took a 60 minute nap. This is my brain as claude code: $ brain run nap --duration=60m [00:00] Initializing sleep context... [00:02] N1: Entering shallow context switch → Suspending foreground processes (conscious thought, voluntary...
Plant‑based Diets Cut Most Cancer Risks, Raise a Few
Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents "Compared to meat eaters, poultry eaters had lower risk of prostate cancer (0.93, 0.88–0.98), pescatarians had lower risks of colorectal (0.85,...
Consistent Gratitude Shifts Complaints Into Life‑changing Joy
Less complaints, more gratitude. Your life changes in ways you can't believe when you practice this on a consistent basis.
Talking Is Therapy: Dismissing It Fuels Harmful Policies
Denigrating talk therapy as “just talking” is exactly what leads to outcomes like the disastrous Supreme Court decision on conversion therapy today. In most forms of therapy (including modalities whose practitioners like to distance themselves from the term talk therapy),...
Fidgeting Burns 350kcal Daily, Tied to Anxiety
Just learned a full day of fidgeting burns ~350kcal. I'm about to get so cut. Some days I just CANNOT seem to stop bouncing my legs when sitting, it def. correllates with higher anxiety days, curious if anyone else sees...
Heart Experts Urge Plant Protein over Meat, Defying RFK Jr.
Eat more plant-based protein instead of meat, top heart health body says, contradicting RFK, Jr. https://t.co/zmQJ9b8sK3 #nutrition #health #healthylifestyle #lifestylemedicine #food
Close Midlife Relationships Predict Longer, Happier Lives
Harvard's longest running happiness study found one thing predicted how long, healthily and happily people lived: If you had a handful of close relationships at age 45, then 65, you were more likely to live longer, be happier, and have...
Irregular Bedtimes Double Your Heart Disease Risk
Irregular Bedtime Doubles Cardiac Risk - https://t.co/zh3GeyBz0n via @neurosciencenew #sleep #lifestylemedicine #health #pavingwellness #CardioTwitter #hearthealth
Science‑Driven Prevention Beats Treatment, Validates Lifestyle Interventions
Moving upstream in health-from treatment to prevention-& following the science & the data, leads to a portfolio of lifestyle interventions, surprising some who equate lifestyle w woo. (via @EvidenceOpen). cc @zakkohane @PeterAttiaMD @willahmed @EmilyBreslow @shottan @hjluks https://t.co/LQNC3tNQdU
GLP‑1s Simplify Battling Uncontrolled Hunger
It’s not easy, but it’s simple. Nothing new here but this is how to do it. Some people’s dis regulated hunger makes this simple thing very hard to do. That’s where GLP1s come in. Keep at it ❤️
Design Health Tools for Stressed Users, Not Ideal Cases
As a research advisor & Head of Science one of the questions I ask behind the scenes all the time is: Would this still help someone when they're having a bad day? Because that’s the real test. Not: Does this sound smart? Not: Is...
Detect Polyps Early, Prevent Cancer Decades Later
March has been colorectal cancer awareness month. A reminder of the work of Bert Vogelstein, one of the most cited cancer researchers in history. He showed that colorectal cancer is a slow, stepwise process (often over 20–25 years): normal tissue ➡️...
Early Caffeine‑fueled, Phone‑free Writing Boosts Productivity
Current morning routine that is working well: • 5 AM wake up • Hydrate with electrolytes and creatine • Craft my own double espresso • Write by hand for 90 minutes • Walk to cafe to cram second espresso • Write again for 60 minute • Leave...
Secure Striving Beats Fearful Effort for Real Growth
There are two kinds of striving: secure and insecure. The insecure variety comes from fear. Secure striving comes from wanting to win, to do your best, but realizing that it’s not the end of the world if you fall short. https://thegrowtheq.com/the-power-and-danger-of-caring-deeply/
Restore Spatial Rhythm Before Narrative Restructuring for Trauma Healing
The trauma literature hasn't connected that circadian rhythm is a spatial rhythm. Restore the rhythm BEFORE restructuring the narrative. It's how deep trauma work becomes possible.
Keto Diet Shows Promise for ADHD Symptom Relief
many ppl with adhd have seen improvements by doing keto and there is some research to back it up - here's one study: PMCID: PMC10431618 PMID: 37585373
Targeted Nutrition May Lower Inflammation, Preserve Cognition
The impact of dietary constituents on inflammation and cognitive function in healthy older Irish adults: A pilot study "his study highlights the importance of nutrition and lifestyle in managing inflammation and cognitive decline in ageing. Targeted dietary interventions which address nutrient...