Some valuable diaries pub'd & repub'd the past 10 days or so - scroll down after this UpSched.
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We MEET Sundays 4pm leftkost time, 7pm east. UPCOMING SCHEDULES post between Wednesday & Friday weekly. See our recent & past diaries HERE. See our logobox below for more about Sun- days. Click on ♥ FOLLOW at the top of our page to receive our posts in your stream. KosAbility diaries can be 1 paragraph, 2, or 20 — on whatever health-medical or related [even very distantly related ;-) ] concerns that you our members & friends have in mind to talk and write about: post comments or contact postmodernista with your diary ideas. We also advocate collaborative publishing, especially with our fellow health-med and related groups
Mar 22 "Alternative Medicine: Relief from Severe Asthma" by wilderness voice
What does it mean to be "part of mainstream medicine" or "absorbed into the standard medical canon"? It means if you go to a doctor, s/he will recommend it as a treatment... It turns out that relying upon this is every bit as dangerous to your health as uncritically accepting unsubstantiated nostrums. As we shall see, there is no substitute for doing the research. It is your body and your health...
March 29 - "Always Keep Your Sense of Humor" by Vet63
..."The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical." — Norman Cousins
April 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: Amazing (not) words like 'amazing'!
April 12 - "The Vicious Circle: Care Giving, Stress, Headaches, and Insomnia" by michelewin
In this diary I'll be talking about care giving and the stress that comes from being a caregiver which results in stress headaches which in turn causes sleep problems and insomnia which then triggers more stress and more stress headaches. I'll explore the frustrations and trying to figure out how to break the circle.
April 19 - "Psycho-physiologic Disorders Are Real" - the psychosomatic label used to mean "it's all in your mind/imagination" - now we know better by NancyWH, R.N.
In Part 1, we look at the Mind-Body Connection. Adrenaline and cortisol are important and helpful parts of the body’s response to stress. However, it’s important that the body’s relaxation response be activated so the body’s functions can return to normal following a stressful event. Chronic stress disrupts the ability to return to a more relaxed state, and can have adverse effect on health.
In Part 2, we look at the Brain-Gut connection. A "gut feeling" is not just a cliche. Psychology combines with physical factors to cause pain and other bowel symptoms. That doesn’t mean, however, that functional gastrointestinal illnesses are imagined or “all in your head.” Psychosocial factors influence the actual physiology of the gut, or make you more susceptible to infection.
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