The Professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr David White, says inadequate sleep can lead to increased hunger and weight gain, decreased immune function, increased blood pressure, increased incidence of heart attacks, and poor glucose regulation. The Philips Healthcare 2010 Australian Health and Wellbeing Index reported 48% of the sleep deprived said it … Continue reading »
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Ayurvedic medicine and dementia
Transcendental Meditation (TM) has been a part of my daily life since 1979, and I find it has been the one constant that always helps me to relax deeply. It has been said that 20 minutes of TM is the equivalent to 2 hours of deep sleep, and as I have survived on less sleep … Continue reading »
Talking about dementia
I started blogging to record my world. My blog now also tries to highlight the human and personal costs of a diagnosis of dementia, the significant financial impact to individuals and families, and responds to the current status of age appropriate resources and services, or lack thereof, for people diagnosed with younger onset dementia and … Continue reading »
Who wants to be a writer?
Lately I have connected with many blogs of writers and poets, and read their stories and poems with awe. Some of them also write about how they have always wanted to write, always wanted to be a writer, which I connect strongly with too. As a child I was a prolific reader, reading up to 4 -5 books each … Continue reading »
One simple diagnosis
Sickness was something I had never really thought about, even though I had suffered various neurological symptoms since from a young age. They were however, not things anyone could see, and were not diagnosed or considered real until my mid 40′s (e.g. headaches, pins and needles in my legs and arms, dizziness and occasional fainting). Regardless of … Continue reading »
