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New Treatment May Stop The Spread of Cancer Cells
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that removing the limbs of human cancer cells impairs their ability to metastasize, spread and migrate. Most cancer patients die from the spread of tumors to the liver, brain or other vital organs. This new treatment may halt the deadly spread and contain the diseased cells.
Kathy CraigPublished 7 years ago in LongevityLearning How to Breathe
I am grateful for the time that I have been able to spend breathing. It should not be a new concept, as much as it should be a well known practice. Breathing is something I was raised to believe was a practice of basic human being, for survival. Imagine my surprise when people would get upset or I would get upset, and the response of professional interventionists would be “Breathe” or “Slow down, so you can breathe.” As I continued to grow, I began to learn the value of the strength behind “air entering my lungs” and spreading oxygen through my muscles. I would feel renewed when I was able to stretch and allow my body to relax and I could take in the air to breathe, and feel the release of tension and trauma. It was like embracing stillness, which I had never been encouraged to do.
Regina Stone-GroverPublished 7 years ago in LongevityHuman Healing
The only way I feel we can make a difference in the world is allow people to be where they are emotionally, even if those emotions aren’t “positive.” In fact, I don’t think the words “positive” and “negative” belong in anything meant to be helpful to ourselves or others. Telling somebody not to be “negative,” promotes conflict and mistrust.
Kate QuinnPublished 7 years ago in LongevityUnhealthy Ingredients in Diet Supplements to Avoid
If you've gone to a dietician, you've probably been warned against diet supplements. However, you probably already know that there are healthy and unhealthy ingredients in diet supplements out there. That also means there are tons of unhealthy ingredients in diet supplements to avoid — if you value your health.
Rowan MarleyPublished 7 years ago in LongevityNew Nonsurgical Solution Doubles Down on Women's Jiggly Chin Flab
Nobody likes a double chin, and yet many women have them. Wobbly wattles are more likely if you're over 40 and overweight, and genetics is the likely cause.
Andrea DawsonPublished 7 years ago in LongevityHow a Full Body Wrap Will Definitely Help You Be a Better Person
As an anthropologist, I’m a big believer in the power of ceremony and ritual to mark a life transition, especially when very little about your physical environment will be changing. Something needs to mark that boundary. Recently I got a new job, but it’s in the same company. (I don’t actually work in anthropology anymore. I work in data analytics. But it turns out you can take a person out of an academic career in cultural studies, but you can’t take the cultural studies out of her.) To mark my move from one analytics role to another, I chose a form of cleansing ritual. Starting a new life phase with a pause for cleansing is common: many cultures make use of this to mark out boundaries as diverse as taking a new religion to returning from war to becoming adults. In my case, I was just moving a few rows of desks, but I felt it was important anyway.
Caitlin McDonaldPublished 7 years ago in Longevity- Top Story - July 2017
How Disease Shapes Human History
I'm going to talk about a subject that has become revitalized in the past few years and that is the impact that disease has on us as humans. Most people do things to prevent the spread of diseases in their day-to-day life as second nature because of the effect it's had on us in the past. Such as washing their hands or sneezing into their elbow. However, for the majority of people in first-world countries, it doesn't weigh on our mind 24/7 as it does in say, less developed countries. In modern life, with all of our current medicine, we don't seem to feel that a tiny micro-organism can be our undoing as it could have in ancient times but perhaps we'd better think again.
Alissa BudzinskiPublished 7 years ago in Longevity Vague Deceit
There has always been this feeling that things were not as they appeared. Buzzing undercurrents of hidden information accompany every significant event. Missing tidbits that would assist in making sense of an array of things that don’t; common signs of cosmic importance leading us to union with the Universe. What are they not telling us? And why withhold from us that which would best facilitate evolution? Answers range from definitive control to happenstance causality but the common theme always indicates the acquisition of energy. Many continue to feed off of others denying the possibility that exchange could serve them sufficiently.
Ramona AtkinsonPublished 7 years ago in Longevity