Health + Wellness
Everything you need for a long and healthy life.
Can Hair Be Transplanted?
Men fear it, women can take it or leave it. On the one hand you have guys as far back as Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner who could pull it off. Yul even did it as a futuristic android in West World. These days its Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. On the other hand you have Seinfeld's George Costanza look. Lets face it guys, it's tough to pull off bald, and it really is an all or nothing decision. From vitamin and hormone treatments, to the Ron Popeil product that was actually just black spray paint, men dig deep in their pockets to maintain their hair. Can hair be transplanted through a surgical procedure? Bosley, one of the largest hair transplant groups in the country sure thinks so.
By Alicia Springer8 years ago in Longevity
Stephanie Miller's Hatha Raja Yoga
The Dalai Lama once said, "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves." With help of their local yogis, people are chasing inner peace all over the world. Stephanie Miller is one of those yogis. Stephanie Miller is the director of BambooMoves Yoga, and a practiced holistic healer. BambooMoves was founded in 2007, and consists of yoga studios in Forest Hills, NY, Englewood NJ, Palisades Park NJ, and Baltimore, MD. Honoring a more ancient teaching of yoga, BambooMoves focuses not only on fitness and health but largely on spirituality and mental wellness. Often described as the "heart and soul of BambooMoves", Stephanie guides her students in this journey. Stephanie Miller was the first graduate of the BambooMoves teacher training and became the director after the departure of founder Andrew Tanner, and has experience in Taoist energy training, martial arts, dance, and a variety of yoga forms. She received her 500-hour certification with Sri Dharma Mittra in New York City and studied in India at the Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute with Saraswati. She uses a fluid teaching style to combines power and grace, and is dedicated to cultivating a deep sense of peace within each of her students. Stephanie works to ground her students in the present moment and guide them with gentle yet focused Hatha Raja movements to find a more flexible place in their bodies and minds.
By Frank White8 years ago in Longevity
Things Healthy People Do Every Day
It’s been nine minutes and your alarm goes off for the second time. You hit that little magic snooze button once more and after another nine minutes, your alarm sounds again, like an air horn in your ear. Each time you close your eyes with a sigh of relief and say in your head, “These nine minutes are really going to make my day better.” After the fourth or fifth snooze, you hop out of bed in a rush and grab your clothes and your work bag, stop at the local coffee drive through for a large coffee, a greasy breakfast wrap and fried hash browns and speed hastily on your way to work. At your desk, you turn on your computer, scarf down your breakfast and immediately feel tired. You close your eyes with a sigh and say in your head “Those nine minutes really didn’t make my day better.”
By Lindsie Polhemus8 years ago in Longevity
Homeopathic Remedies for Quitting Smoking
Smoking will make your hair gray faster and accelerate aging. But if that isn't enough to make you quit, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the United States. Homeopathic remedies for quitting smoking may be the solution. Bottom line, there is nothing sexy about smoking. The key component to ditching the addiction is a strong will, but some additional help can’t hurt, either. Homeopathic remedies such as honey, ginseng and herbal cigarettes can aid in the battle against nicotine. There is never a bad time to stop smoking because your lungs will immediately thank you – but telling yourself you’re going to quit is the easy part. What’s truly the hardest part about quitting is the withdrawal that you will experience. Hundreds have tried, but more often than not, they fail. Cigarettes contain a lot of nicotine, which results in harmful effects, such as high blood pressure, lung cancer, cardiac problems, and so forth. It is in your hands to save and restore your health from the harmful chemicals you have consumed for so long. Homeopathic remedies for quitting smoking, coupled with a strong will is a great way to break the habit.
By David McCleary8 years ago in Longevity
How Veganism Helped Me Lose 50 Pounds and Change My Life Forever
Growing up, nutrition was not an elemental part of my life. I was an athlete, going from school to travel soccer practice to AAU basketball practice every night since elementary school, and I consumed what I wanted indiscriminately. Not to say that my parents raised us on fast food, but we definitely hit up the usual chains between extracurricular activities. Also, the adolescent palette seems to favor chicken tenders and spaghetti over just about anything.
By Alissa Bourne8 years ago in Longevity
Uninhibited Animal Yoga Poses
Thousands of years ago yoga practitioners would observe they way animals stretched – uninhibited, free of social convention.The more flexible the body, the more flexible mind, according to ancient yoga teachings. Animal poses protect your body from muscle pain and tightness. Try to absorb the essence of each pose, imagining the stretch for its namesake and remaining present and uninhibited.
By Izzy Erlich8 years ago in Longevity
Best Foods to Help Prevent Cancer
About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Causes can range from hereditary to environmental, but measures can be taken in either case to lessen your chances of developing the disease. Nothing can replace the benefits of early detection and regular medical checkups, let's be clear about that. At the same time, proper diet and certain foods can prepare the body to fight malignant cancer cells at the onset.
By Longevity Staff8 years ago in Longevity
Essential Oils for High Blood Pressure
When you get diagnosed with hypertension, your doctor may have suggested you take some pills along with the long list of the lifestyle changing measures, including, exercise and diet. But do you know that essential oils are also wonderful for high blood pressure and hypertension management?
By George Gott8 years ago in Longevity