Courtesy of the Migraine Research Foundation, here is a chilling statistic. Healthcare costs are 70% higher for a family with a migraine sufferer than a non-migraine affected family. Migraine is a tremendous burden on families, workplaces, and the economy. But it is still not well understood. Migraine sufferers have an array of treatments to try, Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Migraine
Massage for Headaches
You might think that “massage for headaches” would be a simple and straightforward topic. It’s anything but. For one thing, according to WebMD, there are 150 different kinds of headaches, and there’s no reason to suppose that whatever helps one type helps another as well. Of these 150 types, only six are common (migraine, cluster, Read more…
Photobiomodulation for Skin
The photobiomodulation (PBM) bed here at Peak bears a superficial resemblance to a tanning bed. But don’t let that superficial resemblance fool you. The two could hardly be more different in what they do. Heavy exposure to ultraviolet light, which is what sometimes takes place in a tanning bed, can cause skin cancer. It makes Read more…
National Cancer Prevention Month
February is National Cancer Prevention Month. In the U.S. our cancer death rate peaked in 1991. It has a declined by nearly one third since then until 2018, the latest year for which there are numbers. Nobody knows if it has risen again as a result of Covid-19, which has disrupted screenings and cancer care. Read more…
Calories for Performance
In the past, when we have discussed nutrition on this blog, it was usually to make a point about wellness. See, for example, my post “Diet and Your Immune System.” But diet means more than wellness. It can dramatically affect athletic performance, too. So this time I want to look at calories for performance. Considering Read more…
Your Body Composition
Your body consists of skin, organs, muscle, bones, water, and fat. But most people, when they think about body composition, limit their consideration to two broad constituents: that which is fat and that which is not fat. This is only partly because of our beauty obsessed culture. The truth is that your ability to control Read more…
Healthy Weight Awareness Week
The third week in January is National Healthy Weight Awareness Week. I haven’t been able to discover who originally designated it as such. But I did come across a source that said the week has been observed yearly since 1994. YOUR Healthy Weight According to Consumer Health Digest, one of the drivers of Healthy Weight Read more…
Prioritize Wellness in 2021
What a disaster the year 2020 has been for public health. Millions of people have sickened with Covid-19, and hundreds of thousands have died. But it has even been hard on those who haven’t caught the virus. Largely trapped in our homes and unable to be with friends and family, many of us have “fought” Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Cancer
The National Cancer Institute sponsors a fact sheet on “Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment.” This sheet explains that hyperthermia is a treatment in which the body is exposed to high temperatures. Because cancer cells are typically weaker than normal cells, they may succumb to the high temperature without any injury to the other cells. If this Read more…
Photobiomodulation for Low Testosterone
Is photobiomodulation good for low testosterone? The answer is clearly yes if you’re a rat and a qualified yes if you’re a human being. I last wrote about photobiomodulation (PBM) and testosterone in August 2018. At that time, I had found a study that showed regular PBM treatments increased blood levels of testosterone in rats. Read more…