29 archives found in "Nature as Medicine"

Exploring Natural Antibiotics: Protecting yourself against infection can be done naturally. But where do you begin? Foremost, if you suspect you have an infection (you’re coughing, expelling mucus, are feverish, etc.), now is not the time to experiment: You absolutely should be working with a [...]

Natural approaches to living with asthma: all you want to do is breathe deeply and fully. You want to fill your lungs with oxygen and feel satisfied. You want to do it rhythmically and naturally, without gasping for air, without fear or panic. But for 7% of the U.S [...]

I recently had the privilege of presenting A Green Rx: Giving Your Family a Healthy Edge at Chadwick Village, a stunning independent K-12 school in Palos Verdes. On a 45 acre bucolic campus, created at the bequest of Margaret and Commander Chadwick in 1935, the school has always been [...]

Air quality is getting worse, and it’s not just the fire, smoke and excessive heat: it’s the cauldron of  toxins, VOCs and, bizarrely, the threat of diabetes that loom. The worst? the Las Vegas area had 145 days of pollution and poor air quality in 2016, a little higher [...]

We’ve officially entered the time of year where colds are common and the sound of sniffles, sneezes, and coughs are a regular part of our daily soundtrack. If you’ve been struck down by some of these symptoms, you likely know that a lot of times, there’s nothing more to [...]

The Great Defender: that’s our immune system, uniquely designed to keep us healthy and defend against illness and infection. Made up of organs, including the skin, lungs, and gut, as well as specialized cells, the immune system’s job is to remain on alert for disease-causing invaders [...]

Virtual Reality Nature Scenes Help Pain (KEYT-ABC, 12/21/2016)Views of nature have been shown to lower stress levels in children, and kids love new tech. So do their parents. Thus, our pilot program: with a growing deficit of nature exposure with greater urbanization, and a greater awareness of the [...]

Medscape recently published a short essay of mine, Rx: Exercise Daily — in Nature. Doctor’s Orders. It is also viewable and downloadable here without login, as some people are not signed into Medscape but still want to read it. It is a quick summary of scientific evidence for how [...]

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The foundation for organic gardening is biodiversity. In the wild, a variety of plants and wildlife exist interdependently-providing shelter, moisture, continual bloom when pollen is available for insects, and support for all the creatures within the system. You can apply the biodiversity principle [...]