Addiction

Reducing dementia risk
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effect

Alcohol and other drugs can overpower the reward pathways of the brain... But in recent years, we have learned that brain gene activity can be changed with lifestyle, thereby reducing the risk of dementia. Lifestyle practices can promote physical and mental health.   Author: Karla Kaun, Brown University Many people [...]

2024-01-25T23:37:52-06:00January 23rd, 2024|Categories: General, Mindful Presence|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Mindfulness: body, mind, spirit
They don’t come as pills, but try these 6 underprescribed lifestyle medicines for a better, longer life

The application of lifestyle medicines is particularly important now because unhealthy lifestyles have caused a pandemic of preventable chronic diseases that is now exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic, which disproportionately afflicts those with these conditions. . . . Ask your doctor to “prescribe” these six “pills” for a longer and better [...]

2021-04-14T15:13:57-05:00April 14th, 2021|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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