Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
How to tame your anxious mind
Our humanness dictates our varied perceptions, evaluations, judgments, and expectations. These develop over time based on our physiology, history, and experiences. For some people, they perseverate or hyper-focus and complain that “they can’t get their mind off of something.” Others overthink Read More...
Vegan protein from nuts and seeds better for heart health than meat, study finds
The health benefits of veganism are almost as copious as the endless #avotoast snaps on Instagram. Now, a new study is adding fuel to the plant-based fire by reporting that vegan protein is far healthier than meat for the heart. Published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Read More...
Could this natural insecticide lead to a treatment for prostate cancer?
For men diagnosed with metastatic or advanced prostate cancer, the average 5-year survival rate is 29 percent. Fortunately, researchers have discovered a natural insecticide called deguelin that can kill the metastatic cells that cause prostate cancer. The findings suggest that this natural Read More...
Your microbiome is pivotal to your health. Here’s how to feed it well
Our bodies are teeming with bacteria and other microbes that live mostly on our skin and in our gut. In fact, each person contains trillions of these microorganisms, and collectively, their called the microbiome. In the last decades, researchers have found out that the microbiome has a major Read More...
Brain never stops growing: elderly have same number of new neurons as teens
The brain never stops growing, scientists have found in landmark discovery that could help treat degenerative Read More...
Stop slouching: These simple tips will help you improve your posture
According to a new study, human emotion and cognition are closely linked to body posture, and this link operates like a two-way street. Feeling depressed or frightened can cause a person’s head to drop or his posture to become tight and closed, but assuming these poses also seems to promote Read More...
The dramatic role nutrition plays in treating mental illness
It’s no secret that within the pharmaceutical industry lies a blurred line between which prescriptions are helpful to the body and which are harmful, especially when it comes to medications prescribed to those suffering from mental illness. Numerous antidepressants, including Prozac, have Read More...
Scientists have created injectable bandages that stop bleeding and start healing
Uncontrollable bleeding is a major cause of death for soldiers on a battlefield or regular citizens involved in major accidents. That’s why researchers have created a novel injectable bandage that blends a commonly used food thickening agent with nanoparticles. The result is an injectable Read More...
Why app developers are trying to fix addiction rehab through technology
The US has an opioid crisis, and it’s not going to get any better with the current way we treat opioid addiction. One of the main ideas that rehab is based upon is that unmooring a person from their life is the only way to curb addiction, but there’s little evidence to actually back this claim. Read More...
How organic wine finally caught on
If you cannot remember the last time you had a glass of organic wine, you are hardly alone. Overall, less than 5 percent of the world’s vineyards are organic. In the United States, the world’s largest consumer of wine, only 1 percent of wine sold by volume was organic. The paltry market for Read More...