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.
Sick tweets: Twitter can help track public health
The big data of social media can be insightful in many ways—as advertisers know. In this case, researchers sought to understand patterns of how people behave differently on social media when they are sick. They found that monitoring Twitter trends can help doctors quickly identify a rise of Read More...
Nonvisual photoreception: Parts of your body can “see” without your eyes
Without the sun there would be no life on the planet. So, it makes sense that our bodies use light in more ways than to see with our eyes. Scientists have discovered that many animals—including human beings—have specialized light-detecting molecules in unexpected places, outside of the eyes. Read More...
The promise of immunotherapy as cancer treatment
Immunotherapy is a promising new approach to cancer treatment that uses a series of precision strikes to disintegrate cancer from within the body itself. Doctors use gene therapy to train a patient's immune system to recognize and destroy their cancer in the same way it dispatches bacteria and Read More...
Aboriginal meditation is being used to heal minds in the modern world
From the tiny community of Nauiyu, south of Darwin, Miriam Rose Baumann is preparing to meet her next group of interstate visitors. "It's not a tour where you have to pack your bags and get ready to jump on a bus that's going to be leaving at 6:00am in the morning, to take you to places and be Read More...
Probiotics and a healthy gut can help fight multiple sclerosis
The importance of maintaining a healthy gut cannot be overstressed as new research keeps emerging. Now the Mayo Clinic has uncovered a gut microbe that has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases, including multiple Read More...
Preparing for longevity: We don’t need to become frail as we age
Frailty, often assumed to be an inevitable part of aging, may be more preventable than most think. Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review in Frontiers in Physiology. “Societies are not Read More...
How to be mindful when you have seasonal allergies
If you are suffering from hay fever or seasonal allergies, notice your symptoms in a nonjudgmental way. If your eyes are itching or your nose is running, try to acknowledge that without labeling the experience “good” or “bad.” Set the intention to take good care of yourself with compassion, Read More...
Scientists are closer to reversing memory loss than ever before
New MIT research indicates that it might be possible to break down the genetic blockades inside the brain which cause memory loss from Alzheimer’s. So far, the theory has only been tested on mice but the scientists are hopeful that eventually, it could be successful in reversing the symptom in Read More...
Thinking your way to a better brain
Can the way we think actually change the wiring, activation patters, and physical landscape of our brains? In other words, can our mind, in a sense, control or at least influence the direction of our brain? Our brains are incredibly flexible. Long after the exuberance (fast growth) and the pruning Read More...
New technology reduces food waste through dynamic pricing system
Each year 33 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S. alone. The problem is gaining more and more attention and that drives innovative solutions. Technology can help here as well. Wasteless is a real-time tracking solution for grocery stores, which allows the stores to offer variable pricing to Read More...