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.
Happiness increases after consumption of fruit and vegetables, study finds
University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people’s later happiness levels. To be published shortly in the prestigious American Journal of Public Health, the study is one of the first major scientific attempts to explore Read More...
Memories of favourite locations have a special place in brain
It could be that romantic restaurant, or your favourite park bench. A specific part of the brain seems to be responsible for learning and remembering the precise locations of places that are special to us, research in mice has shown for the first time. Place cells are neurons that help us map our Read More...
The ways music therapy can lift body and soul
Even though patient Garrett Lambert is in an “isolation” room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, meaning visitors must don masks and gowns to enter, music therapist Holly Mentzer’s harp makes the enclosed room feel like a serene, welcoming space as she and Read More...
“Acupuncture doubles chance of having a baby with IVF”
A British study shows that women who were treated with acupuncture are twice as likely to benefit from IVF fertility treatment, than women who are not. The one-year study involved 160 couples who were suffering from fertility problems. Half of these women were treated with acupuncture, while half Read More...
Marijuana compounds show promise for Alzheimer's patients
Scientists have discovered that the main psychoactive compound found in marijuana (Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC) is capable of reducing the amount of harmful amyloid beta proteins that are contained within lab-grown brain neurons. Amyloid is the toxic protein known to accumulate in the Read More...
Living longer associated with living healthier, study of centenarians finds
Research has shown that the human lifespan has the potential to be extended. But would this merely mean people living longer in poor health? The upbeat findings from a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicate that those extra years could well be healthy ones. In a study Read More...
Study: 99% of doctors recommend natural remedies for children
In the world of mainstream medicine complementary treatments, like homeopathy, are controversial. However, doctors regularly recommend natural remedies. An interesting international study of 582 pediatric physicians shows that 99 percent of them have prescribed or recommended a complementary and Read More...
Regenerative tooth fillings could put an end to root canals
You really don't want a root canal, and not just because it's potentially painful. Emptying the tooth of the infected tissue at its heart potentially weakens it, since you can't grow that organic material back or put toxic fillings in its place. Researchers may have a solution, though. They've Read More...
New program shows success in halting and reversing early-stage Alzheimer’s
There’s no cure for Alzheimer’s and more and more people are suffering from it. A new study shows some cause for optimism. Neuroscientists have been able to halt, and in some cases reverse, the disease in ten early-stage patients. A combination therapy, called the MEND program, shows remarkable Read More...
Aloe vera should be investigated as diabetes treatment, study says
Aloe vera should be further investigated as a potential antidiabetic compound, say researchers after analyzing evidence that it lowered blood glucose in patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes. The analysis is the work of researchers at the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base Read More...