Healthy Body Healthy Mind

Donate food in Chicago at these historic and well-organized food pantries and food banks, with links to donation pages, and volunteer opportunities. Let’s get a few things straight right up…

Being tense and anxious can make you worried, uneasy, irritable, exhausted and even susceptible to illness, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, gastrointestinal ailments, and depression. All convincing reasons to find ways to fit healthy relaxation into your routine!

Do certain foods and supplements enhance brain power? The short answer is yes! The human brain requires and consumes an extremely large amount of energy every day. Therefore, it’s important…

Functional exercise? Fitter? Faster? Stronger? How about broken, half-comatose, and weak? I’m writing this article sprawled on the floor of my gym after exercising for 30 minutes. In a Mark…

Exercise and immunity? Your immune system works 24/7 to wrangle all the germs you unconsciously infect yourself with. But it could do a better job to build immunity if you’d…

In our busy lives, sleeping better is difficult, with all the numerous responsibilities vying for our time, we often cut back so we can have more waking hours to handle…

One way to combat anxiety and feelings of depression is to increase the levels of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, a kind of chemical messenger that helps…

In support of flattening the curve of infection with COVID-19, most of us are practicing social distancing and moving our professional lives from our offices to our homes. For those…

As I write this, I haven’t seen the sun in 10 days. I’m not hiding out in a bunker or living in my basement or working at Google. I’m in…

Working remotely has amazing health benefits, which I’m about to explain to you as soon as I finish this Rick & Morty marathon and put on pants. I’m just kidding—I…