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Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen...
...suppressing those competitive beta waves. We want to better ourselves, but also to do better than others; we force ourselves into the gym-rat race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian endeavor than a Spartan...
...Ornish published a new study, in the American Journal of Cardiology, stating that 80% of the 194 patients in the experimental group were able to avoid bypass or angioplasty by adhering to lifestyle changes, including yoga. He also argued that lifestyle interventions would save money - that the average cost per patient in the experimental group was about $18,000, whereas the cost per patient in the control group was more than $47,000. And this time, Ornish says, he is convinced that "adherence to the yoga and meditation program was as strongly correlated with the changes in the amount...
...Patient: Jennifer Aniston. Diagnosis: Overanalysis, Low IQ. You just married Brad Pitt, scored a TV-package deal that sets you up for life and are one of the most recognized women in the world. And you’re still complaining? Said Aniston in a recent interview: “There’s been a real intense overhaul—about family, work, everything…I feel, half the time, like I’m one of those teen-age girls…Feeling stupid, feeling good enough, feeling adequate, asking, ‘What am I doing...
...Patient: Gwyneth Paltrow. Diagnosis: Too Many Disorders to List...