Metabolic Syndrome: The disease you may not know is there
Is Metabolic Syndrome the same as Obesity? Metabolic syndrome is defined as a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease...
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The Universal Therapeutic Target’s New Competition: Huntington’s Disease
Let us take a quick look at what the endocannabinoid system actually is. There are two major endocannabinoids in the body, specifically the brain: Anandamide (A...
Your Weight Is Completely Under Your Control: The Sneaky Myth Linking Obesity and Moral Failure
Susan Greenhalgh’s 2015 book Fat Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat, identifies the idea that “Weight is under individual control; virtually e...
Autism: A Spectrum of Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have become a large topic of discussion in the public eye for many years. While previously it had been treated and diagnosed as ...
Brains Chained by Addiction
The Pandemic of Addiction The statistics surrounding addiction don’t lie, the U.S. has a pandemic on its hands. So what’s the situation? In 2017, we...
Schizophrenia: Reality vs Stigma
Schizophrenia: What is it and how do we treat it? Schizophrenia is one of the most challenging mental illnesses to manage and function with. Symptoms often inte...
Sugar on the Brain: Alzheimer’s Disease
What’s the story? Over the past decade, sugar has become an increasingly hot topic as a part of our diets. Updated recommendations have been in the news as rece...
Overprescribed and Undermedicated
A recent segment from the liberal-leaning news source Vox was titled “Do I have ADHD?”. A female in her twenties believed she indeed had the disorder, but had n...
Bulimia Nervosa: a model of deficient serotonin signaling
Bulimia nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of binging and compensatory such as self-induced vomiting in...
Parenting; where is the goldilocks zone?
Bulimic behavior is very interesting. It is one of those things that clearly have no upside. Everyone you ask would probably agree that nothing good could come ...