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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Ultimate Wellness Hack: Slowing Aging

The World Health Organization describes wellness as not merely the absence of disease, but rather a state that transcends the absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health. The history of optimizing health dates to the ancient Greeks. The fifth-century B.C. text On Regimen, authored by Hippocrates and his students, is likely the authoritative reference that described specific means of obtaining optimum health.
Wellness
fromMail Online
4 months ago

The weirdest medieval medicines you could try today...if you dare

So, would you dare to try out any of these weird medieval cures?
Alternative medicine
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

RFK Jr. says Americans were healthier when his uncle was president. Is he right?

Health concerns voiced by Kennedy may overlook key facts and context regarding historical health data.
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