Tag: Chronic Illness

Low-Acting Insulins

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 3 minutesBeat Unwanted Weight Gain By Dr. John Poothullil, MD Lowering blood sugar numbers does not always mean fixing diabetes. Modern medicine often focuses on controlling glucose with medication. Drugs like insulin and metformin can lower blood sugar, but they do not explain why blood sugar rose in the first place. If the diet continues to drive overeating, blood sugar will keep rising, and medication doses will keep increasing. This treats the symptom, not the cause. Blood sugar rises when the system is overwhelmed by repeated glucose spikes. Those spikes come…

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Your Brain Has Been Working Overtime

DMUSA News

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Denise Billen-Mejia, MD (retired), Consulting Hypnotist     If you live with chronic pain, you have probably been told — or at least made to feel — that something is wrong with you. That your body has broken down. That your brain is misfiring. That the pain is somehow your fault, or in your head, or something you simply have to manage. I want to suggest a different way of looking at it. Your brain has been working overtime. Here is what I mean by that. Pain is not…

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Your Healing Does Not Need To Look Like Anyone Else’s

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 4 minutesIgniting Your Dynamic Self with Wendy Bjork, founder of HeartsofWellness.com. Your Healing Does Not Need to Look Like Anyone Else’s Welcome to Igniting Your Dynamic Self, I am glad you are here. Can I tell you something that took me a long time to learn? Someone else’s healing journey is not your instruction manual. I know that sounds simple. But if you have ever found yourself reading about what worked for someone else and quietly wondering what is wrong with you, you know it is not simple at all. It…

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Why Your Body Stays Stuck Despite Doing Everything Right

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Wendy Bjork, Founder of Hearts of Wellness | HeartsOfWellness.com You are taking the supplements, resting when you can. You are following the advice, attending the appointments, and doing your best to manage a body that keeps sending signals nobody seems to fully understand. And yet something stays stuck. The fatigue does not lift. The pain does not settle, the brain fog rolls in whether you slept well or not. If that is where you are right now, this is the conversation you have been waiting to find. I know…

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The Ancient Echo of MS and the Return to Self-Led Healing

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Wendy Bjork, MS Mentor and Founder of HeartsOf Wellness.com   When we look back across the vast timeline of human history, we often imagine that chronic conditions are a modern phenomenon. Yet one of the earliest well-documented stories that mirrors what we now understand as multiple sclerosis reaches all the way back to 1395, deep in the Late Middle Ages. It is the story of Lidwina of Schiedam, a young woman whose mysterious symptoms make her the unofficial “poster child” of MS long before medicine could name or explain what…

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Own Your Time: The Empowering Practice of Solitude

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Wendy Bjork, MS Mentor and Founder of HeartsOf Wellness.com   Learning to Lunch Alone: Reflecting on Life with MS Through the Power of Solitude When was the last time you took yourself to lunch? I don’t mean rushing through a drive-thru or eating alone at your desk while answering emails. I mean an intentional, nourishing lunch—by yourself, for yourself—where your only job is to be fully present with you. Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), we often navigate a life of appointments, treatments, side effects, and unexpected physical or emotional shifts.…

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How Will $20 Million Dollars Create Wellness?

Wendy Bjork

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Welcome to the latest episode of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an Amazon international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and founder of heartsofwellness.com, her mission is to empower women to take charge of their health holistically so they can live a life of peace & harmony.   According to the National MS Society’s Website,  they have received $20 million in funding for the MS Research Program (MSRP) at the Department of Defense, equal to the FY2023 level. As the only dedicated federal research funding stream for MS, MSRP funding…

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