I occassionally read some trashy women’s magazines, low-brow, the ones next to the supermarket check out counter (Woman’s World, First). But what I get a kick out of is the health stuff strewn through out these magazines in side boxes and sidebars. Interestingly I have found most are accurate and up-to-date reports of recent studies. (Some editors obviously subscribe to several health somethings and grab information as fillers.) I have always been interested in health/medical advances.
Insomnia — Nightwave light — Watch an expanding/contracting blue light projected on the ceiling to ease yourself to sleep. Harvard study has also found blue light can reset ones body rhythms. I have not tried this.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/02.09/01-blue.html
Menopause/Hot Flashes – A new procedure called the Stellate Ganglion Block may end hot flashes forever. Actually it’s not a new procedure, it’s been used in the past as a nerve block for neck and shoulder injuries. An anesthetic is in injected into the stellate ganglia (which also regulates internal body temperature) and it can reset the body’s thermostat (which is what seems to go haywire when women’s hormones drop off to nothing). Less anaesthetic is used than for a nerve block and feeling is not reduced. This is very promising. I have not tried it.
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jwh.2005.14.737
Q-10 – Not that new, but relatively new. Co-enzyme Q-10 as a heart protector and energy booster. Deals with free radicals. There has been some research done on this, but I am not going to google it to give you a link (google yourself 
). I am pretty sure there are no negative side effects. I have tried this and my energy level definitely seemed to increase. I have to add that I am not very suggestible (I have high sales resistance) and tend not to try something unless some study has been done to indicate it is worth while and not total hype.
That’s it for now.
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