Columns
Category: Anxiety
Biology May be to Blame for Panic Attacks
Carol Brown is 54 now, healthy and happy. But until her early 40s, her life was one panic attack after another. The first occurred when she was 16, in an elevator. Out of the blue, said Brown, who lives in Belmont, “my heart started racing, my hands were sweating, my breathing was shallow. I thought…
Kava root is hot herb for anxiety
Traditionally, whenever the people of the South Pacific islands wanted to welcome a visitor or provide a social lubricant for communal rituals, they drank a potent potion made from the roots of an intoxicating pepper plant, kava kava. The jaw-breaking job of turning the tough root of the piper methysticum into homemade brew fell to…
Anxiety, it’s not just a state of mind
Jake McDowell, now 10 years old and a budding author, no less, was only eight when he began to think he was going crazy. It started when he heard that one of his Waltham classmates had an infection in his heart and needed a heart transplant. Jake’s anxiety about his classmate grew into an overwhelming…
Categories
Aging
Alcohol
Allergies
Alternative Medicine
Anxiety
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Dental
Depression
Exercise/Fitness
General Medicine
Heart Disease
Hormone replacement
Loneliness/Loss
Nutrition
Pain
Sleep Problems
Women's issues