Last Week's Links 11-23-20
It’s Thanksgiving week!! We LOVE Thanksgiving!! Even in a crazy year like 2020, we feel like we still have so much to be thankful for. After all, gratitude is incredibly good for you–it has been shown to be strongly and consistently associated with greater health and happiness.
Rom Family Chiropractic
Before we get to the links:
The health and safety of our patients and team is our highest priority. We are continuing to schedule by appointment only to allow for the thorough cleaning of surfaces between visits. We are limiting the number of people in the office at any given time, and we are following other suggested guidelines for safety and prevention to ensure a clean, stress-free environment for everyone.
If this crisis has showed us anything it’s how important it is to have a high level of durable baseline health and resilience—now more than ever!
Here are the links from our Rom Family Chiropractic Facebook page and all the good stuff we posted over the last week!
We like to post things on a wide variety of health topics, but it can all be broken down into 5 broad categories:
- Being well-adjusted
- Eating well
- Moving well
- Thinking well
- Sleeping well
Here are the links we posted from last week:
To add to the avalanche of research on the benefits of vitamin D, this 12-month randomized controlled trial found that vitamin D supplementation improved cognitive function, intelligence quotient scores, telomere length, and lowered oxidative stress markers in older adults (compared to placebo).
Are you getting enough vitamin D?
Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020
Who couldn’t use 2 simple techniques to physiologically help manage stress?
Kids Who Get Early Antibiotics Have Greater Chronic Health Risks
“The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the composition of the microbiome—the trillions of beneficial microorganisms that live in and on our bodies—plays a critical role in the early development of immunity, metabolism, and behavior.”
Maintenance Dose of Vitamin D: How Much Is Enough?
This study found that a daily “maintenance” dose of 2,000 IU in adults wasn’t enough to keep vitamin D at the appropriate minimum level on blood tests!
Are you getting enough vitamin D?
Sunshine Vitamin Could Help Boost Immunity in Fight Against COVID-19
Being a broken record can save lives!
“Overall, the study found that patients with a deficient vitamin D level had a nearly twice the risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than those that had sufficient vitamin D levels in previous blood tests.”
Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint
“Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent illness, the new data show. A slow rate of decline in the short term suggests, happily, that these cells may persist in the body for a very, very long time to come.”
Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City
Using data from 3,585 people collected across four cities in Europe, scientists report a strong relationship between growing up away from the natural world and poorer mental health in adulthood; including higher levels of of nervousness and feelings of depression in adulthood.
What can you do to get outside in more green and blue spaces?
Study Maps The Odd Structural Similarities Between The Human Brain And The Universe
I LOVE this type of article!
Do the same laws and principles that govern growth of the Universe also apply to growth of the human brain?