Understanding Body Function Archives - Rethinking Cancer https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/ Alternative Cancer Therapies Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:59:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://rethinkingcancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-fav-32x32.jpg Understanding Body Function Archives - Rethinking Cancer https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/ 32 32 Be Kind to Your Liver — The Body’s Real Workhorse By Ruth Sackman, Founder and Former president of F.A.C.T. https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/be-kind-to-your-liver-the-bodys-real-workhorse-by-ruth-sackman-founder-and-former-president-of-f-a-c-t/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/be-kind-to-your-liver-the-bodys-real-workhorse-by-ruth-sackman-founder-and-former-president-of-f-a-c-t/#respond Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:42:20 +0000 https://rethinkingcancer.org/?p=5491 The heart is considered by medical standards the most important organ of the body because if it stops beating, we die. But the liver is the real workhorse. It has about 300 tasks to take care of and, when it’s working properly, our overall health is enhanced most efficiently. Nearly every human ailment relates directly […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/be-kind-to-your-liver-the-bodys-real-workhorse-by-ruth-sackman-founder-and-former-president-of-f-a-c-t/feed/ 0 The Nitric Oxide Dump! https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/short-order-shape-up-the-nitric-oxide-dump/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/short-order-shape-up-the-nitric-oxide-dump/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:11:25 +0000 https://rethinkingcancer.org/?p=5373 Most of us think of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or Peak Fitness as something reserved for extremely motivated (i.e., virtually crazed) high powered athletes. The Nitric Oxide Dump, however, is an amazing new version of HIIT that can be done by people of all body types and ages, in short, your “average Joe.” Consisting of […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/short-order-shape-up-the-nitric-oxide-dump/feed/ 0 Posing in the Sky — Yoga for the Weary Traveler https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/yoga-for-travel/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/yoga-for-travel/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:11 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/yoga-for-travel/ Are you all bent out of shape after a flight? Airline travel is no picnic these days due to a host of inconveniences, but what about what it does to your body, scrunched for hours in minimal space? Each year it seems economy airplane seats have gotten smaller, while people haven’t! These days the typical […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/yoga-for-travel/feed/ 0 Why Music Is Good Medicine By Amanda L. Chan https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-music-is-good-medicine/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-music-is-good-medicine/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:10 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/why-music-is-good-medicine/ Whether it’s the perfect song after a bad break-up, or something relaxing to listen to while studying or puttering, most of us have felt music’s power to make our hearts and souls feel better. Now scientific evidence from a vast array of studies explains why both playing and listening to music can have serious health […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-music-is-good-medicine/feed/ 0 Why Do We Cry? https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-we-cry/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-we-cry/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:09 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/why-do-we-cry/ Animals may “cry” by making sounds for emotional expression or pain, but humans are the only animal that actually sheds tears, which leads us to the question: why? Scientifically speaking, tears are a result of action in the lacrimal gland situated between your eyeball and eyelid. When you blink, the fluid disperses over the eye, […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-we-cry/feed/ 0 Why Do Music Conductors Live So Long? By Tania Gabrielle French https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-music-conductors-live-so-long/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-music-conductors-live-so-long/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:09 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/why-do-music-conductors-live-so-long/ Did you know orchestra conductors live longer than nearly any other group of people? It’s true. Many of the famous conductors of the past lived well into their 80s and 90s – Leopold Stokowski, 95, Pablo Casals, 96, Nadia Boulanger, 90, and Arturo Toscanini, 89, to name a few. And they were from a time […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-do-music-conductors-live-so-long/feed/ 0 Why Distilled Water? By FACT https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-distilled-water/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-distilled-water/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:08 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/why-distilled-water/ Only oxygen is more essential than water in sustaining the life of all living organisms. Human beings can live for several weeks without food, but only a few days without water. The daily cleansing of wastes from each cell, the flushing of the alimentary canal and the purifying of the blood are all dependent on […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/why-distilled-water/feed/ 0 What Is Glutathione? https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/what-is-glutathione/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/what-is-glutathione/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:07 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/what-is-glutathione/ Glutathione, known as “the master antioxidant,” is all the rage these days. TV doctors and health gurus are waxing poetic about it, healthfood stores are selling umpteen facsimiles of it — despite the fact that it’s nothing new! Our bodies have been naturally producing glutathione to protect against oxidative stress since homo sapiens arrived on […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/what-is-glutathione/feed/ 0 The Next New Old Thing: Retro Walking https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/the-next-new-old-thing-retro-walking/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/the-next-new-old-thing-retro-walking/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:06 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/the-next-new-old-thing-retro-walking/ Have you walked backwards lately? This is a practice for health and well-being, believed to have originated in ancient China. Now, in the 21st Century, going in reverse, or the hipper-sounding “retro walking,” is becoming a new workout phenomenon, especially in Japan, China, Europe and the U.S.! And beyond being a popular exercise, it’s a […]

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]]> https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/the-next-new-old-thing-retro-walking/feed/ 0 What’s In a Yawn? https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/what-is-a-yawn/ https://rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/understanding-body-function/what-is-a-yawn/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 10:55:06 +0000 http://rethinkingcancer.info/2020/05/07/what-is-a-yawn/ For a long time it was thought that the primary purpose of yawning was to increase oxygen to the circulatory system and the brain in order to improve alertness. In primitive times, the yawn might have silently signaled to others the need to be more alert as one of the group was tired and not […]

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