Vol 4 Issue 85

The Art of Healing

Your guide to health and healing alternatives

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Contributors
FRONT COVER IMAGE ARTIST: Antonio Mora WEBSITE: www.mylovt.com FB: antonio.moradiez.1 INSTA: a.morartworks Thank you to all the writers, organisations, and people we interviewed for their time and contributions to this magazine. And Thank You to YOU,
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EDITOR/PUBLISHER Cate Mercer WEB MANAGEMENT Shikha Aggarwal MARKETING/SPONSORSHIP marketing@theartofhealing.com.au ARTICLES e: edit@theartofhealing.com.au ■
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Editor's Note
If there is one topic that I think needs a sustained focus at the moment, it would have to be the state of our individual and collective mental health. With the global statistic now at 1 in 2 who will at some stage in their lifetime suffer from a men
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Research to Look Into Muscle Wasting
A natural process, sarcopenia is where muscles become smaller and weaker due to ageing. This can lead to reduced mobility, increased frailty and overall decreased quality of life among older adults. Sarcopenia can also result from short term hospital
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Funding is Vital for Cancer Patient Navigators
Cancer patient navigators are typically trained nurses, social workers or healthcare advocates who help guide and support cancer patients with personalised care by working with them to understand their diagnosis, treatment options, and relevant medic
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Taking Vitamin D for 5 Years Reduced the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia, the risk of which increases with age, and which is associated with an increased risk of stroke, heart failure and mortality. Taking Vitamin D has been shown to have an effect on atrial structure and
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Scientists Engineer E. Coli Bacteria to Generate Electricity
However the efficiencies of tiny, budding ‘bioreactors’ have been too low for practical use. What's more, it turns out microbes can be surprisingly picky in what substrates they digest to create electricity. Now a team of researchers from the Swiss F
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Australian Seaweed Boosts Collagen Levels in Human-Like Skin Cells
If you believe the headlines, seaweeds can do almost anything, from storing tons of carbon and stopping cows from belching methane, to making biofuels and renewable plastics - all while sustaining vibrant coastal ecosystems and feeding communities. A
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AI Fast-Tracks Disease Risk Predictions
Abdominal aortic calcification, or AAC, is a calcification which can build up within the walls of the abdominal aorta and predicts your risk of developing cardiovascular disease events such as heart attacks and stroke. It also predicts your risk of f
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New AI Platform Targets Safe Use of Medicine After Patients Leave Hospital
The ‘AutoMedic’ project led by Flinders University aims to create a more streamlined and accurate electronic record of prescription medicine used by patients discharged from six South Australian public hospitals to better manage their recovery and lo
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Breast Cancer Is Often Over-diagnosed In Older Women
Screening mammograms may lead many American women older than 70 to be overdiagnosed with breast cancer, and receive unnecessary tests and treatments as a result, a new study suggests. Patients are considered over-diagnosed when screening mammograms i
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Global Partners Commit to Advance Evidence-Based Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine
Health ministers from G20 and other countries, scientists, practitioners of traditional medicine, health workers and members of civil societyfrom88countries participated in the summit that provided a platform for the sharing of unique experiences, be
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Myths About Yoga
The popularity of yoga continues to surge. From 2012 to 2021, yoga participants in the United States alone increased by almost 50 percent, from 23.3 million to 34.4 million, according to a recent survey. The benefits of a regular practice can be wide
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Voluntary Assisted Dying Threatens Aged Care Presence in Anglican Church
Operating under its Anglican Community Services branch, the church has advised its New South Wales facilities to discourage residents from accessing VAD through a “strategy of minimum compliance.” With no legal grounding to explicitly deny residents
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Building Intercultural And Interfaith Understanding In Our Children
“I grew up in a mostly Russian-Ukrainian Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community in New York. We were taught Jewish values. I had no idea of the altruism and depth of spirit of non-Jewish people,” Kastel says. My worldview reflected many stories of Jewish
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Understanding The Perceptions And Behaviour Of Doctors Regarding Medical Cannabis
A 2021 meta-analysis of 21 international articles shows doctors are receiving more demand for medical cannabis, but are unsure how to advise patients. Fast-forward to 2023 and not much has changed, according to the results of an AusDoc survey involvi
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WELLNESS TRAVEL in Thailand
With our lives becoming increasingly cluttered by constant screen time and digital exposure, travellers are opting to take more regular time away from work. Thanks to social media, remote work, and the increasing siloing of our lives, people are crav
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Wellness Travel Trends
The first half of 2023 saw a 69% increase in luxury travel sales over 2019. Wellness travel is thriving: 94% of travellers are now incorporating selfcare into their travels, with a rising interest in programs with creative and performance art. Travel
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The Moment I Should Have Quit Journalism.
I know exactly the moment I should have quit journalism. It wasn't getting shot at and mortared while trying to escape from a shattered building. It wasn't while I was routinely mistreated and wronged by a well-known senior correspondent. And it wasn
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Grief
Grief has the capacity to cripple us or push us toward creative risk-taking, transformation and flourishing. Death can be the unexpected invitation to transform, even though it doesn't feel like it at the time. Know that courage is moving forward in
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Stoic At Work
RULE 1: Accept That People Are Annoying Annoying people are everywhere. Colleagues, bosses, subordinates, CEOs, CFOs. People who work in legal and procurement, in classrooms, on worksites, in hospitals and in shops. And then there are those The Econo
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Being My Own Best Friend
January in Melbourne. Hot and dry. But in that moment, the heat of summer dissipated and a sudden cold spread throughout my veins. The hospital walls began to merge with the face of the Doctor becoming one, as the floor began to gently sway beneath m
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Spiced Pork Braised With Prunes and Apricots
SERVES: 4 This dish is a marriage made in heaven – the rich flavour of the pork in perfect harmony with the cutting sweetness of the prunes. Thank God there are classics; life is richer for it. The spices also have a wonderful affinity with the pork
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Salad of Braised Beetroot, Yam, Peas and Beans
SERVES: 4 This salad started life as a tagine of vegetables when Sam and I would eat only vegetables for a week, but then I started serving it for friends with chicken tagine or braised meat and Moroccan salads. Being lazy, I'd make it in advance and
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Lime Syrup Cake
SERVES: 4 Syrup cakes are great because although they have a fairly dense texture they are always very moist. This cake has a lovely sweet-sour nature. You can serve it with cream; however, I like it with finely diced fresh fruit. There are two thing
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Our Fave Books
The Power of One is the story of one woman who challenged the culture and practices of one of the most powerful social media platforms of our time - Facebook. In the Spring of 2021, Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whist
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For Readers …
Your body is built to move and if you're not giving it what it needs you're not counteracting the effects of the technology-dependence and sedentary living that come with our modern way of life. After decades spent working with pro-athletes and Olymp
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On MOTIVATION
The struggle to find and hold on to motivation isn't new. Consider the argument Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius has with himself in the opening of his book Meditations written over two thousand years ago: “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of

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