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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Master Mingtong Gu, a recognized international teacher and healer, has trained and helped thousands of students around the world. In this episode, he shares the healing power of Qigong, a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training.
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Language
English
Description
We will learn valuable processes to handle your grief. We will learn valuable suggestions on how to move on. We will learn how to handle rejection. In the circle of life, death is certain. In the day-to-day life, rejection is possible, if not common. And good coping skills will keep your dignity and confidence in tact. People have said that the grief of death may be easier than grief from divorce because death is not a choice but some chose to divorce....
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Get more energy by being more energetic. In this practical guide, leading physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier reveals the ideal walking workout to rebuild muscles. This simple workout divides your everyday walk into three sections, targeting shoulders and arms, then buttocks and legs, and finally heart and lungs. Build and maintain your strength and confidence without having to rearrange your life.
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English
Description
Environmental health goes beyond monitoring and managing the physical environment. It spans areas of public health issues, such as noise and visual pollution, waste disposal and pest control and is a major, yet often subtle influence on the health and wellbeing of a community. Living in a rundown, neglected and unhealthy physical environment, can impact directly on individual and community health. Other factors relating to the physical environment,...
Series
Attenborough's Natural Curiosities volume Series 1
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
The Narwhal is a mysterious creature of the high Arctic that has been the inspiration for tales of unicorns. David Attenborough looks at how the striking appearance of the spiral tooth inspired art. The reason why it has only one tusk and why it is spiral is still something of a conundrum. Two-tusked narwhals are occasionally discovered giving us insight into its evolutionary past. Elizabeth I was said to have paid tens of thousands of pounds to own...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestselling author of the How Not to Die series When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young--we already have the tools....
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Turn your walk into a workout and maximize fat burning with this cutting-edge guide. Leading physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier gets the latest advice from exercise scientist Lisa Champion. With just a few critical adjustments to your everyday walk, you can build your bottom, your bones, and your entire body. Tone your thighs, flatten your stomach, and create shapely arms with this breakthrough guide. Make every step count.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
We can now cure disease, replace failing body parts and even engineer our health on a genetic level. So are illness and death really inevitable, or can they be overcome? It’s a question Nobel Prize-winning biologist Paul Nurse has explored through his own research. Scientific breakthroughs across the world are opening up exciting possibilities. But new technologies that extend life raise complex ethical conundrums. Even if we could eradicate death...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this short program comprised of startling statistics and interview footage, we learn how Alzheimer’s impacts not only the person with the disease, but also those around them. Medical experts and social workers talk about what we know about the disease, who is impacted by it, and the types of therapy that are used in treating it, such as music therapy. They also discuss the importance of physical fitness.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
We live in a country with a rapidly ageing population yet we’re still obsessed with holding on to our youth. In the first episode of this series we look at some of the new ways in which science is trying to help us stay young. Aoibhinn tries out an ‘Ageing Suit’ that restricts movement, impairs vision and hearing, and ages her 40 years in 5 mins, Kathriona meets DCU’s Professor Oliver Dolly to find out about variant of Botox which could be...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Presenter Mariella Frostrup goes on a personal journey to find out what the menopause means for women today and how science can help. She discovers the research helping women cope – from lifestyle changes that promise to delay the onset and relieve symptoms to a brand new drug that reduces debilitating hot flushes by 70%. Mariella also witnesses ovarian cryopreservation – a procedure that has the potential to reverse the menopause. And she gets...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
“Successful aging” is now a key term for people around the globe. Japan is home to the world’s highest proportion of centenarians: people who are older than 100 years old. What explains this longevity? As researchers worldwide look for answers, their studies of centenarians are gaining attention. The latest findings imply that everyone has the potential to live long, depending on the conditions. This program introduces viewers to “super”...
15) Rx Health
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Language
English
Description
Most of the 70 students at this unique school in Irvine, California have ADHD, autism, or anxiety issues. The school’s curriculum is based on extensive research from the NIH and the University of California. Find out how these kids are learning life lessons that will help them just as much as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Growing up is the most astonishing transformation: one moment we're cute and cuddly bundles of joy and everybody loves us, but next we're bursting with emotions, and spots, and everybody hates us-or so it seems! Scientists are only now discovering the many extraordinary things that happen to us as our bodies grow, and our minds mature, revealing these years are what make us who we become as adults, in all our amazing detail.
17) Spine Align
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As we age our spine suffers. We tend to get droopy shoulders and an increase in back pain. Spine Align consists of 7 exercises specifically designed to help alleviate your back and neck pain, realign your spine into correct and healthy position.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that aging is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that aging and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit to life, and no single, predictable program playing itself out: different things are happening within and between tissues, and...
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