It turns out humming offers many health benefits. The benefits include: relief from stress and anxiety, decrease in heart rate, increase in lymphatic circulation, increase in nasal nitric oxide, and vagus nerve stimulation. A few months ago, I was on a call with one of my favorite neuroscientists. I had been reviewing a set ofContinue reading “Is it Time to Keep a Kazoo Next to Your Computer?”
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NPR’s The Body Electric Investigates How Personal Technologies Impact Our Bodies
In one of the best series yet on technology and how our bodies and minds are taxed by our current habits, Manoush Zomorodi, interviews a variety of experts. Manoush kicks off the series with a challenge to NPR listeners to join a Columbia University/NPR study. Participants are tasked with getting up and moving for fiveContinue reading “NPR’s The Body Electric Investigates How Personal Technologies Impact Our Bodies”
Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?
It’s believed that many of us spend seven hours or more in front of screens each day. In 2011, researcher Emmanuel Stamatakis, found that “…even those who exercise can’t overcome the detrimental effects of too much screen time,”
Linda Stone 