JulieKay

"Where am I? And why am I pooping all over the place?" asks my 87-year-old mom, sitting on the edge of her bed after awakening from her afternoon "rest." A fresh trail of watery excrement, like breadcrumbs dropped in the woods, brown-stains the beige carpet to and from the bathroom. She's awake, alert, aware - and yet, not.

Alzheimer's "disease," a progressive and irreversible degeneration of brain tissue, is primarily a luxury of the Western world. Medical care and technology, combined with relatively easy lifestyles has presented an unexpected and rapidly growing social concern: our aging brains. Estimates vary but it is suggested that as many as five million Americans have Alzheimer’s and twenty-six million worldwide. And those numbers are on the rise. Guidelines for averting, or at least delaying or diminishing the onset, include regular physical exercise, proper nutrition, cognitive exercises, socializing; in truth, we don't yet have any concrete understanding of what is occurring, why, and how to “cure” it.   Lees verder...

The New Consciousness Review was created for people with a lively curiosity about things outside the mainstream: things like a direct connection to our spiritual source; alternative health practices; how science and consciousness interact, cosmic laws like karma and the Law of Attraction; inter-dimensional travel; being the best you and making a better world.

Our goal is to guide you to the most interesting, inspiring and even life-changing books and films through our reviews and those of holistic bookstores, magazines and readers around the world.   Lees verder...