Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8UPsJNAYw/ Dr. Smith and hypnotherapist Barry Beder, MSW, LICSW discuss the effects that hypnosis can have on the body https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22676-hypnosis #hypnosis #healing #mindbody #hypnotherapy #pain #bleeding #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8S-f_RYQl/ Dr. Smith and hypnotherapist Barry Beder, MSW, LICSW discuss the history of hypnosis. https://hypnosis.edu/history/ancient-hypnosis #hypnosis #magic #benfranklin #hypnotherapy #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8R2ENsMF1/ Dr. Smith and the late Robert Osteen, MD of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital briefly speak about male breast cancer. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/male-breast-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20374740 #breastcancer #men #nippledischarge #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8Q8VILmq-/ Dr. Smith asks Mark Linzer, MD, Director, Syncope Center, New England Medical Center, about the evaluation for fainting which is technically called syncope. https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2017/0301/p303.html #fainting #syncope #arrhythmia #holtermonitoring #wbznewsradio fainting, syncope, arrhythmia, holtermonitoring, wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8PkFXOK7B/ Dr. Smith discusses hairline foot fractures with a WBZ Radio caller. https://www.healthline.com/health/hairline-fracture #hairline #fracture #foot #nonunion #orthopedics #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8OjY8umtg/ If you’re struggling with balance problems due to an accident, an injury, or advancing age, that VR headset laying around the house or on the store shelf may just be the key to your recovery.  Balance specialists and physiotherapists at Sweden’s Lund University now report their results using a virtual reality environment to help subjects train the...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8NqbwvXlU/ Accumulations of belly fat and love handles are associated with a reduction in our problem-solving powers.  This from an Iowa State University study of more than 4400 middle-aged men and women. The researchers measured both belly and waist fat as well as lean muscle mass.  Participants with belly fat accumulations were the worst problem solvers fo...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8MzMuuH6b/ A Danish study just published in the British Medical Journal shows that cardiac patients who describe themselves as lonely are 3 times more likely to die from any cause.  Lonely men were 40% more likely to experience a repeat cardiac illness within one year after an initial evetn. The researchers studied more than 13,400 subjects with coronary dis...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8LlU7vwGD/ Just four hours of weekly exercise, any exercise, will reduce your chances of a depression episode by 17% even if you are genetically predisposed.  Harvard researchers now publish this result after studying 8,000 participants in a Boston database for whom they calculated a depression risk score based on family history and mood assessment by questionnaire. T...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8KYHFNQFL/ Children without siblings are nearly 5 times more likely to demonstrate unhealthy eating patterns compared with those having brothers and sisters.  University of Oklahoma nutritionists reviewed food consumption diaries from 67 families to determine a Healthy Eating Index for each. Healthy eating habits are not diminished by time away from home in...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8JggNP3BM/ The Mediterranean diet, rich in healthy fats and anti-inflammatory nutrients but devoid of red and processed meats fights the inflammation that degrades menstrual regularity, embryo implantation, and sperm quality.   Australian public health researchers extoll the virtues of the Med diet in an excellent review appearing in the journal Nutrients. ...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8IuIPtzPg/ Do you develop headaches, become anxious, and feel depressed as you watch the news and digest the political commentary on cable channels?  You’re not alone. Psychologists from the University of Toronto in collaboration with NYU epidemiologists studied 3,208 Americans in 4 different studies as they observed US politics on broadcast and social media...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8HvYyPggq/ Breathing with prolonged exhalation beats other breathing techniques as well as mindless meditation for elevating your mood and extinguishing anxiety.  Stanford University neurobiologists and psychologists studied 108 persons with a mean age of 28 years.  Two-thirds were females. Four techniques were tested by each of 4 groups for 5 minutes each d...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8GGuyNZm8/ Suffering a head injury more than doubles your risk of dying at some time over a 30 year period.  So say University of Pennsylvania neurologists who followed 13,037 adults, median age of 54, between 1987 and 2019.   Head injuries were experienced by 18% of the group.  The risk of death for this cohort was 2 twice that of the non-injured group.  Th...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskhGo4NJeX/ Lead-in by the late Gary LaPierre Dr. Smith reports a Medical Minute about the dangers of leaving children and pets in locked cars. https://journalistsresource.org/health/child-dead-left-hot-car-research/ #children #parenting #heat #fever #cars #wbznewsradio 

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CskfeeZtH9b/ Dr. Smith discusses a caller’s throat problems that are reducing the quality of her singing. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30843435/ #singing #larynx #vocalcords #nodules #polyps #phonomicrosurgery

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskeZ7wuvF2/ Dr. Smith warns listeners no to confuse tiny bottles containing eye drops with those containing instant glue. https://www.livescience.com/woman-glues-eye-shut.html #eyes #eyedrops #glue #krazyglue #instantglue #wbznewsradio

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskdctYPTPR/ Adding just one hour of TV or cell use each day bumps teen sugar and caffeine intake beyond World Health Organization guidelines.  Pediatricians at Canada’s McMaster University studied more than 32,000 US students from 8th through 10th grade. The additional hour of TV bumped the risk of exceeding WHO sugar guidelines by 32% and caffeine guidelines...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskcVX-rULB/ A happy tune is THE secret to unmasking solutions to your dilemmas as you get some ZZZs.  This remarkable discovery comes to us from Northwestern University psychologists. Investigators tested 57 subjects presenting them with tricky puzzles the evening before sleep. Each puzzle was accompanied by a unique sound.  Then, as they slept, they heard the...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskbcfBricJ/ Endurance running with a resistance band connecting your shoes can increase your running efficiency by over 9%.  Mechanical engineers at UC-Santa Barbara clocked runners with and without latex surgical tubing connecting their feet. The tubing stores kinetic energy as the legs move past one another, and that energy helps power the next cycle.  The r...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cskaj4EMPHG/ It’s not just the football team that gets overheated.  The marching band, wearing heavy wool uniforms, is particularly susceptible to heat-related disease.  This according to an analysis by investigators at the Universities of Georgia, South Carolina, and Kansas that looked at this problem over a 31 year period using a newspaper report database. Of...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskZv57Lxxt/ Those taking the antidepressant drug fluoxetine, branded as Prozac, have a significantly reduced risk of developing progressive age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in those over the age of 50.  Researchers at the University of Virginia analyzed data from two health insurance databases covering more than 100 million pers...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskYsIsP8hG/ Drinking a 6 ounce cup of coffee during the first trimester will not increase a woman’s risk of gestational diabetes and drinking that same amount during the second trimester actually seems protective lowering the risk of diabetes by 47%.  University of Pennsylvania and NIH epidemiologists just published these conclusions following their study of 2...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskXmbuPh9R/ Initiating physical therapy, PT for short,  before or after knee replacement therapy significantly reduces that chances that a person will require long-term opioid pain therapy by some 25 to 29 percent.  Boston University researchers studied 67,322 persons who underwent total knee replacement surgery over a 20 year period. Beginning PT either befor...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CskWr30JGz8/ Women who elect to freeze their eggs in their 20s or early 30s are more than twice as likely to later become pregnant and more than 3.5 times more likely to deliver a baby when compared with women who use IVF techniques.  NYU gynecologists studied 543 patients who froze their eggs and compared their pregnancy success with controls who began using I...