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11 ways music ‘fine-tunes’ your health

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date April 10, 2017

Music can play an important role in your health. It’s become almost free to obtain, has no adverse effects and it’s really been shown to help specific conditions. For these reasons, I consider it one of the best “natural” medicines of our day.

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Health News Pain

Listening to music really can reduce pain

Post author By Editor
Post date December 11, 2016

Should I try this again?

A recent analysis has found that surgery patients who listen to music may experience lower levels of pain, anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate than people who do not listen to music.

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Healthy Living

Music heals but doctors may not tune in

Post author By Dr. Mark Wiley
Post date August 26, 2016

A from above view of a smiling senior Caucasian female enjoying listening to music on her smartphone while lying on the sofa in the living room.

It is important to employ as many safe, inexpensive, non-invasive means as possible to help patients feel better. This means reducing stress, fear and anxiety before surgical procedures and also while in recovery. Music seems to fit the bill nicely.

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Healthy Living Pain

Hear that? It’s the sound of powerful pain relief

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date March 8, 2018

While it’s no secret that the music you listen to can make you happy or sad, take you back to another time and evoke memories that you never want to forget, did you know that music could also be the secret to controlling your chronic pain?

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Healthy Living Sleep

‘Sedating’ music helps seniors sleep without the risky pills

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date May 25, 2021

Attractive blonde woman peacefully sleeping. Side view. Horizontal.

All of us have those nights when physical discomfort or a racing mind can make it difficult to sleep well. But when it happens night after night, it can be a real nightmare — one that affects up to 70 percent of older adults. Pop a pill? That’s dangerous the older you get. But new research says the right kind of music is the stuff dreams are made of…

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Brain Health

The music that can keep your brain young

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date January 24, 2022

Mature couple are sitting at home on the couch, relaxing, enjoying life, drinking wine and listening to vinyl records on a music player. Romantic evening for a married couple.

Listening to music you’ve loved all your life can do more than make you feel good. People experiencing mild cognitive impairment or even early-stage Alzheimer’s symptoms can listen to music and re-shape their brains to prevent a progression. But not just any music will do…

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Brain Health

Alzheimer’s to stroke: What playing an instrument does for your brain

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date September 7, 2021

Senior man watching online tutorial, learning how to play a guitar using laptop at home in living room. Online learning concept.

At any given moment, I can listen to the right tune to help me feel calmer, happier, more focused or primed for sleep. But playing music also improves your life in multiple ways. In fact, learning to play a musical instrument is well worth the effort, especially for your brain, even if you don’t start learning until you’re an older adult…

Tags Anxiety, Cognitive Decline, Depression, Stroke

Healthy Living

Surprising ways science says music can be medicine

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date December 23, 2019

When a school of medicine as prestigious as the one at Johns Hopkins University puts dollars into researching something, you know it’s got real possibilities. Take music — now being used as a way to treat neurological conditions and other diseases, as an alternative to medications, and there’s evidence it works…

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Healthy Living Heart Health

Training your fight-or-flight response to keep your heart healthy

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date September 27, 2018

Music is a well-known stress management tool, which could be very helpful to someone with heart disease. But let’s hope that you’re not there yet. If that’s the case, there’s another important way music might help keep you from ever having your first heart attack…

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Blood Pressure Heart Health

Best playlist to lower blood pressure, heart rate and cortisol

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date July 14, 2016

Music’s healing effect has been demonstrated on everything from colds to cerebral palsy. And the latest science suggests you could harness that power to accomplish some pretty amazing things. But some tunes work better than others…

Healthy Living Sleep

The simplest way to slay morning grogginess

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date February 24, 2020

Being jolted awake by an alarm when your body isn’t ready to get up stinks. But for most of us, it’s an inescapable fact of life. But what if there was a way to make your morning alarm experience less miserable? And it could help you wake up far more chipper next time your alarm goes off? Alright, here’s how…

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Fitness & Exercise Weight Loss

How to make workouts seem less tough

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date July 17, 2019

Did you start the year with lofty fitness goals but slip back to your old, sedentary habits? Come January, you may find yourself filled with regret that you let another year slip by. You’ve still got six months — and luckily, the researchers at University of British Columbia found a way to make exercise easier…

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