We hug each other when we are happy or when our heart cries, sometimes just to say hello. Hugs play a role important in our lives and they are a powerful tool of non-verbal communication. …
The power of the hug
Health
Apitherapy: a new (old) opening for medicine
Apitherapy in a nutshell Apitherapy is based on the traditional knowledge provided by some civilizations aiming to restore body homeostasis. It is a branch of alternative medicine and, although the value of allopathic medicine is …
Human pregnancy reorganizes mothers’ brains
Body’s transformation during and after pregnancy is universally recognized but what about the mothers’ brains? Is the animal instinct something depending on the environment or something ancestral, or does it come from the brain? A …
Give flowers: received flowers produce positive moods
Recent studies of wellbeing and psychology prove that flowers have immediate and long-term effects on emotional reactions, mood, social behaviors and even memory for both males and females. Women who received flowers reported more positive …
Forever love: the thermodynamics second law tells us how it can exist
The nowadays love’s crisis Nearly few thousand of scientific articles each year have been written about emotion. The number has grown exponentially in the last thirty years; growth has also occurred in related areas, contributing …
Allergies are another symptom of the climate change
It’s well-known that the immune dysregulation contributes to an increase in immune-mediated diseases such as asthma, in general allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. This dysregulation is often caused by environmental stressors, that are responsible …