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World Gratitude Day is on Saturday, September 21. Here are several ways you can can experience and share gratitude within your own environment.

MUIH is pleased to announce that we have recently joined AmazonSmile! AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support MUIH every time you shop, at no cost to you. By designating MUIH as your charitable organization on AmazonSmile, you’ll be supporting our community and our mission to promote integrative health and wellness across the globe!

Can you relate to a time of transition in your life? Read new blog posting about Transition is Growth by our Associate Vice President of Student and Alumni Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer, Tita Gray, Ed.D, MBA.

In striving to be healthy, have you ever stopped to wonder what “health” means? National Wellness Month begins August 1st, and MUIH’s Dean of Academic Affairs, James Snow, offers some great questions to help us define our own sense of health.

We all know how important it is to pay attention to our health, but have you ever thought about your career health? Career health is a very important aspect of health and wellness because we spend so much time at work. If you aren’t working in a suitable career, it can have a detrimental effect on other aspects of your health and your overall well-being.

It is summer, school is out, and kids spend a lot of their free time outside.  With time outside, kids tend to forget to stay hydrated yet still come inside for a snack.  One way to ensure kids stay hydrated as well as consume healthy snacks, it to make snack time into project time.

If your gut is not digesting and absorbing then the rest of the body is going to suffer. Just in the United States 60-70 million people are affected by some type of digestive disease. Some of the more common ones include reflux (GERD), ulcers in the stomach, chronic constipation and/or chronic diarrhea which may fall under irritable bowel syndrome, hemorrhoids, celiac disease, and inflammatory bowel conditions.

In our research, we have found that yoga decreases pain, improves mood, and bolsters quality of life for adults with arthritis. Less quantified, but perhaps more importantly, we have heard many stories describing how yoga can transform one’s relationship to the disease, to the body, to life with arthritis and even to life overall.

Now that school is out and summer is upon us, many parents are looking for activities to occupy their children in a constructive and meaningful way. Look no further than your backyard, balcony or local plot of land.

June is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD is more common than many people realize, and it can have debilitating effects on the individual as well as impact their relationships with loved ones. In any given year approximately eight million American adults are suffering from this condition and it is estimated that 7 to 8% of the U.S. population will have PTSD during their lifetime. While anyone may develop PTSD, it is more prevalent in certain populations such as military veterans.

The U.S. is currently spending over 17.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare (CMS, 2019). With this level of investment, which is more than any other country, we would expect to see greater health outcomes for patients in the U.S.. And yet we are seeing higher levels of disease burden in the U.S. compared to other countries in the world (Peterson-Kaiser, 2017). Patients are looking to complementary health approaches like acupuncture, yoga, and mind-body medicine for what they are not finding in conventional medicine.