#53 Healthy Cholesterol, When Caregivers and Loved Ones Disagree, Your Personality Characteristics and Your Sex Life and Treating Fibromyalgia with Cannabis
Nov 10, 2018
By Valerie Massie
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Welcome to this episode of The Tonic, terrestrially broadcast on November 10th, 2018 on AM740 and FM 96.7 in Toronto. Topics covered on the show track the lifestyle articles and themes published in Tonic Magazine. This week we chat about healthy cholesterol with Dr. Gordon Chang; discuss what to do when caregivers and loved ones disagree with David Bernstein; learn how your personality characteristics correlates with your sex life and find out how fibromyalgia can be treated with cannabis.
We specifically discuss:
Healthy Cholesterol:
Cholesterol and aging – 40+
Cholesterol produced by the liver
Clean and detoxify your liver – supplements
Cholesterol produces steroidal hormones
High density lipoprotein – HDL
Low density lipoprotein – LDL
Controlling LDL intake
Diet, exercise and antioxidants intake
plaque formation
anti-inflammatory
fibre
niacin – flushing response
When Caregivers and Loved Ones Disagree:
It is the Senior’s wishes that are most important
care vs. control dynamic
dignity
Where does the senior live?
Mobility issues
Focus on safety
Quality of Life – purpose, connectedness
Fall Risks – balance, muscle weakness, 4+ medications
Your Personality Characteristics and Your Sex Health:
5 Principal Personality Characteristics
Openness to Experience
Conscientiousness
Introvert/Extrovert
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Treating Fibromyalgia with Cannabis:
Fibromyalgia – pain disorder
symptoms of Fibromyalgia
cannibanoids and Fibromyalgia
endocannibanoid system
CBD and THC
Recent empirical survey
Cannabis research
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