Wellness Wave Wisdom

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By Kim Marquardt, RN MSN This blog post is from the Nurse Kim archives of myth busting. I want to share some "alternative" or maybe just lesser known health and wellness viewpoints for you to chew on. *These posts are not intended as official medical advice. They ARE meant to be fun, informative, and thought provoking, hopefully sparking an interest for you to do your own research (you can start with the links I provide!) and discover the marvels of the human body, and how it can function at its optimal performance level if we understand how it works and interacts with our environment and our diet. I have a passion for health and wellness through lifestyle and nutrition and have done thousands of hours of research in addition to being a registered nurse for 23 years. I have done A LOT of self-experimentation in and around diet, lifestyle, body care, and supplementation and have spent a lot of time looking into the science behind it all (or lack thereof!). Check back weekly fo

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By Claudia Alvarado-Sasse Claudia Alvarado-Sasse is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at the University of San Diego. After working with the San Diego community for over 10 years and seeing firsthand the high need for culturally competent, accessible, and adequate mental health services, she became motivated to pursue her master's degree to help address this gap and bring high quality mental health services to all. Claudia speaks Spanish, English, a little Brazilian Portuguese and is very fluent in Spanglish. Addiction Addiction has been, and continues to remain, a heavily stigmatized health problem in our society. People who experience addiction to drugs and/or alcohol have often been perceived as failing morally and having no willpower to stop. Although addiction research began around the late 19th century (Musto, 1996), it wasn’t until 1956 when the American Medical Association (AMA) declared alcoholism an illness, and eventually in 1987, it became declared as a diseas