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Recovery is challenging in many ways, from having to avoid the temptation to relapse, to learning how to live a sober lifestyle. But one difficult part of recovery that isn’t talked about as much is how lonely the process can be. At times, it can feel like no one knows what you’re going through, or how isolated and sad you feel. So it’s important for an individual in recovery to understand that loneliness is a very normal part of recovery, but also that there are many ways to combat it. Read More »

Hair loss has been a cause for concern almost since the dawn of recorded history. The Ebers Papyrus, discovered at the ancient site of Luxor in Egypt and dating from around 1500 BC, describes prescriptions and invocations for a cure for baldness drawing on medical “knowledge” from thousands of years earlier. Even Hippocrates, the Greek father of modern medicine, experimented with various cures for his own encroaching hair loss, apparently involving opium, horseradish, beetroot and pigeon droppings. Hippocrates’ experiments were, needless to say, unsuccessful. However, he did note that the eunuchs guarding the king’s harem did not appear to suffer from hair loss, leading to a correct assumption that the hormonal changes brought about by castration were in some way associated with this apparent anomaly. Indeed, we now know that the presence of the (predominantly) male hormone testosterone explains why, apart from medical conditions such as Alopecia Totalis, men tend to lose hair in later life while women do not, at least not to the same extent. Read More »