Daily coffee may slow biological aging in mental illness Researchers studying people with major psychiatric disorders found that drinking up to four cups of coffee a day is associated with longer telomeres. This suggests a potential slowing of biological aging by about five years. However, drinking five or more cups showed no benefit and may even contribute to cellular damage. Coffee’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may help explain the effect.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r....eleases/2025/12/2512

Navigating NG Tubes: Practical Tips and Emotional Support for Patients and Caregivers When you live with Inflammatory Bowel disease, there’s no telling if or when you’re going to need an NG tube (nasogastric tube) to help stabilize your symptoms, deliver nutrition, and help your body heal. In my 20-plus years living with Crohn’s disease, and despite many hospitalizations for bowel obstructions, I have never needed one (yet). …
https://lightscameracrohns.com..../2025/11/15/navigati

Does accepting your pain mean you’re giving up? Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for pain is sometimes seen as just about ‘giving up’ on reducing pain. TLR ACT doesn’t mean giving up How on earth can that be? Isn’t it called ACT because it’s about ‘acceptance’? Let’s unpack ‘acceptance.’ According to the Oxford Dictionary of Languages, acceptance means “the action of consenting to […]
https://healthskills.wordpress.....com/2025/11/10/does

Do You Believe Me? Trust and the Politics of Pain in Clinical Practice Trust. A term we use to mean our belief in the reliability or truth of someone or something. An attitude or belief that involves allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to another; an expectation that another will act in a certain way even though we can’t be sure. Trustworthiness is the inherent quality of being reliable, […]
https://healthskills.wordpress.....com/2025/11/17/do-y

Drowning in ‘evidence’ A recent bibliometric review of journals with ‘pain’ in the title revealed 19 journals (Chi et al., 2025). There is no shortage of research being published in the area of pain – and not a gnat’s chance of keeping up with all the papers published. Papers aren’t only published in these ‘pain’-oriented journals, they can […]
https://healthskills.wordpress.....com/2025/11/24/drow