b'Smartphone TherapyHEALTH BITS & PIECES Over30%ofAmericanshavereport-By Dan Kenner, Ph.D., LAc edsymptomsofgeneralizedanxietydis-Neither Health Freedom News nor I are suggestingorder(peakingintheyoungestagegroup, that any such medical care or treatment be conducted without competent18-29-year-olds). The numbers for depression medical advice and supervision. are almost as bad with 23.5% for the entire U.S.populationand32.7%for18-29-year-olds. A meta-analysis of several studies indi-cates that mindfulness exercise guided by a smartphone app can have a positive impact onpsychologicalhealth.Mindfulnessisa moment-to-moment awareness that emerges through an intentional, conscious, and un-critical way of focusing on and experiencing the present. Its benefits include strengthening openness to, and acceptance of, current expe-rience and looking at problems from different perspectives. Health-related smartphone apps are in-creasingly becoming a popular trend, with more people regularly using smartphones to acquire knowledge about health. A study to analyzetheeffectivenessofusingasmart-phone app of mindfulness exercises showed a potentially beneficial effect of the exercises guided by a smartphone app on symptoms of depression and anxiety among individuals in a non-clinical population with emotional symptoms. Oxygen Good for Health higher risk of death. Both telomere shorten-+yperbaric oxygen therapy (+BOT)ing and accumulation of senescent cells are may prevent cognitive decline and slowassociated with a variety of chronic, age-as-down the aging process. More than half ofsociated, and life-threatening diseases. The individuals sixty years and older have ex- accumulation of senescent cells results in a pressed concern about declining cognitivecondition of congestion in the tissues that abilities. In one study, HBOT was shownimpairs function, slowing down the inpux to induce cognitive enhancement in healthyof nutrients into the cellular environment, aging adults by increasing the volume ofand hindering the drainage of waste prod- A total of eight studies were included in cerebral blood pow in the brain. Improve- ucts. Using hyperbaric oxygen therapy in athe meta-analysis, with \x18\x1a\x17 subMects (experi-ments in attention, information processing,population of healthy aging subjects bothmental group: 348; control group: 226). Anal-and executive functions were observed. increased telomere length and reduced theysis of the studies suggests that mindfulness Another study showed that HBOT sig- number of senescent cells. exercise guided by a smartphone app can sig-nificantly increased telomere length and re- nificantly help to prevent emotional disorders duced the number of aged, malfunctioningand promote mental health.Hadanny A, Daniel-Kotovsky M, Suzin G, et al., Cognitive enhancement of healthy older adults usingNational Center for Health Statistics, Household cells. Telomeres are protective caps at thehyperbaric oxygen: a randomized controlled trial,PulseSurvey,CDC,2020,athttps://www.cdc.gov/ends of the DNA molecules. They preventAging, 2020; 12(13): 13740-13761, doi.org/10.18632/ nchs/covid19/pulse/mental-health.htm;WuJ,MaY, aging.103571; Hachmo Y, Hadanny A, Hamed R, etZuo Y, et al., Effects of Mindfulness Exercise Guided the ends of chromosomes from frayingal., Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomereby a Smartphone App on Negative Emotions and Stress or sticking to each other, a phenomenonlength and decreases immunosenescence in isolatedinNon-ClinicalPopulations:ASystematicReview blood cells: a prospective trial, Aging, 2020; 12(22):and 0eta\x10$nalysis\x0fFrontiers in Public Health,\x15\x13\x15\x15\x1e that is associated with aging, cancer, and a22445-22456, doi.org/10.18632/aging.202188.\x1c\x1d\x1a\x1a\x16\x15\x1c\x19\x0f doi\x1d \x14\x13.\x16\x16\x1b\x1c\x12fpubh.\x15\x13\x15\x14.\x1a\x1a\x16\x15\x1c\x19. 30 H EALTHF REEDOMN EWS /S UMMER2022NHF_Summer40-2_2022_Linda_08-09-2022.indd 30 8/10/22 11:10 AM'