Metformin, When To Take It

Timing is everything for many things in life — including when to take medication like metformin, sold under the brand names Glucophage, Fortamet, Riomet, and Glumetza.

So, when’s the best time to take metformin? Well, there’s no magic time, but you should take metformin at the same time each day and with food to avoid gastrointestinal side effects. If you’re taking extended-release metformin tablets, take them with your evening meal. 

Read on for more details on the best time of day to take metformin and how to take it

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Mindfulness Activities

Mindfulness can help reduce stress, soothe anxiety, increase concentration, lower blood pressure, improve sleep, ease pain—and you can practice mindfulness without meditating on a cushion (although you can do that too). Any activity can be done mindfully if you’re focused on whatever is happening in the present moment: scents, sounds, tastes, textures, or your emotional and physical responses.

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Mental Health Tips

  •  Track gratitude and achievement with a journal.
  • Start your day with a cup of co­ffee.
  • Set up a getaway.
  • Work on your strengths.
  • Experiment 
  • Go off the grid.
  • Work some omega-3 fatty acids into your diet.
  • Do your best to enjoy 15 minutes of sunshine.
  • AND MANY MORE CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW
  • https://www.mhanational.org/31-tips-boost-your-mental-health
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Strategies For Anxiety Relief

We all experience anxiety. It is a natural response when we think events or experiences in our environment are threatening, uncertain or challenging. Anxiety can be helpful at times because it keeps us alert and focused, but when the anxiety response persists, it is no longer adaptive. It just does not ruin ourselves mentally but affects our physical and relation aspects as well. With this, we list some of the strategies that will hopefully provide relief during anxiety attacks.

Nancy Reyes 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/7-strategies-for-instant-anxiety-relief/ar-AA13P8rf?ocid=windirect&cvid=15447f57a43a45938a1a7998eb39ff44

Anxiety?

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2014 study from YouGov found that one in five people who experience anxiety have no coping mechanisms to help them through it.

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Mental Health Information

Antisocial Disorder Information

Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is sometimes used interchangeably with sociopathy, though they’re not quite the same. Sociopathy is itself a version of APD that differs from psychopathy, which is also an antisocial personality disorder. As Healthline explains, people with high-function APD can usually do typical “everyday” activities, like work or maintain a marriage. While the DSM-5 doesn’t use “high-” or “low-functioning” to describe people with antisocial personality disorder, people considered to have a lower-functioning APD aren’t quite as polished or polite when masking the manipulation that is key to the disorder. Here are the symptoms of APD, per the Mayo Clinic:

Lindsey Ellefson

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Self Reflection Prompts For Your Journaling

One of the healthiest things you can do for yourself, especially during this turbulent time in history, is to take up the practice of journaling. This isn’t a “Dear Diary, today I, Pam Beesly, fell in love with Jim in sales,” type of thing, but a deep look into yourself, what inspires you, what moves you, what scares you, and how you can grow. Of course, no one is saying you can’t start each journal entry with “Dear Diary” or even “Dear Timothée Chalamet,” for that matter — but using journal prompts can help you reap the biggest benefits of a regular writing habit.

Amanda Chatel –

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/75-journal-prompts-for-self-reflection/ar-AARMjRY?ocid=msnews

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