Heather Riordan Wellness

11/29/2025

When the holiday stress hits, try 4-7-8 breathing. Breathing is an essential act that requires no thought. But thinking about it can alter your physical and mental health. It can relieve stress and anxiety or help you wind down and fall asleep. Here’s how to do it:

11/27/2025

According to the Trump administration:
Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers
are no longer considered “professional” and will be able to secure less money for loans. But theology is still considered professional.
We are moving in the wrong direction, and you can’t pray that away.

11/04/2025

Easy to do (until the bitter cold comes to Chicago.)

Walking After Eating Isn’t Just A Trend. It’s Backed By Science And Delivers Real Results.

09/15/2025

Today marks 40 years of teaching fitness. I feel lucky. (I also feel old.)

08/26/2025

At 92, scientists are studying Emma Mazzenga’s muscles, nerves and even her mitochondria to better understand how she’s able to keep running into her 90s.

An international case study of Mazzenga’s physical fitness is part of a broader, years-long effort by researchers in Italy to better understand how muscles change as we age. https://wapo.st/4n3OqSA

08/22/2025

The “L” is implied.

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

Read more (published Oct. 2024): https://propub.li/45JsANa

07/03/2025

This.

The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

06/22/2025

06/09/2025

Still weird, still amusing.

Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University and imprinted with the "free love" aura of the period, this shor...

01/06/2025

01/04/2025

Not new, but some sobering* recommendations from Canada:
(Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.)

CCSA proudly led the initiative to update Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines (LRDGs). The project, funded by Health Canada, began in July 2020. The two-and-a-half-year process culminated in the creation of Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health, which replaces the LRDGs. Canada’s G...