Yang Sheng ⁽²²⁾

Saturday morning, my wife and I did some work in our vegetable plot. Afterward, I suddenly wanted to drive into the mountains of Mentougou. She agreed to come along, so we drove to Yanchi Town. Yanchi is all mountains; we had cycled there once before.

In the book Spontaneous Healing, the American MD Andrew Weil includes, in his recommended self-recovery package, the option of not watching the news for a few days each week. Andrew Weil believes the news brings us too many negative things; when a person is long…

This time we are not fighting a single virus, Omicron, but in a brawl against a combined fleet of many pathogens. From the critical cases I have seen, many people are not infected with COVID alone but with multiple pathogens. The coronavirus, influenza virus, RSV…

If you have flat feet and suffer from collapsed medial arches, when you enter a doctor's office they will, per modern guidelines, recommend special shoes to improve symptoms, or suggest surgery to relieve the pain.This is correct and standard from modern medicine's standpoint, but actually,…

In our building there is a middle-aged man. I still do not know whether he is older or younger than me—he looks a bit older, but a person's appearance does not always match his actual age; perhaps he only looks old because of illness. His…

"I heard drinking tea can fight cancer — can I drink tea? What kind of tea has the best anticancer effect?" Patients often ask me these questions. Some friends also frequently ask whether I drink tea and want to give me tea leaves. Others automatically…

I have never known an early-rising, hardworking, cautious, honest person who complained about ill fortune. — Benjamin Franklin Our greatest enemy has always been ourselves, not others. Laziness, ignorance, and vice have ruined many people's physical and mental health and personal fortunes, making their survival…

About six or seven years ago, my older male cousin treated my father to a meal at a restaurant in our hometown county town. Restaurants in Hubei cook their dishes very spicy; after that meal, my father developed severe constipation, which then troubled him on…

On April 17, 2021, Hester Ford, the oldest living person in the United States, died at 116. Ford's exact birth date is unknown, but she was certified by the Gerontology Research Group as the oldest American. In 1963, after her husband of 45 years died,…

In 1984, Professor Zheng Ji of the Biochemistry Teaching and Research Section at Nanjing University, then 85, published a thin book titled Aging and Anti-Aging; at the time, 85 was already considered a long life. No one imagined Professor Zheng Ji would live another 26…