Julie Blew

Aug 12, 2024 | welldefined.com | Julie Blew |Faisel Syed |Justin A. Maykel |Margo Rappaport

Cold water therapy, or cryotherapy, is the practice of using cold temperatures to cool tissue and muscles in the body. This may be through cold showers, immersing your body in cold water, or taking an ice bath.  Alternatively, there is also the more advanced form of cold therapy, whole-body cryotherapy. This is the process of exposing the body to super-cold vapors in a cold chamber, reportedly loved by many top athletes such as Usain Bolt and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Oct 26, 2023 | welldefined.com | Julie Blew |Julie Keller Callaghan

Each October, as we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a sobering statistic continues to take center stage: one in eight women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis during their lifetime. Just as alarming are the findings of the annual survey from the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which shows one in 10 women ages 40 and older have never had a breast cancer screening.