Dr. Belaveshkin

Another victim of Russia's missile strike on a residential street: Fatima Huseynova, a graduate of Kharkiv Medical University, was killed. She had come to attend her graduation ceremony and receive her medical diploma.

Give Five: 5 health ideas for a better life (24) ✅1. Just add lemon. Lemon is one of the cheapest and most versatile staples of Mediterranean cooking — and it goes with almost everything. Marinate meat, poultry, and fish in it, squeeze it into soups, porridge, and legumes, add it to tea or water. Beyond flavor, lemon genuinely earns its place: it improves protein digestion, slows carbohydrate absorption, and delivers a solid range of beneficial phytonutrients. ✅2. Don't believe your weak thoughts. It's worth learning to tell the difference between your "weak" thoughts — the ones triggered by stress, fatigue, or emotion — and your "strong" ones, which actually reflect your values and how things really are. Mindfulness helps here: it lets you recognize that the dark, anxious voice inside is often just internal propaganda, a reaction to a distorted picture of reality rather than reality itself. It also helps you notice when what's speaking isn't really you — it's poor sleep, exhaustion, or fear. The practice is simple: restore your state first, reflect second. ✅3. Give names to objects. Emotional attachment isn't reserved for people. You can deliberately build a positive relationship with the objects tied to your good habits — and use that bond to reinforce them. Name your running shoes. Name your dumbbells. Once you do, they can "miss you" when you haven't shown up in a while, or you can enjoy "taking them out" on a new route. It sounds small, but the psychology is real. ✅4. Context-dependent habits. Context acts as a trigger — it quietly sustains old habits and can work against new ones. This is why moving to a new place or redecorating a room genuinely makes behavior change easier: the old cues are gone. To weaken a habit, strip away the context that supports it. To build a new one, pair it with a distinct new environment. And if you're going to break a rule — do it somewhere unfamiliar, not in your usual setting. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ✅5. Menthol for heat. Menthol activates cold receptors and can temporarily raise your tolerance for both physical and mental stress in hot conditions. The delivery method matters — it works best in the mouth, so chewing gum and mint tea are more effective than a patch on the skin. Peppermint oil and mint tea also sharpen concentration and lift productivity — which puts them in a different category from chamomile, which relaxes rather than activates.

“Everything has two handles: one by which it can be carried, and another by which it cannot. If your brother acts unjustly, do not view the matter from the side of the injustice he has committed, for that is the handle by which it cannot be carried. Instead, view it from the side that he is your brother, that he was brought up with you. In this way, you will take hold of the handle by which it can be carried.” — Epictetus, Enchiridion (XLIII)