Chronic Stress and Inflammation: The Damage and What To Do About It
As you age, your level of chronic stress and inflammation goes up, as does your chances of incuring a chronic disease because of them. Learn why and what to do about it.
Continue readingPrevent and Fight Cancer with 5 Strategies
We all must take clear and certain steps to prevent and fight cancer, for the risk that it comes knocking on our doors is significant and can not be ignored. Here are five strategies to get you on your way.
Continue readingHow To Make Coconut Cannabis Oil With The Magical Butter Machine (Watch!)
You’ve heard about it, perhaps tried it yourself, and the reason is that cannabis edibles like coconut cannabis oil have become popular not only for the “high” but the potential health effects as well. Take a look.
Continue readingWatch How To Do Four At-home Adrenal Fatigue Tests
This video and accompanying summary illustrates how to perform four at-home tests for adrenal fatigue, a topic I dived into here. Watch how I test my own adrenal health, and how you can too.
Continue readingMore Muscle, Testosterone and Calm With Ashwagandha
Can Ashwagandha reduce your stress and boost testosterone, libido and muscle? Yes, this unfamiliar Indian herbal adaptogen can do that, and more!
Continue readingHow Depression and Stress Make Us Age Faster
Our biochemistry is dramatically affected by our thoughts and emotions. Stress and depression can produce high cortisol levels that might shorten your life. Here’s how it works and what to do about it.
Continue readingHow to Be Powerful and Stop Time. Be Here Now.
Where do you spend most of your time each day? I don’t mean physically… I mean, where’s your head? Turns out, to be happy there’s only one place to be. Be here now. Be mindful.
Continue readingWhy Chronic Stress Is The Biggest Super Ager Of Them All
Yes, stress is a super ager, but it’s manageable and the benefits are huge. Watch SciShow’s Hank Green present some details, and Physicist Michio Kaku dive into how stress messes with genetics.
Continue readingAn Unexpected Pleasure
The unexpected pleasures of small surprises that make you smile, like music wafting on the wind.
Continue readingGet Relief from Depression with Rumi
Using antidepressants are not the only way give relief from depression. Dr. Weil has four suggestions, I’ve written about 10 that could help with mild to moderate depression. Here’s how a little walk with Rumi can help relieve the blues.
Continue readingDr. Weil’s Four Alternatives to Antidepressant Drugs
For mild to moderate depression, pharmaceutical antidepressants are no more effective than placebos, says Dr. Weil. But the science also says that there are four steps you can take that are effective. Reducing or eliminating depression is all about anti-inflammatory foods, supplements, exercise and a shift in cognition.
Continue readingA Little Depressed? 10 Actions That Help Me
Mildly depressed? No need to be – 10 actions to evaporate away your depression. SAM-e, krill oil, exercise, meditation, music and other positive action are proven to help. Collectively, they address the dimensions within which we live our lives.
Continue reading7 Ways Meditation Builds Your Brain
Meditation delivers better health, emotional resiliency and brain power. The science is clear – -meditation builds a better you. Here are seven benefits of meditation.
Continue reading545 vs. 300,000,000 People — American Politics vs the People
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. In his column, 545 vs. 300,000,000 People, retired columnist Charlie Reese excoriates the people who are responsible for deficits and the debt.
Continue readingThe Debt Crisis and the Health of the American Political System
America’s “debt crisis” and the game of “chicken” now being played by Repubs and Demos in Washington. The independent Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says that the Boehner plan could very well “produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.”
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