Mindfulness in Kids
By Ariel Suazo-Maler There is this misconception around mindfulness that leads people to believe one cannot feel the full spectrum of emotions if they are ‘truly mindful’. Anxiety, frustration, and sadness, are things inappropriately thought to be absent in a mindfulness practice. This is simply untrue. In its most basic definition, mindfulness is nothing more […]
How to Better Bounce Back after COVID-19
By Jill Horn The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought about substantial mental health concerns with reported increases in loneliness, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation due to prolonged social isolation and economic uncertainty. “A recent study reported an increase in depressive symptoms, worry, anxiety, and loneliness in people during the pandemic.” A recent study based on […]
The Health Benefits of Turmeric (Curcumin)
The Strange Sense of Feeling Younger Than You Are
What You Need to Know About Age-Related Muscle Wasting
By E. Dylan Mayer I have talked about frailty in a previous post, emphasizing the importance of shifting dietary habits and adopting a regimen of regular physical exercise. This same advice stands true for age-related muscle wasting, or sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass and function, and frailty can be defined as multi-system […]
Why Is It So Hard to Adopt a Diet to One That Is Good for Our Health and the Planet?
The Unexpected Power of the Unconcealed Placebo
From Anthony Lembo, MD Since the 1940’s placebo-controlled studies have been the gold standard to evaluate the effectiveness of any kind of therapy, be it dietary, pharmaceutical, or targeted at the mind. Only those treatments found to be better than placebo in a so-called double-blind placebo-controlled trial (a trial in which neither the patient nor […]
It’s More Than Just Dirt!
By Juliette Frank As scientists and environmental organizations constantly remind us of the dire future we are heading towards if we don’t substantially decrease greenhouse gas emissions, it feels more and more like we are doomed. Trying to grasp the degree of large-scale change necessary to halt and try to reverse the rate at which […]
The Wellness Primer, Part II
