The Psychological Cost of Repeated Emotional Beatdowns: Quarantine Edition
What does your quarantine routine look like? Is it the utopian model of health, balance, rest, productivity, creativity, and reconnection that you just knew you’d
What does your quarantine routine look like? Is it the utopian model of health, balance, rest, productivity, creativity, and reconnection that you just knew you’d
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies.
Norwegians call it fylleangst… But you might recognize it in its millennial incarnation: “hangxiety.” Believe it or not, it’s become so heavily referenced in popular
Here’s a truth harsher than the chemicals in your skin care products: Nothing should go on your skin that can’t also go in your mouth.
Evidence suggests that laziness doesn’t exist at all. Laziness exists only for the person throwing the stone, and not for the person at which the
Electricity sends signals through our flesh and blood and molecular make-up as surely as it does through wires and circuits. Before we paved paradise, we
We’ve talked about intuitive eating, and the importance of breaking your fast by eating in the morning. But as several diligent readers have pointed out…
If you had to guess, out of all the falsehoods and fibs and omissions in the history of the world… What would you say is
When the Spanish Flu (note: not because it originated in Spain, but because Spanish newspapers reported it first) swept the globe in 1918, no one
How long does it take you to decide between wines at the liquor store? 15 minutes? 20 minutes? I’ll tell you a secret… For the
What does your quarantine routine look like? Is it the utopian model of health, balance, rest, productivity, creativity, and reconnection that you just knew you’d
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies.
Norwegians call it fylleangst… But you might recognize it in its millennial incarnation: “hangxiety.” Believe it or not, it’s become so heavily referenced in popular
Here’s a truth harsher than the chemicals in your skin care products: Nothing should go on your skin that can’t also go in your mouth.
Evidence suggests that laziness doesn’t exist at all. Laziness exists only for the person throwing the stone, and not for the person at which the
Electricity sends signals through our flesh and blood and molecular make-up as surely as it does through wires and circuits. Before we paved paradise, we
We’ve talked about intuitive eating, and the importance of breaking your fast by eating in the morning. But as several diligent readers have pointed out…
If you had to guess, out of all the falsehoods and fibs and omissions in the history of the world… What would you say is
When the Spanish Flu (note: not because it originated in Spain, but because Spanish newspapers reported it first) swept the globe in 1918, no one
How long does it take you to decide between wines at the liquor store? 15 minutes? 20 minutes? I’ll tell you a secret… For the
Are there times we shouldn’t just think and pray the pain away? Positivity can have toxic traits just the same as negativity can. Positivity definitely
This is no great secret: Big corporations don’t care about the environment.
They pollute the world’s landfills, manufacture cheap thrills for the masses made of toxic materials, and drain the nutrients from foods and wines while adding preservatives and chemicals.
But since the ‘90s, there’s been a push from the public for companies to consider the environment.
In 2017, one study reported that one in six Americans takes an SSRI for a mental illness every day. That was nearly two years ago – would you surmise that that number has gone up or down?
Even if that number stayed exactly the same, that’s a heavy load of the population taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Since the gut’s microbiota is responsible for 95% of the body’s serotonin production, researchers have gotten curious recently about the effect of taking SSRIs on the gut’s bacteria population.
Since the gut is born sterile, the diverse collection of bacterial species living in the gut is heavily influenced by the bacteria in our environments, in the food we eat, the air we breathe, and of course, in the medication we take.
According to recent research, our bodies’ homeostatic temperature isn’t actually 98.6º Fahrenheit. In fact, it’s closer to 97.5º. How could that be? Scientists say the
People-pleasing is commonly considered to be an altruistic method of getting along with your neighbor. But according to prominent psychologists, it’s more accurately an acute