Gut Feeling: How Your Microbiome Affects Your Mood and Mental Health
Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about something? Or felt butterflies in your stomach? It turns out that these sensations are not just metaphors
Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about something? Or felt butterflies in your stomach? It turns out that these sensations are not just metaphors
The microbiome ecosystem plays a vital role in our overall health and well-being, influencing everything from our immune system to our mood.
Culture shock is sometimes subjective – but in this case, there’s plenty of cold, hard evidence to prove it. Seeing Europeans leave jugs of milk on
Moxa is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that has been used for centuries by healers to treat various ailments. The technique involves burning dried mugwort
“Stressed out” has only been pressure-tested as a concept for less than 100 years. That sounds crazy, considering that all human advancements were designed to
When man discovered fire 0.2 million years ago, everything changed.
Including the composition of our gut’s microbiome.
You probably know that the shape of our teeth has
There’s a very specific reason that Americans have embraced Asian-inspired soups and ramens as a growing trend in restaurant food – their broths just aren’t your
Dear Reader, It’s an election year, and there’s a global pandemic. And that means we’re hearing a lot about universal healthcare again… Wherever you land
Whole wheat has gotten the short end of the grain for the last decade or so in diet culture. Paleo, Keto, Atkins – they all recommend
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…
Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about something? Or felt butterflies in your stomach? It turns out that these sensations are not just metaphors
The microbiome ecosystem plays a vital role in our overall health and well-being, influencing everything from our immune system to our mood.
Culture shock is sometimes subjective – but in this case, there’s plenty of cold, hard evidence to prove it. Seeing Europeans leave jugs of milk on
Moxa is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that has been used for centuries by healers to treat various ailments. The technique involves burning dried mugwort
“Stressed out” has only been pressure-tested as a concept for less than 100 years. That sounds crazy, considering that all human advancements were designed to
When man discovered fire 0.2 million years ago, everything changed.
Including the composition of our gut’s microbiome.
You probably know that the shape of our teeth has
There’s a very specific reason that Americans have embraced Asian-inspired soups and ramens as a growing trend in restaurant food – their broths just aren’t your
Dear Reader, It’s an election year, and there’s a global pandemic. And that means we’re hearing a lot about universal healthcare again… Wherever you land
Whole wheat has gotten the short end of the grain for the last decade or so in diet culture. Paleo, Keto, Atkins – they all recommend
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…
Personal preferences become the parameters of our lives – and most of them, they don’t make much of a difference one way or the other. Does
The task of detoxifying everything in your EDC (endocrine-disruptor) and chemical-laden home is beyond daunting.
Everything from your dish soap to your sofa fabric contains harmful chemicals that the FDA and EPA have determined are safe in measured quantities…
But so little research has been done into which quantities and which length of exposure actually impacts human development, that the “safety” of these chemicals is doubted by many.
For many of us, the last earnest attempt at journaling we made was somewhere very painful in our adolescence. And it probably had something to do with a crush on a classmate or a lamentation about the relentlessness of human suffering…
And because of that association, many adults find the concept of journaling childish.
But the benefits of journaling extend far beyond getting some worries off of your chest.
In fact, the market for adult journaling has practically exploded in the last few years — ever heard of bullet journaling?
Unprocessed trauma keeps our nervous systems searching for resolution around the clock, whether we realize it or not. Sometimes, the symptoms aren’t noticeable, or don’t
If therapy were vital for you to have a healthy retirement forty years from now, would you still do it? Or do you only do