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Climate activists are not letting the oil industry off easily. And neither are investors.

However, most companies can’t see a clean way to increase, or at the very least, maintain their massive bottom lines. 

Although most companies have taken a performative post-use clean-up stance as opposed to an innovative, preventative one, there are a few attempting to skew greener by providing energy in a non-toxic way moving forward.

What You Need to Know About SSRIs and Your Gut Health

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.

Conscious Capitalism: Snack Edition

What do a teenage girl with IBS and a world-renowned animal welfare expert have in common?

Apparently, beef-sticks.

You see, when Autumn and Chas Smith got married and were dealing with Autumn’s lifelong digestive issues, they discovered that sticking to the paleo diet almost completely eradicated her symptoms. 

So they kept strengthening their understanding of nutritional deficiencies, especially in paleo food, until they came to one unsettling conclusion…

Dr. Pedram Shojai

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