Don’t Gum Up the Works: What Does Oil Pulling Do?
Taking care of yourself in a world that hopes you won’t is radical. Right?
But it doesn’t always look the way we think it will…
Taking care of yourself in a world that hopes you won’t is radical. Right?
But it doesn’t always look the way we think it will…
Taking care of yourself in a world that hopes you won’t is radical. Right?
But it doesn’t always look the way we think it will…
Connection and its mysterious ways have long plagued humanity – anthropologists, advertisers, parents, linguists, psychologists, mail carriers, romantic partners… Everyone is just as curious and confused
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.
With Dr Pedram Shojai NY Times Best Selling author and film maker. Taoist Abbot and Qigong master. Husband and dad. I’m here to help you
The medical community, and society as a whole, are coming around to the generalized importance of gut health. But since it’s probably been a long time since any of us have taken 8th grade biology, you may not even remember how the gut functions.
Health insurance is expensive. Doctors, expensive. Surgery, expensive. Buying supplements you read about online and letting them languish in your medicine cabinet, expensive.
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