How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? Debunking Common Myths About Sleep Quantity
Sleep is an essential part of our daily routine and is vital for maintaining optimal health. However, there are many myths surrounding the amount of
Sleep is an essential part of our daily routine and is vital for maintaining optimal health. However, there are many myths surrounding the amount of
Sleep is an essential part of our daily routine and is vital for maintaining optimal health. However, there are many myths surrounding the amount of
Trying to get whole after a traumatic experience can feel like a lesson in acronyms – NLP, EMDR, CBT, etc. One method in particular deserves to
Nobody could afford coconut oil during the war in the 1940s. Although it had been used in European and American, not to mention Caribbean and Filipino, cooking for centuries, Americans lost their access to it, except at exorbitant prices. (If you’re wondering, that’s how soy was able to get such a foothold in our eating practices.)
When coconut oil reentered the market, the national food and health authorities had turned on it – they claimed it was basically lard. Coconut oil is 93% saturated fat, and during the 1950s, there wasn’t a dirtier curse word in the medical community.
We thought it clogged arteries and caused heart disease.
Everyone has trauma. Put another way, no one doesn’t have trauma.
It’s a liberating truth, in a sense – your trauma is no more off-putting to a stranger for the mere fact of its existence than theirs is to you. Complications in our interpersonal experiences regarding our trauma and the traumas of either largely arise from the misguided belief that trauma somehow only affects isolated pockets of disturbed individuals.
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…
In part one of this article, we discussed the first two phases of digestion: intake and breakdown.
Although it may seem obvious to some, most people are vastly unaware of how their digestion actually operates. And if you don’t understand the mechanism itself, fixing the mechanism is a moot point.
(If you don’t understand what’s under the hood of your car, you could end up replacing coolant endlessly when the answer is a blown capacitor. I don’t know anything about cars — see how crazy that sounds?)
So in this post, we’re going to continue down through the digestive tract on our adult-level refresher of the system that effectively determines every feeling we have.