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Greta Thunberg, the March of Teen Millions, and Standing Up To Global Governments

If you don’t know Greta Thunberg by name, I’m sure you’re familiar with her work. She’s the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist that was behind last week’s global Climate Strike.

She’s been publicly campaigning for at least a year — starting with her weekly climate strikes in Sweden to hold her government accountable to UN emission’s regulations.

Physiological Gut Responses and their Emotional Connections

If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!

Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut connection, we’re realizing that we’ve been intuitively paying attention to the subtle signal of the gut for much longer than we knew. But for much of history, we’ve written off gut reactions as illogical, sensitive, and generally unsubstantiated.

Turns out, there are actual, scientific reasons for these sensations that we’ve long assumed to be emotional.

The Sleeper Tissue Affecting your Full-Body Health…

Socially, having a dirty mouth might make you the life-of-the-party.

In actuality, having a dirty mouth might lead to an avalanche of other health problems, crashing down on you out of nowhere.

And we’re not talking about cavities.

We know that our bodies are full of bacteria. In fact, in a fully grown adult, the trillions of microorganisms in the body can weigh between 2 and 6 pounds. And although we wash our hands with antibacterial soap or get prescribed antibiotics, much of the bacteria in the body is actually helpful and necessary.

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 find your way and be healthy and happy. I don’t want to be your guru…just someone who’ll help point the way. If you’re looking for a real person who’s done the work, I’m your guy. I can light the path and walk along it with you but can’t walk for you.