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Maximizing The Body Mind Connection

Maximizing The Body Mind Connection

“Where the mind goes, the man follows.”-Proverbs 23:7

For thousands of years human beings have pondered the nature of human existence and the human experience. Because we are thinking beings, historically humans have believedthat we are mind more than body. The mind-body connection is frequently thought of, and believed to be, mind over body, meaning that the mind is more important than the body.…

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Conscious Consumption : Why A Good Diet Isn't Enough

Conscious Consumption : Why A Good Diet Isn’t Enough

“You are what you eat.”-John De Cola

I first heard this quote from the French physician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the year 1969. At the time I was an impressionable 15-year-old high school sophomore working out at a local gym in Framingham Massachusetts preparing for my first varsity football season. I heard it from John DeCola, the gym owner and 5’8″ human anatomy chart who was working out…

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The Nocebo Effect : Be Careful What You Believe

The Nocebo Effect : Be Careful What You Believe

“Nocebo – (Latin for “I shall harm”) is an inert substance or form of therapy that creates harmful effects in a patient. The nocebo effect is the adverse reaction experienced by a patient who receives such a therapy. Conversely, a placebo is an inert substance or form of therapy that creates a beneficial response in a patient. The phenomenon by which a placebo creates a beneficial response is…

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You Are What You Do : Seven Ways To Grow Old Gracefully

You Are What You Do : Seven Ways To Grow Old Gracefully

“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.” – Viktor E. Frankl

The human animal is one of the most frail, yet resilient creatures on the planet. We are born incredibly weak and fragile, are dependent upon adults well into our teens, and we are making adjustments physically and emotionally throughout the entire life span. We have…

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Syndrome X : The Not So Silent Killer

Syndrome X : The Not So Silent Killer

A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other and, often, with a specific disease. The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning “concurrence”.- From Wikipedia

Syndrome X, now known as Metabolic Syndrome, is a cluster of at least three of five medical conditions- high blood pressure, high triglycerides, high blood sugar, belly fat, or low HDL…

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Endocrine Disruptors : How Modern Life Wreaks Havoc On Your Hormones

Endocrine Disruptors : How Modern Life Wreaks Havoc On Your Hormones

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”- Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

Despite the improved consumer products that most Americans have available to them in 2015, there are a lot of problems with the consumption of foods, personal products, and exposure to a host of…

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Coffee's For Closers: Enjoying Nature's Original Energy Drink

Coffee’s For Closers: Enjoying Nature’s Original Energy Drink

“Coffee’s for closers.” – Blake, played by Alec Baldwin in the film Glengarry Glen Ross

Ah, coffee! Coffee, java, cup o’ Joe, or whatever you call it, is probably a big part of your day. Americans drink it more than any other beverage. One of its many attractions is caffeine, the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive substance. But, unlike many others, it is legal and unregulated in nearly…

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Going With Your Gut: The Gut Health-Mental Health Connection

Going With Your Gut: The Gut Health-Mental Health Connection

“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.”-Robert Heller

Our gut is perhaps the source of the human animal’s most visceral experiences, responsible for countless ways that a human being perceives his existence. For the biologist, it is merely a tube by which animals, including humans, transfer food to the digestive organs. Recent scientific investigation and thousands of…

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