Category: wellness

Avoiding the Toxic Effects of Aluminum

The human body is an electrochemical miracle. While we often think of it as a fleshy machine of sorts, it can be more likened to a constantly changing collection of chemicals and electrical signals that’s continuously rebuilding itself and responding to your mental state, food, air intake, physical activity, and environment. This biochemical landscape of…


8 Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency, and Why Adding Supplements Is Not Enough

Nowadays, vitamin D deficiency has become a very common problem for people. How does one effectively replenish vitamin D? Besides diet and supplements, the intake of another nutrient is also very critical. Vitamin D performs many functions in the body. For example, it can enhance the body’s absorption of calcium and phosphorus, as well as…


Milk Thistle for Liver Health

Milk thistle, with its distinctive purple flowers and long, thorny leaves, has long been touted for its liver health benefits and detoxing prowess. Milk thistle and its healing properties were first described by the Greek physician Dioscorides in 40 A.D. Dioscorides was a physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and the author of De Materia Medica, a five-volume…


Living in a Chaotic World: How to Keep Anxiety at Bay

Ella Fitzgerald sang that “into each life some rain must fall,” but it has felt like torrents of grief have fallen upon us in recent months or years. We all experience hardships and stress, and we are all very well-acquainted with that pit that forms in our stomach when nervousness takes hold. Many of us…


Comparing Different Treatment Options for Spider Veins

Introduction to Spider Veins Spider veins are increasingly common, occurring in half of the population over 50. Research has suggested that women are four times more likely than men to be affected [1]. The rate increases with the number of pregnancies a woman has had due to changes in hormones affecting vein dilation. A major…


Use Story to Change Your Life

Most of us don’t realize how powerful stories are in our lives. We don’t even notice that we’re very often telling ourselves a story and that these stories shape everything we believe about our reality. For example, the stories you tell yourself is the reason you feel: Resentment toward a loved one or coworker Guilty…


Tapping Into Your Vagus Nerve

Do you know which group of people studies and applies practices based on the intricacies of the nervous system? Athletes. Athletes, especially professional and elite athletes who are at the forefront in biohacking, are quite curious and knowledgeable about improving their vagal tone. Vagal tone refers to the activity of the vagus nerve. This nerve…


Snacking Isn’t Bad for You When You Do It Like This

Everyone snacks. It’s even easy to argue that people need a little nibble between meals: It’s the perfect way to keep the energy up, fill in nutritional holes, and manage blood sugar. But snacking gets a bad rep. Why? Generally, most people think of snack food as junk food. Don’t get me wrong, there’s room…


Getting Beyond the Habit Honeymoon

Habits. It’s the small decisions we make every hour of the day that predict how great or little our success, productivity, and focus can be. I choose to wake up an hour before anyone else in my house so I can have peace and quiet to start my day. I track my daily exercise on…


7 Health Benefits of Eating Less Meat

You may have been eating meat every meal of your life, but there are some financial and medical problems that can be influenced—or even caused—by this constant consumption of meat. Cutting back on eating animals like cows, pigs, and chickens has benefits you may have never thought of. Though some people choose to eliminate meat…