Gut Health: what is the cure?
There is a renewed interest in your gut. It is as though the gut is now the seat of and the reason for almost everything.
Featured Essay — Phase 2 Detox
Your Phase 2 Detox Is Broken: The Glutathione Problem
Everyone talks about "detox." Almost nobody understands how it actually works. Your liver detoxifies in two phases. Phase 1 converts toxins into intermediate metabolites. Phase 2 conjugates those
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Weaknesses: Work on yours
When you work on yourself, what do you work on? Your strengths or your weaknesses? If you said strengths, you are in the majority. But
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Tribe: do you have one?
Do you have a small group of people in your life? People you can trust, share with, learn from and grow with? Call it your
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Lithium: can it reduce the risk of Alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s disease continues to remain one of the most devastating neurodegenerative disorders. Despite decades of research, we still do not have a cure. Can
Sauna: can it help depression
In 2016, a fascinating study was published in JAMA Psychiatry. It showed that just a single session of whole-body hyperthermia, raising your core body temperature
Influencers: do they serve a purpose?
If you spend anytime on the internet, you know it is filled with people giving you advice on how to be healthy. Eat this, do
Memory: Identification and Recognition
Have you run into someone randomly in a strange location and completely failed to recognize them? Your local grocery owner at the movie hall, perhaps?
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Sleep: can you catch up?
The average human needs between seven and eight, more likely eight, hours of sleep each night. Can you make up the difference in case you
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Food: our habits are changing
Quietly, before you knew it, our consumption of food changed. But is it all for the better? Awareness for food has always been high. There