July 9, 2021
Keeping Your Quality of Life Up with an Autoimmune Condition by Jeremy Bowler
Writer Jeremy Bowler shares a few tips for a healthy lifestyle while managing the symptoms of an autoimmune condition.
Category: Wellness
June 30, 2021
How You Can Be More Eco in Your Life by Jeremy Bowler
Writer Jeremy Bowler shares a few green tips for sustaining an eco-friendly lifestyle.
May 28, 2021
How Entheogenic Plants & Fungi Affect Memory
A major area of psychedelic research is its potential clinical applications in psychiatry. In particular, a major area of study has concentrated on the potential therapeutic effects of shrooms, acid, and MDMA for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
“Memory plays a central role in the psychedelic experience,” begins a 2020 Psychopharmacology review. “The ability for psychedelics to provoke vivid memories has been considered important to their clinical efficacy.”
Throughout their review, the researchers found that psychedelics enhance autobiographical memory recall, which has therapeutic potential for overcoming traumatic experiences. However, psychedelics also have a dose-dependent effect of impairing memory task performance.
May 15, 2021
Health Diary Digital PDF Planner — Now Available on ETSY!
Editor burgundy bug has just released her Health Diary PDF planner templates on Etsy! The health diary comes in three different versions: a flattened PDF, fillable PDF, and DELUXE BUNDLE.
Along with both the flattened and fillable PDF templates, the deluxe bundle includes 22 free digital stickers to decorate your planners with. Burgundy Bug is also running a 25 percent off sale on all of her physical prints and stickers to celebrate the release of her Health Diary PDF.
May 12, 2021
Gluten & Inflammation — What’s the Link?
Brain fog. Fatigue. Headaches. Upset stomach. Widespread aches. Rashes. Sound familiar? Approximately 1 percent of the global population has Celiac Disease, an autoimmune condition triggered by gluten that damages the small intestines.
Meanwhile, it’s estimated that somewhere between 0.6 to 6 percent (or potentially more) have Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity. Although they share similar symptoms and characteristics, Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity doesn’t trigger an immune response that damages the intestines. The symptoms are short-term and have less serious consequences than Celiac Disease.
In either case, however, gluten triggers inflammation among those with CD and NCGS. But… why? Hasn’t bread been a staple of the human diet for the last 10,000 years or so?
May 10, 2021
Adding Color Into Your Life: 4 Practices to Boost Creativity by Jeremy Bowler
Writer Jeremy Bowler motivates us with a few tips to inspire more creativity.
May 8, 2021
Planet-Friendly Agriculture: It’s “Farming,” not “Harming”
Beyond the “modern-day necessities” — cars, gas, electricity, and TikTok — the historically fundamental necessity, farming, contributes to a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions globally. These emissions arise from agricultural practices, forestry, and land-use changes.
… Oh, and cow farts (or rather, their burps). Lest we forget the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported that 14.5 percent of GHG emissions come from livestock, with cattle contributing to more than half of those emissions.
Since not-farming is not an option (and we can’t expect cows to never be gassy, even with dietary interventions), it’s high time for a sustainability overhaul of the agricultural industry: planet-friendly farming.
April 30, 2021
Vegetables Aren’t Real
By now, we’ve all heard the age-old argument about whether tomatoes are a fruit or a vegetable. Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled tomatoes were a vegetable for “tax purposes” in 1893, a botanist would tell you that vegetables aren’t real and that tomatoes are actually a berry.
While we’re at it, cucumbers, peppers, avocados, pumpkins, pomegranates, watermelons, oranges, lemons, limes, grapes, and bananas are all berries, too. Strawberries and raspberries, however, are not. They’re “accessory fruits.”
April 29, 2021
Start Earning More While You’re Stuck Indoors by Jeremy Bowler
Writer Jeremy Bowler shares a few tips for boosting your income from the comfort of your home.
April 17, 2021
3 Surprising Ways Poor Indoor Air-Quality Could Affect Your Kids by Jeremy Bowler
Writer Jeremy Bowler teaches us how poor indoor air quality can severely impact your children’s health.