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The Importance of Foods and Nutrients in our Mood

These are the key takeaways from Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Huberman Lab Podcast Episode 11 titled How Foods And Nutrients Control our Moods. Emotions: Aligning Mind & Body  Emotions are central to our entire experience of life. Whether we are happy, sad, depressed or angry is our life experience. Very few people understand how emotions arise in our brain and body. Emotions capture the brain-body relationship. Emotions involves biological and chemical events within our body. There is no real agreement as to what’s a good...

Intermittent Fasting for Beginners – Everything You Need To Know

What is Intermittent Fasting? Intermittent Fasting, also known as Time Restricted Eating, refers to when eating is limited to a certain number of hours each day, preferably within an 8 to 12-hour window. Intermittent fasting is getting a lot of buzz these days for all the health and weight loss benefits that people are receiving. One of the foremost intermittent fasting researchers is Dr. Satchin Panda of the Salk Institute. These are the key takeaways from Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s Podcast...

Healthy Sleep Guide [Simple Tips to Improve Your Sleep]

The following is our notes from Andrew Huberman’s Huberman Lab Podcast #2 What is Sleep? Before we go deeper into how to have a healthier sleep, let us first define what sleep is. Sleep is a period of our life where we are not conscious, and only in relation to things that are happening within our brain and body. ​ Sleep resets the ability to be focused, alert and emotionally stable in the wakeful period.​ 2 Forces That Determines Sleep Chemical Forces 1. Adenosine Adenosine is...

Glutathione For Healthy Aging & Energy

I’ve recently started taking an amazing supplement for energy, liposomal glutathione. Glutathione is one of the body’s most powerful detoxifiers. It can support healthy immune function and can neutralize a broad spectrum of free radicals. It has worked great for me, and my mom is loving it too! As a master detoxifier and the body’s main endogenous antioxidant, glutathione can bind toxins and may help remove them from the body. Consequently, glutathione can protect our cells from damage caused by...

For The Love of Phytoncides: The Health Benefits of Forest Bathing

It’s in the air. Spring is just around the corner. And with that comes the familiar scent of rain mixed with lush soil. Quite often during this time of year, you’ll find the avid outdoorsmen – and women – gravitating towards nature of any kind within reach, a common process known as Shinrin-yoku. Roughly translated to mean “forest bathing” in English, Shinrin-yoku originates in Japan, with the formal concept coined in the early 1990’s[1]. Viewed as a form of natural medicine,...