What Is The Nervous System?
What is the nervous system and why do we care about it? Your nervous system is your brain, spinal cord and also the peripheral nervous system (meaning all the nerves that extend to the rest of your body, from your fingertips to your toes). To understand how it works,...
Is The Food Industry A Problem?
This week I got into a GREAT discussion with my co-author about systemic structures such as the food industry and whether it’s a problem or not. There were SOME great points, opinions, and ideas thrown around and we both agreed we saw things differently AND we both...
Rest & Health
How do the principles of rest and your body relate? Rest is vital for growth. Any sort of growth, for example, emotional growth, business growth, physical growth, and spiritual growth. As a society, we accept this principle of rest for athletes and children. For an...
Food As Medicine?
Is food really medicine? Or is the art of the meal the true cure? Research consistently points to how different foods, nutrients, or patterns of food intake are associated with health outcomes. From low-fat to Mediterranean to plant-based eating patterns,...
Summer Bodies
Have you heard this term before? I bet you have. What does it mean to you? Does it mean your summer body is different than your winter body? Do you change bodies during the seasons? With the rising temps of the summer season, clothes change and our bodies are exposed...
Being Busy
Multitasking is when you try to do two thoughtful things at once. We do it SO often, we have started to trick ourselves we are REALLY good at it. And we can get more done. Research out of UCLA suggests that doing two thoughtful things at once is actually a sure- way...