Did you know that 25% of kids and teenagers don’t drink ANY water as part of their fluid intake? A surprising number of adults don’t drink enough water, as well, with one study finding that half of Americans don’t get their recommended daily intake of water. Many people down numerous caffeinated beverages throughout the day…

Inspiration comes to us through our hearts. The happiest, most successful, and healthiest people you know have learned to trust their inner wisdom. Here are 10 things people who think with their hearts do differently:   http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-21271/10-habits-of-people-who-listen-to-their-hearts.html?utm_source=mbg&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=150821-10-habits-of-people-who-listen-to-their-hearts

A survey from Ontario and Alberta, Canada concluded with remarkable results; namely, 54% of practitioners felt conventional medicine could benefit from the concepts and methods of alternative medicine for the following reasons: most patients were not responding to conventional treatment, their patients requested it and admittedly, alternative medicine is proven effective in treating particular disorders….

When teenage boys are told to “grow up” and that men don’t cry, and girls are told they have to look and act a certain way and act like a “lady”. The definition of a “man” and a “woman” are almost entirely socially engineered concepts that get reinforced at a very young age. In other…

We know from studies in neuroplasticity that we aren’t supposed to think the same thoughts in the same way all of our lives. We should take steps to think differently all the time, and break the habits of our old self. What’s more, these changes in our brains, and in the way we think, can…

The theory that depression is highly correlated with low levels of serotonin has dominated our approach to treating depression with SSRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) to maintain higher levels of serotonin in the synaptic cleft (rather than having the neurotransmitter re-absorbed into the post-synaptic cell). A new perspective has been proposed by authors of a…

Not too long ago, most of us thought that the brain we’re born with is static—that after a certain age, the neural circuitry cards we’re dealt are the only ones we can play long-term. Fast-forward a decade or two, and we’re beginning to see the opposite: the brain is designed to adapt constantly. World-renowned neuroscientist…

“It’s become more and more clear that these microbes can affect the immune system, even in diseases that are not in the gut,” says Veena Taneja, an immunologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has found clear differences in the bacterial populations of mice bred to be genetically prone to rheumatoid arthritis. In…

If you are feeling financially restrained even though you understand that you deserve, and in fact ARE abundance, maybe this will help you to convert that knowledge into experience too. Mick Jagger said: ‘We don’t always get what we want, but we get what we need’. Okay so that is heavily paraphrased but the essence…