Cold water immersion has steadily gained popularity in recent years, but is far from a trend. People have been using cold water for its therapeutic effects for thousands of years. In fact, interest in it for medicinal purposes dates back to the fourth century BCE,...
When was the last time you actually felt the Earth beneath your feet or walked barefoot on the grass or squelched mud between your toes? For too many of us, the idea of being outdoors without shoes is a foreign one but this wasn’t always the case. The practice...
The rising and setting of the Sun plays a significant role in influencing our body’s natural circadian rhythm, the internal clock that tells us when to sleep and when to wake in a 24-hour period. Humans are dependent on the Sun as the main source of light that cues...
The science and data that originally supported public water fluoridation, which is defined as the adding of mineral fluoride to the municipal water supply to prevent dental tooth decay, have evolved over the last 50 years. Data now suggests fluoride is more beneficial...
It is often said that history can benefit the future when it comes to problem solving and this could not be truer when comparing the indoor air quality in modern homes to that of homes in the past. Ancient civilizations constructed their homes and dwellings not only...
For over 200,000 years, our species has evolved to dynamically use our bodies in all its functional capacity throughout the day—walking, running, squatting, sitting, lying down, etc. Unfortunately, modern life has forced most of us to sit for long extended periods of...
