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Natural Ways to Beat the Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression or, in its milder form, the winter blues, is a type of depression linked to seasonal changes. Understanding its root cause can help us maintain good health during the fall and winter months. There are a few natural strategies that can empower us to prevent and, when necessary, treat this...
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The Health Benefits of Earthing and Grounding
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 of drawing from Earth's natural...
How to Improve Sleep by Decreasing Artificial Blue Light at Night
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 our brain for activity, rest,...
Essential Anti-Inflammatory Herbs, Spices, and Foods
Your body’s first line of defense against infection is your immune system. As the body attempts to rid itself of foreign substances, an immune response is triggered to help restore health. Inflammation is part of this normal healing process, but when the body doesn’t turn it off—or attacks healthy...
Why Saturated Fat Is Healthy
In the late 1950s, there was a significant paradigm shift that changed our views on nutrition and health: the idea that fat, specifically saturated fat, in foods caused heart disease. Ancel Keys, an American physiologist, led the now discredited Seven Countries Study that examined the link between...
The Dangers of Drinking Soda
Today’s soda drink has evolved since its introduction in the late 1700s. Early on, soda water was marketed as a medicinal drink. Chemists, medical professionals, and pharmacists dabbled with carbonation and medical botany, such as coca leaves (cocaine) and sarsaparilla, to create flavorful mineral...
Exercise: The Best Kind of Preventive Medicine
Exercise has long been prescribed as preventive medicine. Physical activity improves mood and well-being, along with decreasing the risk of many health conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, among others. Individualized exercise routines are also the...
What Is Oil Pulling?
Oil pulling has long been considered a practice for natural oral healthcare and is a very simple technique that involves swishing a tablespoon of oil in your mouth for approximately 10–20 minutes, on an empty stomach, and then spitting it out. This ancient Indian medicine remedy dates back over a...
