The idea of a Psychedelic Renaissance — as captured in the title of Ben Sessa’s book The Psychedelic Renaissance — is growing in the health professions, and as a Feb. 9, 2015, article in The New Yorker phrased it, current clinical research is “part of a renaissance of psychedelic research,” so we see the phrase is catching on in the general culture too. To …
Could You Be Addicted to Your Cell Phone?
Do you check your cell phone for missed calls or texts first thing in the morning when you wake up? Do you find yourself checking your phone multiple times throughout the day and feeling anxious if you don’t check it? Do you feel compelled to use your cell phone at inappropriate times such as during work, in class, while driving, …
Did You Know Cheese Is Addictive? That Explains A Lot… Here’s How To Kick Your Unhealthy Addiction
By, Alanna Ketler, Collective Evolution When I first started making some major changes in my diet, such as cutting out processed foods, meat, and other animal products, I remember saying to myself, ‘I don’t think I could ever fully give up cheese.’ The idea of not having cheese in my life anymore didn’t seem like an attainable reality. After I …
Meditation in Action: How Daily Activities Can Naturally Induce Meditative States
By Phil Watt, Wake Up World We all meditate, whether we know it or not. This is because meditation occurs when we alter our brain wave frequency, and different activities, such as exercise, can do it naturally. Once we are aware of this, we can consciously participate in the ways in which we do meditate. And considering how productive meditation …
How Your Smartphone Will Radically Change Your Health Care
By, Eric J. Topol, M.D., Huffington Post Have you ever wondered why doctors and hospitals own your medical records? You pay for the visits, labs, scans and hospitalizations but you have no product to show for it. And getting a hold of your data about your body is often exceedingly difficult. The good news: this tight clench of your medical …
Common Ingredient In Packaged Food May Trigger Inflammatory Disease
By, Kelly Servick, news.sciencemag.org The ingredients that lend a smooth, stable consistency to ice cream, chocolate bars, and other packaged snacks may promote certain chronic inflammatory diseases. That’s the claim of a new study, which finds increases in metabolic disease and intestinal inflammation in mice fed two common emulsifiers used in processed food. The authors are a long way from …
Walker budget: Needy Adults Without Kids Would Pay Health Premiums
By Jason Stein and Patrick Marley, The Journal Sentinel Madison — Nearly 150,000 needy adults without children might have to pay premiums for (Wisconsin) state health coverage — with even higher payments possible for risk-takers such as smokers, under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget. If President Barack Obama’s administration agrees, the state could charge the lowest-income BadgerCare Plus recipients basic …
White House Petition Seeks to Ban Mandatory Vaccination Legislation
By, Adan Salazar, Infowars.com A concerned citizen has launched a popular petition on the official White House website seeking a moratorium on legislation that may force Americans to obtain vaccinations. The all-inclusive petition entitled, “Prohibit Any Laws Mandating the Force and Requirement of Vaccinations of Any Kind,” appeared on the “We the People” site earlier this month, and has already …
Neurosurgeon Speaks Out On How Vaccines Harm Child Brain Development
by, Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Arguably one of the most outspoken and articulate leaders in raising awareness on the dangers of vaccination, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, provides compelling arguments why the vaccination of pregnant women is harmful and a hidden cause of neurological disorders. He also discusses the toxic ingredients in vaccines such as formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum and MSG and …
ANOTHER Epic Fail for Influenza Vaccine
By, Barbara Loe Fisher National Vaccine Information Center Here we are in the winter of 2015 and U.S. public health officials admit that the historically ineffective influenza vaccine is once again an epic fail. Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Measured from 0 to 62 Percent In the past three flu seasons, the CDC has claimed the flu vaccine’s overall effectiveness clocked in …