The wellness industry is riddled with grifters—individuals who prioritize profit over people, peddling unproven remedies, pseudoscience, and even dangerous advice. While some influencers may have good intentions, the lack of regulation and accountability in this space can lead to serious consequences for your health.
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Constant hustle and bustle, and various stressors take a toll on emotional wellness. While there are numerous treatment options available, including therapy and medication, some people seek self-powered ways to manage their symptoms. One such approach gaining popularity is the practice of mindfulness and breathing exercises.
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Late Capitalism squeezes the last few drops of exploitable time out of our lives. And yet we try to improve ourselves personally and professionally, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We can do something called Functional Freeze. We have so much to do, yet we can’t seem to get anything done! There are ways out of it this.
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You may feel like you are in checkmate, nowhere to move without the king getting killed. Well, that is a 2-dimensional board with rues that cannot be bent. The real world is not that simple.
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“It’s not like I can fault Dana for never having dealt with the trauma I’ve dealt with – that’s not her fault,” says friend Jarrod Smith, who enjoys both weightlifting and regular therapy. “I just wish she could understand that her problems are pretty small compared to most people, and some people require different solutions
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At some age, you may wonder if maybe you’re not immortal. Not that you actually ever believed you were, but your never took health too seriously. You might schedule a check-up for the first time in years, or maybe decades. That is a good thing! Just vitals and the usual labs will tell you a
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Someone might ask, “So, Jim, I read how you changed your lifestyle in mid-life, without paying a Health and Wellness Coach, so why do I need one?” Well first of all, I was under-employed and dead broke. I couldn’t pay for one if I wanted. But since I was under-employed, I had lots of time
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although these drugs may give you a leg-up on resistant weight loss, unless you change your lifestyle, you will gain it all back. It’s the same with extreme dieting, and with bariatric surgery. Your body is a perfect reflection of what you do with it: your movement patterns and your eating patterns. Change the patterns, change the body
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If people ask me about work-out supplements, unlike people trying to sell you something, I’ll tell you that caffeine and creatine are the only substances scientifically shown to improve athletic performance. In moderation. Don’t blow-out your adrenals on energy drinks. So, I’m very happy to find that someone is researching this. It turns out, it
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I was in a friend’s vacated house in Bowie, Arizona. I was in the process of completing a month-long lerung, a solo meditation retreat in the Tibetan tradition. It was winter, it even snowed a little. I was excited to skip the entire holiday season, from December 14th to January 14th, more or less. Timing
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