Barefoot Grounding / Earthing – Hippie Bologna or Cure-All?

Have you ever heard of the terms grounding or earthing? Grounding is not an uncommon expression and is well-known to anyone who works with electricity, but earthing is a more commonly used word referring to being barefoot on the raw Earth. While many people in the holistic health and wellness world may be well aware of the positive effects that come from barefoot earthing, there are probably numerous personalities that associate being barefoot with some 1970’s music festival they pretend isn’t a part of their free-spirit past.

Ice Baths – The Health Hack That Nobody Wants to Do

In my recent blog on chronic inflammation, one of the five ways that I suggest to fight inflammation is to expose yourself to cold temperatures through ice baths, cold showers, or polar plunges. It is possible you may have heard of the “Ice Man”, Wim Hof, who has set numerous Guinness World Records for his ability to withstand freezing temperatures. Although people have been practicing cold exposure for the history of time, people like Wim Hof and Paul Chek are largely responsible for bringing awareness back to this sacred practice.

Chronic Inflammation – The Common Denominator in Nearly Every Deadly Disease

“People are most familiar with acute inflammation. This is the redness, warmth, swelling, and pain around tissues and joints that occurs in response to an injury, like when you cut yourself. When the body is injured, your immune system releases white blood cells to surround and protect the area…In contrast, when inflammation gets turned up too high and lingers for a long time, and the immune system continues to pump out white blood cells and chemical messengers that prolong the process, that’s known as chronic inflammation.”

Gut to Brain – How Your Food Controls Your Behavior

Our gut is made up of microbiome which the The National Human Genome Research Institute refers to as a “collective genomes of the microbes (composed of bacteria, bacteriophage, fungi, protozoa and viruses) that live inside and on the human body”. Between 1990 to 2003, an international team of researchers accomplished an internal mapping of all the human genes in the human body in an effort known as the Human Genome Project.