Salt Myths, History, and Benefits

Salt has been used throughout history for various things. Everything from preserving food, salary, war, mummies, and colonizing. Sea salt is typically made through harvesting sea water, filtering, and dehydrating it. The process will very depending on the salt. Salt is one of the most misunderstood topics of health out there. The common point that people point to is high blood pressure, but original research that was done for this was in rats who were given a ridiculous amount of...

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What Cancer is, What Causes it, the Business of Cancer, and Possible Solutions

What is Cancer? In the year 2000 Douglas Hanahan, and Robert Weinberg had published a paper called the hallmarks of cancer. This was a revolutionary paper because up until this point, researchers only focused on the minutia, and the separate types of cancers. This paper did something different. It wanted to find what is common among all cancers. They had found 6 hallmarks of cancer, and recently added more. These hallmarks include sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death,...

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Essential Oils: History, Science, and Methods

History Essential oils have been used for 1000s of years. When they are extracted, they are much more potent than the original herb. In ancient Egypt 5000 B.C.E. they extracted oils with animal fats, and the sun. They also had an ancient scroll that described many uses for essential oils. In 1922, when king tuts tome was opened, they found lots of essential oils that were in perfect condition. In Pakistan 4000 B.C.E. they began to have oil refinements. In ancient...

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Medicine From the Bees

Raw honey- Raw honey has been around sense the dawn of time. Our ancestors would use it anytime they can get their hands on it. Honey is the most enzymatically active food in the world. Enzymes are the catalysts in are body to unlock process, and make things happen faster. A benefit of honey is that it helps reduce allergies. This happens because it contains a small amount of bee pollen. This is what's in the atmosphere, and causes allergies for...

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Medicinal Mushrooms for Immunity, Cognition, and Endurance

Mycelium is the underground fungal network that virtually covers the entire planet. Mycelium has the ability to produce mushrooms. Approximately 40% of pharmaceutical drugs today utilize mushrooms. There're four different categories of mushrooms. The first is culinary mushrooms. These are what you think of when you usually eat them. The portabella, white button, and cremini are examples. Medicinal mushrooms are a category that have thousands of years of documented history. They have been used from everything to immune function, to...

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Censorship, and Freedom

Google is a well know company that almost everyone uses. It consists of about 92% of the search engine results. Google, unfortunately, google is a surveillance company. They primarily make their money through advertising. Google collects data on people in order to do this. They use three primary tactics: surveillance, censorship, and manipulation. The surveillance piece is how they collect the data on you. Every google tool does this. Whether it's the search engine, Gmail, or google calendar. Censorship refers...

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Cold Therapy for Fat loss, Resilience, and Circulation

Cold therapy is know as a hormetic stressor. A hormetic stressor is something that you do in the short term that causes a bout of stress, but makes you more resilient in the long term. There are many hormetic stressors, but today I'm going to focus on cold therapy. Cold therapy is the process of using showers, ice baths, and cold plunges to train your nervous system to be more resilient to stress. This does just not relate to cold...

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Powerful Morning Routines to Supercharge Your Day

The power of having a morning routine is invaluable. How we start off the day is going to determine how the rest of the day is going to go. It provides you with a sense of normalcy, effectively eliminates wasted days, creates momentum, and an overall better outlook for the day. I'm going to discuss powerful practices to bolster your health, and your mind. The Power of Habit When we set out to create new habits, there is a wonderful structure in...

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Environmental Toxins

Today we are absolutely flooded with environmental toxins. Every year 10'000s of thousands of new toxins enter our world. I'm going to go over some of the big ones. Water- In the United States, we are very fortunate to have the systems we do have in place for cleaning our water. In some countries around the world, people are forced to gather their own water from what looks like a mud puddle. People are drinking water that looks like coffee, and is...

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Is The FDA Reliable?

The FDA was created in 1906 to prohibit the sale of contaminated food, and drugs. At this time the FDA needed to regulate food safety because there was a lot of food born illness do to poor practices. Companies would add chemicals, or preservatives to food, so you don't know that it had gone bad. The FDA did a lot of good things in the beginning. In 1938, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act established new drug regulations, including pre-market...

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