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The Neuroscience of Awakening
Dr. Helen Lavretsky's landmark Kirtan Kriya study found that just 12 minutes/day of chanting meditation over 8 weeks measurably rewired the brain, improved cognition and resilience, and reversed markers of aging in dementia caregivers. Dr. Helen Lavretsky's new book, Living from the Soul: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Awakening, addresses patients experiencing intense physical and psychological symptoms of "spiritual emergence" — often misdiagnosed as purely psychiatric illness. Dr. Helen Lavretsky is helping lead the "Brain Capital"/brain health economic resilience movement, including UCLA's Brain Health Summit, work with the American Heart Association, and testimony to the UN on brain health as a human right.
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Why Is the Hardest Part of Psychedelic Medicine Not the Molecule?
Why the hardest part of psychedelic medicine may be the regulation, sourcing, and training around it rather than the molecule. How set and setting became the clinical blind spot that can decide whether a treatment holds. What still has to happen the day after a psychedelic wins FDA approval, and why that runway can take years.
Why Mast Cells Keep You Stuck in Fight or Flight
Understand how mast cells and the nervous system communicate in both directions, creating a cycle of histamine release, stress signaling, poor sleep, anxiety, and increased reactivity. Discover why mold, chronic inflammation, gut dysfunction, hormones, and ongoing physiological stress may keep mast cells primed to react more easily. Learn how sleep, breathing, gentle movement, stable blood sugar, community, prayer, and nervous system regulation may help send repeated signals of safety back to the body.
6 Books That Changed How I Think About Health: Part 1
Discover why gut health, blood sugar regulation, nutrient status, and environmental exposures may all play important roles in protecting long-term brain health. Understand how books from David Perlmutter and Dale Bredesen challenge the idea that cognitive decline is driven by one single cause and instead focus on multiple metabolic and lifestyle factors. Learn why Dr. John considers overlooked markers like uric acid, heavy metals, food sensitivities, and vitamin deficiencies worth paying attention to before symptoms become more serious.
The Compassionate Plate: Healing Ourselves and the Planet
Discover how modern food systems have created disconnection between people, their health, their communities, and the sources of their food—and why reconnecting matters for human and planetary well-being. Understand how compassion, empathy, and mindful eating can reshape not only our relationship with food, but also our relationship with ourselves, other living beings, and the world around us. Explore practical ways to build a more compassionate plate through plant-forward choices, local food systems, community support, and greater awareness of the story behind every meal.
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The largest life expectancy gain would be made by eating more legumes #beans #beansrecipes
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How can we have our potatoes and eat them, too? #potatoes #potatorecipe
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