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Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!

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Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!
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You Can Actually Run Away From The Dark Clouds Of Depression & Anxiety:
For some time now, psychologists and sufferers alike have been trying to decode the puzzles of Anxiety & Depression.

How can we fix them and why do they happen in the first place.

Well, at least more than the Lao Tzu quote on it tells us.

And quite recently, there have been some real controversies over whether or not the medications we have for them even really work; or how.

Given all the wandering-about with different doses, types, and figuring out treatment-resistant problems, who could blame them?

As you might have guessed, some rockstar (sorry, Paul Stanley!) researchers looked into many different ways to treat these mental health problems, and they came back with one really promising answer…

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Meditation’s Effect On Gut Health. Ancient Asian Secret Proves Mind Over Microbes Not Just A Fantasy

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Meditation’s Effect On Gut Health. Ancient Asian Secret Proves Mind Over Microbes Not Just A Fantasy
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Meditation Vs. Gut Health. Maybe Ancient Practices Were Pretty Clever After-All?:
A doctor friend once told me that when he went to his first lecture class the professor started it with this statement,

“Half of what we’re about to teach you is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

How many times have people turned to supplements, kung fu, ufos, etc. to fix a problem that wasn’t getting solved in the standard way?

Probably more than once. Even with their less-than-great record of success.

So it will come as no surprise that as modern science advances, it occasionally circles-back to what used to be ancient superstition.

And a small team from China is making the case yet again, that meditation is a kind of magic…

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Celebration’s Health Benefits: The Right Milestone Rituals Aren’t Just Fun, They May Be Good For You, Too!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Celebration’s Health Benefits: The Right Milestone Rituals Aren’t Just Fun, They May Be Good For You, Too!
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Celebration & It’s Health Benefits. Have Yourself A Merry Little Win-Mas!:
So to end the year, let’s go with something that’s a little bit lighter.

There may not be as many double-blind, placebo-controlled, gold-standard studies on this, but it’s something humanity’s been doing for awhile, so it can’t be all bad, right?

Okay there really are bad parts of it, like Holiday Weight Gain, and releasing endotoxin into your body as a result of binge-drinking.

But the other components of celebrating at parties turn out to be pretty great for you! Who knew?

The party-animals at Indiana University, that’s who! Let’s dive in…

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People Who Think Leisure Is Wasteful Have Worse Mental Health. -All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

People Who Think Leisure Is Wasteful Have Worse Mental Health. -All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy!
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People Who Hate Leisure Are Miserable. (+yes, these people do exist):
Haven’t seen enough YouTube videos on the toxicity of “Hustle Culture” (no, not that disco dance from the 70s) yet?

Well, look no further!

Now there are a set of studies out on the general psychological profile in it, so take THAT Gary Vaynerchuck and Ali Abdaal!

Recent work by OSU, Rutgers, & Harvard researchers shows people who take themselves too seriously to have fun are also at-risk for several other problems.

And besides the risk of being a colossal buzz-kill at every possible event in life, those might turn out to be -not- just psychological problems, either…

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The Health Benefits Of Getting Outdoors: The SAD, Dark, Side Of One Of Humanity’s Greatest Inventions

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Health Benefits Of Getting Outdoors: The SAD, Dark, Side Of One Of Humanity’s Greatest Inventions
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Getting Outdoors Vs. Your Mood & Sleep. The Heights Of Forest Bathing:
When it comes to keeping yourself healthy, there can be a big difference in philosophies.

For some, health is what you get in a pill after a doctor visit for a problem.

Sort-of like a Biological Mechanic.

But on the other extreme there are ideas focused more on the behavioral end.

Sometimes, they even get close to touching the metaphysical, too.

But as we start getting closer to that end of health, it turns out many researchers find new answers that might have been hidden in plain sight…

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Red Wine Compounds Vs. Depression: A New Treatment Angle From An Ancient ‘Anti-Depressant’

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Red Wine Compounds Vs. Depression: A New Treatment Angle From An Ancient ‘Anti-Depressant’
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Red Wine Compounds Affect On Depression: In Vino Veritas?:
So we recently talked about Anxiety & Depression in a post about dogs & cats.

One of the things we discussed was the life-factors we tend to overlook.

In that case it was Stress, and that’s generally there because we tend to just accept it as something we can’t eliminate.

But just as that post found interesting and unexpected solutions in the form of pets,

Researchers continue to find new solutions to Anxiety & Depression in unexpected places.

And if a Buffalo team is correct, the old spectre may just get an even older solution…

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Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics
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Anxiety, Gut Microbes & Nutrition, Unexpected Improvements:
Tracking down any kind of health-hiccup can be a bit of a trial, no matter what it is.

And one of the most difficult things to fix is your mind, where the recommendations become less obvious.

As SCIENCE improves, it’s finding increasingly strange evidence and solutions.

Like the kind of stuff the crazy Meditation crowd has been telling us for the past few thousand years.

And the best friends of the Meditators are the Yoga & Yogurt wingnuts, who just might be on to something, if a review by Chinese doctors is right…

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The Sleep-Anxiety Link: How The Feedback-Loop Of Sleep Loss & Debt Crashes Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Sleep-Anxiety Link: How The Feedback-Loop Of Sleep Loss & Debt Crashes Your Brain
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Chronic Loss Of Sleep Could Give You Clinical Anxiety:
One of the more difficult problems a person could try to solve is anything involving your mind.

And neurochemists are doing their best to create solutions to this every day.

Two of the thornier ones they try to fix for us are Depression and Anxiety.

But perfect pharmaceutical fixes so-far have been elusive, and the ones we get are not without side-effects.

But a recent study by researchers at UC Berkeley is starting to shed a little more light on how Anxiety works and how you might start fighting back against it; even without drugs…

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