We all know that feeling... 'Fight or flight'. A stressful moment presents itself and the body releases loads of chemicals as a defense mechanism to help cope and survive the situation. Internally this looks like a the floodgates of adrenaline, cortisol, and other hormones dumping into our bloodstream. Emotionally, it can feel like a building tsunami wave of emotions ranging from benign nervous excitement to a more volatile experience of anxiety, anger, or a cocktail of both. Stress is certainly not unique for the human experience, and isn't inherently bad. This 'fight or flight' experience was extremely useful during human kinds evolution...
Aloha Friends, It has been really inspiring to read how our members of our nation have been coming together across varying industry’s to lessen the surge of COVID-19 on our health care system. Workers on the front-line are sacrificing their own safety tending to the sick everyday, companies like NIKE are changing manufacturing lines to create face masks, and small bio-tech startups are coming together to navigate expediting a vaccine solution. Vaccine or not, and PPE’s aside (which I hope everyone is wielding in public unabashedly!) we should all be aware of other risk reduction strategies to keep...
Look, you don’t need to take anything besides food & water to get through life. Eat decent, get some sleep, exercise a bit, try not to stress or smoke too much. Etc. But, what if you’re interested in diving deeper into your human potential? If you want to optimize your abilities at work, crush your goals, and not just survive but Thrive it will be in your best interest to have a few scientifically-backed mushroom “Power-Ups” in your daily routine. Numerous scientific studies in the last few decades indicate an impressive list of health giving properties provided by medicinal mushrooms. The benefits...
Modern nutritional science of chocolate/cacao (yes...someone gets to study chocolate as a job) has caught up with the effects of cacao and why it has been incredibly popular for so long. They've narrowed it down to about 10 compounds and we give a good laymen biochemical breakdown of them so you know just how chocolate effects you!
