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10 Steps To Improve Your Sleep
Sleep is often one of the most overlooked aspects to a healthy life, and unfortunately can be viewed as an “indulgence” or “luxury.” Sleep, my friends, is not an indulgence or luxury. Sleep is a requirement. There are very real side effects due to sleep deprivation. It is associated with obesity and several diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Epigenetics: You Are Not a Victim of Your Genes
I have great news for you! WE ARE NOT VICTIMS OF OUR GENES! That’s right, we might have some not so great genes, but we can help control whether or not those genes are expressed.
Let’s take a step back first and talk about one of my favorite scientific fields; epigenetics. What is epigenetics? Epigenetics actually means “above your genes,” and this field studies what influences our gene expression.
How I Started My Meditation Practice, and Why I Will Continue
Every year I make a birthday resolution - just like a New Year's resolution, except at the start of my personal new year. This year I was so excited about my resolution to meditate everyday. Yep. EVERYDAY. Every night before bed I lay on my floor, turn on my LED candles and let my mind be blank. It is wonderful.
Okay, "letting my mind be blank" makes it sound like it’s super easy. It’s not. It takes practice, but it gets easier quickly, and you can start off just doing five minutes a day and slowly build up to longer time. And fortunately, you will notice benefits quickly. Having experience in the past with meditation, I started with just 10 minutes nightly, and started noticing benefits that first week.
Angiogenesis and Cancer
Now, we have heard a million times that nutrition can directly affect diseases such as cancer; however, it is often not explained to us how this actually happens. While there is a myriad of different ways nutrition can influence cancer, today I want to discuss angiogenesis.