BRING NATURE TO YOU: Ever noticed that by the end of the week, you just want to ‘get out of your stuffy office’ and ‘get some fresh air’/get back near Nature? One of the best ways to avoid that feeling as well as to improve your mood, workplace productivity, energy levels & resistance to illness is to bring Nature to you.
Have you heard of nanotechnology yet? If not, you will soon…and BEWARE! Nanotechnology is a technology that will allow scientists in laboratories (always the first clue that something is not as Mother Nature intended) to deliver things like drugs, nutrients or chemicals in highly targeted ways. I.e. directly into your cells…at the molecular level!
After giving you the bad news about chocolate a while back, I wanted to be nicer for a while, but I recently received an email asking if I could explain about ‘microwave ovens’, eating ‘microwave food’ etc (thanks Helen). So here it is. The news is not good, if you prefer ‘ignorance is bliss’, now might be a good time to ‘accidentally’ have something better to do!
Positive psychology says we need more good news in our world. We’ve all heard how important it is to be in a positive frame of mind. Of course, this same sentiment has been around for thousands of years in the ancient cultures.Good in theory, not always so easy in practice. So what can we do to help our mental health and hopefully reduce things like anxiety and depression?
COMPULSORY reading for all MEN. It might help make you a better partner/ boss/ friend…so read on. Just skip to The ‘Tips for Men’ section at bottom if you don’t want/can’t handle, the details. Think of 3 letters that spark anguish into the mind of any woman in their middle years…
I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is I have a wedding anniversary coming up soon!!! The bad news is, I am now being told what to write in these tips. My beautiful wife Karen (grovel grovel), has ‘instructed’ me that I must tell you all about the tremendous health benefits of being married (there’s a catch).
Today, food companies, many doctors and even some dieticians commonly recommend us to eat supposedly healthy margarine instead of evil butter. But should we listen to them? As always, the first question to ask is, ‘Are margarines or margarine spreads naturally occurring foods?’ The answer is absolutely not. While starting out as a natural product, margarines are artificially manipulated and highly processed.
If you are a beer drinker, but are conscious of your weight, you might have been sold on the marketing of low carb beers recently. Apparently, since their inception, sales have gone through the roof. Unfortunately, we are the bearer of bad news.
Big in the media at present (being ‘cold & sore throat’ season), is the virtues of adding honey to hot drinks. I think Boost Juice, even have a lemon; honey ‘hottie’…which I assume is a hot tea. Do you ever do that? Honey is certainly in many respects an extremely powerful medicine – antibacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-viral etc. It can be great for colds*, clearing sinuses/congestion etc
Not long ago I read that the average mother these days gets about 20 minutes to herself a day. (Seeing my sister with her 3 girls, I can hear her shouting, like I’m guessing you might be, “20 minutes, oh I wish!”) As a mum these days (you not me!), it is an unbelievably difficult challenge to do what you desire for your kids, your family, your work, before you even get a moment to think about yourself.
I’ve just finished watching heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story of farmers and rural communities throughout Australia devastated by the ongoing drought. Daily stories are now also being told of our national bushfire disasters. Everyday, homes lives and livestock are being lost, suicides are at all-time highs …and there seems no end in sight.
This is a transcription from Mark’s Ancient Wisdom from Modern Health Podcast. Original PODCAST Available Here (Scroll to Episode #46) Mark Bunn: (MB) Welcome to an absolutely fascinating chat about gut health with one of the world’s leading researchers and scientists on this whole area; Dr. Keith Wallace. If you’re like me, 30 years ago you probably never spoke the term “gut health”.
I am writing in response to a scientific study that you may have read about. Media outlets everywhere have been trumpeting the finding that fruits and vegetables give no protective effect or in any way reduce cancer!!! Interesting, to say the least. I hear that many nutritionists and dietitians are still trying to pick themselves up from the floor!
The amazing benefits for our mental health, physical health, happiness & more. The best healing sanctuary in the world is all about forest bathing. Mother nature at her best, is what we’re talking about today. Science is now backing up the ancient wisdom of Ayurvedic medicine, about the importance of human beings being connected to Mother Nature.
Christmas is the time for reunions, catching up with families, old friends, etc. It’s good because it shows why a few ‘drinks with the boys’ or ‘gossip (er I mean meaningful discussion’) with the girls’ is actually a great boon for your health & well-being.
Hi everyone – I don’t say this often but this is one of the most important and exciting blogs I’ve written for a long time. Imagine if there was a completely ‘natural’ (and generally ‘free’) way to get one of the world’s most powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-aging medicines, which evidence is starting to suggest may help everything from heart disease, stroke, cancer
If you haven’t made the switch already, I want to remind you, that’s it’s the ideal time to switch from drinking cold/room temperature water, to our good old warm/hot water. * Right now, go and get your favourite mug.
Heard about charcoal water yet? It’s one of the big health items – detox drinks – for 2017. While at my wholefoods store recently I decided to buy some to see what it was like. I had not bothered to research it at this point, as I’ll try most things once anyway, and thought it would also make a nice surprise for my partner Luisa. (As an aside, I text said partner about the surprise knowing she likes the anticipatory excitement!
Which direction does your desk face? Do you think your work performance is affected by whether you are facing North, South, East or West? It does. Fascinating cutting-edge research in the field of neuroscience, shows how facing a certain direction is critical for integrated brain functioning and maximum mental performance.
If so, before you commit to surgery or other more invasive procedures, you may like to try these natural Ayurvedic remedies. 1. Swirl some water in your mouth mixing in quite a bit of saliva. Spit the ‘saliva water’ into eye bath(s) [available from any chemist], and regularly do an eye bath. Have the saliva water wash over the eyes. Sounds gross? Think I’m pulling your leg?
Like to know a simple way to reduce snoring, asthma (& other breathing problems), sinus/congestion problems, tiredness, stress, colds/infections, free radical damage etc etc and …increase/improve mind-body integration, mental clarity, concentration, fat metabolism, the health of your spine & all your vital ‘internal’ organs…etc etc?
The more you pay for runners …the more likely you are to get injured! It’s true, the multimillion dollar industry around the technology and science of creating running shoes is a farce. About a year ago, I had this intuitive feeling to start walking and running on soft grass.
With the warmer weather coming bad body odour can be a bit of a problem. This week I thought we’d have a look at some simple ways to reduce this problem. The cause: If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, if you squeeze a lemon, lemon juice comes out. Simply put, any smell (pleasant or otherwise) that comes out of your body, is based on what’s inside.
In contrast to our modern Western way of wanting to go ‘cold turkey’ or change bad habits ‘overnight’, in Ayurveda, it is recommended that any behavioural change is done gradually. Doctor Raju even mentioned that this applies when wanting to give up or change some ‘unwholesome’ or ‘health compromising’ behaviour. E.g. smoking, weaning off drugs or eating yoghurt at night.
I’ve just returned from a month in India with one of India’s greatest exponents of Ayurvedic medicine – Doctor JR Raju. It was said that there are only five families in India/the world that possess the full knowledge of Ayurveda, and that Dr Raju belongs to one of them.
You probably think this tip is so plainly obvious it is ridiculous to even mention it. Basically, as we move into the colder months, the tip is that you should eat ‘warmer’ foods. While we often try to make staying healthy complicated and confusing, staying in balance is often easier than we think. Nature works on opposites. When the weather is colder…eat warmer foods, to balance your body.
*This is a REPOST of the blog from August 13, 2012 Did you scrape your tongue this morning? Good news. Another ancient health practice has recently been accepted and promoted by modern experts. Have you been to buy a toothbrush lately, and noticed many companies marketing a tongue cleaner on the back of their brushes?
The evening meal – a key to super energy, good sleep and weight loss … or to sickness and suffering Food that we do not digest by the time we go to bed sows the seeds of sickness and disease. If there was a pill that could give us up to 50% more energy, significantly reduce our risk of chronic disease and almost guarantee a healthy weight for the rest of our life,
Video of Mark in Port Douglas speaking on Riding Nature’s Rhtyhm and Maximising Personal Performance through the Daily Cycles