The Keys to Sleep Are in the Brain So how do you get better quality sleep? For many people, falling asleep is the tough part. They can’t seem to relax enough for the natural progression of Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) to take place. When we fall asleep, a series of highly orchestrated events puts the […]
Author: Essential Ninja
Sleep: The cool side of the pillow (Part 1)
Did you just open your eyes to the horrible realization that everyone in the meeting just heard you snore? Was it because earlier the barista accidentally gave you a triple breve instead of your usual quad? (You likely made her nervous because she couldn’t tell if you were the slow- or fast-moving type of zombie…) […]
My Television Cured My Cancer: An Essential Oil Love Story
Does this title sound ridiculous to you? I thought so too yet many people will blindly believe ‘ESSENTIAL OILS EMIT VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES’ without any hesitation. You are definitely not alone if you ever believed this, but if you were an electromagnetic engineer, this would sound as ludicrous as ‘ALL BABIES ARE BORN WITH TAILS’… or some other… […]
Odds Are: You Are Magnesium Deficient – And It Is Killing You
Why is magnesium so important? Magnesium is a vital mineral involved in more than 300 enzymatic processes at the cellular level. Magnesium is also the 4th most prevalent electrolyte in our bodies; electrolytes are what allow us to be living, electrical beings. They are responsible for all electrical activity (and thus brain conductivity) in the body. Without electrolytes like […]
Physical Fitness Tied to Increased Microbiome Diversity
Reduced microbial diversity in the gut has been linked to various diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune, colorectal cancer, and inflammatory bowel disease, just to name a few. Researchers are also making connections to many mental health issues as a result of dysbiosis. Results from a recently published Canadian study show that increased physical fitness is responsible […]
12-Week Transformation: Fat Old Guy to…
Three months ago I was coming off of that month-(or so)-long American tradition of binge eating and drinking we call “The Holidays”. In honor of Santa Claus I consumed enough sugary delicacies and delicious fatty goodness to put an entire army of sumo warriors into a collective coma. But the effects on me were NOT […]
“ZYTO-Scan” or “ZYTO-Scam” – MUST READ BEFORE YOU BUY… ~Continued
So What’s Under The ZYTO Hood? First of all, the technology ZYTO states they are using as the foundation for their sensing system is the same technology behind one of the several facets of the well-known polygraph test, called “electrodermal response”, a.k.a. “skin conductance response”, or a.k.a. Galvanic Skin Response (GSA), (the latter of which […]
“ZYTO-Scan” or “ZYTO-Scam” – MUST READ BEFORE YOU BUY…
Update: iTovi section added to end of article… *Mindy: Ever have someone offer you a free “zyto scan” to see which oils your body needs? Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? I kind of felt like I was sitting for a polygraph… How DOES that work? Well fortunately for me, I’m married to someone who knows exactly […]
Are American Women More at Risk of Developing Debilitating Disease Than Men?
According to the NIH and the AARDA, autoimmune disease is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in female children and women in all age groups up to 64 years of age. Estimates are that up to 23.5 million Americans have an autoimmune disease. In comparison, cancer affects up to 9 million and […]
Did You Know You Have A Second Brain? I Didn’t…
…or maybe I should say WE didn’t know (yuk-yuk :)). But apparently it is real and it resides in and communicates from your gut. “There are more neurons in the GI tract than anywhere else except the brain”, says psychiatrist Dr. James Greenblatt. Dr. Greenblatt has been successfully treating patients with severe mental disorders, such as ADHD, OCD and eating disorders by prescribing probiotics supplements… and the results have been […]