Live with less; life on earth is too small for our desires

While there’s no scientific data to show that living with less stuff will increase your happiness, a growing number of people insist that this is in fact part of the equation

Human desire is unlimited. If we have 10 we want 20, constantly desiring more & better. But our means and the supply on earth is limited. So we can never keep satisfying our desires. 

An estimated 70% of American homeowners cannot park their car in the garage due to it being filled with stuff that doesn’t fit inside the house

In 2016 the average credit card debt for Americans who carry a balance was $16,000. Meanwhile, financial hardship and work stress are two significant contributors to depression and anxiety. The answer is to buy less

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The mass use of antidepressants

SSRI antidepressants are one of the most harmful medications on the market, and because of just how many people they are given to (often for no good reason) they have had a profound effect on the consciousness of our entire society

This article will review some of the more common side effects of SSRIs (and SNRIs), such as becoming numb to life, becoming severely agitated and imbalanced (sometimes to the point one becomes violently psychotic), losing your mind, losing the ability to have sex, and the development of birth defects 

Unfortunately, due to widespread denial in psychiatry about the issues with their drugs the common SSRI side effects are often misinterpreted as a sign the individual had a pre- existing mental illness and needs more of the drug — which all too often then leads to catastrophic events for the over-medicated patient

Like many other stimulant drugs (e.g., cocaine) SSRIs are highly addictive. Because of this, patients will get severely ill when they attempt to stop them (withdrawals affect roughly half of SSRI users) and it is often extremely difficult to withdraw from them. In this article, I will cover the approaches I know for that since very few resources exist for people in that situation

 

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How to prevent Alzheimer’s

Between 1999 and 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s increased by 55%, killing more than 93,500 Americans in 2014, according to a review of death certificates

Research published in 2014 found Alzheimer’s deaths were severely underreported on death certificates. Researchers estimate the annual death toll from Alzheimer’s actually exceeds half a million 

Many lifestyle and environmental factors contribute to the rise in Alzheimer’s, including inappropriate diet, inactivity, insulin resistance, prion infection, lack of sun exposure and overexposure to toxic chemicals and non-native electromagnetic fields
 

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The covert war against mankind

Infertility is skyrocketing and if the trend continues, most couples may require reproductive services to conceive by 2045

Potential reasons for this trend include vaccines that impair fertility, endocrine-disrupting chemicals and electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures

The number of children born worldwide dropped 50% between 1960 and 2018. Many countries also saw shocking birth rate decreases following the rollout of the COVID shots

Infertility affects 1 in 6 people globally. In the U.S., fertility problems affect 9% of men and 11% of women

A single in vitro fertilization cycle can cost between $15,000 and $30,000, and since your chances of conceiving is only 29% after the first cycle and 43% after six cycles, it can get very expensive. As a result, we may be moving into a future where only the rich will have the means to reproduce

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The effects of virtual "contact"

Conversing in-person results in strong and complex neural signaling, but this is dramatically reduced when meetings take place virtually, with unknown consequences for the human psyche

A Yale team used neuroimaging technologies to study interactions between two people in real time, face-to-face as well as conversations on the video conferencing platform Zoom

Significant differences were found in brain activity, with the strength of neural signaling reduced on Zoom compared to in-person 

Those speaking face-to-face had increased gaze time and increased pupil diameters, which suggests increased arousal in the brain

The participants’ brains also had coordinated neural activity in-person, likely due to reciprocal exchanges of social cues that the pair experienced during their face-to-face chat
 

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The benefits of green tea

Green tea, which comes from the Camellia sinensis plant, contains a wealth of beneficial polyphenols, including the catechins epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin and epicatechin

EGCG may be helpful for the prevention of arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombus, heart attack and stroke — in part due to its ability to relax your arteries and improve blood flow

Green tea, consumed either in the form of a beverage or extract for two weeks or more, significantly lowers systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure 

A meta-analysis involving 25 randomized controlled trials also concluded that long-term tea intake — defined as 12 weeks or more — significantly improved blood pressure

Drinking about 0.5 to 2.5 cups of green tea daily for at least one year reduced the risk of developing high blood pressure by 46%, while those consuming more than 2.5 cups reduced their risk by 65%

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PFAS chemicals cause cancer

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) may promote cancer metastasis, according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health

Researchers immersed 2 types of colorectal cancer cells in a PFAS solution for up to 7 days; metabolic changes signaling cancer metastasis were observed, along with increased cell motility

Not only was the cells’ migration ability boosted, but they had a tendency to spread and penetrate membranes 

PFAS may lead to altered gene expression and epigenetic changes that in turn cause inflammation, endocrine disruption and changes in metabolism and cell signaling that promote carcinogenesis

Other research shows exposure to PFAS may worsen the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer
 

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