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Healthy Sleep Guide [Simple Tips to Improve Your Sleep]

The following is our notes from Andrew Huberman’s Huberman Lab Podcast #2 What is Sleep? Before we go deeper into how to have a healthier sleep, let us first define what sleep is. Sleep is a period of our life where we are not conscious, and only in relation to things that are happening within our brain and body. ​ Sleep resets the ability to be focused, alert and emotionally stable in the wakeful period.​ 2 Forces That Determines Sleep Chemical Forces 1. Adenosine Adenosine is...

For The Love of Phytoncides: The Health Benefits of Forest Bathing

It’s in the air. Spring is just around the corner. And with that comes the familiar scent of rain mixed with lush soil. Quite often during this time of year, you’ll find the avid outdoorsmen – and women – gravitating towards nature of any kind within reach, a common process known as Shinrin-yoku. Roughly translated to mean “forest bathing” in English, Shinrin-yoku originates in Japan, with the formal concept coined in the early 1990’s[1]. Viewed as a form of natural medicine,...