There are a handful of adaptogens that most people in the supplements world have heard of. Ginseng, rhodiola, and ashwagandha are all household names, for example. These are all staples and have certainly earned their reputation as world-class herbal tonics for a...
Testosterone levels are plummeting, and human hormonal health is generally the most precarious it’s ever been. While many mainstream health-related websites remain unwilling to speculate on the reasons why, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that we know at...
Yin and Yang. Female and male. Earth and sky. Cold and hot. The manifest world is founded on the essential principle of the interaction of two opposing yet mutually dependent, ultimately cooperative forces. As above, so below, as the famous Hermetic maxim goes....
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass It’s been pigeonholed as the harbinger of hives, tears, and snot, but it’s also...
In various cultures around the world, Rhodiola rosea tends to possess a kind of mythical quality to it that might elicit a certain kind of incredulity among hard-nosed scientist types. So is there actually any science behind this legendary adaptogen? Typically...
“The map is not the territory.” -Afred Korzybski Humans love to oversimplify reality because it makes it infinitely easier to understand. Because we specialize in metaphor-making, we tend to mistake our stories about reality for actual reality, and we’re rarely...
“Myths can become law when they’re repeated often enough.” -Anthony William How many times in your life have you heard the idea that mental illnesses like depression are caused by a ‘chemical imbalance’? Most of us have heard the phrase repeated hundreds if not...
We’ve all heard people call stress “the silent killer”. Frankly, it’s a bit of a tired cliché. However, taking into consideration the monumental level of disarray the world is in these days, what were once silly platitudes about stress and health have taken on an air...
Is food still medicine, just as it always has been? Or are we now so thoroughly equipped by modern medicine to fight disease that we should dispossess ourselves of such an ancient idea? I once happened upon an article written by an Australian surgeon named Dr. Nikki...
