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| Love Conquers All |
| Earwax Explained |
| Protect your Eyes during Air Travel |
| The Best Dietary Choices for IBS |
| Juicing recipes for children |
| Chicken of the woods potato gnocchi |
| Benefits of Listening to Music in the Classroom |
| 8 Common Mistakes New Puppy Owners Make |
| Deficiencies of Milk Substitutes for Babies |
Editor's Letter
A plant medicine with less predictable effects
We have touched on various psychedelics this year, and now it is ayahuasca's turn, because of a new study where the active ingredient (dimethyltryptamine or DMT) in ayahuasca was administered intravenously.
Practitioners report not only powerful hallucinations, but near-death experiences, contact with higher-dimensional beings, and life-transforming voyages through alternative realities.
This ability to make brain activity more fluid and flexible is thought to underpin not only the profound psychedelic experience but the promising results from early clinical trial patients who were given DMT in combination with psychotherapy to treat depression. ‘DMT is short-acting, so it's a very flexible tool compared with psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) and LSD which can last for six to 10 hours,’ said Chris Timmermann, head of the DMT research group at Imperial College London.
The results, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the most advanced picture yet of the human brain on psychedelics. The recordings show how the brain's normal hierarchical organisation breaks down, electrical activity becomes anarchic, and connectivity between regions soars, particularly those handling ‘higher level’ functions such as imagination, which evolved most recently in humans. ‘The stronger the intensity of the experience, the more hyperconnected were those brain areas,’said Timmermann.
To learn more, read the article: Ayahuasca – Spirit Plant Medicine Divine
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Love Conquers All
Table of Contents ↑|Our sense of true self-worth is the natural product of Love and gratitude for Divine order. In contrast, the drive for materialism without spiritualism, compels a lingering need for hard countable wealth; its luxury and enjoyment always seems to be offset by the calculation, ‘Is this enough now?’
Protect your Eyes during Air Travel
Table of Contents ↑|Business trips can often mean navigating from one city to the next for hours on end. Here are some eye care tips for when travelling by air to ensure optimal comfort as well as good and healthy vision.
The Best Dietary Choices for IBS
Table of Contents ↑|Living with IBS often turns food choices into a fatiguing challenge. New information on FODMAPs may help IBS sufferers select the foods that work best for them, while avoiding those that aggravate symptoms.
Juicing recipes for children
Table of Contents ↑|If you can't get your kids to eat it - get them to drink it! Let's face facts: on the whole kids just hate eating veg. They don't mind a bit of fruit from time to time, but sit them down to some raw broccoli and they're more likely to stick it in some soil and shout 'bonsai' then actually eat the stuff!
Chicken of the woods potato gnocchi
Table of Contents ↑|Chicken of the woods potato gnocchi with wild mushroom tea recipe by chef Christiaan Campbell
Benefits of Listening to Music in the Classroom
Table of Contents ↑|The benefits of adding background music during learning are numerous. Music, one of the joys of life, can be one of the joys of learning as well.
8 Common Mistakes New Puppy Owners Make
Table of Contents ↑|Getting a new puppy is an exciting journey, but it’s worth keeping in mind that it’s also a long-term commitment! Your new companion is going to be with you for the better part of 10 years, at least, and in the excitement of puppyhood, it’s easy to forget to keep the long-term plan in mind.
Deficiencies of Milk Substitutes for Babies
Table of Contents ↑|I am hoping you can clarify some questions and concerns, that I am sure other readers will also find useful, around baby milk formula and milk substitutes.
Earwax Explained
Table of Contents ↑|Earwax is the body’s natural way of protecting one of its most important senses. Cerumen is a waxy oil produced by the follicles and glands that line the ear canal. When the cerumen builds up and becomes hard it obstructs the ear canal and this is what we refer to as earwax.
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