What You Can Learn From Other People’s Regrets

While a regret can be phrased either as an action or as an inaction, regrets framed as actions tend to be more emotionally intense than regrets about inactions, but inactions tend to be longer lasting.
One of the most frequently cited regrets at the end of life is not having the courage to be true to oneself but rather doing what others expected.
Other common end-of-life regrets include: Working too much, not expressing one’s feelings, not staying in touch with friends, and taking life too seriously and allowing worries to diminish happiness.
Most men, at the end of life, say they regret missing out on family time because of excessive work.
At the end of life, many finally realize that happiness is an inside job — a choice, not a side effect of living any particular kind of life, and regret taking life too seriously and allowing worries to diminish their happiness.


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The 3 Best Mood-Boosting Foods

These Are The 3 Best Mood-Boosting Foods. Read below to be healthy all the time.

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Stress Changes the Effect of Healthy Diet

You probably know what to eat for good health and disease prevention — namely, vegetables, fruit, legumes, certain seafood, olive oil, and the rest of the delicious, Mediterranean-style menu. But a six-letter word may undermine the most colorful, nutritious, health-promoting diet. (No, not cookie, but do keep those to a minimum.) We’re talking about stress — not the occasional, acute type that your body is designed to handle, but the daily, #chronic, unrelenting stress that affects far too many people. In a study, one group of female mice ate a high-fat diet, and another group were exposed to stress. Not surprisingly, the mice that ate the high-fat diet showed changes in their “microbiome” — the balance of bacteria in their digestive tract — that are linked to chronic illness. Get this: The mice exposed to stress showed the same changes, as if they, too, had been eating a high-fat diet! In other words, stress harms your health (women in particular) in a similar way that an unhealthy diet does. More research is needed to explore these findings, but there’s no need to wait to take stress #management every bit as seriously as you do #nutrition and #exercise. Rather than waiting until your annual vacation to relax, do something every day: have tea with a friend, spend 10 minutes meditating instead of scrolling through social media, close your eyes and breathe deeply for three minutes, visit us for stress management sessions or take a walk in the woods. If your microbiome could talk, it would say, “thank you!”
#wellbeingcenterme #microbiome #braingut #mindbodymedicine


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Nutrition Myths

Nutrition myths haven't changed much in nearly 40 years. The people making these erroneous assertions tend to be very dogmatic in their views. The source of these misleading facts is most often practising medical doctors untrained in nutritional medicine, or those who are just plain out of date. As a specialist in Integrative Medicine, I agree to below. Read on.

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