Posts Tagged ‘meditation’
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Boost Your Vitality
People are all over the place trying to scrounge up some extra energy to get through their days. From fad diets to personal trainers to those weird “quantum” bracelets people are putting on their wrists, its all about trying to eek out some advantage over time. Time? Yeah, think about it. The quantity of time…
Read More7 Ways to Reverse Cellular Aging and Get the Body and Life You Most Want – Part 1
My soul brother, colleague, and Oriental Medical Doctor, Pedram Shojai, and I recently took on the topic of cellular aging and how to slow it down when life is too fast. Watch right here: Short version: New research from UCSF and Dean Ornish proves that mindfulness, diet and exercise is linked to better telomeres,…
Read MoreBeginnings of the Ends: Telomere Storytime
I’ve been talking up telomeres a lot lately, which are emerging as the key biomarker of biological aging. Think you look younger than your chronological age? Here’s your marker. Telomeres are a lot like the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces – in this case, telomeres keep DNA on the ends of chromosomes from…
Read MoreOn Cleansing, D#1 – Kicking Caffeine
What is your most irrational fear? As you titrate with us off caffeine, gluten, dairy, alcohol and sugar, what are you most afraid will happen? Let’s start with caffeine. Today is D#1 of the Gottfried Cleanse, and I’m kicking caffeine – or at least I’m starting the process. Why is it so hard to…
Read MoreOneTaste and the OM Conference: Come Hang With Me and Nicole Daedone in San Francisco!
Hey Everyone – it’s Dr. Sara with something you just might not want to miss! My dear friend, Nicole Daedone, Founder of OneTaste, is putting on her first OM Conference August 9-11 in San Francisco.Yours Truly will be giving a keynote address on Sunday, August 11 at 12pm, and it would be just lovely to have some of my tribe there to…
Read MoreDigital Sabbatical + Your Hormones
I just resurfaced after a digital “shabbat” — that is, no online love from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. No email, no tweets, no Facebook Big Ideas. Result? Better relatedness with my husband and daughters, oxytocin-raising dialogue with girlfriends, and more mindful eating. But, wait, that’s not all! Cortisol comes as close as you can…
Read MoreOn Cleansing, D#1 – Kicking Caffeine
What is your most irrational fear? As you titrate with us off caffeine, gluten, dairy, alcohol and sugar, what are you most afraid will happen? Let’s start with caffeine. Today is D#1 of the Gottfried Cleanse, and I’m kicking caffeine – or at least I’m starting the process. Why is it so hard to decaffeinate?…
Read MoreBeginnings of the Ends: Telomere Storytime
I’ve been talking up telomeres a lot lately, which are emerging as the key biomarker of biological aging. Think you look younger than your chronological age? Here’s your marker: Telomeres are a lot like the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces – in this case, telomeres keep DNA on the ends of chromosomes from…
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