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11/06/2021

The 2021 Well Holiday Gift Guide

The 2021 Well Holiday Gift Guide

Share the gift of healthy living. Here’s a list of some of our favorite things, from the staff and contributors of Well.

11/06/2021

Bad Audio Disrupts More Than Your Hearing

Bad Audio Disrupts More Than Your Hearing

11/06/2021

Often when we think about grace we think about offering it to other people, but we forget that we need to be offering it to OURSELVES as well.

From SAVING GRACE:

Grace is the original self-care. It shushes the hectoring inner critic that tells us we are too much, too little, too fat, too thin, too good, and not good enough. Grace invites us off the hedonic treadmill of relentless achievement and success, which never delivers the happiness it promises. Grace doesn’t care what size your waist is and celebrates every new wrinkle as evidence of wisdom earned. Grace shrugs at your unachieved New Years’ resolutions and teaches you to be kind to yourself, just because. Grace reminds you of the “love yourself ” part of Jesus’s command, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” Grace is amazing. ✨🌟✨
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11/06/2021

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#Music is one of the few activities that stimulates your whole #brain. Because it's structural, mathematical, and architectural. It's a total brain workout.

How Listening To Music Benefits Your Brain https://buff.ly/3yYBe7Z

#anxiety #ADHD #depression #autism #mentalhealth #stress #brainhealth

11/06/2021

The Best Winter Boots

The Best Winter Boots

After trudging through snow and ice in 29 pairs of boots, we’ve chosen nine that will keep you warm, dry, and stable all winter long.

11/05/2021

How Information Becomes Everything, Including Life

In Define information before you talk about it, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviewed engineering prof Robert J. Marks on the way information, not matter, shapes our world (October 28, 2021). In the first portion, Egnor and Marks discuss questions like: Why do two identical snowflakes seem more meaningful than one snowflake?

As computer engineer Robert J. Marks explains, our DNA is fundamentally digital, not analog, in how it keeps us being what we are.

11/05/2021

How daylight saving time affects our bodies, minds -- and world

How daylight saving time affects our bodies, minds -- and world

For places that observe daylight saving time, gaining an hour of sleep every November -- or losing an hour every March -- doesn't just affect how well-rested (or caffeinated) people are. The effects of the semi-annual time change are far-reaching, drastically changing stroke and car accident rates,....

11/05/2021

At the Whitney, Jennifer Packer’s Portraits Capture the Messiness of Memory and Trauma

At the Whitney, Jennifer Packer’s Portraits Capture the Messiness of Memory and Trauma

Originally hung at London’s Serpentine Galleries, “Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing” marks the largest survey of the rising New York–based artist’s work thus far.

11/05/2021

How Machines Bring Humanity Back to Medicine

Dr Eric Topol explores the next 20 years of progress in artificial intelligence with expert Kai-Fu Lee.

Dr Eric Topol explores the next 20 years of progress in artificial intelligence with expert Kai-Fu Lee. https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

11/04/2021

COVID-19: Implications for business

Endemic COVID-19 is one more problem we’ll have to live with.

Our latest perspectives on the coronavirus outbreak, the twin threats to lives and livelihoods, and how organizations can prepare for the next normal.

11/04/2021

Did Covid Change How We Dream?

Did Covid Change How We Dream?

All around the world, the pandemic provoked strange nocturnal visions. Can they help shed light on the age-old question of why we dream at all?

11/03/2021

7 Foods That Fight Back: Immune System Boosters

7 Foods That Fight Back: Immune System Boosters

From colds and the flu to COVID-19, your immune system could use some help. Grab some of these foods as backup. They’re packed with nutrients scientifically proven to strengthen your immunity and help fend off illness.

11/03/2021

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Gratitude makes everything better.

How Gratitude Helps Your Brain and Mental Health https://buff.ly/2PXKQ1D

#gratitude #thankful #selfcare #mentalhealth #brain #Wednesdaymotivation #Wednesdaywisdom #quotes #Winniethepooh

11/02/2021

The Coming Age for Tech x Bio: The ‘Industrial Bio Complex’ - Future

The Coming Age for Tech x Bio: The ‘Industrial Bio Complex’ - Future

A new era of industrialized bio represents the next industrial revolution in human history, propelled forward by technology and Covid as our generation’s World War II. As a result, we will now see the emergence of bio’s version of GAFA. And with it, a post-WW2/ post-Covid “Industrial Bio Compl...

11/01/2021

The Myth of Root Canals

The Myth of Root Canals

Good news: They are no longer terrible.

11/01/2021

Perspective | The painful truth about caregiving: Your determination isn’t enough to save a loved one

Perspective | The painful truth about caregiving: Your determination isn’t enough to save a loved one

After caring for my ill son, my dying husband and my elderly mother, I’ve learned just how little we can control.

10/31/2021

Neuroplasticity: Can You Think Yourself Into a Different Person? - The Best Brain Possible

Neuroplasticity: Can You Think Yourself Into a Different Person? - The Best Brain Possible

It used to be believed that the human brain didn't change past childhood. With neuroplasticity, science has confirmed that it can. But how much is possible?

10/28/2021

The Secret to Better Running? Try Distraction

The Secret to Better Running? Try Distraction

Focusing on external sights and sounds, rather than what’s going on in your body, made running feel easier and improved performance.

10/26/2021

The Science Of How The Mind Affects The Immune System

The Science Of How The Mind Affects The Immune System

The science of how our thoughts, emotions, perceptions and moods play an important role in the overall health of the body and specifically the immune systam.

10/24/2021

Existing Drug May Be Effective Against Dry Macular Degeneration

Existing Drug May Be Effective Against Dry Macular Degeneration

Researchers have discovered that the drug fluoxetine may be effective against atrophic (or “dry”) age-related macular degeneration, an eye condition that affects millions of people worldwide.

10/24/2021

Opinion | How I Became a Sick Person

Opinion | How I Became a Sick Person

A sudden descent into a chronic illness.

10/23/2021

Stable memory test scores for Alzheimer's patients with omega-3 intake

Stable memory test scores for Alzheimer's patients with omega-3 intake

A unique study on Alzheimer's disease examines the effect of omega-3 fatty acids with memory tests and testing of spinal fluid.

10/23/2021

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

After comparing the gut microbiomes of 160 centenarians with those of the elderly and young, scientists found centenarian microbiomes had a special mix.

10/23/2021

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

After comparing the gut microbiomes of 160 centenarians with those of the elderly and young, scientists found centenarian microbiomes had a special mix.

10/22/2021

What Your Brain Needs to Know About the Link Between Diabetes and Dementia - The Best Brain Possible

What Your Brain Needs to Know About the Link Between Diabetes and Dementia - The Best Brain Possible

Diabetes can lead to brain damage, a decline in mental function, and accelerate or cause dementia. Here's what your brain needs to know.

10/21/2021

Your Brain Secretly Works With Other Brains

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains some of the ways your brain is constantly changing itself (usually without your awareness) as you interact with other people.

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains some of the ways your brain is constantly changing itself as you interact with other people.

10/19/2021

Opinion | What We Know About Covid, the Flu and the Air We Breathe

Opinion | What We Know About Covid, the Flu and the Air We Breathe

We have more power than we thought against the flu and other respiratory viruses.

10/19/2021

‘Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit’

‘Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit’

Emerging mRNA technology proved excellent for COVID vaccines. BioNTech’s founders preview what that could mean for cancer and other mysteries.

10/16/2021

The revolution of later life care

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/the-revolution-of-later-life-care/

Later life care finally rises to the top of the global agenda. But it took a global pandemic to get it there.

10/15/2021

In J.M. Thompson’s ‘Running Is a Kind of Dreaming,’ exercise is a powerful medicine for the mind

In J.M. Thompson’s ‘Running Is a Kind of Dreaming,’ exercise is a powerful medicine for the mind

During a 205-mile race around Lake Tahoe, the San Francisco psychologist recounts his own past of addiction and su***de — and how running saved his life.

10/14/2021

Sustainability Is An Act of Self-Love

Achieving health for our planet and our bodies aligns perfectly. We aren’t foreign to the land around us but rather a part of it. And as corporations like Walmart make pledges to protect, manage and restore 50 million acres of land by 2030, perhaps our individual role in this fight is to make the same commitment to our own bodies. So let’s live better tomor

Walmart aims to become a regenerative company so we can all Live Better Tomorrow. In honor of this bold ambition, we’re shining a light on how you can love yourself and the planet in the same breath.

10/13/2021

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

Why this winter should be better than the last one.

10/08/2021

Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air

Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air

An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air.

10/08/2021

Book debunks the idea that genetics causes disparities, not racism - STAT

Book debunks the idea that genetics causes disparities, not racism - STAT

The authors provide a roadmap for how cities can begin to assess their own disparities in mortality and life expectancy and address them.

10/07/2021

Why to Keep Your Mask On After the Vaccine

Why to Keep Your Mask On After the Vaccine

5 reasons to continue wearing a mask, even after you’re vaccinated