THE YEAR OF THE TRAVEL RESET By Elaine Glusac The healing power of nature, partially renewed by the mandate to maintain social distance, got a boost during the pandemic, as travelers flocked to the outdoors, from backyards to backwoods, throwing firewood on the blaze already ignited by forest-bathing and the movement by some medical doctors to prescribe time in the woods to patients seeking stress…
MONEY OUT LOUD Financial Wellness Is Finding Its Voice By: Cecelia Girr & Skyler Hubler of Backslash, TBWA Worldwide Money has topped the “do-not-discuss” list for decades—right alongside religion, sex and politics. Bringing up the “m” word on a first date has long been considered a surefire way to guarantee you won’t get a second one. And just a few years ago, publicly sharing your…
Crucial to Immune Health: A Healthy Microbiome; It’s 70% of our immune system The microbiome is inextricably linked to our immunity, with a growing body of research agreeing that 70% of the entire human immune system is found in the “gut”– as well as 80% of plasma cells responsible for antibody production. A new study reveals that the gut microorganisms of COVID-19 patients were very different…
From a new convergence between healthcare and wellness to a much bigger focus on nature, immunity and “home wellness” to wellness expanding its boundaries to once-taboo issues like sex, money and death A panel at the recent Global Wellness Summit (Nov. 8-11) brought together top journalists and future-forecasters (all experts in wellness) to discuss how the pandemic is shaking up the “wellness concept”–and what they…
TREND: FOCUS SHIFTS FROM SLEEP TO TRUE CIRCADIAN HEALTH THE CIRCADIAN DIET “Light” eating For decades, diets have been all about what we eat (we’ve scurried from the Mediterranean to the keto diet, etc.)—but the science is mounting fast that when we eat has profound metabolic and weight loss consequences. This new evidence is reflected in the rise of intermittent fasting (Google’s most-searched diet of…
A conversation with Henry Fersko-Weiss, a pioneer of the death doula concept From what’s the most important thing death doulas provide to why you can’t have a good death if you haven’t lived a well life Henry Fersko-Weiss is president of the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA). In 2003, he created the first End-of-Life Doula Program at a hospice in the US and has since…
