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Our Worth Is Not Tied to Our Productivity
At the April 2025 Latter-day Saint General Conference, Sister Tamara W. Runia raised two hands and kept one hand high, representing our worth. The other hand represented our obedience. The hand representing our worth never came down.
By Eileen Davis2 months ago in Longevity
When Development Ends, Does the Window Close With It?
There is a quiet assumption buried inside how most of us think about the brain: that whatever happens during development becomes the brain's permanent architecture. A childhood of altered wiring hardens into an adult structure that can be managed or medicated around, but not fundamentally revisited. The early years are when the building gets built; afterward, you live in the house.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
Can You Prevent Your Skin From Ageing?
Question : Elaine, do you dread ageing and worry about it? Are you feeling unhappy about any creases or lines you might see on your face? Can we stop our skin from ageing? I am constantly worrying about my skin changing, but don’t want to be paranoid out it. How can I accept it?
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Longevity
Falling Apart
Introduction I often write things about mortality and my eventual demise, although this is not a downer piece. I have a fear of repeating myself and found this previous piece on Vocal, which was rejigged from a Seven Days In post from 2017:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 months ago in Longevity
Meditation Has Been Studied for Decades. What Has Science Actually Found?
There is something strange about the position meditation now occupies. Few practices have accumulated so much peer-reviewed research and so large a halo of claims at the same time. Depending on which corner of the internet you land in, meditation may supposedly ease anxiety, prevent depression, sharpen attention, deepen sleep, dial down chronic pain, lower blood pressure, quiet inflammation, strengthen immunity, rewire the brain, and even slow the biological clock inside your cells.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
A Calorie Is a Measurement. A Molecule Is a Message.
A calorie is a unit of energy. Nutrition labels don't arrive at that number by incinerating food in a lab; modern food energy values are typically calculated using metabolizable-energy systems, such as Atwater factors, that estimate how much of a nutrient's raw energy content the body can actually extract and use. Either way, the number is a quantitative measure of available fuel. Glucose and fructose are even the same chemical formula, C₆H₁₂O₆, just arranged differently, and both supply roughly the same number of calories per gram. If you replaced one with the other in a recipe, the calorie count on the label wouldn't change by a single digit.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
Whose Gut Became "Normal"?
Imagine a team of scientists sets out to define the healthy human gut. They recruit thousands of volunteers, sequence trillions of microbes, and build an elegant statistical portrait of what a "normal" microbiome looks like. There's just one detail worth noticing: nearly everyone in the study lives in a large city, eats food that arrived in a package, has taken antibiotics more than once, drinks treated tap water, rarely touches soil, and has not hosted an intestinal parasite in their life.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Lifestyle
We all yearn for great health to keep us fit and extend our lives. However, getting a very healthy lifestyle does not depend purely on the physical aspects of living, but engaging both mind and body to achieve the best state of wellbeing.
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Longevity
Eating Well is a Hierarchy of Needs
In the world of modern wellness, we are drowning in the minutiae, these minor details that start to take over every health and food decision that we make. We argue over seed oils, debate the timing of our morning shots of apple cider vinegar, and stress over whether our kale was massaged in a BPA-free bowl. We’re missing the plot. We focus on the pinnacle of the pyramid while the foundation is crumbling. Groceries become unattainable because of their cost, air and water quality suffer, health insurance access is smaller and smaller and there are less and less family doctors or public health services.
By Emily the Period RD3 months ago in Longevity
