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Stressed About Your Health? F**k It.

Stressed out? Exhausted? Running yourself ragged trying to be a good person, raise tolerant children, impress your boss, eat healthy, pay the bills, grow spiritually and monitor your carbon footprint? John C. Parkin has a suggestion for you...

Beyond Death

In 1994, Dr. Tony Cicoria was talking to his mother on a pay phone when he was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. Abruptly, the 42-year-old orthopedic surgeon and....

Muckleshoot Tribe is Reclaiming Their Health

The Pacific Northwest is one of the most diverse and bountiful bioregions in North America, and encompasses hundreds of varieties of edible plants, fishes and animals. The peoples native to these lands consider this...

The Egg and I

Not that long ago the foods we ate were either hunted, home-grown, or gathered. We knew exactly from whence our food originated. During the last century though, first-hand contact with our food sources disappeared...

Life Beyond Addiction

Growing up in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan (an area known in the 1950’s and 60’s for its resident gangsters and ethnic conflicts) provided Alexander Schauss plenty of opportunities to observe drug addiction first hand...

How to Overcome Stress and Anxiety

The brain’s job is to make sure that its vehicle, the body, survives. To that end a multitude of complex response mechanisms have evolved which allow us to negotiate the many challenges our environment provides, be they the challenges of...

Surviving Aids

While I had been completely denying my condition, the symptoms of this disease of our time had already been ravaging my body for at least a year. In reaction to my diagnosis, I vacillated between deep numbness and extreme rage. Ultimately, I surrendered, and accepted the....