ANGR, MORE IRRITN

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SARAJU RVR 

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The water table level is rising so normal storms have a faster ground level effect. We have to be careful here. Absence of knowledge is not proOf of any fact.

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STEVENSON - TUCKER FILES

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GUT BRAIN AXIS- VAGAL NERVE

the gut and brain also communicate about mood. You’re probably familiar with the uncomfortable rumble of nervous indigestion during stressful times, or the unsettling feeling of “butterflies in your stomach” when you feel nervous or excited. Both are examples of how the gut and brain communicate along the vagus nerve, keeping the CNS and the digestive tract on the same page.

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CHRONO NUTRITION 

BRKFAST BEFORE 8 , DINNER BEFORE 9 

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WU-WEI

Wu wei means - in Chinese - non-doing or ‘doing nothing’. It sounds like a pleasant invitation to relax or worse, fall into laziness or apathy. Yet this concept is key to the noblest kind of action according to the philosophy of Daoism - and is at the heart of what it means to follow Dao or The Way. According to the central text of Daoism, the Dao De Jing: ‘The Way never acts yet nothing is left undone’.

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Taking an SSRI could very well help straighten out your serotonin levels, but SSRIs can have side effects and often require an arduous process of finding the right combination of drug and dosage. On the other hand, changing your diet to promote gut health and give you a steady supply of dietary tryptophan is a no-risk first step that can achieve the same end goal as pharmaceuticals. While medication is certainly useful and even necessary in many cases, I feel strongly that dietary interventions are the right place to start. But they are often overlooked.

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For the last two centuries a cult has been spreading widely and rapidly around the world, seeking to dominate and control every moment of our lives; today it has hundreds of millions of adherents, including almost all the conspicuously successful individuals on the planet; nether a religious dogma nor a political creed, it is devoted instead to a single, striking ideal: busyness.

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