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Massala Chai Recipe for Lovers

Spiced Chai with Cupid's ElixirI love tea, especially a big mug full of spicy hot chai tea during the dead of winter in the middle of February. This time of year is perfect for creating a batch of spicy, warming goodness to melt the snow and ignite the heart for Valentine’s Day—whether shared with a lover, friends, or simply by yourself with a good book or movie. Chai tea is easy to make and can be prepared with many spices you already have in your cupboard, or are available in bulk at your loca …

Feb 09, 2015 Ryan Wade

Coffee as a Medicinal Herb

Coffee: A Health Food or a Health Risk? Over the past year, I've noticed a growing trend of embracing coffee as a health food. Some even promote coffee alongside medicinal herbs. While this initially seemed frustrating and concerning, the use of coffee as a therapeutic substance has become so pervasive that it must be addressed. Don’t buy—literally and figuratively—into the coffee hype. For a detailed exploration of the harmful effects of coffee from a Classical Chinese Medicin …

Feb 04, 2015 Ryan Wade

Stress, Biological Aging, and Telomeres

Stress: It Doesn't Just Feel Like It’s Killing You How Stress Shortens Telomeres Length and Leads to Early Aging I have written extensively here at our blog about both the importance of reducing stress in achieving a vibrant, healthy, and long life, and also about the complicated role that telomeres have on the human lifespan. In fact, I recently sent out to our Facebook followers a link to an article recently published by Stanford University, where researchers were able to successfully r …

Jan 29, 2015 Ryan Wade

Foraging a Deeper Connection

The Micro and Macro, the Self and the Universe Everyone is talking about the "New Year" and a "new you." How about the old you? How about reconnecting with who we really are? Foraging a Deeper Connection

Jan 05, 2015 Ryan Wade

Safeguarding Our Oceans Through Awareness and Action

What have we done to our Oceans? And what were we thinking? It’s mind-boggling how our survival hinges on water, yet we squander it, dump our waste into it, and treat the oceans as the world's largest toilet and grocery store. A psychoanalyst would likely find our relationship with water highly dysfunctional. Our survival depends—completely and absolutely—on healthy oceans, including the air we breathe. Think about it: the oceans cover over 70% of the Earth's surface an …

Nov 29, 2014 Ryan Wade

Gut Bacteria and the Blood Brain Barrier

The Gut → Brain Health Connection One of the most interesting and telling things about the blood brain barrier is the vast similarity between the cells which make up the blood brain barrier and the cells which line the small intestine, forming a barrier between what is essentially outside the body and what is inside the body. In looking at the histology (the study of cells) of the body, it is no surprise at all that the foods we eat and the health of our gut will have a direct impact on the …

Nov 22, 2014 Ryan Wade

Comprehensive Nutritional Analysis of Pine Pollen

The Nutrition of Pine Pollen Customers have been asking recently for more information on the nutrition of Pine Pollen. Like most of the research on Pine Pollen, the research done in identifying the nutritional components of Pine Pollen has all been published in Chinese and has yet to be translated. This makes doing research, as an English speaker in the US, difficult. But we did it. Because of the difficulty in locating and understanding the research, we have worked with a dear friend who …

Nov 15, 2014 Ryan Wade

Health, Meditation, and the Mind Body Connection

The Necessary Mind Body Connection "It was always obvious to the ancients wisdom traditions that mind and body were interconnected but somewhere along the line we created a dichotomy as if they were different" -- The Connection: Mind Your Body Meditation has been gaining popularity in the west now for several decades, but a unique combination of factors (technology advancements, social advancements, a real need for meditation) has resulted in a real blooming of interest into meditation, …

Nov 08, 2014 Ryan Wade

Expanded Intended Uses Page

Navigating the Improved Intended Uses Page In an increasing effort to help you find the products that most interest you we have expanded the Intended Uses page at our website. Previously--and unfortunately--this page did not serve our customers as well as we would have liked. But with the launch of our new website we have giving this page a serious reworking. When you visit the Intended Uses page you'll now find six highly easy to navigate categories for helping select which products suit you b …

Oct 31, 2014 Ryan Wade

BPA and Store Receipts

Lurking Endocrine Disruptors and Learning to Avoid Them The association between store receipts and Bisphenol A (BPA) grabbed headlines a few years ago (2010-2011), prompting some stores to switch to BPA-free receipts while most others continued to use them. BPA is commonly found in thermal print paper, including the silky-smooth receipts often received with groceries, making it a prevalent endocrine-disrupting environmental contaminant. The debate surrounding the safety of BPA continues, with t …

Oct 30, 2014 Ryan Wade

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