Happy Wednesday my friend,

Ginger and turmeric are two of the most studied “everyday” roots for how they interact with digestion and the body’s normal inflammation response. If you want a simple way to work them into a daily ritual – without turning it into more prep work – Pique’s Liver Detox Protocol has them both in the most convenient form.

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🐿️ CREATURE FEATURE 🐿️

🐟 Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi)

This tiny Pacific fish has a huge, neon mouth it can flip open like a fan. When two males meet, they press those mouths together in a face-off to size each other up, which often stops a real fight before it starts. For an impressive look at these wild “mouth-to-mouth” showdowns, watch THIS SHORT VIDEO from BBC EARTH.

Sarcastic fringeheads live along the California and Baja coast, hiding in shells, bottles, or rock crevices and darting out to grab passing prey. They’re usually less than a foot long, but are fearless and territorial. For identification, behavior notes, and every interesting fact, visit the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Reset, Rebalance & Renew

Even if New Year’s resolutions aren’t your thing…January can still bring us an opportunity for that “clean slate” energy. In the middle of winter, I’m not interested in harsh cleanses or white-knuckle restriction. I’m looking for simple rituals that help the body do what it was designed to do, and that I’ll still be doing when life gets busy again.

Two of the most underused herbal tools for restoring health and balancing inflammation are turmeric and ginger. The trick is consistency, and this is one of the easiest (and most delicious) ways I’ve found to make it a real habit: the Pique Liver Detox Protocol. It’s a gentle daily rhythm built around two warm drinks that support digestion and your body’s natural detox pathways, without extremes.

Here’s the basic flow:

• Morning: Electric Turmeric – creamy and warming, like a calm reset

• Evening: Le Ginger – bold and soothing, supports digestion and helps you wind down

Why Pique passes the Earth Conscious Life test:

• Clean, biodynamic and organic ingredients

• Cold extraction for better absorption of active compounds

• No fasting, no restriction, no “detox drama,” just daily support

Ready to join me in weaving this into your 2026 rhythm? CLICK HERE to get 20% off for life (+ bonus starter kit) and start the protocol with the New Year offer.

🍎 NUTRITION 101 🍎

FUCOXANTHIN: A marine carotenoid found in brown seaweeds like wakame, known for its fat-burning and anti-inflammatory properties. It may support healthy metabolism and reduce visceral fat. Click HERE to learn more info on its benefits and its origin.

🌏 DEEP DIVE 🌏

Glyphosate and “Chemical Farming”: What’s Actually in Our Food System

I’ve been talking about RoundUp, glyphosate, GMOs, and the broader chemical-agriculture model for a long time. Not because farmers are the villain. Most are trying to survive inside a system that’s been engineered – economically and technologically – to make one path feel “inevitable.” What’s changed lately is the legal chessboard. The glyphosate debate is no longer only about toxicology. It’s also about whether everyday people keep the right to hold manufacturers accountable in court.

The new battleground: legal immunity by “EPA approval”

Just this month (January 2026), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a Roundup case (the Durnell case out of Missouri) that could reshape pesticide accountability nationwide. Bayer (which acquired Monsanto in 2018) is arguing that because the EPA approved Roundup’s label without a cancer warning, state “failure-to-warn” lawsuits should be blocked.

In other words: if a federal agency signed off on the label, the company says it shouldn’t be sued under state law for not warning people about harm.

This is a direct threat to one of the last practical legal tools that farmers, farmworkers, and consumers have when regulators lag behind science. What could happen is scary – if federal approval becomes a shield against lawsuits, companies gain a powerful incentive to fight warning labels inside the regulatory process (where the public has limited leverage), instead of having to face a jury after people are harmed by their products.

What’s even more alarming is the industry’s apparent multi-pronged push: lobbying, pressure campaigns, and state-level “pesticide preemption” bills designed to limit stronger state warnings or lawsuits even if the Supreme Court doesn’t fully deliver what Bayer wants.

What the science debate is actually about

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