7/22/24: Beat brain fog, nature's candy, 6 inner peace rituals

Happy Monday my friend,

🏞️ Have you traveled for pleasure lately? Did you know that experiencing new places is good for your brain, and might even help ward off cognitive decline? Read more here.

☕ BE THE CHANGE: Your morning pick-me-up could soon be at the frontlines for fighting pollution. Spent coffee grounds from industry waste are being studied for decontaminating swathes of agricultural land—and are already shown to remove bentazone from soil, an environmentally harmful herbicide. If scaled up, this could provide massive protection of groundwater and ecosystems, offering a better solution for the coffee waste stream than composting!

🌮 RECIPE OF THE WEEK: I’m a huge fan of Mexican food and this Fajita Salad may be the next best thing and a happy medium for everybody. It’s a healthy, adaptable compromise for just about any type of eater, and boasts the same flavors and ingredients like lime, cilantro, and jalapeño.

🍉 SUPERFOOD SPOTLIGHT: Would you consider watermelon a superfood? When you dig into the nutrition research, you may be shocked: watermelon is not just a sweet summer treat! It can hydrate you quickly while nourishing the body with tons of unique antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and more, with a low glycemic index in small portions. Read more about watermelon’s super qualities here.

🧠 MIND: We all get it from time to time—and for some, it’s a daily reality: brain fog. While it can shroud our productivity and bring energy levels down, this journalist and writer with chronic illness explains some of their best tips dealing with it on the regular: how to make do, navigate through it while working, and how to avoid stressing or fighting against the symptom— which only makes it worse.

🤸 BODY: Very few public figures had a more positive, widespread influence on fitness and peoples’ relationships with their bodies, than Richard Simmons— who passed away recently on July 13^th, 2024, at age 76. In addition to teaching hundreds of fitness classes on his live TV show and becoming a bestselling author, his common sense approach to diet and exercise even today could be considered timeless, sharp, and condemning of a lot of the diet fad nonsense out there today! Watch one of his archived videos here.

🧘 SPIRIT: Have you never considered yourself very spiritual—but want to try? Don’t even know where to start? Explore these 6 spiritual rituals for your mornings, or let them open you to more ideas for connecting with your internal state or spiritual side, straight from the suggestions of a yoga master.

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To a healing future,

— Rob

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