8/5/24: Nigeria's energy star, green burial, pistachio power

Happy Monday my friend,

🦋 Did you know butterflies create a static electricity that helps them move pollen, as if by magic? The electrostatic is basically a super power.

☀️ BE THE CHANGE: In Nigeria, women are taking the country’s energy crisis into their own hands. Read about 32-year-old Yetunde Fadeyi, who started her own solar energy company bringing safer and more sustainable energy to the poorest families and neighborhoods in her community—and, ideally, to all of Nigeria someday. Find her incredible story here and discover how clean energy could radically change the lives of rural women in a developing country.

🍆 RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Hitting the wall with eggplants? If you’ve run through your favorite eggplant parmesan and baba ghanoush recipes, try these Ottolenghi-inspired Eggplant ‘Meatballs’. They’re packed with all the same elite-level flavors mastered by this famous chef, but require half the work (and fancy talent) to make.

🌰 SUPERFOOD SPOTLIGHT: Enough hype over almonds or Brazil nuts. Research shows that the ordinary and very tasty pistachio is an incredible health food in its own right! Eye health benefits, inflammation-fighting, blood sugar balancing….  these are only three qualities that make this food so “super.” Read the rest of them here.

💡 MIND: We’ve discovered parts of the brain responsible for memory, emotion, and even tackling highly complex logical problems… but what parts are responsible for our creativity, our “artistic side”? While it’s been elusive for many years, scientists may have finally found the possible hotbed for artistic inspiration in the brain: the source of those famous “light bulb” moments! And it works nothing like the other parts of the brain—this is a fascinating read.

⚰️ BODY: We nourish the body while alive—but we often don’t like to plan for (or think about) its welfare after death. That said, lots of people are thinking about how their bodies might nourish the environment and have a low impact when it’s all over. Studies show that interest in sustainable death care or “green burial” options is booming: approaches like “human composting” are starting to outpace typical cremation and burial services, and could become the standard quite soon!

💧 SPIRIT: No one likes to talk about grief. But we all go through it— it’s one of the most difficult emotional rites of passage. But so many say their grief made them more spiritual and connected people. Read about how to best deal with grief, and in the most spiritual way to make the journey: because one doesn’t get over grief. The only way is through— and this therapist shares her wisdom on how to do so effectively and gracefully.

🔍 Hidden Symptoms? [trust your gut]

You know that something's off. Maybe it's the chronic fatigue that leaves you feeling drained, or the joint pain that won't quit.

Perhaps it's frequent digestive upset or recurring headaches. These could be early warning signs of an autoimmune condition.

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Your gut holds the key. Emerging research is revealing a powerful connection between gut health and autoimmune diseases.

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To a healing future,

— Rob

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