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Tag: Mental Health

Your Next Vacation May Be a Lifesaver, Researchers Studying Travel and Human Health Suggest
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Your Next Vacation May Be a Lifesaver, Researchers Studying Travel and Human Health Suggest

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024

Story at a glance… Researchers looked at the relationship between travel and tourism and health. Using the thermodynamic concept…

Scientists Find SSRIs and Psychedelics Work in Similar Way, Hope to Create Better Medicines
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Scientists Find SSRIs and Psychedelics Work in Similar Way, Hope to Create Better Medicines

June 6, 2023June 28, 2023

In a mouse study, researchers found that the psychedelics LSD and psilocybin bind to the same neuroreceptor as clinically…

Social Media and Screen Use Stress Out Adults and Toddlers
ArchivesPhysiology

Social Media and Screen Use Stress Out Adults and Toddlers

February 3, 2023July 12, 2023

The old saying in health and fitness is “everything in moderation” but there’s a chance that screen use, and…

Meditation Helps and Even Heals the Deeper Someone Pursues It
ArchivesPhysiology

Meditation Helps and Even Heals the Deeper Someone Pursues It

September 20, 2022June 30, 2023

There is a proliferation of meditation and mindfulness apps and books pelted at a generation of working Westerners that…

The First Trial of Commercial CBD Products Found Significant Anxiety Relief in Women
ArchivesMedicine

The First Trial of Commercial CBD Products Found Significant Anxiety Relief in Women

June 9, 2021July 28, 2023

A new trial looking at the effects of a line of commercially-available CBD health products from a company called…

MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Meaningfully Reduces PTSD Symptoms by 88%—On Track for FDA-Approval
ArchivesMedicine

MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Meaningfully Reduces PTSD Symptoms by 88%—On Track for FDA-Approval

May 20, 2021September 16, 2023

In a phase III, randomized placebo-controlled trial, the psychedelic chemical MDMA, colloquially known as ecstasy, was found to greatly…

Scientists and CEOs Expand Grey Markets of Cannabis to Break the FDA Stranglehold on the Medical Field
Physiology

Scientists and CEOs Expand Grey Markets of Cannabis to Break the FDA Stranglehold on the Medical Field

April 1, 2021

Cannabidiol, (CBD) the non-psychoactive component of marijuana, is now widely available in the United States for treating things like…

This Protein Seemingly Links Exercise Mediation and Sauna Use to Risk-Reductions of Neurological Disease
Physiology

This Protein Seemingly Links Exercise Mediation and Sauna Use to Risk-Reductions of Neurological Disease

January 26, 2021

Taken from an earlier article from World at Large… A growth-factor compound produced in our brains and muscles is…

D.C. Advocacy Group Got Mushrooms Decriminalized – Now Pushes for $100 Million in Federal Psychedelic Research Grants
Medicine

D.C. Advocacy Group Got Mushrooms Decriminalized – Now Pushes for $100 Million in Federal Psychedelic Research Grants

January 25, 2021

In November, voters in Washington D.C. voted overwhelmingly for Initiative 81 which, not completely, but effectively decriminalized ‘entheogenic plants…

Medicine

Sustainable Long-Term Relief of Depressive Symptoms Found From Psychedelic Psilocybin

November 4, 2020

In another study on the use of psychedelic compounds as medicine, two doses of psilocybin, the compound that gives…

Medicine

Study of DMT Users by Johns Hopkins Reports 89% Positive Changes in Life Satisfaction

May 11, 2020

Native cultures have been taking psychedelic chemicals for recreational and religious purposes for thousands of years. One of which,…


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Italy Quietly Tries to Renew Military Cooperation Agreement with Israel, Law firm Notices and Objects

Andy Corbley May 23, 2025

Signed in 2002 and entering into force in 2005, few Italian citizens will know what has resulted from a…

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Houthis Defeat the Americans, Claim Destruction of Another F/A-18 and Strike Israel with Drones

Andy Corbley May 8, 2025

Yemen has claimed responsibility for an attack on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier that caused a second F/A-18…

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Former Georgia Senator Joins Trump’s Kettle of China Hawks as US Ambassador to Beijing

Andy Corbley May 1, 2025

Former Georgia Senator and businessman David Perdue was recently confirmed with a bipartisan vote as the new US Ambassador…

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