The Four Engines
Nutrition
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Inform yourself. See new perspectives.
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Learn about the state of health, healthcare, and healing
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Plant-based nutrition that heals rather than inflames
Connection
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Connect with your hopes, dreams, needs, and your still center.
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Connect with a supportive community
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Re-contact nature
Movement
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Use your full range of motion
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Discover the full power of breathing
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Move your emotions and your creativity
Rest
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Sleep hygiene
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Allow time for healing and assimilation
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Nutrition
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What does a healthy plant-based diet mean? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28728685/
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Changes in plan-based diet quality & association with mortality
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31401846/ -
Plant-based diet associated with reduced mortality rate of COVID-19 infection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34489306/ -
Screen-time, sedentary behaviors, and obesity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28421472/ -
Health inequities' relationship with socioeconomics and what we can do about it
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15563647/ -
Teaching innovative thinking in medicine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21955715/
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Movement
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Paced breathing reduces blood pressure
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32353795/ -
Exercise and mental health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19521110/ -
Moving emotions and moving the body
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31144771/
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Connection
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Insufficient sunlight is a public health problem
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668607/ -
Connecting to the Earth's electrons via Earthing
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22291721/ -
Meditation and mental health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27329827/ -
Friendship and health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24329760/ -
Sexual wellbeing and public health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34166629/
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Rest
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Re-thinking sleep and health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30031526/ -
Sleep routines affect sleep outcomes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33624804/ -
Works breaks and health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16376711/ -
The effect of rest days on sports injury
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20561270/
We have no idea what health truly is.
Medical training is mostly spent learning about disease, not health.