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Our intellect deserves as much care as our bodies, yet it’s often neglected in today’s fast-paced, screen-filled world. This blog explores five simple yet powerful ways to feed your intellect and nurture brain health: marveling at something amazing, reading and learning, meditating, fueling your body with proper nutrition and supplements, and even allowing yourself to do nothing at all. From boosting empathy through fiction to improving focus with meditation and giving your brain rest time to process, these practices provide balance, clarity, and resilience. Feed your intellect, and you’ll feel more amazing with every conscious step.

Emotional resilience is something that you can build upon throughout the course of your life. Integrate these helpful tips into your routine and you may begin to notice some positive changes in your life.

Emotional resilience is a powerful thing and necessary for navigating life, but what is it, really? How can someone cultivate it? New research suggests that resilience is a combination of genetic, psychological, biological, social, and spiritual influences. While some of these factors are beyond our control, others, thankfully, can be improved.

Recent research shows that 80% of our daily thoughts are negative and we have difficulty trusting people if we are trying to navigate negative emotions, even if they are unrelated to the person we are trying to get to know. Neural pathways are partly responsible, but we can push back with introspection and proper communication.

The harms of sugar are being noticed around the world, with the UK even taxing sugary drinks and proposing shifts in packaging for sugary products. Has Sugar Become the Next Smoking?

The science behind intermittent fasting is actually fascinating. Researchers from Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University discovered that the combination of intermittent fasting with a ketogenic diet can have all sorts of benefits for the human body, including fighting migraines, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and even some forms of cancer.