Music For Better Health

Music has been around for thousands of years. It entertains us, energizes us during workouts, brings people together to celebrate, and comforts us when we are having difficult times. Research shows that music can have meaningful effects on physical and mental health.

One of music’s most well-known benefits is its ability to lower stress. Listening to calming music has been shown to decrease cortisol, our body’s primary stress hormone, while slowing our heart rate and breathing. Think about the times you listen to music throughout your day- maybe while you’re getting ready for work, or in the car during your commute, maybe at night time when you’re eating dinner. Listening to relaxing music 10-15 minutes can bring a sense of calm during your busy day.
Music has been around for thousands of years. It entertains us, energizes us during workouts, brings people together to celebrate, and comforts us when we are having difficult times. Research shows that music can have meaningful effects on physical and mental health.

One of music’s most well-known benefits is its ability to lower stress. Listening to calming music has been shown to decrease cortisol, our body’s primary stress hormone, while slowing our heart rate and breathing. Think about the times you listen to music throughout your day- maybe while you’re getting ready for work, or in the car during your commute, maybe at night time when you’re eating dinner. Listening to relaxing music 10-15 minutes can bring a sense of calm during your busy day.

Mentally, music can improve our mood, reduce our anxiety, encourage relaxation, and even promote emotional resilience.

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Bitter Receptors for Sustainable Weight Management

Most of us associate the word “bitter” with unpleasant flavors — but in the body, bitterness is actually a biological signal for health. Long before modern nutrition science, traditional cultures valued bitter foods and herbs for digestion, appetite balance, and overall wellness. Today, science is catching up.
At the center of this connection are bitter taste receptors — powerful sensory receptors that do far more than help us taste food.
To help us get a better sense of what this means, we looked to someone who specializes in nutrition. We recently hosted an educational webinar with guest speaker, Carolyn Brown, licensed nutritionist and co-founder of Indigo Wellness Group based in Connecticut. She had some things to say about our bitter receptors that exist not only in our mouth, but throughout our entire gastrointestinal tract. They exist in the gut and intestines, the stomach, the pancreas, our lungs, the immune system and even in fat tissue.

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Healthy Thrift Trends In Youth

Ever since my teenage years, I’ve been a devoted thrifter. Salvation Army, Goodwill, local secondhand shops—you name it, I was there. While others rushed to grab the newest gadgets, I was rarely an “early adopter“. Why spend $30 on a brand-new shirt when a $3 thrifted find could stretch my budget further set and me…

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Understanding & Treating Depression

Do you or someone you love suffer from depression? We held an educational webinar on mental health wellness recently with special guest speaker, Dr. Martha Koo at NeuroWellness Spa, pyschiatrist & pyschoanalyst, who shared her extensive knowledge with us about depression and integrative treatments to help those suffering from depression and other related conditions. She…

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