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Greetings Fellow Environmentalists & Friends ,

You don't live at your office (although some days it feels like you do), but you can still do your part at work to be as environmentally minded as you are at home. These simple suggestions can be easily implemented to make your workday a little more sustainable:

Green commute! American workers spend an average of 47 hours per year commuting through rush hour traffic. This adds up to 3.7 billion hours and 23 billion gallons of gas wasted in traffic each year. There are many ways to cut your carbon footprint (and commuting costs) by changing the way you get to work.Read more

You might think that being a marine ecologist for The Nature Conservancy for more than eight years, and a lifelong nature lover — would also automatically have been an environmentalist.

But it wasn't until I had to take care of a child (my nephew) that I became one through and through — especially about what's in my home.Read more

While I was in Hua Hin (Thailand) I decided to go for a treatment by doctor fish. Doctor fish are a species called garra rufa and originate in pools near two small Turkish towns, Kangal and Sivas. They have long been known for their ability to treat the symptoms of skin conditions such as psoriasis. The fish seems to bite only dead and bad skin, and if you put a child next to an elderly, they will choose for the older skin. 

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As Valentine's day is coming up, some advise for couples: should men and women eat the same food?
Yes, if they want to live together like brothers and sisters: if they are life partners , they should eat food that supports their strenght and eliminates their weaknesses.Read more

After 10 days of eating only brown rice and water, I had a good idea for pickles: green bean pickles.
Take 1100 gr. green beans, 300 gr onion, 150 gr carrot,5 cloves of garlic, 2 inches fresh ginger, 3 clove pods, 3 juniper berries, 3 leaves of laurel, 1 table spoon sauge, 1 tea spoon of thyme, 60 gr natural seasalt.Read more

The liver detoxifies the blood, governs the top of the head, the eyes, the throat, the breast.
Liver affect the lungs, digestion, uterus, prostate, cervix, pelvis, muscles, tendons, nails, anger, the ability to change. It is the "seat of the soul".

How to help the liver?
By exercise, stretching, sweating, breathing exercise.
Good liver food: leafy vegetables, scallions, leeks, oil (sesame oil, olive oil) cooked and raw, on daily basis (do not burn the oil),meditation (it calms the mind).
Allergies find their origin in the liver.Read more

 
At the start of this new year, I want again your attention for the two most important organs:
the kidneys and the liver.
Good knowledge of those 2 organs can give us a much better life.
Kidneys are important as they do not regenerate easily and they are  the source of our life essense. 
The kidneys (Gate of Life) govern the brain, the memory, the bones, the ears and the hearing, the spine, the lower back, the hormonal organs, the knees, the willpower.

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Do you want to know how??
Read my diet blog .

A few days ago, I received from Bryan (Raitong Organics Farm) a sample of a new product: Green Tea Gaba Rice. As I know his products are the best on the market (probably even worldwide), I just love to be his guinea pig, so I cooked the GTG-rice (Green Tea Gaba rice) today.Read more

There is as much difference between a colonic and an enema as between a jumbo jet and a Cessna.
A colonic can only be done by a doctor or a qualified nurse, with the right equipment and will clean all your colon, from your rectum till your appendix.
An enema can be done at home and will clean out the rectum and the sigmoid colon, and if you are lucky, and with a lot of exercise, also your descending colon. But then again, if a lot of enema exercise is needed, you surely eat the wrong food, and should first change to a healthier diet.

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You can burn fat easier with interval training. 
Other advantages are:
-saving time, because you're working harder in a shorter period of time
-flexibility, as it works with any activity and you choose how long and how hard you work during the intensity intervals
-variety: the workouts feel like they fly by because you're breaking the workout up into shorter segments

And it is great for all levels of fitness. Athletes use interval training to increase performance, but it's also a great way for beginners to get higher intensity exercise in more manageable doses.
So how does it exactly work?Read more

As most of the natural exercises, soft belly breathing is easy, but you have to do it regularly.

It takes only 30 seconds 5 times a day, and you can do it everywhere: at the office, when you are in a traffic jam, when you are waiting somewhere.
First relax your belly (I always put my both hands on my belly, that helps "get the feeling"), breath deep in through your nose, and push the air down in your belly.
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Today I started to make long term pickles; those are pickles which take much longer to ferment, as the vegetables are cut in much larger pieces.

2 cauliflowers, 1 broccoli, one big carrot, half an onion, 2 stems of celery, 4 pieces of garlic (not sliced), and a whole bunch of fresh dill (roots  included).
As herbs I add juniper berries, mustard seed, dried thym and clove pods. I added 40 grams of salt, a litle bit of juice of my pickled cabbage and I filled with spring water, till the Perfect Pickler was full.

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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor also known as BDNF is a protein, which in humans is encoded.
It acts on certain neurons of our nervous system, helps to support the survival of existing neurons and encourage the growth of new neurons and synapses. In the brain, it is active in the hippocampus, cortex, and basal forebrain—areas vital to memory, learning and higher thinking.
BDNF itself is important for long-term memory.
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Read here about  my way to optimal health and an optimal mind as from 16th January till 11th February 2010, in my  journal.