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Stop procrastinating! Use the Premack principle
A lot of people have problems with procrastination, myself included. We start off the day with a list of things that need to get done, and by the end of the day those plans are often hijacked and many...
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Does tasty food make us fat?
Are we getting fatter because there is just a lot more irresistibly delicious food around us? Does that explain the obesity crisis? That theory has been around the block but it is in fashion again....
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Voluntary stress
When does stress help you and when does it hurt you? There is no doubt that stresses of the wrong sort can lead to anxiety, emotional turmoil — and eventually depression and diseases like...
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Obesity starts in the brain
Where does obesity begin? What drives you to eat too much or expend too little energy, and why has there been such a dramatic increase in obesity since 1980? Some recently popular explanations are...
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Hormesis and the limbic brain
There is a powerful way to re-program your brain that has been largely overlooked. A way to change your relationship with eating, sleep, sex and basic emotions like fear, love and aggression. While...
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The Iceman
Wim Hof can raise or lower his body temperature at will, overriding his autonomic nervous system. He is able to sit in a box of ice for almost two hours. He can swim 50 meters under arctic ice. Wearing...
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Conquer your fears
What follows is a guest post by a frequent contributor to the comments and Discussion Forum of this blog, Dr. Nate Eliason. Nate, who has an M.D. in Pathology, has written on the Discussion Forum...
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Antifragile
Hormesis is the ability of organisms to become stronger when exposed to low-dose stress. Is hormesis a basic principle of biology — or is it merely a strange but unimportant quirk of nature that only...
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Listen to this inspirational TED talk by Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal. In my earlier post on Voluntary Stress, I wrote about the importance of attitude in how the body and mind respond to...
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Remembering Seth Roberts
I was saddened last month to learn of the untimely death of my friend Seth Roberts, a highly original thinker on matters that lie at the intersection of psychology and physiology Seth was known to...
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