Coping - The Living Experiment Podcast Episode 93 These days, it feels like most of us are just getting by. We're surviving at a base level, just doing things to get through the stress of inhuman days ... the result of our flashing screens, fast-paced lives, and isolating social structures. Since we can't change everything at once, it's important to have coping skills in today's world. Here's what we cover in this episode of The Living Experiment. The essence of coping — … [Read more...]

Weight Loss - The Living Experiment Podcast Episode 93 This week we’re talking about Weight Loss — the myths, the methods, and the massive struggle it represents for the majority of Americans today. Starting with our own frustration with the muddled messages often broadcast on this topic, we strive to set the record straight. From the madness of trying to control one’s weight through low-fat eating, calorie counting, and “portion control,” to the sensible strategies that work a … [Read more...]

For a lot of my life, I tried hard to pass for normal, to go along with what society told me would make me worthy, good, desirable. That didn’t go so well. I felt sad, sick, scared, heavy and slow — in both body and mind. I felt frazzled and anxious. I was stuck in all kinds of unhealthy ruts. I didn’t like who I was becoming. So I decided to change things. I changed a lot of things, often just a little at a time. Slowly, bit by bit, I let go of what the media and social norms … [Read more...]

Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD Psychiatry: A Very Special Specialty Psychiatry, unlike other fields of medicine, is based on a highly subjective diagnostic system. Essentially you sit in the office with a physician and you are labeled based on the doctor’s opinion of the symptoms you describe. There are no tests. You can’t pee in a cup or give a drop of blood to be analyzed for a substance that definitely indicates “you have depression” much in the way a blood test can … [Read more...]

A Whole9 guest post by Dr Sult, medical doctor, medical educator, inspirational speaker & the author of Just Be Well: A Book For Seekers of Vibrant Health. Stiff, painful fingers? Aching knees? A chronic pain in the back? We often attribute these ills to an unfortunate effect of aging. It’s arthritis, we say, resigned. But what if the pain in our joints was actually caused by an imbalance in another part of the body, in the gut? A recent article in The Atlantic magazine reviews several … [Read more...]

Over the weekend, we posted an Instagram photo of the bone broth simmering on Dallas and Melissa's stovetop, captioned, "Bone broth for A.M. sippin' is going down in the Hartwig household. Are you intimidated by bone broth? Ask your questions here?" We knew some of you thought the idea of making your own bone broth was a little scary, but we had no idea you had so many questions! So many, in fact, that instead of answering them all on Facebook and Instagram, we decided to create this Bone … [Read more...]

We meant to tell y’all about Quick & Easy Paleo Comfort Foods at least two weeks ago. Really, we did. (We like to be the first on the scene with stuff like this, you know.) But the Hartwig household came down with a cold, and a sniffling baby takes precedence over blog posts. Little takes precedence over cooking healthy, delicious dinners, however—and luckily none of us were so sick we couldn’t whip up a few new recipes. So really, it’s a good thing we held off, because now we can tell … [Read more...]

We've had a stash of those pre-packaged baby foods in our pantry for way longer than we've actually had a baby. We started using baby food years ago, when we realized it was the perfect source for post-workout and on-the-go carbs. Now that we actually have a baby (and we're just now starting him on real food), we've been thinking about how to feed him the same foods we eat while we're on the go. We could continue using those pre-packaged baby foods, but we try to be environmentally-friendly, and … [Read more...]