Just a few days ago (Sept 25), the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article about “middle-age sleep problems” – with a title “Combat the Sleep Problems That Hit in Middle Age – Aging messes with our sleep sooner than we might expect” – which you can read HERE Just a few days before that (Sept 18), the University of California

I’m attaching a highlighted version of a nice review article (below) published a couple of months ago in Nature Reviews Psychology.  Here are some of the most interesting findings… Sleep difficulties arise before depression does. The combination of adolescent sleep biology and psychology uniquely predispose adolescents to develop depression. Adolescents are the most chronically sleep-restricted

It’s an exciting week – the Amare Global International Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah! In just a couple of days, we will launch some amazing new products, including the much-anticipated “Kids Calm” to help kids and teens (and adults) to relax, wind-down, and SLEEP! Kids Calm is the world’s first sugar-free non-melatonin gummy to NATURALLY address

This is THE most important factor when choosing a probiotic supplement – and yet most consumers and most of the industry fails to take the STRAIN into consideration when choosing or formulating a product.   I’ve been talking about “strain specificity” for about 10 years – and I continue to be astonished that only a

There was a terrific article from the McKinsey Health Institute last week, “Getting to the bottom of the teen mental health crisis” – and since September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, this is a good time to understand what our teens are experiencing… You can read the entire article – or listen to the 30min

Suicidal thoughts, much like the full range of mental health conditions, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or background. September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – and the week starting Sept 10 is National Suicide Prevention Week. These are both excellent opportunities to raise awareness and discuss this highly stigmatized topic. One way that

Registration for the Certified Mental Wellness Coach course will close tonight – and will reopen on November 1. Tuition will remain at $500 for this and the November registration – but we will need to increase to $600 for 2024 (we have some exciting additions to the course coming)… All current students will be “grandfathered”

The Certified Mental Wellness Coach (CMWC) course is open for registration for another couple of days (until Sunday night on Sept 10). If you’re thinking of enrolling, you can see what the program covers HERE and you can see the kind of content that we cover in our “Weekly Webinars” (new science, client/issue trouble shooting,

It’s not exactly a secret that the “standard American diet” (SAD) is not only making us “sad” (increasing our risk for depression and other mental wellness problems), but it is also shortening the lives of many Americans (and non-Americans who have adopted the SAD-pattern of eating internationally). Diet-related deaths now outnumber deaths from smoking, and

How bad? Two new studies (in Lancet Psychiatry and from Blue Shield of CA – see links below) reveal that at least HALF of people will develop at least one mental wellness problem in their lifetime – HALF?!?! Lancet = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036623001931?dgcid=author Blue Shield = https://news.blueshieldca.com/2023/08/03/new-poll-mental-health-challenges-prevalent-among-gen-z-youth-more-than-three-in-four-have-discussed-their-struggles-with-others GenZ is even worse – with almost 90% indicating that