Psychedelics & Healing Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: Expanding University Centers From the founding of the world’s first formal center for psychiatric research at Imperial College in London in 2019, followed that same year by the opening of the Center for Psychedelics and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, other dedicated centers for psychedelic study include the 2020 arrival of the UC Berkeley Center for the…
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative Trends for 2022
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Peaceful Psychedelic Civil Disobedience Psychedelic peaceful civil disobedience arrived in the Nation’s Capital when a sit-in was held May 9, 2022 at the doorstep of the Drug Enforcement Agency to protest the agency’s block of psilocybin (known in its fungal form as “magic mushrooms”) for the terminally ill, despite the federal “right to try” law passed with…
Nutrition for Healthspan Initiative Trends for 2021
Nutrition for Healthspan Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: Self-Care People will make conscious choices to direct their own self-care to support their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, and there will be greater emphasis on natural solutions versus conventional medicine. Gut health, immunity and prevention will take a front-row seat. Self-care studies historically focused on those with an illness or chronic disease; we will start…
Nutrition for Healthspan Initiative Trends for 2022
Nutrition for Healthspan Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Buzz-less Spirits for Mindful Drinking Imagine a new line-up of drinks that provide the taste and sophistication of cocktails without the hangover. Mocktails are one of the newest dialed-down spirits without the buzz. Drinkers are opting to cut down on the alcohol by volume (ABV) they consume by purchasing non-alcoholic or low-alcoholic drinks free of sugars, sweeteners, additives,…
GWI’s Hydrothermal Initiative Supports Sauna-Aid and its Efforts to Bring the Comfort and Warmth Sauna to War-torn Ukraine
“There is No War in Sauna”: Sauna-Aid Brings Message of Hope, Peace and Shared Sense of Humanity to War-torn Ukraine Global charity raises €20K in first year; Appeals to sauna lovers worldwide to help reach fundraising goal of €100K in 2023 Sauna-Aid has been hard at work creating innovative solutions to help Ukrainian soldiers as well as refugees outside of the Ukraine find solace in sauna bathing…
Mental Wellness Initiative Trends for 2019
MENTAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE 2019 Trends TREND 1: Bringing mental wellness to the workplace Bringing mental wellness to the workplace: policies, purpose, pathways and profitability. This is where the world’s adult population spends most of its waking hours, and feedback on the GWI’s Mental Wellness White Paper indicates that the workplace is where mental wellness action is gaining early traction. TREND 2: Breakthroughs in the brain…
