September 2022 | Wellness Moonshot Full Moon Celebration

RSVP for The September Wellness Moonshot Celebration We are delighted that you will be joining us for this virtual celebration of The Wellness Moonshot: A World Free of Preventable Disease. The call you are RSVP’ing for will take place Friday, September 9, from 10–11 AM US Eastern Time on the Zoom video conferencing platform. Please provide your details below, and we will send you the information to join…

August 2022 | Adjust

The Global Wellness Institute The Wellness Moonshot: A World Free of Preventable Disease The Wellness Moonshot Calendar’s monthly theme for August 2022 is ADJUST. Authored by Renee Moorefield, CEO of Wisdom Works Group, and member of the GWI Advisory Board IT’S TIME TO ADJUST OUR THINKING TO TRANSFORM OUR WELLNESS IMPACT We’re living in a transformative time where tech has the potential to accelerate wellness for…

MUST-READS FROM THE WELLNESS WORLD ( Week of July 13th, 2022)

The quest by circadian medicine to make the most of our body clocks – The New York Times, July 6, 2022   An in-depth and fascinating look at how circadian science researchers are busy trying to figure out the right hour of day to do just about everything. Scientists now possess the technology to see how circadian rhythms oscillate at a molecular level based on behavior…

Stress Ages the Immune System

A new study from the University of Southern California indicates that stress–whether from traumatic events, work, or discrimination–speeds up aging in the immune system, which increases the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and infection. The researchers measured social stress levels against immune cell counts. People with the highest stress scores had significantly lower percentages of fresh disease fighters and higher percentages of worn-out white blood cells.…

Gallup Research Reveals Peak Stress and Sadness Worldwide

Gallup Research Reveals Peak Stress and Sadness Worldwide  By Thierry Malleret, economist If the world broke many records in 2021–including record corporate profits and CO2 emissions–Gallup’s 2022 Global Emotions Report also reveals a historic high for negative emotions. The survey of people in 121 nations found that in 2021 levels of stress, sadness, and loneliness reached record levels (the highest since Gallup started tracking emotional…

Explore the plant-forward movement, innovations in reducing food waste and how chefs are the emerging wellbeing leaders

The Global Wellness Moonshot theme for July 2022 is BEGIN   BEGIN AGAIN WITH BETTER RELATIONSHIPS This July, the theme is BEGIN, inspiring us to go back to the basics of what impacts our wellness. Jian Yi, founding President of The Good Food Fund, is on a mission to build healthier relationships with food and nutrition. In conversation with Renee Moorefield, Yi shared that mindfulness is…