Why Is CBD Everywhere? – The New York Times, October 27, 2018 Cannabidiol (or CBD) is being touted as a magical elixir, now popping up in everything from bath bombs to dog treats to pharmaceuticals. It’s impossible to overstate the speed at which CBD has moved from the margins to the cultural center. Is it just a fix for our anxious times? Do people…
The Global Wellness Institute has just launched a Healthy Aging Initiative with the mission of inspiring significant improvements in the way people around the world age—and delivering change to people’s quality of life and death by practical means. The co-chairs are Amy McDonald, owner of the consultancy Under a Tree, and Liz Terry, CEO of Leisure Media & Well Media. Read more about this important…
Roughly a billion people worldwide suffer from anxiety, and one in four experience mental disorders. The world desperately needs more and new evidence-based pathways to mental wellbeing. And that is the focus of an in-depth new white paper just released by the GWI’s Mental Wellness Initiative. Download this important new resource here.
A new study from Univ. of California, Irvine and Univ. of Tsukuba-Japan found that just ten minutes of very mild exercise—such as walking—can immediately alter how parts of the brain communicate with each other and boost memory function. The researchers noted that very short and easy exercise can change people’s brains right away, and that the exertion required for this significant benefit is so minimal…
By Thierry Malleret, economist Monthly Barometer Recent history shows us that economic growth can’t be truly green, so what are the broad consequences for investors? (1) Any industry or company seen as being particularly damaging to ecology will suffer; (2) Any profitable business perceived as minimizing ecologically bad outcomes while maximizing socially good ones will prosper; (3) Militant environmentalism will radicalize in the future, wreaking…
Yesterday, the GWI released a new Global Wellness Tourism Economy report at World Travel Market (WTM) in London. This is the study that put wellness tourism on the world’s radar, and the new edition is packed with more regional and national data and trends than ever before. A few findings: Wellness tourism grew from a $539 billion market in 2015 to $639 billion in 2017—a…
