Sound Wellness Initiative 2023 Trends TREND 1: Sound Wellness Rooms in Spas and Hotels Spas and hotels are incorporating sound wellness into their facilities. While some spas, such as Burke Williams, feature special massages with sound therapy that may include anything from prerecorded music to live performances of crystal or Tibetan singing bowls, others have a more intentional focus on sound as a singular healing…
Lifestyle Medicine Initiative Trends for 2023
Lifestyle Medicine Wellness Initiative 2023 Trends Lifestyle Medicine is a rapidly evolving field that aims to promote health and prevent chronic diseases by addressing lifestyle factors such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep and social support. The Medical Wellness Initiative predicts that some of the future trends in Lifestyle Medicine are: Trend 1: Personalized Lifestyle Medicine: With the advancement in genomics, metabolomics, and microbiome…
Gallup: Globally, Employees Are More Engaged—and More Stressed
Gallup undertakes the only representative sampling of the world’s workforce (surveying 160,000 a year). Their latest study has good and bad news: Employees are now more engaged at work but also feel much more stress. Engagement findings: The percentage of engaged employees globally rose from 2021 to 2022. Starting as low as 12%, the percentage of engaged employees has risen to 23%. That’s a disturbingly low…
The Big, Unaddressed Health & Wellness Issue: Surging Air Pollution and Wildfires
The Big, Unaddressed Health & Wellness Issue: Surging Air Pollution and Wildfires By Thierry Malleret, economist Seven million people die prematurely every year because of outdoor air pollution, making it one of the leading causes of early death. A recent update of the WHO air quality guidelines provides clear evidence of the damage that air pollution inflicts on human health at even lower concentrations than…
Yoga Reduces Inflammation Markers in Cancer Patients, Cutting Risk of It Spreading or Returning
A 2023 study from University of Rochester medical researchers found that yoga has a powerful, positive effect on inflammation in cancer patients. The high-quality randomized control trial had 500 cancer patients do twice-weekly yoga or health education classes for a month. Blood tests showed that those practicing yoga had “significantly lower levels of pro-inflammatory markers” compared with patients in the education group. The researchers’ conclusion: “Clinicians…
Must-read of the wellness world (June 28th, 2023)
The science of what we eat is failing us– The New York Times, June 19, 2023 Harvard University medical researchers explain why the state of nutrition research is so poor, and how the problems afflict much of the research into dietary and lifestyle claims around things like coffee, wine, dark chocolate, fad diets, the amount you exercise—you name it. Medical researchers need to take advantage…
