NEW Global Wellness Institute Research Ranks 150 Countries by Wellness Market Size The US ($1.2 trillion), China ($683 billion) and Japan ($304 billion) are the world’s largest wellness economies; Switzerland, Iceland and the US rank first for wellness spending per capita–where consumers spend over $3,600 a year The Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings Report The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI) released today “The Global Wellness Economy:…
Curated by Renee Moorefield, CEO of Wisdom Works Group and member of the Advisory Board for the Global Wellness Institute Rich’s family had very little. They were poor, even homeless at times, and their access to healthcare was lacking. Yet, there was an abundance of love and affection in his Hispanic household, and his mother was a beacon of hope. She taught herself to speak five…
Dear Friends, At the Global Wellness Summit (GWS) in Boston in November 2021, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) announced a ground-breaking new series about the world of wellness to be produced for GWI by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions and hosted on a commercial microsite BBC.com. The series will seek to consider what ‘wellness’ means for a global audience, showcase exciting innovations contributing to individual and…
A new University of Florida study found that meditation done at an intense level caused diverse positive changes in participants’ immune systems. The meditation experience studied was certainly intense: an 8-day retreat with 10-hour daily meditation sessions all conducted in silence. Those retreat participants saw robust activation of their immune systems, with positive changes in 220 immune-related genes–but without activating inflammatory signals. Access this study
A new study in JAMA revealed that for people with less-than-healthy hearts, mental stress beat out physical stress as a predictor of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks and deaths from cardiovascular disease. Patients underwent tests to see how their heart reacted to both physical and mental stress, and those who experienced ischemia (reduced blood flow to the heart muscles) as a reaction to mental stress were much…
A new metareview of 1,000 scientific studies published over the last three decades by the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation provides conclusive proof of the link between exercise and mental wellness. Overall, roughly 90% of all peer-reviewed published research reports a significant relationship between physical activity and mental health. The 80-page report is filled with findings, from how there is strong evidence for cardiovascular/aerobic exercise in reducing depression (especially high-intensity versions) to…
