Heart Disease The Western diet is the #1 killer of Western people. Two thirds of the population of Developed countries is overweight or obese, leading to heart disease...
Category - Addiction & Attachment
Why Medical Tourism Is on the Rise in Mexico
Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange visits American ex-pat Chantal at the Mariposa Wellness health clinic in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She’s been there for thirty years...
I remember when Will Smith was 17 and I was a 22-year-old associate producer at MTV. He was then known as the Fresh Prince and he’d just had his first hit single...
Google-YouTube has really created a monster with their platforms that pay content creators a living wage for years and then suddenly cut them off. YouTube shooter, Nasim...
American Fast Food Took Over Kuwait and Made Its People Obese
This is a fascinating slice of life in Kuwait, a country with the fourth highest per capita income in the world. Kuwait City’s Gulf Road has beautiful beachfront...
Authoritarianism vs. Permissiveness and Spiritual Growth
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97wUI7hF58 Mouthy Buddha is back with an inner dialogue about state authoritarianism vs. permissiveness, spurred by a podcast with the young...
The Hacking of the American Mind: Pleasure vs. Happiness
I’d been trying to figure out what might be peculiar about American culture that was driving the opioid, obesity and depression crises. Then a longtime subscriber...
Stare into the Lights My Pretties
[The original video posted appears to have its playback blocked and has been replaced with another one that’s similarly-themed. The YouTube URL is: ]. We live in a...
Strung Out on Social Media
Cellphones, computers and social media have been clinically shown to be highly addictive and all the more so in combination with each other. This is by now pretty...
I’ve been writing a lot about addiction lately because it’s a big deal, particularly in America, where the war in Afghanistan has come home to roost in the...