By Dr. Edward F. Group

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Soy has been incorrectly passed off as a health food for a long time. Soybean oil, soy milk, and even tofu are a staple in the lives of many people, especially vegetarians. However, most soy products are not real food — most are highly processed and genetically modified. In my opinion, the marketing of soy as a health food is probably one of the greatest bamboozles of all time.

One of the issues concerning soy is its high level of phytoestrogens — compounds that mimic estrogen in the body.

Wake Up World

By Robin Koerner

You know you love someone when you want for them what they want for themselves.

The three little words that really convey this sentiment are not, “I love you “, which can mean all kinds of things to all kinds of people; rather they are, “As you wish”.

Love is kind, expansive, proactive, and fundamentally non-constraining. And although some of us may disagree on a positive definition of love, we can surely all agree about what it is not: restricting, compelling, imposing, or violating the right of another to pursue his own happiness and self-actualization. Those characteristics attach to something altogether incompatible with love – and that is Fear.

And it is evident that fear has also been the driver of our nation’s (and global) politics for many years.

There’s one thing each of us have in common, and that is that we all die eventually. During our final days, barring that our deaths aren’t sudden or accidental, a great deal of care goes into taking care of the person making the next big leap in life. And psilocybin, or “magic” mushrooms could play a part.

I know I know, it sounds like the fixins for a pretty rough trip, being near death and all. But as it turns out, people experience it as a very liberating experience and helps the user feel alive again, especially if they’ve been ill for a length of time.

“All of our subjects expressed a lot of gratitude that this opportunity was open to them,” says Dr. Charles Grob of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Near death, many of his patients had lost their sense of meaning and purpose. And this helped...

New research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease in September discussed findings that shocked me. Their research concluded that THC could be a potential treatment option for Alzheimer’s disease via a variety of pathways and uses.

Some one in 3 seniors will die from Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, afflicts 5 million Americans, and costs $203 billion in 2013.

Researchers treated Alzheimer’s research cells with THC and then looked for amyloid-β at 6, 24 and 48 hour intervals. Amyloid-β is a protein linked to Alzheimer’s symptoms. There was strong evidence to show that THC effectively lowered amyloid-β’s presence.