Dr. Mike Fenster - SAD, Dr. Nasha Winters - Holiday Bio Hacks, Shawn Wells -Consciousness

S.A.D

SAD

Dr. Mike Fenster, author of The Fallacy of the Calorie talks about the Standard American Diet and how it is making the US sick!

Bio Hacks?!

Dr. Nasha Winters gives us her top 3 bio hacks!

Consciousness

Research Finds It Might Not Be Consciousness That Drives The Human Mind! Shawn Wells talks about the article and our personal self-awareness.Most experts think that consciousness can be divided into two parts: the experience of consciousness (or personal awareness), and the contents of consciousness, which include things such as thoughts, beliefs, sensations, perceptions, intentions, memories and emotions.It's easy to assume that these contents of consciousness are somehow chosen, caused or controlled by our personal awareness – after all, thoughts don't exist until until we think them.But in a new research paper in Frontiers of Psychology, we argue that this is a mistake.We suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated "behind the scenes" by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our brains.All this happens without any interference from our personal awareness, which sits passively in the passenger seat while these processes occur.Put simply, we don't consciously choose our thoughts or our feelings – we become aware of them.