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What’s Ritual? Ritual’s not about pseudoscience and half-truths. It’s created for and by women who wouldn’t settle for less than the truth. To them, personal health is more than participating in silly fads and health trends.

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But the problem was, ignoring the problem didn’t make it go away like other problems might.

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There are very small pieces of DNA located at the end of every chromosome, known as telomeres. Research is starting to show that the length and condition of these telomeres may have a significant impact on aging.

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Today, Narconon has gone under extensive investigation, with many sites closing down. NBC’s Rock Center even did a special on it after two patients were mistreated and died.

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If you don’t have a heating pad for your cramps, you are not treating yourself right.

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Last April, a medical doctor advised me to cut back on my coffee intake and I laughed in his face.

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I can make chicken breast and quinoa only so many times before I want to drown myself in a sea of teriyaki and vinaigrettes.

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I took two more pills in the morning, and to help with nutrient absorption, I ate three scrambled eggs with a can of green tea. Again, I had a surge of restless anxiety without any clear cause. I considered the possibility that maybe a lifetime of vitamin deficiency had spared me from my real self, my anxious restless self; that I simply hadn’t had enough nutrients to sustain the level of neurosis my brain yearned for on a neurochemical level.

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Thanks to a couple of great teachers, I learned some things in high school. All evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, I learned to write expository arguments. I learned the pleasure of reversal — flipping assumptions upside down. I read The Communist Manifesto.