by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 1, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Depression, Psychotherapy
The Ultimate Consciousness Drug That is Experiencing a Resurgence Research into using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat depression is being renewed. LSD was extensively investigated in humans in the 1950s and ‘60s and was shown to attenuate depressive...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Nutrition
For decades, the dominant narrative around Alzheimer’s disease has been one of inevitability — a slow, relentless unraveling with no meaningful way to intervene. Pharmaceutical research has poured billions into amyloid-clearing drugs with discouraging results, and the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Nutrition
Water-only fasting is one of the oldest practices in human history — undertaken across every major civilization for spiritual, medicinal, and ritual purposes long before science had any framework for understanding what it was doing to the body. Today, that framework...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2026 | Anxiety, Depression, Happiness
Rumination is a repetitive, passive process of overthinking, focusing on the causes and effects of distress, often without actively seeking solutions. It involves repeatedly dwelling on negative thoughts or events, which can worsen mood and increase stress. While...
