ground cumin provides a medicinally potent homemade seasoning supporting women’s hormonal health.


Cumin Cumin—actually a fruit disguised as a spice—has tremen- dous hormone-mod- ulating properties recently confirmed by findings in Experimen- tal Biology and Medi- cine. Japanese scientists demonstrated that cumin seeds can inhibit loss of bone density and strength as effectively as estrogen in a female rat model of age-associated osteoporosis. They further found that the cumin seeds did not have estrogen’s weight-promoting and pos- sible carcinogenic effects on the uterus. Imagine the potent hormone- balancing properties of a dinner of steamed rutabaga dressed with ground flaxseeds and cumin with a side of mustard greens with olive oil and pomegranate dressing. It beats a serving of Premarin with a serv- ing of unwanted side effects any day.


Sayer Ji is the founder of GreenMedInfo. com and advisory board member of the National Health Federation. Tania Melko- nian is a certified nutritionist and healthy culinary arts educator. Learn more at GreenMedInfo.com.


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5 INSTINCTS L


Listening to Inner Wisdom


TO HEED by Dr. Judith Orloff


istening to our instincts can help us stay safe and deal better with life-or-death decisions. Making the most of the wisdom of this inner voice also enables us to live a more satisfying life in the moment. How do we choose which gut feelings to trust? Here are five messages we’ll be glad we paid attention to.


“Something feels wrong in my body.” Listening to our body’s subtle signals is a critical part of exercising an intuitive sense. The body is a powerful intuitive communicator, delivering early warning signs when anything feels off, weak or just not right, so that we can address it sooner, rather than later.


“I’m in danger.” Social conditioning has helped to create unconscious be- liefs that can cause flawed first impres- sions and ill-advised snap decisions; it’s vital that we check our subjective feelings against mental rationaliza- tions. If some person or situation feels untrustworthy, pause to pay atten- tion, even if the feeling might later be proved inaccurate.


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“I want to help.” Evolution has inher- ently enabled us to quickly “read” faces and other emotional signals. For ex- ample, the sympathy instinct nudges us to change the subject when wedding talk makes a newly divorced colleague cringe or general conversation about past rough landings makes an airplane seatmate


nervous—subtle gestures that can make a big difference in another’s day.


“I know how to do this.” When tempted to overthink something we know how to do, try a little therapeutic distraction, such as saying the alphabet backwards when a yoga teacher leads the class into a dreaded handstand. Briefly engaging the mind with some- thing other than the task at hand can leave our instincts free to do their job and enjoy the fulfillment that diligent practice has made possible.


“This is it!” Most people have a great “I just knew it was right” story. It might be about the time they first spotted their sweetheart or crossed the threshold of their new house. When intuition signals that we’ve found something or someone truly right for us, the choice often be- comes easy. It feels healthy and good, without resistance or conflict. Using our instincts helps lead us to


smart choices that improve our quality of life.


Judith Orloff, M.D., is the author of the international bestseller Second Sight, upon which these tips are based. An assistant clinical professor of psychia- try at the University of California-Los Angeles, Orloff synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting- edge knowledge of intuition and energy medicine. For more inspiration, visit DrJudithOrloff.com.


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