IHR Podcast #25: Skin cancer, present state awareness training, collective health decisions, technologies of isolation, and the meaning of anxiety

In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I talk about my very recent experience with skin cancer surgery, then I ramble on about a variety of health-related topics that may or may not hang together in a coherent fashion.

http://www.integralhealthresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IHRPC25.mp3

Media, resources, and photos referenced:

• The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers

• Bill Maher calls for collective action to save the environment and fight the scourge of pests and pollution

• How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult (via David Roberts)

• Joe Edelman’s tweet: “The five most powerful technologies of isolation—smartphones, cars, suburbs, TV, and single family homes—arose just in the last century.”

• Wonderfully described, down-to-earth tips on how to get started with a meditation practice, via Tim Ferriss

• Can you diet help prevent skin cancer? (Dietary recommendation from the Skin Cancer Foundation)

• Johann Hari’s tweet: “#Depression, #anxiety and #addiction are signals – that the individual is in deep pain; that our culture is not meeting their underlying psychological needs. We need to stop insulting and pathologizing these signals, and to start respectfully listening to what they’re telling us.”

Earlier this summer…

After Mohs surgery to remove two basal cell carcinomas