Month: August 2020

Dimensions of Animal Consciousness

How does consciousness vary across the animal kingdom? Are some animals ‘more conscious’ than others? This article presents a multidimensional framework for understanding interspecies variation in states of consciousness. The framework distinguishes five key dimensions of variation: perceptual richness, evaluative richness, integration at a time, integration across time, and self-consciousness. For each dimension, existing experiments […]

Published on August 21, 2020

5 Things to Do After You’ve Passed Your Personal Trainer Exam

You passed your certification exam and are now ready for a long and rewarding career as a health and exercise professional. Here are the top 5 things … Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads […]

Published on August 21, 2020

Study focuses on low-carb, high-fat diet effect on older populations

Medical researchers noted improvements in body composition, fat distribution and metabolic health in response to an eight-week very low-carbohydrate diet. Older adults with obesity are at particularly high risk of developing cardiometabolic disease such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Rather than total fat mass, deposition of fat in certain areas, such as the […]

Published on August 20, 2020