Summit Trend Exploration: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Could Be Legal for Therapy by 2021—Rolling Stone For the first time in US history, a psychedelic drug is on the fast track to getting approved for treating depression by the federal government. Medical psilocybin initiative launched in Oregon—The Leaf Online Oregon locals seek to reclassify psilocybin with a ballot initiative campaign aiming to legalize access to…
TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Research Surges Psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, has been used by cultures worldwide for millennia—from the Ancient Greeks to the Aztecs. And in the 1960s, top medical institutions, such as Harvard, undertook studies indicating their promise for conditions such as depression and addiction. But that research came to a crashing halt when many countries made psilocybin a highly illegal drug,…
Summit Trend Exploration: Extreme Wellness Good News/Bad News: Mental Wellness and Technology—Global Wellness Summit Experts discuss the intersection and opportunities in mental wellness and technology during this Summit Roundtable. Would you plunk down $30,000 to get the most from your brain?—Fast Company A growing field of science is now working to literally rewire your brain waves for the ultimate biohack. 5 Natural Ways to Optimize…
TREND: Extreme Wellness Your Brain Fully Optimized The “designer brain” has arrived. The technology and know-how that enables us to rewire our brains to perform better—whether it’s cognitive improvement or mental wellness or a greater sense of happiness—there’s now a brain hack you can try. Brain health is already big business. The market for brain supplements is forecast to reach $11.6 billion by 2024, up…
Summit Trend Exploration: The Wellness Kitchen How kitchens are (finally) getting the wellness makeover healthy eaters deserve—Well+Good From virtual sous chefs to appliances that know what food you have at home better than you do, wellness is front and center of this home model moment. The kitchen reimagined—Well Home Architect Veronica Schreibeis Smith has designed the kitchen of the future by prioritizing the health of…
TREND: The Wellness Kitchen Healthy Air, Healthy People If kitchens have been essentially stuck for 70 years, the healthy kitchen of the future completely re-imagines every way we consume food at home—including delivery, storage, prepping, cooking, enjoying and disposal. One key aspect of the wellness kitchen is to tackle the problem of air quality. This is a new focus for every room in the “well…
Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel Myths of monsters and men – CLADglobal Surrealist folk tales and moss-covered lava fields have inspired an Icelandic spa retreat that promises to take guests on a journey to enlightenment. Kim Megson highlights the details for CLADglobal. How travel agencies avoided extinction and became a luxury service – Vox Millennials are using travel agencies to find…
TREND: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel You’re the Hero of a Wellness Saga More wellness/spa destinations will (and should) inject more theater and fantasy into wellness experiences to create epic-level sagas that can fire up emotion. The Red Mountain Resort (featured above, photo credit: Johannes Torpe Studios) under development north of Reykjavik, Iceland, is just one cool example. The proposed resort, with its…
TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Unplugging is the New Cool A life that feels like a barrage of emails, texts and always-on work—the constant reminders that everyone else is succeeding and having a great time via social media—our faces glued to screens as we ignore the present world and the people we’re physically right next to…We don’t need all the new research to explain to us…
Summit Trend in the News: Wellness Meets Happiness Early Facebook and Google employees form coalition to fight what they built–The New York Times Alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, a group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build. Addicted to your smartphone? Now there’s an app…
