Over the past several years, Tom Brady has become notorious for an unusual and highly specific diet that has not only become the lifeblood for how he trains, but has actually become a profitable little side hustle.

Brady has a new book coming out, "The TB12 Method,"that is already a bestseller. (See the cover art here.) That's in addition to his $200 cookbook that is routinely sold out and his TB12 delivery meal service. It feels like this all sort of popped up very recently, but Brady actually revealed in an interview with Willie McGinest on NFL Network that he started to head in this direction well over a decade ago.

And, in fact, it was apparently McGinest who approached Brady before the 2004 season, with Brady already a two-time Super Bowl champion, and told him that if he didn't change his diet and training regimen, he would struggle to stay healthy throughout his career.

"I love playing and I think all of the work that I've been able to do has really set me up for this. I've been working hard for a long time. Because of you," Brady told McGinest. "When I was out here in 2004 and couldn't go through a training camp practice without being hurt. You said, 'Listen, this is what you've got to do, you've got to go work with Alex [Guerrero]. You've got to start preventing these injuries, because it's no good if you're sitting on the sideline.' From that day, my elbow hasn't hurt, my shoulder hasn't hurt.

"And you just incorporate those continuing treatments with the right diet, the right nutrition, you keep doing it. That's what I love talking about, because I love football and I want to keep doing it for a long time."

Brady has long said that he wants to play until he's 45 years old. It sure does feel like an impossible feat, but he is already 40 and he is playing at a high level, having just completed an MVP-caliber season (if he had played all 16 games he might have won it) that culminated in the greatest Super Bowl comeback ever and another Super Bowl MVP award.

It's something that apparently has been in the works for a long time. It would be easy to assume that around the age of 35 Brady started to change his diet and incorporate new and different technology, dietary habits and exercise activities into his day-to-day routine. But it turns out it actually happened way back in 2004, when Brady was just a young (well, 27, but still) quarterback who was already feeling the wear and tear of the NFL growing on his body.

Now Brady feels better than he did a decade ago, and has shown no signs of slowing down as he gets older.

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MODIUS is a new gadget that helps you reduce body fat and gives you a leaner body while sitting down. It comes from a Northern Irishhealth start up called Neurovalens.

The headset device was developed by neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Its non-invasive and does not rely on drugs of any kind. It works insteadby sending a signal to the part of the brain that controls fat storage, shifting your metabolism to burn more fat.

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The Star Trek style gadget uses low-power electrical pulses to stimulate a system in your body called the vestibular system. This is the part of the brain that controls balance and spatial awareness.

In a sense, MODIUS tricks your brain into thinking you are engaged in physical activity, speeds up metabolismand suppresses your appetite. This in turn triggers your body into burning more fat which results in an increase in lean muscle mass percentage.

All you need to do is put the headset on, attach the sticky pads behind your ears and turn it on. Modus actually advises that you sit or lie downwhilst you have it strapped to your head.The device should be worn for 45 minutes a day, which less time than you would spend in the gym. To get noticeable results, it is suggested you wear itfive days a week for a space of four months.

The big question is, does it really work? Neurovalens says, a clinical study involving 18 people suggests users have lost up to 16% of body fat in four months, with 8-10% being the average.Inventor Dr Jason McKeown claims it reduced his body fat by a massive 44%.

Weight gain and weight loss are controlled by your brain, which controls your appetite, your hormones, your metabolic rate, how much fat you store, and more,McKeown said.

Modius resolves this issue by stimulating the vestibular nerve and activating the epicenter of it all, your hypothalamus.Through advanced technological and neurological research, weve discovered the vestibular system has a strong effect over peoples ability to lose and maintain weight.

Having secured almost 1.5 million fromInvest Northern IrelandandTechStartNorthern Ireland, the headset has launched today on Indiegogo.MODUS is looking at an official worldwide release in the autumn and will retail for 190.

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In October 2015, I was in Dr Keith Smiths chiropractic office for an adjustment. One of his comely daughters ushered me into Room 2 while he was working on a patient in Room 1. Usually, when Keith comes through the door, hes all smiles and says something like, Boy, am I glad to see you! Ive got a kink in my neck, and I thought I was going to have to beg you to come down off the mountain to trade adjustments. But this time Keith was subdued and a bit gloomy. Small wonder: He was on two diabetes drugs, Metformin and Glucophage, was strictly following the American Diabetes Association diet, his blood sugar was continuing to climb, and the latest measurement was 135. Since normal is around 90, that was seriously bad news. It meant he was tracking to die about 10 years early, just like his father had. Usually, people dont actually die of diabetes, but diabetes causes heart attacks, cancer and kidney failure, all of which are frequently fatal. Keiths father had died in his sleep of a heart attack at 69; not a bad way to go, but not nearly as good as living another 10 years. I mentally took a deep breath, as I often do in situations like this, and told him that the American Diabetes Association exercise and weight control advice was good, but the ADA diet was wrong. Avoiding carbohydrate foods and eating high fat and protein, so as not to overwhelm his bodys very weak ability to process the carbs that the body turns into blood sugar, makes logical sense and generally works in the short run. But in the long run the ADA diet often makes diabetes worse. I explained that when insulin in the blood locks into the insulin receptors on the cell membranes, the insulin receptors send messages to the glucose receptors, telling them to open up and let the glucose sugar come in out of the blood. But fat dissolved in the cellular fluid impedes the insulin receptors messages from getting through to the glucose receptors. Since the amount of fat dissolved in the cellular fluid mirrors the amount of fat in the diet, a high-fat diet like the ADA recommends prevents the sugar from coming into the cell, so the sugar stays in the blood and keeps going higher, damaging the heart and kidneys, and feeding cancer. The ADA diet sometimes works for seriously overweight people who get lean and exercise a lot. But Keith was only slightly over ideal weight. Hes active but not an exercise addict, and the ADA program obviously wasnt working for him. So I told Keith: Look, just get a copy of Dr. Neal Barnards Program for Reversing Diabetes, follow his advice, and youll be fine. He explains it better than I do, he has a whole bunch of tasty recipes in the back, and hes the world authority on the subject. People often dont follow my advice, and Ive just learned to get used to that fact. Why would Keith listen to me, a chiropractor, on a medical problem, when the American Diabetic Association is telling him that Metformin, Glucophage and the ADA diet are the best way to treat diabetes? So I just gave Keith my advice and mentally washed my hands of the outcome. However, Keith, being a chiropractor, has had first-hand experience with how willing the medical establishment is to mislead the public on issues like using chiropractors where large amounts of drug company money are at risk. So my advice may have weighed a bit more than usual with Keith. Nevertheless, I was surprised four months later when Keith thanked me for recommending Barnards book, and told me he had been able to quit taking Glucophage, his blood sugar was down to 110, he had his energy back, and he was recommending Barnards book to his diabetic patients. A year later, 16 months after starting Barnards program, his blood sugar was in the 90s and he wasnt taking any diabetic drugs. Keith still has the genetic weakness, so he has to stay on Dr. Barnards diet and exercise plan for the rest of his life. But he no longer has diabetes and now has a full and vigorous life span ahead of him. Dr. Barnards diet consists of eating only whole foods, avoiding all animal products, and avoiding fatty plant products like nuts, avocados and olives. Many people would say that they would rather die than give up their steaks and swordfish and Swiss cheese, but really, it isnt all that bad. I eat that way by choice a lot of the time. One of my favorite quick meals is to lay a banana on a slice of whole grain bread, sprinkle on some raisins, roll it up like a taco, and start at one end. It just gets down to how much you love life. Do you live to eat or eat to live? If you truly love life, you will do what it takes to stay healthy so you can continue enjoying being here.

Dr. Gordon Ainsleigh is a graduate of University of Western States, College of Chiropractic in Portland, Oregon, and has postgraduate certification in clinical nutrition.

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New York-based Victoria's Secret model trainer Justin Gelband may not agree with London's fitness fads, but he was impressed with the local food scene on a recent visit to the capital.

"The food [in London] is better than in America," Gelband told Business Insider.

Gelband trains some of the most famous Victoria's Secret models, including Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Irina Shaik, Karlie Kloss, and Martha Hunt.

In June, he spent two weeks teaching at BXR London, a luxury boxing gym in Marylebone.

Though exercise is central to his brand, Gelband said that body maintenance is not just about working out. "85% percent of what you do is what you eat," he said.

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Many nutrition experts have stressed the importance of healthy eating habits as a faster way to achieve your fitness goal than simply focusing on exercise.

"In order to lose a kilo of fat you would probably have to run two marathons," Michael Mosley, author of the "5:2 diet" and the "Clever Guts Diet," told Business Insider in a video interview. "In many ways it is obviously much easier simply to reduce the amount of calories you eat rather than trying to run them off because you have to do so much exercise to burn calories."

There is no one-size-fits-all diet, Gelband admits, though he's a fan of the Paleo Diet, also known as the "caveman diet." The regime is mainly based on foods that were around in the stone-age, such as fruit, vegetables, roots, and nuts.

On the other hand, the Victoria's Secret model trainer is cautious about juice-only diets, especially if people are using juicing as a method to shed pounds.

"At Fashion Week some models went on a juice diet and didn't tell me," Gelband said. "Not one lost weight, some actually gained weight. That got me in big trouble."

In a typical juice cleanse or diet, you dramatically reduce your calorie intake, which can lead the body to hold onto to extra calories.

Registered dietitian Ilyse Schapirohe told Eat This: "Once you stop eating enough food to meet your basic energy requirements, your metabolism will slow. For most people, that threshold of calorie intake is around 1,200 calories per day.

She explained that at this point your body goes into conservation mode -- or starvation mode -- because it doesn't know when its next meal is going to be. Going too low for too long, like more than a couple of days, can have the opposite effect, Schapirophe told the website. In this mode your body can start clinging on to every calorie it can get.

"There's a time and place for juice fasting -- just not for weight loss," Gelband said. "If you're on a yoga retreat in Bali, you're meditating and doing yoga and you want to drink juices because you don't want any heavy foods in your body, that's fine," he added.

Gelband said he has "a gift" for whipping Victoria's Secret models into shape, but that he "makes them eat. "Food is key to energy," he said. "They're not bean poles."

For fitness inspo, or just to watch him work his magic on some of the world's most famous supermodels follow him on Instagram @justingelband4u.

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Scientists discovered that people who suffer from diabetes or high blood pressure in mid-life are more likely to develop the debilitating brain condition as they age.

But those who lead healthier lifestyles are less likely to suffer from dementia, they said.

The wide-ranging study, funded by Americas National Institutes of Health, looked at more than 15,000 people over 25 years.

It found that of 1,516 participants who went on to be diagnosed with dementia, a high proportion had suffered from either diabetes or high blood pressure.

Dr Walter Koroshetz, director of the NIHs Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said: This study supports the importance of controlling vascular risk factors like high blood pressure early in life in an effort to prevent dementia as we age. Whats good for the heart is good for the brain.

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Around 820,000 people suffer from dementia in Britain, costing some 26billion a year.

The figures are also rising rapidly as the population ages.

Last night research bodies in the UK welcomed the study, led by Dr Rebecca Gottesman.

Dr David Reynolds, chief scientific officer at Alzheimers Research UK, said: We often hear the old adage that what is good for the heart is good for the head, and this is backed up by a growing body of evidence.

By following a diverse group of Americans over a long period, these researchers have highlighted factors in mid-life that may contribute to the risk of dementia in later life, although observational studies such as this do not tell us about cause and effect.

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Dr Reynolds added: As our knowledge grows around the links between lifestyle factors and dementia risk, it is important we understand how best to support people in making and maintaining positive lifestyle changes.

Alzheimers Research UK is investing over 2million in a Prevention and Risk Reduction Fund, supporting studies that will help pinpoint the most effective strategies for reducing dementia risk.

While we know there are positive lifestyle changes that can impact dementia risk, its important to remember that dementia is caused by complex brain diseases influenced by age, lifestyle and genetics.

But he warned: Although adopting a healthy lifestyle may make our brains more resilient, we currently cannot prevent the onset of dementia.

Scientists conducting the new study initially found the chances of dementia increased most strongly with age and the second most common influence was the presence of APOE4 a gene associated with Alzheimers.

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An analysis of vascular risk factors then revealed participants who had diabetes or high blood pressure, also called hypertension, had a higher chance of developing dementia.

The researchers found diabetes was almost as strong a predictor of dementia as the presence of the APOE4 gene.

They also discovered a link between dementia and prehypertension, a condition in which blood pressure levels are higher than normal but lower than hypertension. They said vascular diseases increased the risk in both white and black participants, while smoking exclusively increased the chances of dementia for white people.

Dr Gottesman explained: Our results contribute to a growing body of evidence linking mid-life vascular health to dementia. These are modifiable risk factors. Our hope is that by addressing these types of factors early, people can reduce the chances that they will suffer from dementia later in life.

The scientists then answered the question of whether having a stroke, which is also associated with the presence of vascular risk factors, may be the reason for the results.

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But they found diabetes, hypertension, prehypertension and smoking increased the risk of dementia for both stroke-free participants and those who had a stroke.

Dr Jacqueline Wright, director at the NIHs National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, said the study called Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) is a powerful source of information for medical research because it spans many years of data from a large and diverse population.

She added: This epidemiologic study aimed to improve our understanding of atherosclerosis and heart disease and, through the investigators efforts.

It has become a great resource for research on dementia and other diseases of ageing.

The investments in longitudinal cohort studies like ARIC will benefit all of us for many years to come.

Dr Gottesman said she and her team now plan to investigate ways in which undiagnosed vascular problems may influence the brain and why race is associated with dementia.

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Mass meditation specialists The Big Quiet are returning to NYC for theirlargest event yet at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, August 20. Which is good, because you won't find suchhyper-neurotic and simultaneously wellness-obsessed people anywhere else. Maybe in L.A., but they don't need the zenas much as we do; we've had a verystressfulsummer.

First timers, fret not. This is not anuncomfortable sit-in-silence marathon. In fact, this event is all about comfort. You get 30 minutes before and after the official ceremony to snap pics and enjoy this novel way of seeing one of the world's most famous venues. There will be an active warm-up lead by Outdoor Voices (the brand is also giving out swag bags to court side seats and discount codes to all).

Next, certified Sound Therapy Practitioner Sara Auster will orchestratea sound bath (a meditative listening exercise), by leading a number of musicians on bowls and gongs. The meditation itself only lasts 20 minutes. Afterwards, you can enjoy a varietyof acoustic performances on the court and a $15 Sweetgreen app-credit to help you stayon the health train post-event.

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Everyone has their own fitness personality: Some people cant get enough of SoulCycle, while others seetapping it back to a Katy Perry song astheir idea of hell. Some are die-hard downward doggers, while others think yoga class is anhour-long nap. Workouts are not one-size-fits-alland, as it turns out, neither are meditation practices.

Saying you cant meditate is like going to the gym once, not [seeing results]immediately, and deciding working out isnt for you, says Lodro Rinzler, Chief Spiritual Officer of New York CitysMNDFL. Your exerciseoptions arent limited to the treadmill and elliptical, but it might take some trial and error before you find the best style for you.

There are more ways to meditate than there are to make an egg.

Suze Yalof Schwartz, founder of the Los Angeles-based meditation studio Unplug, is calling BS on anyone who claimstheyre too social, too talkative, or too distracted to be alone with their thoughts. If you can breathe, you can meditate, she insists. Meditation is something that most people dont realize theyre doing, all the time. (Like, maybe, during your manicure.)

Every meditation practice is based onfour main steps: focus, let go, think, repeat. But within this template, there are a seemingly endless number of methodsthat you can use to get your Zen on. There are more ways to meditate than there are to make an egg, Yalof Schwartz says, quoting a friend. Its kind of like a food court: Some days Im interested in Chinese [cuisine], other days Im interested in Italianor Japanese. I want to try it all, and it keeps me interested.

To get you started, Yalof Schwartz breaks down the ideal meditation to try, according to your personality.

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People with open personalities enjoy new experiences, which means theyre probably the first ones to jump at the chance to try a virtual reality spin class or do sun salutations with farm animals.

For people who are really open, I think its fun to try a guided imagery class where you look at your future self or your ideal life, or meet your inner child, says Yalof Schwartz. An open persons insightful, imaginative vibes make them the perfect candidate for visualization, mainly because you never know what theyll come up with.

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Conscientious personalities arethe ones who always remember to bring a water bottle to spin class(and arrive 10 minutes early). I think a mantra is a great way for them to start, because they can be kind of predictable and disciplined, says Yalof Schwartz.

Her personal favorite mantras to use areah when you inhale and hum when you exhale, or thinking let (inhale) go (exhale).

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You can spot your extroverted friends from across the roomtheyre theones chatting it up in the juice bar after a workout class. Theyre also most often the people who claim to be unable to meditate because they get their energy from interacting with others. For someone whosmore extroverted, I think breathwork is a fun meditation to do, says Yalof Schwartz. [You practice]a more energized breath, and you feel like its much more active. She notes they also usually play music during these classes (although dance parties are not encouraged).

While its still technically a solo activity, Yalof Schwartz refers to breathworkas being very social with yourself. You spend the session breathing heavily and listening to music, so by the time the practice is over, youre exhaustedto the point where theres nothing you can do but just be.

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Friendly, cooperative, and compassionate, agreeable people arethe ones willing to move their mats over to make room for you on the floor. I think mindfulness would be great for them, specifically a type called loving kindness, which is a practice where you show love to yourself and others, says Yalof Schwartz.

Heres how it works: First, you silently ask yourself questions like, May I be happy? May I be well? Then you think about another person and ask about their wellness and happiness. Agreeable people tend to be kind and sympathetic, so considering others duringtheir practice may help themfocusas long as they dont forget to think about themselves, too.

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People who score highon the neuroticism scale may not be the most open to meditationbut they couldalso have the most to gain from it. Yalof Schwartz recommends a practice called tapping, which she describes as hypnosis without closing your eyes and acupuncture without the needles.

You tap these points [on your face and body], and what youre doing is youre changing your neuro path, she says. As you make contact, you replace negative thoughts or behaviors with positive ones. Yalof Schwartz says she once used tapping to stop eating sugary carbohydrates for eight days.Hows that for results?

Once youve found the meditation style you vibe with, find out how mastering it can help you succeed at work. Or take your mindfulness on the road with this walking meditation.

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What's your philosophy on doing meditation and not just stopping after two weeks/days/minutes of trying?

Tay: Let me put it this way: In our 15 to 20 years of meditating experience, we realize that it is not about whether your eyes are closed. It is not about whether you are sitting in the lotus position. It is not about whether you om or not. It is not about whether you say a mantra or what clothes you wear. It is really about how can I use this tool that helps me focus and allows me to be aware of my own behaviors and thoughts and be aware of what other people are doing in relation to who I am in this world. Everything else can actually be stripped away.

Val: This isn't the first time meditation has been modernized. And what we're doing is not that different. We are living in cities, we're hyper connected, more or less global citizens. So how can we take that wisdom and make it applicable to our day-to-day lives?

You work with so many people with different kinds of jobs. Who seems the most stressed out and in need of your services?

Val: If you really must put it on a scale, I think that people who are most stressed out are the ones who are out of alignment.

What do you mean out of alignment?

Val: There are people who actually love accounting! And there are people who are doing it because it's a good job that pays well. There are people who actually love being nurses or paramedics and saving lives, even though it's a super high-stress environment. But it fills them up, right? So if you're out of alignment, you're not being authentic to yourselfthat's when stress happens. We are all perpetually on auto-correct mode. Feeling stress is your body telling you to auto-correct your course.

Where do you go to get work done and focus?

Tay: Amandine Bakeshop. Have you been? I like the way they curate the furniture.

Val: On my higher stress days, I actually go to Stumptown. They play the hardcore rock music, and it somehow recalibrates me back.

Tay: For us, this is what meditation is about. You can never find a purely quiet space in the city. And because you live in a city, there is no reason you cannot meditate to the city and reach peace even when it is super noisy. So that is what true mediation means to us.

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New meditation app features leading teachers and offers unique approach to mindfulness rooted in disrupting and transforming our culture and our world.

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Brooklyn, NY: Guided by a who's who of meditation teachers on the forefront of Buddhism and social change - Greg Snyder (co-founder and head teacher of the Brooklyn Zen Center), Rev. angel Kyodo williams, and Lama Rod Owens (co-authors of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation), the book that has taken the Buddhist world and Black Lives Matter movement by storm) - Awaken Meditation has launched a prototype of an iPhone app, available for download on the iOS store. The company, started by entrepreneur Ravi Mishra and artist Susan Stainman (both meditation teachers as well), is in the midst of a very successful Kickstarter campaign, offering discounted memberships to raise funds for a fully featured app for both iOS and Android.

In a time when politics is at a fevered pitch and anger is rampant, Awaken offers a surprising form of resistance: Meditation, explains Ravi Mishra. Not meditation in the way pop culture has appropriated it - as a form of escapism and stress relief - but actual mindfulness practice that brings us more completely into the moments of our lives: the fire and chaos, the peace and tranquility, and everything in between.

Awaken teaches meditation through a series of audio-guided practices, which draw from classic mindfulness philosophy and focus on contemplating real life: Work, relationships, habits, and especially culture and politics - with a focus on unearthing our inner wisdom and applying it to our lives. The app features a social media approach to mindfulness practice, ending each session with a journal prompt and a newsfeed of responses. Recent meditations have examined the following, just to name a few:

There are a lot of meditation apps out there - and none of them are talking about culture and politics, about undoing racism and sexism, and about the impact that all these systems have on our minds and hearts. "Awaken offers a method of meditation that examines our whole lives in the context of our society and encourages courageous vulnerability and openness," says co-founder, Mishra.

The Kickstarter offers discounted monthly membership to the app, pledging to transition to a pay-what-you-can system when possible. There are also opportunities to engage Awaken teachers in coaching and private conversations about meditation practice. Awaken is unique in its organizational structure and approach: instead of raising venture capital and therefore needing to prioritize growth and profit, the company is incorporating as a worker owned cooperative dedicated to using mindfulness to transform our lives, culture, and world, with all profits to be invested in this mission.

About the company: Awaken is a new kind of meditation app that combines mindfulness practice, contemplation, and journaling. The approach applies Buddhist philosophy to our entire lives and employs a social networking approach to encourage community and conversation. You can learn more about all of them on their website.

About the Founders:Ravi Mishra is launching his second company after his first was acquired in 2012. With a deep background in tech and software and decade-long passion for meditation and Buddhism, he's excited to bring his various fields of expertise together with Awaken. While lamenting the recent US election and current state of politics, he remains hopeful that our collective future is bright and dreams about bridging the gap between social systems and mindfulness practice.

Susan Stainman is a Brooklyn based visual artist. A meditation practitioner since 2007, she teaches practices at the intersection between creativity and mindfulness. Having met Ravi at a year-long meditation teacher training at the Interdependence Project in New York City, Awaken is the extension of their friendship and interest in extending meditation and wisdom teachings to a wider audience. She is excited to help people access their inner wisdom to live more authentically and affect change in our communities and world.

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Twenty-five-year-old best friends and travel vloggers Damon Dominique and Jo Franco are looking to parlay their adventures onto the page with a self-help e-book titled #Woke that the duo claims only takes 12 minutes to read.

#Woke seeks to help readers cleanse your day and to remember why youre here, Franco tells Tubefilter, adding that travelling has given she and Dominiqueunique perspective aboutliving life in the moment. Were certified weirdos who can take a plain moment and make it symbolic, she says. A blade of grass is worth admiring, a reflection can give you a whole new outlook on life, and we just happened to capture those bizarre thoughts, and write six chapters each to share them with you.

Priced at $9.99, the book is available today via Shopify.

Dominique and Francos YouTube channel home to their Shut Up And Go travel series, which is also the name of their popular blog counts nearly 700,000 subscribers. In addition to partnering with AT&T on its Hello Lab program, in which the telecommunications giant spearheaded various fan-centric content initiatives alongside top Fullscreen creators, Francouploaded a headline-grabbing video back in March when she was shot during a trip to Carnaval in her native Brazil.

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