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Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope this post finds you well. As you may know, I am a proud member of the lacrosse team at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. I'm reaching out to you today with an exciting opportunity to support our team and help us achieve our goals for the upcoming season. The MMA men's lacrosse team competes in the Little East Conference and has quickly become one of the premier programs in the league. We strive to earn yearly conference playoff berths and win a conference championship. However, to reach these goals, we need your support. As part of our fundraising efforts, I have been tasked with personally raising $500, along with my 40 teammates, for a total fundraising goal of $20,000. The funds we raise will be used to enhance and supplement our student-athlete experience at MMA in several ways. Here's how your contribution will make a difference: 1. Activities: We plan to organize team dinners and team-building experiences to foster camaraderie and teamwork among our players. 2. Equipment: Your donations will help us purchase essential equipment such as sticks, helmets, and practice apparel to ensure that we have the tools we need to succeed on the field. 3. Basic Necessities: We'll use the funds to provide athlete-friendly food and hydration for our locker room and away games, ensuring that we stay fueled and hydrated for peak performance. 4. Strength and Conditioning: Special equipment for our weight room and strength and conditioning program will help us improve our physical fitness and overall performance. 5. Practice Essentials: Your support will enable us to acquire necessities such as balls, cones, practice nets, and shooting targets, allowing us to fine-tune our skills and techniques during practice sessions. 6. Multimedia Contracts: Perhaps most importantly, we aim to invest in multimedia contracts for photography and videography, which will help us showcase our team's achievements and promote our program to a wider audience. Your contribution, no matter the amount, will have a direct impact on our ability to compete at the highest level and pursue our goals as a team. Your generosity and support mean the world to us, and we are incredibly grateful for any assistance you can provide. To donate, please https://lnkd.in/eFKNfnz8 Thank you for considering supporting the Bucs Lacrosse Family. Together, we can achieve greatness on and off the field! Best regards, Jack Iversen john.iversen@maritime.edu Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Whole new fields of research such as nutritional psychiatry have emerged since I wrote The UltraMind Solution about how the body affects the mind in 2009. Stanford has a department of Metabolic Psychiatry. Harvard now has a department of Nutritional Psychiatry. Studies show that simply swapping out processed, sugary starchy foods for whole foods is effective in treating depression. ⁣ ⁣ Studies also show kids with severe violent behavior transform when swapping out processed foods for whole foods, including a 75% reduction in the use of restraints and a 100% reduction in suicides, which is the 3rd leading cause of death in that age group. ⁣ ⁣ One study of violent juveniles found that simply giving children a vitamin and mineral supplement reduced violent acts by 91 percent compared to a control group. Why were they violent? ⁣ ⁣ Their brains were starving for nutrients that regulate mood and behavior including iron, magnesium, B12, and folate. Just giving these kids vitamins for three months fixed their abnormal brain waves on EEG. The kids who also changed their diet had an 80% reduction in violent crime and those who stayed on a processed diet continued their violent ways.⁣ ⁣ While many children are not eating enough brain food, they are also eating too many chemicals, including about five pounds of dyes, preservatives and additives that are linked to hyperactivity and worse.⁣ ⁣ While therapy, stress reduction, and movement are equally critical in many brain disorders, food plays a pivotal and often overlooked role. ⁣ ⁣ Start small. Start with the Pegan Diet. Eat loads of veggies, some fruit (especially the low-sugar, nutrient-dense ones), whole grains (not flours), nuts and seeds, low-starch beans and legumes, and some high-quality meat, poultry, and fish. Focus on brain foods that have been shown to impact mood and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety— foods rich in omega-3s, zinc, magnesium, vitamin D, antioxidants, and B vitamins.

And those behaviors are nothing too complex. There is a lot of controversy over diets such as Paleo and vegan. However, we can all agree that these are not a lot of controversy about those five things and most people know they should be doing them.⁣ ⁣ What makes following these so difficult? Behavioral changes. ⁣ ⁣ We know from the science very clearly that friend power is far more powerful than willpower, a behavior change. ⁣ ⁣ A few years ago, I created this faith-based wellness program in a church where we got 15,000 people to lose a quarter million pounds in a year and get healthy. It wasn't a weight loss program, it was a health program and they did it in small groups with each other without a health coach, without a nutritionist, or without a doctor. ⁣ ⁣ But use the power of love and each other and connection and accountability and feedback and support, which is exactly what a health coach does. Rick Warren said it best, “every body needs a buddy.” ⁣ ⁣ Having external support to identify the reason behind why you would want to make lifestyle improvements can be tremendously transformative.⁣