Wellknowlogy: 12/15/22

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Hi all,

This week I'm writing with a bit of personal news.

I've been contracted to design, launch, and assist in the implementation of a layer of tech and design intended to make residents of apartment buildings healthier and happier, starting with four buildings.

If you have implemented anything in your house that has made you healthier and/or happier, from paint colors and environmental scents to smart appliances and sleep-focused bedding, please let me know. I am eager to hear about anything you've done in your home (or office, or indoor space) that has improved your life.

As you can guess, I'm excited to be doing some work in this space with tangible results and am eager to do my best and make peoples' lives better. If you know anyone or anything that you can pass along to help me with the mission of creating indoor environments to support health and happiness, please don't hesitate to share.

Enough about me.

A short point: consider the blurb I wrote a few weeks ago about services augmenting ideas of things like meditation while looking over the partnership between Calm and Xbox. It'll be interesting to see how concepts of meditation evolve in the popular lexicon as moves like this continue to occur. Traditionally, I'm pretty sure media-supported meditation is an oxymoron.

With that out of the way, here's what happened last week:

Neat Articles

• New driver training developed at Cincinnati Children's keeps teens with ADHD safer behind the wheel

• 5 common dreams and what they mean

• Surprising: rare human gene variant exposes fundamental sex differences

• How ‘circadian hacking’ can help with far more than sleep

• Weighted-blanket use may boost sleep hormone melatonin, small study hints

• The 6 lesser-known dimensions of wellbeing and how to improve them

• Psychedelics have huge potential but financial interests could corrupt them

Market News

• Halo and Sea of Thieves ambience tracks come to Calm meditation app

• Aetna provides $9.3M to fund behavioral health and social care needs of youth

• Serena Williams launches 'Will Perform' wellness brand

• The International Sports Sciences Association acquires the Functional Aging Institute

• Keurig, Dr Pepper and Nutrabolt announce strategic partnership including a long-term sales and distribution agreement and equity investment by KDP

Fundings

• Virtual fertility clinic Turtle Health raises $5M

• Black Sheep Foods raises $17.5M for furthering production of their plant based meat

• Seattle startup Pebble, which helps create health benefit plans for small businesses, lands $12M

• Sonde Health raises $19.25M series B to build the next generation of voice-based health monitoring

• Mexican femtech Plenna raises $4.4M seed-round for womens health platform

• Black Sheep Foods raises $12.03M in series A funding

• Former Leinster player’s nutrition firm set to close €500K funding round

• Wellbeing Nutrition raises $10.7M to adavance female health care and nutrition

• PepTalk raised $3M to to build sustainable, high performance cultures

• D2C startup Wellbeing Nutrition raises $10 million in Series B

• Arketa raises $7.7M for fitness instructors to build an online business

• Poppi raises $25M from CAVU consumer partners, signaling functional beverages as wellness' next frontier

• MALK Organics secures $9M series B investment

• Off the Grid raised $950K pre seed for advancement for their stationary bikes

• BehaVR and OxfordVR combine and raise series B to create largest VR delivery platform for evidence-based digital therapeutics

Tidbits for You and Yours

• What is somatic therapy?

• 6 thought exercises to strengthen your mental health

• A great interview covering the spectrum of resistance therapy

Closing Kernel of Wisdom

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Wishing you a great week to come.

Warmly,

Dayton