There is a vine in the Amazon that climbs like a prayer. It does not hurry. It does not conquer. It spirals - patiently - around the rainforest’s ancient pillars of wisdom, as if it remembers what modern life forgets: that healing is not an event. Healing is a relationship with reality. To the Indigenous lineages who have safeguarded this medicine through centuries of conquest, displacement, and spiritual criminalization, Mother Ayahuasca is not a “psychedelic.” She is a livi

Kaley started using YouTube at the age of 6, downloading the app on her iPod Touch to watch videos about lip gloss collections and the online kids game Animal Jam. She posted her first video when she was 8 — in it, she played Animal Jam as an otter character, singing in a put-on British accent. A year later, she downloaded and began posting on Instagram, circumventing a guardrail her mom had tried to set up to block her from the app. She says she became addicted. She started

There is a discernible and different vibe happening in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Story by William Smith/Polo Lifestyles Wine Contributor While the headwinds impacting the wine industry are nearly universal – declining and shifting consumer patterns of consumption, tariffs, climate change, risings costs, and consolidation – in many places they take on an ominous tone that points to a state of somewhat inevitable decline. In Oregon, those same challenges seem differently assi

If you are headed to the Willamette Valley, you have many choices on where to stay - from luxury hotel resorts to small boutique properties to vineyard stays. After a recent visit to Oregon wine country, we've compiled a list of quintessential Pacific Northwest properties for your consideration, and all within proximity of the region's incredible winery offerings.  Story by William Smith/Polo Lifestyles Wine Contributor Atticus Hotel atticushotel.com The beautifully appointe

Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in cell death and the loss of memory and cognition. But other people’s brains remain almost perfectly intact, their thinking as sharp at 80 as it was in their 50s. A paper published in the journal Nature provides a new potential explanation for this discrepancy, and it taps into one of the hottest debates in neuroscience: whether human brains can grow new neurons in adultho