by Ryan Schwantes | Oct 20, 2025 | Addiction, Health & Fitness, Resources, Ryan Schwantes
The Antidepressant Myth: A “Miracle” Built on Marketing, Money, and Misleading Science Recently, I wrote an article breaking down the efficacy of antidepressants versus placebo — and how the supposed benefits often don’t hold up under closer scientific scrutiny. If...
by Ryan Schwantes | Oct 7, 2025 | Addiction, Health & Fitness, Resources, Ryan Schwantes
Antidepressant Efficacy: An Interactive Review - Efficacy Data -> Goal: Compare -> Viz: Stacked Bar Chart -> Interaction: Tooltips -> Justification: Clearly illustrates the small contribution of the drug's specific effect compared to placebo/common factors. ->...
by Ryan Schwantes | Sep 30, 2025 | Addiction, Health & Fitness, Ryan Schwantes
Discover The Freedom Model Coaching: A New Way to Move Beyond Addiction For decades, people have been told that addiction is a lifelong disease, that recovery requires surrender, or that the only path forward is endless treatment or support group meetings. But what if...
by Ryan Schwantes | Jun 10, 2021 | Motivation, Ryan Schwantes
It’s crucial to understand that NOTHING or NO ONE in life has more power over your own situation than you, and that’s always true! There’s a classic story that illustrates this point. There’s a father and a son and the son is complaining about how...
by Ryan Schwantes | Jun 21, 2019 | Motivation, Ryan Schwantes
There’s no doubt most people enjoy getting a good night’s sleep. A lot of people also take advantage of free time throughout the day by taking a power nap or catch up on a lack of sleep by taking a longer nap throughout the day. Sleep has several benefits such as...
by Ryan Schwantes | Apr 3, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Ryan Schwantes
When most people think of Kettlebell Training, they think of ballistic exercises because that’s primarily what kettlebells are primarily used for. (Interesting little tidbit – Ballistic comes from the Greek word ballein , which literally means “to...
