Exercise is the best thing you can do. Not only does it strengthen your muscles and enhance flexibility and endurance, but it will stabilize your mood, increase your production of important hormones, ... Continue Reading
How Gut Bacteria Impacts Heart Health
The human gut is a truly marvelous place. Not only does your gut have its own nervous system (the enteric nervous system), but your intestinal health affects the health of your brain, your mood, your ... Continue Reading
A Living Bandage: Using Stem Cells To Speed Healing
The human body is a truly amazing machine. It's designed to function autonomously, with all your organs and internal functions operating by rote. All you have to do is provide the machine the fuel it ... Continue Reading
Better Sleep, Better Sex
Menopause can cause a broad array of symptoms ranging from mild to serious. Women undergoing menopause experience hot flashes, mood changes, night sweats, weight gain, slowed metabolism, dry skin, thinning ... Continue Reading
Food Scares: Dealing With The Deluge
If you've been following health and food news over the last few years, you're aware of a surprising number of food scares—food products being recalled due to contamination. For example, the CDC was forced ... Continue Reading
Protect Your Children From Ad-triggered Cravings
What is it about advertisements for McDonald's, KFC, or Chipotle that make us suddenly so hungry? Perhaps it's the hunger-triggering colors (like red and yellow), or the fact that the images awaken our ... Continue Reading
Is Vitamin D Causing Your Headache?
Click to enlarge Well, technically it's a lack of vitamin D that's causing the problem. Vitamin D is, as its name suggests, a vital amine, one that plays many important roles in your health. Vitamin ... Continue Reading
Fish Oil, the Respiratory Tract, Wheezing and Asthma
Fish oil has become one of the most popular superfoods available today. And for good reason. Multiple studies have proven that there are very real benefits to consuming the omega-3-rich oil, including ... Continue Reading
Microgreens Help Fight Heart Disease
Yes, we've all heard it from our mothers: "Eat your greens because they're good for you." As children, there was nothing we dreaded more than the sight of leafy green veggies piled on our plates. As ... Continue Reading
Be A Kid Again, At Least Cholesterol-Wise
Cholesterol is a fairly misunderstood substance. Most people think of it as being a bad thing, as it contributes to heart attacks, strokes, peripheral arterial disease, and other cardiovascular ... Continue Reading
High Fat Diet May Improve Heart Disease
For decades, fat was the villain of the nutritional world. Read any diet manual or guide to healthy eating from before the early 2000s, and you'll find recommendations to eat low-fat foods, even if those ... Continue Reading
Connecting Physical Activity and Good Grades
Multiple studies have proven that physical activity during formative years (0-18) can have life-long effects on overall health. Children who are active from preschool through college tend to have fewer ... Continue Reading
Are Gut Microbes Stopping You From Losing Weight?
The new year has come and gone, and we've all made our usual resolutions to lose weight, eat healthier, get in shape, and work out more. The problem is, those resolutions are pretty darned hard to keep. If ... Continue Reading
Phosphatidylserine: The Natural Cure For A Rare Disease
Most of us have never heard of phosphatidylserine—heck, I'm willing to bet most of us struggle to even pronounce the word. Simply put, it's a phospholipid that contains both amino acids and fatty acids. ... Continue Reading
Regenerating Bones to Combat Osteoporosis
It's estimated that over 50 million Americans over the age of 50 suffer from low bone mass or osteoporosis. The degenerative condition is highly common among older women. Essentially, it is the result of ... Continue Reading
Who is Doing the Most Harm: You or Red Meat?
Red meat is one of the most misunderstood and villainized of the foods we eat. For decades, it was perceived as one of the primary contributors to heart disease and stroke. Only recently has science proven ... Continue Reading
Which Foods Shut Down Your Appetite
When it comes to dieting and healthy eating, nothing will set back your efforts as quickly as hunger and food cravings. When it comes to dieting and healthy eating, nothing will set back ... Continue Reading
Vitamin A Is More Than Just Easy on the Eyes
For most of our lives, we've been told that vitamin A is good for our eyes. It's the excuse our mothers used to make us eat steamed carrots or a pile of spinach. However, vitamin A is good for so much more ... Continue Reading
How Stem Cells Can Boost Testosterone
Did you know that roughly one in every four men over the age of 30 has low testosterone levels? That's a pretty staggering thought—roughly 25% of the male population of the world suffer from chronically ... Continue Reading
The Recuperative Powers of Exercise on Serious Illness
Ask anyone about the benefits of exercise, and they'll give you a list a mile long. Exercise is vital for weight control, appetite regulation, reduction of cardiovascular disease, improvement of insulin ... Continue Reading
The Mechanics Of Human Running
Did you know that humans are the only ones who land on their heels when they run? While most animals (felines, canines) move around primarily on the balls of their feet, we humans land on our heels and ... Continue Reading
Could A College Degree Lead To Weight Gain?
College can be both the best and worst years of your life. You have the freedom of moving away from home, exploring the world around you, making new friends, and starting out on your own. There's also the ... Continue Reading
Is This The Easiest Diet To Follow
Finding the right diet can be a monumental challenge. It's tough to choose a diet that not only promotes weight loss/fat loss but also provides all the nutrients your body needs to function properly. Far ... Continue Reading
Fish Oil vs Lard: Which is Worse?
We all know that there are good fats and bad fats. Until recently, the only good fats were unsaturated, while all hydrogenated, trans, and saturated fats were perceived as bad. We all know ... Continue Reading
