NAD To the Rescue – and 7 Smart Ways to Support Your Cells

With so many health headlines making news every day, it’s easy for even my well-informed patients to feel like they’re drowning in too much information. That’s where my team and I come in: to sift through the noise, explain the science, and guide people toward sensible, evidence-based choices tailored to their exact life situation and physiology. Lately, I’ve had a lot of questions about NAD, something I’m naturally a fan of -- we couldn’t live without it! But about the trendy NAD “shots” or infusions, truth be told, I’m less enthusiastic. Why? Well, I have a few thoughts on that.

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Dawn Brighid

Feb 18, 2022

March 1, 2024

How NMN Helps You Age Better

To age better, replenishing our cells' energy and sustaining our cellular health becomes crucial. Here is a way to do so: Nicotinamide mononucleotide(NMN).

Health Coach Tip - The Love Hormone

Oxytocin, the "love hormone," delivers a wide range of health benefits from potentially improving depression and anxiety, to enhancing parent-child bonding, and even contributing to facets of gut health.

14 Strategies for Superior Sleep, Starting Tonight!

More than just an annoyance, poor sleep is a major health underminer. Not taking sleep seriously impacts all aspects of your day-to-day life: how well you learn and process information, how clearly you think, how well you fend off illness, how well you age. And let’s not forget: your mood, your weight and yes, even your sex drive. Crappy sleep is a body bummer, and if you make a habit of it, you’re increasing your risk for exactly the kinds of health destroyers we’re all trying to avoid, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease, heart attack/ failure, stroke, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and obesity. Sleep isn’t something to be toyed with – it’s serious business, and the time to clean up your sleep act is now.

What To Think About When It Comes To Faux Meat

Many meat replacement products are junky, because they’re heavily processed and contain a lot of questionable ingredients: genetically modified soy, canola oil, sunflower oil, yeast extract, unspecified “flavors,” modified food starch—the list goes on.

Health Coach Tip - Increase Your Spice Intake

Simply put, herbs are medicine. Virtually all herbs have positive medicinal effects — some aid digestion and nutrient absorption, while others have antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer properties. To put their protective and tasty benefits to work for you, use more spices and herbs at every opportunity.

Dr. Frank Lipman

Feb 7, 2022

March 1, 2024

6 Ways to Stress Less, Sleep Better and Tame Pain with Magical Magnesium

By now, you should appreciate that a whole foods diet, plenty of daily movement, restorative sleep, relaxation and stress reduction come together to ensure your body will function well for a long, long time. What else to add to your good health stew? Magnesium. Its long list of beneficial effects makes this multi-tasking miracle mineral one of my favorite recommendations.

How Fitness Can Improve Your Brain and Mental Health

Moving your body can help you sharpen your focus, improve your mood, and more.

Health Coach Tip - Rest Your Digestion

If you are constantly eating meals and snacking throughout the day, your digestive system is working hard with no time to recoup. Why does your gut need a break? Many reasons!

14 Ways to Preserve Mental Health – Pandemic or Not

Hard to say how or when the pandemic will eventually end but one thing is for sure, it’s impact on mental health won’t soon be forgotten. One bright spot in the pandemic wilderness has been the de-stigmatization of mental health challenges. Whether you struggle from time to time with pandemic-induced low moods or are dealing with more chronic mental health issues, more than ever, prioritizing, cultivating, and protecting mental health is no longer a taboo subject. That’s fortunate because we’ve still got continued social isolation to contend with, not to mention the classic winter blues that many folks wrestled with even before COVID turned life upside down (think, short days, and cold temps).

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