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Jul 31, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Geography & Longevity
From bustling urban centers to peaceful rural communities, and everything in between, your environment can significantly impact your health and lifespan. Each setting has its pros and cons when it comes to longevity.
Jul 29, 2024 · Healthy AgingProtect Your Brain – and Keep It Younger Longer — With Red Light Therapy
It almost goes without saying that keeping our bodies and brains healthy for as long as possible is a worthy endeavor and anything we can do to realize that goal is a worthwhile pursuit. That’s why I encourage everyone with a brain to protect (which would be all of us) to give it some extra TLC by adding red light therapy to their healthy lifestyle playbook. Why? Because RLT’s potential to help keep brains young and robust is a brain-saving opportunity few of us can afford to miss!
Jul 26, 2024 · Health & WellnessRadiant Skin from Within: Unveiling the Gut-Skin Connection
Are you struggling with skin issues like acne, psoriasis, rosacea, or eczema? Are you a skincare enthusiast and want to get that summer glow from within? It’s time to look below the skin's surface and understand that when it comes to achieving and maintaining great skin, one of the most impactful areas to consider is the connection between your gut microbiome and skin health!
Jul 24, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Fine-tune Your Night Time Ritual
If you haven't already started, today is a better time than ever to make your night time routine a little more personalized.
Jul 22, 2024 · Nutrition6 Ways to Crush Food Allergies and Handle Your Histamines
One of the best ways to handle your histamines is to consider the potential allergens you may unknowingly be putting into your body multiple times a day, and that’s food. Certain foods may be causing you a lot of physical grief (in the form of allergy symptoms) while also compromising the health of your gut and immune system to boot. And just to make the story more interesting, some foods produce their own histamines which make them more likely to trigger your body’s allergic over-reaction. So, how about putting a stop to all that?
Jul 19, 2024 · MovementHow Can I Improve My Balance?
Try simple activities — like standing on one foot while brushing your teeth — to incorporate balance into your daily routine.
Jul 17, 2024 · SleepHealth Coach Tip - Sleep Better For Weight Loss
We are a sleep-deprived nation and it’s time to make sleep a priority. Lack of sleep not only makes you groggy and foggy – it makes you hold onto weight. Wondering why? Hormones gone wild!
Jul 15, 2024 · Health & WellnessThe Dangers of Forever Chemicals and 6 Ways to Avoid Them
For many years, we in the integrative medical community have known that toxic chemicals are something to avoid at all costs, the thinking being that the lighter our ‘toxic load’ and the fewer industrial chemicals we ingest, the better and more sustainable our health will be. That’s still the idea. But over the last few years, the unsettling news about the pervasiveness of ‘forever chemicals’ or PFUAS (aka ‘per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has brought a new awareness about just how difficult they are to avoid. In short, they are everywhere and stemming the tide will take some doing – both on a personal and global level.
Jul 12, 2024 · Movement8 Yoga Poses to Help Digestion
Stretch, twist, and breathe your way to better digestion with this restorative flow.
Jul 10, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Stay On Course With Your Health
Have you felt like you've veered from the right path when it comes to your health? If there is an area (or two or three) that has started to slide, it’s time to recommit to your health and we have some useful tips for you.
Jul 8, 2024 · Healthy Aging6 Essential Ways Your Body Composition Can Keep You Younger Longer
Body composition matters, and today, our ability to precisely determine the proportion of fat, lean muscle, bone and water in the body has blossomed into a must-have tool for many of us in the wellness and longevity world. In fact, it’s now one of my favorite ways to identify a patient’s current state health and to call out what needs tending to in order to support their longevity and improve their ‘healthspans’ -- the length of time they’re able to stay vibrant and healthy.
Jul 5, 2024 · Healthy AgingHow Does Creatine Support Muscle Health?
Creatine, a type of amino acid, is essential for muscle health. Discover top food sources and when a supplement may be necessary.
Jul 3, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Why You Should Avoid Canola Oil
Canola is an affordable vegetable oil with a high smoke point used in processed foods, bottled salad dressings and sauces, restaurant meals and prepared foods. Because of its neutral flavor, many chefs and home cooks use it in their kitchens too. You’ve probably heard conflicting information - some say it’s heart healthy and others say to avoid it completely. What to do?
Jul 1, 2024 · Healthy AgingYour Estrogen Levels Matter – and Here’s How to Best Support Yours – and Longevity to Boot!
For many women, until the sex hormones veer off course, and the effects are unmistakably felt, hormones aren’t something that’s top of mind. Often, it’s at the start of menopause when my patients become more aware of their down-shifting estrogen levels. For others, entering their 30s and 40s, it may be struggles with issues like fertility, PMS, mood swings, sexual dysfunction that bring hormone imbalances more prominently into the conversation. Your health depends on all of your body’s systems, including your sex hormones, functioning well together so it may be time you and your doc take a closer look.
Jun 28, 2024 · Health & WellnessDiscover How Play Can Improve Your Mental Health
Explore how adopting a more playful attitude toward life can boost your mental health.
Jun 26, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Make The Most Of Summer Produce
Here’s a look at some popular summer produce and tips on how to make the most of them this season.
Jun 24, 2024 · Healthy Aging10 Life-Improving Benefits of Red Light Therapy
Light therapy has been around for thousands of years, but, over the last few decades, red light therapy (or RLT) has emerged as one of the most exciting of the light therapies, and a health therapy with the power to help preserve youthfulness, both inside and out. Besides tamping down rapid-ager inflammation and promoting anti-oxidant activity – and no matter what your age, everyone needs that – red light has the ability to stimulate the mitochondria. Keeping those energy powerplants inside our cells functioning at optimal levels is essential if we’re going to stay active and vibrant ourselves.
Jun 21, 2024 · Healthy AgingDo We Really Slow Down As We Age?
Studies of elite masters endurance athletes indicate it may not be age that slows us down but rather a drop in physical activity.
Jun 19, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Dose Your Sunshine This Summer
Here are some of the most important benefits of healthy sun exposure.
Jun 17, 2024 · Healthy Aging5 Thoughts on Fisetin, the Anti-Aging Flavonoid
Unlike our parents and grandparents, we now have a phenomenal number of ways to help us slow the aging slide, support longevity and expand our healthspans -- the length of time we remain healthy. In other words, it’s actually an exciting time to be aging – and to be able to tap into many of the revolutionary longevity-supporting discoveries that have emerged in the past decade or so. Among the more interesting recent discoveries worth considering is one you may not be familiar with: fistein. Though it’s a natural compound that’s been around for a long time (it’s surely older than the human species), only recently has it come to light as a promising longevity candidate – and an excellent addition to your age-defying toolbox.
Jun 14, 2024 · Healthy AgingUnlock Fertility Potential: The Power of Mitochondrial Health
Whether you have personally faced infertility challenges or know someone who has, understanding the role of mitochondria in fertility is essential!
Jun 12, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Vitamin D & Longevity
This fat-soluble vitamin, which can be synthesized in the skin upon exposure to sunlight or obtained from dietary sources and supplements, plays a crucial role in various bodily processes that contribute to a longer and healthier life. Learn more here.
Jun 10, 2024 · Health & Wellness6 Ways Anger Torpedoes Your Immunity – and 7 Ways to Fix It
Anger. Whether you show it to the outside world or not, whether it seems like an appropriate response to a difficult set of circumstances or not, in health terms, anger is mostly a negative. What makes it especially so is anger’s ability to endanger your health by severely undercutting your immunity, aka your ability to stay well. And, as you age and immunity naturally wanes, that’s the last thing you want to do. What’s the connection between anger and immunity? A lot more than you may realize, so here is some food for thought on the topic, plus a few ways to diffuse anger when it comes knocking.
Jun 7, 2024 · NutritionWhat Are the Health Benefits of Reishi Mushrooms?
Learn more about the powerful medicinal effects of reishi mushrooms and how to incorporate them into your diet.