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Jun 5, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Tips To Stay Hydrated
Whether you’re enjoying outdoor activities, spending time under the sun, or simply going about your daily routine, staying hydrated becomes a fundamental necessity to ensure a happy and healthy warm season ahead.
Jun 3, 2024 · Nutrition10 Ways to Keep Weed Killer Glyphosate Out of Your Body
For well over a decade, I’ve been sounding the alarm about the human and environmental cost of glyphosate – the active ingredient in the well-known herbicide Roundup. This nasty, health-tanking compound has never been anything but awful for your body and the news hasn’t gotten better with time. While awareness about its dangers has increased, much of the world remains all-in on glyphosate -- you can still easily wind up in harm’s way. What can you do to minimize your exposure? The answer is ‘quite a bit.’
May 31, 2024 · Health & WellnessHow to Optimize Your Skin’s Natural Detoxification Process
Learn more about the vital role your skin plays in detoxification — and how you can support it.
May 29, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tips - EGCG & Longevity
Let’s discover the captivating powers of EGCG that have sparked the interest of wellness seekers for centuries. Let’s discover the captivating powers of EGCG that have sparked the interest of wellness seekers for centuries.
May 27, 2024 · Healthy AgingFinding Ikigai: Your Path to Purpose and Meaning and 10 Ways to Get Yours
For generations, countless words have been written on how best to live a good life. Often these investigations skew one of two ways, toward the mystical, emphasizing an inner search for meaning, or they go outward, as in, how to make it in the material world, witness the reams of books about achieving business success. Recently, I’ve come across a traditional Japanese precept that for me combines the best of both worlds. It’s summed up in a single word, ikigai, itself a combination of two Japanese words, "iki" meaning life and "gai" meaning worth or value. At its core, it’s about discovering what gets you out of bed in the morning, your ‘raison d’etre.
May 24, 2024 · NutritionWhat to Eat for Strong Muscles
You need protein and more to get and stay strong. These essential nutrients can support your muscles now and for the long haul.
May 22, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - What is Oxidative Stress?
What exactly is oxidative stress, and why does it raise concerns for our longevity? Let’s explore its impact on aging.
May 20, 2024 · Healthy Aging7 Thoughts on How Strong Immunity Can Help Slow Aging
Aging can bring all sorts of gifts, whether it’s wisdom and experience, new opportunities or connecting in a new way with your adult children and grandchildren. Things can get tough though with some of the physical changes that can take place in our bodies, typically, taking root in early middle age and gathering speed from there. Another change that comes with the gift of years? One of the most important ones concerns our immune system, our body’s defense against threats from the outside world and from inside us as well.
May 17, 2024 · Nutrition7 Ways to Find Food From Good Soil
Some food and farm activists want to see an official “soil health” label — much like the federally regulated organic label — but for now, nothing like this exists to guide consumers. Finding food grown in good soil requires some detective work. Experts offer these clues.
May 15, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Tips To Support Good Vision
Protecting your vision is possible with healthy lifestyle choices. Here’s how:
May 13, 2024 · Nutrition3 Reasons To Get Off the Grain Train – and 4 Flavorful Ways To Do It
We all want a generous ‘healthspan,’ that is, the time we have on this earth to live with vitality and in good health. Fortunately, there are plenty of everyday habits that can help us achieve it. Good sleep, plenty of movement, keeping stress at bay, social connection, they’re all important. But when you eat right, well, that’s money in the bank when it comes to minimizing disease risk, maintaining youthfulness and extending longevity. One way to approach upgrading your diet is with “food swaps.” Take the bad hombres --we’re looking at you processed foods, sugar, alcohol – and replace them with leaner, cleaner and yes, tastier alternatives.
May 10, 2024 · MovementEnhance Your Running Performance With Nasal Breathing
Nasal breathing is an efficient way to circulate oxygen through your body during a run. Master the technique with these three expert tips.
May 8, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tips - Teas for Mental Focus
No matter what your profession or age is, finding natural ways to boost mental focus is invaluable. Here are some teas to do just that.
May 6, 2024 · Health & Wellness7 Types of Rest You Really Need for Longevity
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that self-care isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. And while self-care may mean different things to different people, the need for adequate rest is universal. To live well and feel well for as long as possible, it’s essential to bake rest into your daily routine, because you can’t really bank or stockpile rest; it needs to be a daily habit. Most people equate rest solely with sleep, but there's a good bit more to it. To truly thrive over the long-haul, be advised that rest is more than just sleeping soundly through the night (though that’s a good start). Fact is, rest has many faces, and there are seven types of rest you need to get to know better.
May 3, 2024 · Health & WellnessDemystifying Functional and Integrative Medicine: What It Is and What It Isn't
Heard of the terms "functional medicine" and "integrative medicine"? Learn what do these terms really mean, and perhaps more importantly, what do they not mean here.
May 1, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Eat Yourself Beautiful
Are anti-aging foods a thing? Sure they are!
Apr 29, 2024 · Healthy Aging5 Ways Glycine Helps You Age Better – and Slower
Whether you’re in peak form or dealing with conditions that need attention, I’ve got a helpful health hack for you – and it’s called glycine. I like to think of it as the Swiss Army knife of amino acids, an under-the-radar hero that’s capable of doing your health and longevity a world of good without a lot of extra effort. Augmenting your natural supply with glycine-rich high protein foods, healthy supportive behaviors and strategic supplementation and you can easily keep your tank topped up – and help fight off many of the ills that can age you before your time.
Apr 26, 2024 · RelaxationThe Upside of Outside
Can living amid bountiful green space improve a senior’s mental and physical health? New research — and the reemergence of ecotherapy — suggest that spending more time outdoors could make a difference.
Apr 24, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Small But Impactful Habits
Small consistent habits can have a much more significant impact on our health and well being than sporadic, intense activities. Try incorporating these three habits today and reap the benefits – short term and long term!
Apr 22, 2024 · Healthy AgingThe Body, Brain and Healthspan Benefits of Anti-Aging Wonder Methylene Blue
While restoring health and sustaining wellness remains at the core of everything I do, focusing on aging well is fast becoming central to my approach. While we can’t stop aging altogether, advances in the longevity field are enabling us to put the process of slowing aging well within reach. With this in mind, I want to introduce you to a fascinating substance called methylene blue that’s showing a lot of promise when it comes to supporting a longer ‘healthspan’ (aka, a youthful life for as long as possible), and is a powerful ally in helping our bodies stand up to the health-eroders that limit human lifespans.
Apr 19, 2024 · Health & WellnessHow Soil Health Is Connected to Human Health — and So Much More
You may not be able to see them, but the microorganisms in the soil have a major impact on human nutrition and health.
Apr 17, 2024 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Cleansing Foods
Springtime isn’t just for spring cleaning your house, it’s a great time to support the natural cleansing process in your body too.
Apr 15, 2024 · Movement10 Ways to Avoid Injury and Keep Moving Pain-free
Movement is one of the cornerstones of a long and healthy life, not to mention one of the underrated joys of everyday life, a reliable mood-lifter. But when we challenge our bodies more intensely, to get greater health benefits or just for the fun of it, we increase the risk of injuring ourselves which obviously defeats the whole purpose. The good news here is that with some planning and observing some basic (but oh so easy to ignore) rules of the road, we can sidestep much of that risk, upping our odds of enjoying a vigorous old age, delaying frailty for as long as humanly possible.
Apr 12, 2024 · Nutrition4 Ways That Nutrition Can Negatively Affect Our Mood
Building a solid nutritional foundation for mental health starts with recognizing how food may be contributing to low mood. These are some of the factors.