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Mar 13, 2023 · Health & WellnessThe Main Factors Impacting Your Blood Sugar and How To Manage Them
Advances in medical science have refined our understanding of how diet and lifestyle affect glucose levels (that is, the amount of sugar that circulates in the bloodstream), putting more power in your hands to ensure that sugar isn’t doing a number on your health. It’s never been easier to identify the trouble-makers so you can clean up your sugar act before real metabolic trouble begins – and the time to start is now.
Mar 10, 2023 · NutritionFood as Medicine - Dietary Prescriptions
Here at Eleven Eleven Wellness, an integrative clinic, we always use diet as one aspect of our patient’s treatment plan. Discover our take on nutrition:
Mar 8, 2023 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - GABA and Stress
Have you heard of GABA? GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is a neurotransmitter in the brain that plays a crucial role in regulating our response to stress.
Mar 6, 2023 · Health & WellnessYes, You Really Do Need a Multivitamin
Taking a multivitamin is essential for sustaining your health and improving the quality of cell functioning. Most vitamins serve as catalysts to reactions occurring in our body, like the spark plugs in an automobile. Your body on the other hand is like a factory, with a hundred trillion cells working to keep you healthy. These cells need raw materials, the 13 essential vitamins, to roll down the assembly line. Without these raw materials, your body needs to scavenge from your bones or your liver, or the assembly line shuts down. This causes energy loss, pain, disease, depression and aging. So yes, you really do need a multivitamin.
Mar 3, 2023 · Movement4 Fitness Markers to Evaluate Your Health
Are you aging well? Try out these four fitness tests that have been linked to a reduced mortality risk.
Mar 1, 2023 · NutritionRecipe - Everything but the Kitchen Sink Coconut Curry with Your Favorite Protein
One of my favorite (and easiest) dinners is a quick coconut curry on the stove top. It is also a great way to clean out the vegetable drawer of your refrigerator.
Feb 27, 2023 · NutritionThe Perils of Moderate Drinking – Especially for Women
So, what if your drinking doesn’t quite fall into what most would consider a problem, but more of a relaxing, end-of-day ritual? Here too, I urge you – and particularly women – to take a hard, clear-eyed look at how alcohol bashes the health of your body – even if you are doing everything else ‘right’ – and start taking steps to end this very unhealthy relationship. To get started, here’s some food for thought.
Feb 24, 2023 · MovementDo Sore Muscles Mean I Got a Good Workout?
This is one of the questions I’m asked most frequently, and no matter how many times I receive the query, I’m happy to repeat myself: No. Plainly, simply, no. The delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) that you experience in the hours or days following a workout tells...
Feb 22, 2023 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Hydration and Brain Health!
Hydration is critical for our health and wellbeing – learn about the importance of hydration for your brain!
Feb 20, 2023 · NutritionDon’t Let Sugar Hurt You: Here’s How A Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor Can Help
Wearable health technology has come of age, giving us a window into the working of our bodies. It represents an important step in taking control of your health – and away from Big Pharma and putting it, whenever possible, where it belongs – in your hands. One such personalized device: continuous glucose monitors or CGMs. Though they’ve been available for diabetics for about twenty years, now, ever-more refined models are attracting the interest of healthy, health-savvy customers who are using them to help ensure they never cross the line into pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes – a wise idea if ever there was one.
Feb 17, 2023 · Healthy Aging5 Hallmarks of Aging and How to Stop Them in Their Tracks
There are ten distinct hallmarks of aging—the underlying common pathways or mechanisms of aging.
Feb 15, 2023 · NutritionRecipe - Brain-Healthy Smoothie
Smoothies are a great way to get a variety of nutrients in one meal, and this smoothie recipe is specifically designed to promote brain health. Check out this recipe!
Feb 13, 2023 · NutritionNot-so-Healthy “Health Foods”
Here’s my round up of unhealthy foods most commonly mistaken for the ones that actually can do your body good.
Feb 10, 2023 · Health & WellnessThe Power of Love…on our Health
Love and relationships – whether satisfying or toxic – affect our health and well-being, and may even contribute to our future risk of developing health conditions.
Feb 8, 2023 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - How Magnesium Can Help With Sleep
Research has highlighted magnesium's role in supporting sleep. Here are 3 research-supported ways that magnesium may promote restful sleep.
Feb 6, 2023 · Healthy Aging7 Thoughts on Why Everyone Should Explore Wearable Health Tracking Devices
OK, so let’s say you’ve resolved to improve your health this year but got disheartened when the mirror and the numbers on the scale didn’t appear to reflect the effort you’ve been putting in. How to stay motivated regardless? Wearable health tracking devices provide a great boost. Not only do they show you the stuff below the surface, that you literally cannot see, but they provide both doctor and patient with a clearer picture of what’s going on with your physiology before the real ills can get a toehold – that is, if you start monitoring early enough. Wearable health trackers can be literally life-changing, not to mention potentially life-saving – and it’s why I’m encouraging my patients to start using them – and you should too!
Feb 3, 2023 · Health & WellnessHow Awe Can Create a Greater Sense of Happiness
Psychologist Dacher Keltner on how awe can transform your life.
Feb 1, 2023 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tips - Anti-inflammatory Health Habits
To combat chronic inflammation, it is important to make lifestyle changes. Here are 5 anti-inflammatory habits to reduce inflammation.
Jan 30, 2023 · Healthy Aging5 Foods To Get Rid Of For Better Brain Health
The classic bad-for-your-brain foods are the kinds I’ve talked a lot about a lot over the years – they’re the ones that inflame the body, and drive up risk for numerous chronic health conditions like obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, etc. But what we often forget is that this stuff is bad for your head too – pro-inflammatory foods are simply awful for brain health in the near term – think brain fog, anxiety, depression – and long-term, increased risk of developing – Alzheimer’s, dementia, neurological disease., etc. Simply put: you need to kick them now to save your brain.
Jan 27, 2023 · Health & WellnessBrain Energy: The Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness
Decades of research suggest that mental disorders are metabolic disorders.
Jan 25, 2023Health Coach Tip - Benefits of Guided Imagery Meditation
Learn about the benefits of guided imagery meditation – from reducing stress and improving mood to enhancing sleep.
Jan 23, 2023 · Healthy AgingIs Melatonin The New Anti-Aging Hormone?
Melatonin is becoming a hot corner of the anti-aging research world. A lot of folks are taking a second or third look at melatonin, including me.
Jan 20, 2023Can Exercise Help Me Live Longer?
Yes, according to lots of recent research. Here are five key stats.
Jan 18, 2023Health Coach Tip - What is Quercetin?
How can quercetin help keep your immunity tank topped up? Quercetin’s positive effects are felt across numerous body systems.