First, why do you need a “healthy gut”, and why is it so important? The short version is that you are born with a certain microbiome. A microbiome consists of trillions of tiny organisms, all of which we don’t need to know anything about. Suffice it to say there are good and bad organisms, and…
Wow, that’s quite a philosophical question, no? It’s also one of those questions that has no right or wrong answer.
Water is awesome. It’s necessary for our very survival. It’s wet. It’s fun to ski and surf upon. It allows things to float on it. It supports forms of life too numerous to list here. It’s perfect for balloons and squirt guns. It falls from the sky. Mixed with dirt, it creates mud. It can…
Life is complicated enough without brown bananas, mealy apples, yucky lettuce or green potatoes. Do you toss what seems like newly bought fruits and veggies in the trash or down the disposal every week? If so, that’s just like tossing money in the trash or down the disposal, especially with the rising cost of produce, along…
Summer can be your best friend, your worst enemy or both. I tend to think it’s both. Why do I feel this way? Summer offers many enticing aspects. However, it’s the season that most reminds of the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey. You remember them, right? They were a group of beautiful looking and singing women…
While not considered an addictive substance in the same category as, say, crack cocaine, crystal meth, or alcohol, for obvious reasons, soda does have addictive qualities. Those addictive qualities stem from two ingredients contained within; sugar and caffeine. Both ingredients release dopamine, the “happy hormone,” within the brain and that’s what gives sugar and caffeine…
We all have them, bad daily habits that contribute to our health issues. And many of those bad habits we are unaware of, which makes them especially nefarious (from my “word of the day” calendar). As I’m sure you’ve heard before, becoming aware of the problem is the first step to eliminating it. So, let’s…
No, I don’t know why anyone would be afraid to ask questions about collagen, but it makes for a good title. Anyway, let’s get started, shall we? It turns out that collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, comprising half the protein within us. It forms long, thin fibrils that act as a…
Yes, eating healthy can be quite a chore. If that’s the case, then the opposite must also be true and that is certainly the case. Eating in an unhealthy manner is incredibly easy thanks to fast food joints on every corner and how convenient and relatively inexpensive it is to buy and prepare processed foods….
In everyone’s small world, your brain is kind of a big deal. You know, it’s responsible for your every thought, memory, emotion and action. That being the case, it behooves oneself to take care of it in any way possible and one of the ways to take care of your brain is to feed it…