Regular bowel movements and adequate elimination are key indicators of a properly functioning digestive system. However, almost 20% of the North Americans (around 63 million people), suffer from constipation. This results in annual medical costs of approximately $235 million.
Read MoreGetting the right amount of protein every day is crucial to keto diet success. When protein consumption is too low, following any diet plan will be more challenging. Protein helps increase calorie burning while also decreasing cravings and hunger levels.
Read MoreThe next time you come across a trending fat loss tip, pause for a moment, and do your due diligence to find out the truth. It is equally as important to analyze your current situation to determine if this particular weight loss strategy will work for you.
Read MoreFrom menstrual irregularities to excess weight gain, it can seem like keto is messing with female hormones. However, much of it depends on your health and eating patterns. There are ways to troubleshoot the ketogenic diet for women so they can safely reap all the benefits.
Read MoreCollagen stores decline naturally with age, however, and certain environmental factors, like stress and toxic exposures, can further slow its production. This may lead to a host of unwelcome issues — stiff joints, sagging skin, and the creeping onset of arthritis symptoms.
Read MoreAn increasing number of people are dealing with insulin resistance. Insulin is important for a cell’s ability to absorb and use glucose for energy. Insulin resistance occurs due to an inability to respond to and use insulin. Insulin resistance can lead to prediabetes, diabetes, inflammation, and many serious health problems. Through appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes, insulin resistance can be reversed and insulin sensitivity improves naturally.
Read MoreHealthy lifestyle strategies play a very important role in helping you achieve and maintain your ketogenic goals. Adjusting your nutrition and lifestyle habits and activities can create an enormous difference between finding yourself in a state of fat adaptation where you have sustainable energy and mental clarity or a state of sugar burning where you feel sluggish, and find yourself with rampant brain fog and carbohydrate cravings.
Read MoreAlthough you may not put as much thought into the items you use to prepare your meals, store our leftovers and clean up, those pots, pans, storage containers and disinfectants could be undermining your best efforts by potentially increasing the amount of toxins you consume, causing adverse effects on your health and the environment.
Read MoreThe gallbladder is an organ that aids in the digestion of fatty foods by storing up bile reserves. Bile is generated in the liver and carried to the gallbladder through the bile ducts. The gallbladder will contract to force bile out when it is triggered after fats have been consumed.
Read MoreIt may please you to learn there are specific fat burning hormones that you have the power to trigger and upregulate without having to spend. countless hours in the gym or (barely) subsisting on baked chicken breast and steamed broccoli. Particular hormones trigger your body to break down stored fat into free fatty acids (lipolysis) and promote the use of these fatty acids in the energy making process.
Read MoreNot all of us walk around aware that there is a living, thriving, non-human colony of organisms that resides in our digestive tract. Your large intestine is home to approximately 4 pounds of beneficial bacteria, collectively known as the microbiome. This microbiome consists of thousands of different strains of bacteria, totaling up at around one hundred trillion cells.
Read MoreThe notion that a low salt diet is the preferred options began was founded on flawed science about 200 years ago. Doctors knew then that the body required salt to maintain blood pressure balance and falsely assumed that too consuming much salt contributed to high blood pressure and heart disease. This resulted in huge (unsuccessful) government campaigns to get people to eat less salt.
Read MoreAlthough not part of a true whole foods, low carbohydrate lifestyle, including a small amount of safe starches in your diet may work for you and your lifestyle (and can help with transitions and social situations). As a healthy individual, including certain whole, gluten-free grains and pseudo grains as part of your diet and lifestyle is personal decision.
Read MoreThe human body is more aware of its conditions than what the brain is able to convey resulting in misunderstanding what cravings actually refer to. Common food cravings are associated with a nutrient deficiency guised as the brownie which feeds the need for a temporary and immediate mood regulator but not the innate health or nutritional concern at hand.
Read MoreThe modern environment is profoundly different than that of ancient man. One of the fundamental tenets of the ancestral health movement and traditional, real-food-based diets is the understanding that there is a ‘mismatch’ between human evolutions the current environment in numerous ways:
Read MoreThe Paleo diet (no matter your interpretation – low carb or not) places a huge emphasis on the quality of the food you are eating – hoe it was raised or grown is important for optimal health and the health of the planet. When it comes to choosing Paleo proteins, grass-fed and pastured meats cost more than their conventional counterparts. That’s just the way it is. There is hope that as the demand for grass-fed meats continues to grow the prices will continue to come down. In the meantime, however, fitting ethically raised proteins into both your diets and your budget may require a little forethought and creativity.
Read MoreMagnesium deficiency is rampant, currently affecting an estimated 80% of individuals in North America. The average diet consists of 175 mg/day of magnesium, down from an average 500 mg/day representative of diets in the 1900’s. Most people are simply not consuming enough magnesium rich foods.
Read MoreYou are constantly being bombarded with toxins: some that mimic your hormones, which can lead to hormone-related diseases, some that impact cognitive function, which can lead to memory loss and some that cause inflammation and oxidative stress, which can curse you with fatigue, excess belly fat, wrinkles, pain, and so much more!
Read MoreThe right fats are important for supporting immune function, insulating internal organs, regulating body temperature, maintaining healthy skin and hair, and aiding in the absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K), among other crucial functions.
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