Why Digestive Enzymes are Important for Optimal Health
Digestive enzymes are the specialized proteins your body makes, that help to break down the food you eat into smaller, digestible nutrients that are more easily absorbed by our cells. When we eat, what ever we eat has to be broken down into it’s smaller nutritional components, because our body does not absorb food. Our body absorbs the nutrients in the food we eat, and it’s those nutrients that can then be absorbed and utilized by our...
Does Coffee Help To Improve Memory?
Being a self-proclaimed “coffee connoisseur,” I was really interested in getting to the bottom of this often debated question and I was really hoping for profound, unarguable scientific proof! Yup . . . I was ready to insert graphs, pie charts and all the evidence to prove that my intense love for this, in my opinion, magical beverage was giving me super powers beyond my wildest dreams. Why are you laughing?Well . . . I do not have...
5 Day Keto Jumpstart
The ketogenic diet has become much more than a buzz word. This diet has become almost it’s own religion in the multi-billion dollar diet and weightless industry. And with good reason! There is an infinite amount of success stories as well as scientific research data to support most of the claims that this diet promotes. And while this diet program can boast an impressive reputation, there are still many questions as to whether it...
What Can Be Done to Maintain Lean Muscle Mass As You Age?
Muscle mass isn’t just for photoshoots and looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger.Muscle mass is important to maintain a body that has the resilience and longevity to keep you happy, healthy, and active for longer.However, as we age, muscle mass wastes away and slowly changes how your body works. This is a process called sarcopenia, or age-related muscle-loss. It’s a significant problem and today we’re going to talk about what you can do...
What is Reverse Dieting and Are There Any Benefits To It?
Reverse dieting is an eating plan, largely made popular by professional bodybuilders and competitive athletes. The principle of reverse dieting is to gradually, while closely tracking your macros, increase your caloric intake over a period of several weeks to even a couple months to boost your metabolism while still maintaining body composition. What does this mean? It means seeing how many calories, again while tracking macros,...
Superfoods to Fight Inflammation & Heal Your Body
Do you suffer from chronic joint pain? Have you ever been told or heard that chronic inflammation can wreak havoc on your body and cause pain that you do NOT need to suffer with?I’m sure many of you reading this have heard even a little bit about inflammation just how much destruction it can cause. And while many of us are aware of the inflammation that occurs as a result of injury from physical activity or accidents that cause harm...
