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A hormonal imbalance with too much or too little of a hormone can profoundly affect your health and well-being. Without knowing it, you may be making it worse with what you are or are not including in your diet.

As a woman, you’ve probably been told that any hormonal symptoms you’ve experienced are normal or part of aging. You may have even been recommended birth control, antidepressants, or hormone replacement medication.

As women, if we’re not already there, we all know that it’s coming: menopause. You’ve probably heard dramatic, often funny stories of women stripping off layers of clothes as an unexpected hot flash hits them.

Now that we’ve got through all of the nutritional factors that can go wrong and make menopause more uncomfortable in part 1, let’s talk about 8 ways you can support your body with nutrition and make it through the transition with ease.

If you live in North America or Europe, you surely were happy when the clock moved backwards in the fall and allowed you to get “an extra hour of sleep.”

At BiOptimizers, we are not religious about any particular diet. We believe any diet can work, and any diet without the right compliance strategies can backfire. Therefore, we say “nutritional…

If you’re considering a plant-based diet, you might be wondering how to get enough protein. After all, protein is an essential nutrient that helps your body build and repair muscle,…

In this article, we’ll explain leptin resistance, how it happens, and how to reverse it with diet, lifestyle, supplements, and more.

To lose weight, you obviously need to be in a caloric deficit. However, your body is not a simple furnace that burns calories–many factors regulate how you respond to foods.

Plant-based diets are becoming increasingly more popular for not only health reasons, but for spiritual and environmental ones as well.

Muscles make you look better, perform better, age better, and live longer, even if you don’t plan on being shredded. However, building muscles can be challenging for some, especially skinny or ectomorph men and women who have very high metabolism to begin with.

Collagen is a strong, elastic, most abundant protein in your body. Its characteristics are crucial for many aspects of life, from cellular to whole tissue level.