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5 Ways To Optimize Your Immune System For Back To School
One of the few things kids don’t mind sharing is germs. They go to school, pick up germs, and bring them home. On top of that, as the weather turns…
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What Are Epigenetics And How To Optimize It Through Nutrition?
In the early 90s, researchers expected humans to have around 120,000 genes given how complex our physiology is. To their surprise, the Human Genome Project found that we have between 20,000 – 25,000 genes—the same order of magnitude as roundworms (20,470).
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Why Every Diet Fails
The smartest path to success is understanding other people’s mistakes and learning from them. Insanity is ignoring them and repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
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What Are The Weight Setpoint And Environmental Settling Point?
When you try to lose weight, your body fights back, making it harder to lose and keep weight off. Once you understand how your body fights back for its survival, there are things you can do to mitigate the effects so you can finally lose weight and keep it off. Here are a few theories of how our survival mechanisms work.
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A1 vs. A2 Milk And Your Health
Milk is mostly proteins, 80% of which is casein. There are over a dozen different types of casein proteins. The most common are A1 and A2 beta-casein.
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25 Stealth Toxins Ruining Your Health And What You Can Do About It
The modern diet and lifestyle may seem normal, as do feeling crummy and performing suboptimally. The truth is that there are many normal things that won’t kill you but are silently ruining your health. If your goal is to optimize your health, performance, and aesthetics, it’s important to be aware of these stealth factors and mitigate your risk.
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8 Ways Probiotics Benefit Your Health As A Man
Probiotics can benefit men of all ages because of their wide-ranging effects. While we all know that probiotics help maintain and restore healthy gut function, there are many uncommon and largely undiscussed benefits of probiotics for men’s health.
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How to Cleanse Your Colon and Eliminate Constipation
The colon, also known as the large intestine, is an important organ in the digestive system. Everything starts with digestive health and colon health is an important aspect.
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Exploring the Lactobacillus Plantarum Benefits from Probiotics
What Is Lactobacillus Plantarum? Lactobacillus plantarum (L. plantarum) is a lactic acid bacteria that does not produce gas. It’s a popular strain in dairy, meat, and vegetable fermentation and as…
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What is Brain Fog and How to Treat it?
Imagine having worked hard for years and finally getting paid for your thinking, decision making, and drive… But then your brain starts to glitch on you. Your thinking starts to cloud up. Your brain feels sluggish and tired. Your memory starts to lag. And you can’t focus as well as you used to.
This can be scary. You may wonder if the brain fog will ever go away, if this could be the end of your career, or if you’re on your way to Alzheimer’s. Meanwhile, your doctor can’t find anything wrong with you and chalks it up to stress or aging.
The good news is that we now know a lot about the science behind brain fog. Once you understand the root causes, you are typically able to reverse brain fog and further improve cognitive function using nootropics.
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The Benefits of a Gluten-Free Diet
A gluten-free diet may be difficult to follow, because gluten-containing foods are everywhere. For many people, excluding gluten can reduce inflammation and help with their pesky symptoms. However, everyone has…
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What is the difference between prebiotics and probiotics?
Gut health is a trending topic because it affects all aspects of health. Also, the science about gut microbiota has significantly improved in the last few years since genomic technologies have made it possible to study the gut microbiome.
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