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The way that your body cycles levels of activity throughout the day is called your circadian rhythm. Various brain centers have internal rhythms that affect your body, and in turn are affected by things like your sleep cycles, activity level, and light exposure. Since they play such a large role in how your body functions, [...]
Picture this: You wake up refreshed and excited for the day to begin. Restorative Sleep has been in effect for a couple days now and the new day is greeted with renewed energy. Lunch is packed and ready to pull out of the fridge on the way out the door. The alarm was set for [...]
Humans evolved over the millennia being physical – survival meant performing consistently varied relatively low intensity endurance activities such as gathering food, building shelter, tracking animals, and simply moving with the seasons (this was 40,000 years before agriculture appeared). This means that humans developed the physiological need for moving at a low level of exertion [...]
The scenario below isn’t a medical condition – sadly, it’s a way of life. The battle for getting pure sleep and combating chronic insomnia rages on. The cares of life will usurp every minute we give them – including those that should be reserved for restoration and repair. Our challenge is not to yield them [...]
According to the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that 22 million of the world’s children under 5 are overweight or obese. In the United States, nearly 13 percent of American children are considered overweight, and In some countries more than 30 percent of children are obese. Such statistics indicate that [...]
We all do what we need to do to survive, “get by”, and deal with the stressors of modern life: Stress at home, stress in our relationships, stress at work. In all of these, good, bad, or ugly, the stress that accumulates adds to the load we’re already carrying through life. Thankfully, we are surrounded [...]
Grains were not meant to be consumed by humans. Actually, grain products can be quite problematic when digested in the human body. And, you may need to sit down for this one: Grains are largely responsible for the diseases of civilization. Chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, auto immune disorders, strokes, and cancer all [...]
You body is designed to consume fresh, pure water. The water you are drinking, however, while it may not be making you ill immediately, more than likely has some interesting things in it. What is in Your Water?Bacteria such as e. coli, chlorine and other chemicals used to kill bacteria; chemicals from environmental pollutants; toxic [...]
When it comes to hydration, we want our bodies to be like a soup rather than a stew. Think about it, our amazing bodies have literally trillions of cells undergoing trillions of reactions every single second we are alive. Most of those reactions deal with the uptake of nutrients or the elimination of wastes. Would [...]
