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Everyone at the Gym IS Looking at You…..
Growing up on Long Island I naturally had a few traits hard-coded into my DNA, one of the the most prevalent : Bagels rule the Morning! It’s rare that you travel more then a mile of local streets (yes, even across the Suffolk farm land) without seeing a sign shouting that bagels were baked for […]
Pain Meds Make You Care Less?
SD – Over-the-counter pain medicine such as Ibuprofen and acetaminophen may influence how people process information, experience hurt feelings, and react to emotionally evocative images, according to recent studies. Hold the Phone! Let me make sure I’m processing this information correctly, I just gotta remember if I took any Ibuprofen this morning….. Nope, I’m good. […]
Kids Acting Up? – Blame the Air
PS -“It’s very well known that air pollution can affect respiratory function or health. But it’s not as well known that it can also affect the brain,” says Younan. Over the past decade, scientists started to note mounting evidence that suggests inhaling polluted air is toxic to the brain. That is slowly being linked to […]
Are you a Weekend Warrior???
I think its fair to say that the majority of young-working Americans fall into the “Weekend Warrior” category. Typically in Bed at 10:30pm Monday through Thursday and then Friday 4pm hits… All routine, structure and daily habits are put on pause and random acts of weekend vibes ensue. Not a bad thing at all. Well, […]
It’s Just Five Pounds…Huh
NYT – An ambitious new study published this month in Cell Systems, however, promises to shed some new light, enumerating for the first time the thousands of changes in genes and various biological systems that may occur after even a small amount of weight gain, and which may — or may not — be reversed […]
It’s Hard Work – To Work Hard
Its Hard Work to Work Hard Thinks about this statement for a little, let it light up your brain as you try to decipher the code, its inner meaning. To me this sentence can also be presented the following way : “Working Hard is Hard Work”. Working hard has always been an outspoken pillar to […]
Fitness, Nutrition and Fashion…Wait What?
Remember when people had two sets of cloths, you know – for when its warm and for when its cold. Life was simple, for those in-between months you’d just take a guess and live a little. Then some real sharp tools in the shed thought: “Hey, we need cloths for all four seasons . Lets […]
Your Gut is Smarter Than You Think
HHP- Interest is also developing in the so-called “brain-gut axis.” It has been theorized that changes in intestinal bacteria may play a role in neuropsychiatric conditions such as anxiety or depression. The intestine has its own separate nervous system, and generates many of the same neurotransmitters (including acetylcholine and serotonin) that the brain generates. These […]
Your Office is a Hostile Environment
NYT – Americans spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors. Until recently, little was known about how this was impacting us. But evidence is now mounting that we are paying a physiological price for spending all those hours cooped up unnaturally within four walls. Levels of the stress hormone cortisol tend to be higher […]
Don’t be a Jerkoff…Just be Nice
People are naturally nice, all you have to do is be nice first and the magical walls all of a sudden begin to fall down. Let a person see the real you and they’ll make an assessment right then and there. If its not meant to be then so be it, no time wasted […]
It’s All About Balance
I had a friend approach me recently with the question: What Diet should I go on, Paleo or Keto? I already knew the answer I was going to give her but I was intrigued to hear her reasoning for zoning in on these two diets. I asked her what she was trying to achieve? Her […]
Would You Just Spit It Out Already….Fat That Is
PI-Some of the water produced as the body consumes fat exits in the usual way, through your urine and sweat. But a 2014 study in the British Medical Journal found that most of the byproducts of fat (including all that carbon dioxide) leaves the body through the respiratory system. Yep, you read that right. […]