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Is Improving Mitochondria Function a Secret to Fixing Obesity?
You would think that having more energy producing/burning organelles within your pretty cool meat suit, and specifically fat cells themselves, would be a good thing. However, this biological phenomena seems to be a bit of a paradox. More mitochondria technically mean there is a greater potential to synthesize excess energy and keep a healthy balance […]
Short-Term Memory | Why We Lose It | How to Delay the Inevitable
One thing we often forget, mainly because we haven’t learned or remembered it. Is that memory comes if several different shapes and sizes. There are different tiers (or regions) within our 5lb mushy membrane that are responsible for different types of memory, and their amazing coordination is one of the reason we humans are lean, […]
Do Multivitamins Provide a Longevity Boost?
With all innovation comes unforeseen and unintended consequences. This has been a lesson we humans have learned and re-learned for a few hundred thousand years now. Mainly because, innovation is our superpower. It’s what allowed us to build large cities, transfer information in a matter of seconds and mass produce food to feed an ever-growing […]
Why the Fasting + Exercise Combo is Metabolic Magic
I know it’s hard to believe, but this world we live in filled with food stores, next day delivery and stable safe shelter…. was not the norm for the majority of our species and greater primate history. In fact, this world we’re accustom to (the last ~10,000 years) accounts for less than 00.1% of the […]
A New Upper limit to How Much Protein we can Utilize
“To Protein or NOT to Protein”….. That is the question…. Or at least it was until a new debate arose around “How Much” To Protein. Not only per day, but also per meal! Because as it turns out, a growing body of literature on the topic is suggesting a few different approaches as optimal. Gotta […]
The Gut Microbiomes Role in Brain Development | What You Can Do
There is something truly special about the brain in childhood. It’s the time period of rapid plasticity and pruning of neurons. The developmental period where brain structure is formed and connectivity between these different regions are solidified and customized… Ultimately paving the way for the composition of our adult minds. Which would make anything that […]
Asking AI for the Perfect Sleep Routine
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the everything we humans ever learned about optimizing sleep compiled and presented in a way which doesn’t make our head spin…. And ironically keep us up at night? Well, I can’t say that this perfect source of accurate information currently exists. However, we’re getting alot closer, and doing it […]
How Daily Time Restricted Eating Helps Fight Chronic Inflammation
Across ALL of the diseases and conditions that we modern humans face, ALOT of biological facts are different. Yet one thing seems to remain the same…. The Low Dose, Chronic Arousal, of the Immune System. And I hate to say it but this “Arousal” typically isn’t a good thing. It’s a happening which not only […]
Plants Secret Longevity Compounds | Phytochemicals
For a long time, the health benefits of eating plants were focused around three main attributes. Their generous composition of H20 (water), their vitamins and their minerals. This combination, along with the taken for granted carbohydrates, were the basis for their perceived benefits on us humans. That was, until the nutritional scientific revolution REALLY started […]
The RISE of Disease & Dysfunction | Re-Claim Your Healthspan & Longevity
If I were to tell you that we humans spend 30% of our lives taking medications would you be surprised? I for one know It’d certainly get me pondering. That’s why I REALLY had to sit down and process the fact that the average person is actually much MORE reliant on these magic pills! To […]
AUTOPHAGY as YOU Age | The Cellular Recycling Secret to Longevity
We’ve all had that roommate who would live their life putting dirty dishes in the sink with the intention of cleaning them later (if you haven’t, you may want to do some self-reflection). But as we all know “Later” quickly turns into a smelly confrontation that could only be done justice on a reality show […]
The Gut Microbiome | A Cure to Modern Anxiety?
It is well documented that our Microbiome, or the trillions of micro-organisms which live within us, is NOT what it used to be. As the health and diversity of these creepy crawlers has diminished quite a bit since our hunter gatherer origins. And that may not seem like a BIG Deal… Until, you realize that […]