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Oxytocin “The Love Hormone” May Be a Secret Longevity Gem
Being Kind is often portrayed as a chore in this modern world. Something that we need to go out of our way to do, with little immediate “RON”( Return-on-Niceness) to show for it… So how exactly do we get people to willingly do more if it? Simple! By teaching them the TRUE incentives! As this […]
Post Exercise Inflammation is GOOD for Muscle | Here’s Why
There is no bigger commonality across ALL the top diseases we intelligent walking apes face than the low-dose chronic arousal of the immune system… aka Chronic Inflammation. Being such a BIG factor in cellular dysfunction and disease that we’ve been calling it “Longevity Liability Numero Uno” for years now. Regularly discussing strategies which control & […]
Poor Sleep Floods Your Cells With Free Radicals | Altering Cardiovascular Risk
It seems the more modern science looks into it, the more evidence there is explaining why after 50+ million years of primate evolution, sleep hasn’t gone anywhere. That is a BIG feat for a daily activity that sends an organism into a state of unconsciousness, leaving them totally vulnerable to predators and threats. Because for […]
Is a Calorie Restriction Counter-Productive for Longevity?
“Eat Less & Move More”…. the age-old advice from primary care physicians everywhere. And although most people probably would improve their present-day health by attempting to follow this incredibly vague advice. You have to wonder, is it REALLY the optimal strategy for Health over time? Aka Longevity? Potentially, but it’s hard to argue for… As […]
Why Your Appetite May be Out of Control | Circadian Mis-Alignment
We ALL know that in this world, Timing is Everything! But what I bet you didn’t realize, is that THIS was the case long before that saying meme’d its way into existence. In Fact, this “Timing is Everything” relevance dates back to life as we know it. With early organisms developing and evolving in a […]
Adding Meat After 6-Years of Plant Based Eating | Here’s What Happened
I recently learned that bitter-sweet feeling can in-fact, come from what you eat… Because that was exactly how I felt as I wrapped-up my multi-year eating experiment. One which entailed incorporating some strategic, high quality animal-based foods into my dietary strategy after 6-years of a plant based lifestyle. And the results only solidified my own […]
Why Strength May be More Important than Muscle for Longevity
In prior posts we’ve talked about how MORE muscle was generally linked to MORE Longevity. Being a critical tissue which not only keeps us structurally functional but one which is responsible for a lot of the KEY biochemical activity that keeps us young and efficient on the inside! However, during this muscle love-fest, we assumed […]
A Sedentary Life is Slowly Killing You & Your Longevity | Here’s How to Fix It
I always thought if technology was going to kill us humans, it would be through some sort-of “Sky-Net-like” scenario where the machines we built turn against us… And although that is STILL a very-possible outcome, the truth of the matter is, the human killing spree has already begun! One which is slowly, yet methodically, chipping […]
The BEST Anti-Depressant is FREE | A Healthy Lifestyle
The Modern Day Mental Health dilemma is a sticky one. A nonsensical reality where we humans live in the most prosperous time society has ever seen, yet we’re the saddest we’ve been in recordable history… A dilemma which only seems to be getting worse as the advancements in technology, science and pharmaceuticals soar. So what […]
Mitochondria | The Secret to a Strong Immune System?
The Immune system has had no problems getting its fair share of press these days. However, almost every article (scientific or not) fails to address the highly combustible elephants in the cellular room. “Mini” elephants which sit at the very core to complex cellular life as we know it, having a direct and indirect effect […]
How Your Gut Microbiome Can Make You Smarter
If I were to tell you that the barely understood complexities of the human mind is somehow influenced by little microscopic non-self organisms which take-up residence in your intestinal lining… You’d ask what science fiction flick I was referencing… In which I would “Oh So Pleasantly” get to inform you that there is NO science […]
Circadian Aligned Time Restricted Feeding | A Neurodegeneration Therapy?
When you think about the 2-to-3 hundred thousand years of human history (give or take as few thousand) it’s pretty simple to overlook that for 99.9% of that time we lived on very much the same clock. Internal Biological Clock that is… With our biology ebbing and flowing with the day-night cycles of the sun. […]