Nutrition

The Sodium Story

What is sodium?   Sodium is an essential mineral that plays a vital role in maintaining proper bodily functions. It’s naturally found in many foods like table salt, cheese, cured meats and some baked goods. Sodium is also found not-so-naturally in...

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How To Carb Backload with Metabolic Meals

Carb backloading raises your metabolism and helps you sleep better. By consuming a measured amount of carbs later in the day, the added glycogen can lower cortisol, ramp up your metabolic rate and help you sleep deeper. Carb backloading also gives you many of the...

10 Foods for Healthy Mitochondria

Mitochondria have earned their position as the "powerhouses" of our cells. The energy mitochondria produce is involved in some of the most important biologic processes in our bodies. Being responsible for most of your body’s functions, your mitochondria have an enormous impact on your health and longevity, specifically as protectors …

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Diets That Work Have 3 Things in Common

What if I told you that you could learn enough within one week to take full control of your health and maintain a healthy weight from here on out? Diet success can be as simple as learning these three foundational truths of nutrition.

4 Reasons Why a Gluten-Free Diet Might Be Exactly What You Need

For many years, the mainstream view of a gluten-free diet remained black or white: It’s a must if you have celiac disease and if you don’t, there’s no need to avoid gluten. After 10 years of helping people eat gluten-free, we know that the positive benefits can be life changing …

6 Tips to Crush Carb Cravings

The urge to eat high-carb foods like pizza, bagels, and sweet treats isn't always a matter of willpower -- it could mean your body is trying to tell you something. A lack of essential nutrients, stress, or too little sleep can make you reach for comfort in the form of …

Carbs: Essential, Evil, or Cyclical?

Carbohydrates are typically classified as good or bad, but those labels are misleading. Carbs are neither inherently good nor bad; they’re not essential, but they don’t harm your body by themselves. That being said, some carbs are of a much higher quality than...

Fitness Goals: Don’t Make These 5 Mistakes

Losing body fat can be a difficult task. Unfortunately, clean eating and regular exercise can sometimes be viewed as antisocial activities by friends and family who don’t practice healthy lifestyles. It’s not uncommon to be pressured into skipping a workout or...

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