The Internet Is Not A Doctor
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Active Recovery
Recovery in the exercise context serves two purposes. It allows you to heal from all the little muscle tears that are a natural part of working out, and it ensures you are in the best place to perform in your next session. It looks both backward and forward. When you’re thinking about recovery, you need
Hypertrophy
Have you noticed how health and fitness seem to have lots of big words to express what you might have thought were simple concepts? Hypertrophy is one of them. It’s a fancy turn of phrase that you probably don’t use every day, but if you’re someone who cares about growing your muscles, muscle hypertrophy is
Innate And Adaptive
You probably know what the immune system is in a general sense. It’s your body’s great defender, fighting off illness and disease. You probably also know that it changes throughout your life. That’s where it starts getting interesting. Babies, when they’re first born, don’t have much in the way of immunity. Their bodies need to
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Good Habits
Few muscles and organs are as important as the heart. If it didn’t pump blood around the body, nutrients, hormones, and even oxygen wouldn’t be able to reach where they’re needed. Nothing else would work properly. That means that you need to take very good care of it. It’s never too late to get into
It’s Complicated
Is any area of health more controversial than fat loss? Just how much of our weight is genetic, and how much of it can we control? Which advice should we listen to among all the doctors, scientists and random people on the internet? The basic advice for losing weight stays pretty much the same wherever
The Thyroid
There are hormones involved in every part of our body’s functioning, and one way in which they have an impact is on our energy levels. There are a few ways in which this is the case, but one is because of the gland known as the thyroid. In particular, if you’re experiencing powerful fatigue for
Make It Work For You
It seems that everyone has an opinion on what you should eat, how you should eat it, when you should eat, and why their opinion is somehow even better than all the other million views about eating that seem to be available whenever you ask that deceptively simple question, “What is a healthy diet?” I’m
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From Top To Bottom
It’s pretty incredible when you think about it. Look at that apple or steak or bar of chocolate, then imagine all the things that have to happen to it so it can give you the nutrients you need. In the long, complicated process of the digestive system, so many things have to go right for
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