If you’re an endurance athlete, you already know glycogen is your best friend. If you’re just getting into the arena, understanding what glycogen can do for your physical performance will help take you a long way. Let’s break Read more...
Water is just so fabulous, isn’t it? All that taste and texture is sure to expand your palate. Well…sort of. Okay, water isn’t the most exciting drink, especially when compared to flavorful juice, soda, beer, or wine (although Read more...
We hear a lot about metabolism and ways to speed it up. So, what is your basal metabolic rate and what does that mean? Your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, is the amount of energy measured in calories your body needs to complete all Read more...
Spore some mushrooms on me (in the name of love). Behold, the (edible) mushroom. It’s in your supermarkets. It’s the fungi at parties. It’s the friendly-looking specimen you find in the woods that—after correctly identifying Read more...
Do you hear that? The angels from Heaven are singing, the earth itself is rumbling, the clouds are parting to reveal…our very own Foundational Multi! We did it, we have achieved greatness! We took matters into our own hands Read more...
How much fish have you reeled into your diet lately? The fish in the sea everyone’s been telling you about is no cliché—metaphorically and literally, there are in fact plenty of fish to go around the world. But out of all Read more...
Congratulations! You have completed the first step to becoming healthier! Deciding to make a change can be one of the hardest but most rewarding things you will do in your life. Taking small manageable steps is the best way to ensure Read more...
The monotony of our daily schedules can get the best of us sometimes. Exercise serves not only as an outlet, but an excellent self-care method to temporarily remove us from our stressors! Moving our bodies not only distracts Read more...
A friend once stated to me, while we were on our evening walk in the crisp October air, that all she had to eat was a half a box of cheez-its and take a multi vitamin and still be healthy. There is a common belief in the health Read more...
Being stressed out is commonly understood to be a perceived pressure combined with a physical response. The physical response is a mixture of hormones and chemical messengers resulting in changes in our blood pressure, metabolism Read more...
