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A great way to get ahead on your health for 2022 or the perfect gift for a loved one who may appreciate the thought STEP 1: Cell Blueprint - online questionnaire But what is the cell blue print I hear you ask! Well, it asks a series of questions all aimed at getting...
Add this to your next blood test to assess heart risk Cardiovascular disease remains one of the biggest health threats to Americans. For years, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels have been the measuring stick for cardiovascular risk, but recent studies have indicated that...
New research from Sweden suggests that regular physical exercise makes you less likely to suffer from anxiety. In a huge study covering 2 decades and including over 200,00 people, investigators from Lund University noted that some 10 percent of individuals worldwide...
Nutrition Coach (yep that's me at F4L) A nutrition coach is qualified to provide nutrition plans and advice for the support of health and performance. This differs from being a ‘Nutritionist’ in that the scope of practice for a nutrition coach doesn’t include treating...
When keeping on moving is the best thing to do Movement is medicine is a great way of looking at things. When we move we provide the body with a stimulus to heal. That healing comes from better blood flow, removal of waste products and an bunch of feel good hormones...
It’s that time of year isn’t it, we start a new calendar year and make resolutions. I’ve learnt over time that resolutions don’t have a great success rate and it’s not until I heard and read more about the subject that I realised we are doing it all wrong.You see, a...
I’m reading a book about neuroplasticity and I was blown away by the first case study.
A lady who had been taking a drug which had a side affect of attacking the vestibular system (your inner ear balance mechanism).She had many falls and ended up seeing a specialist who referred her onto a guy who was trialing a new technology to help the brain correct itself and learn to balance the body again.
When it comes to looking after yourself. There are so many things to look at it’s hard to know where to start sometimes.
So to distill some of the time taken in looking at all aspects of health I wanted to share come BIG BANG hits so you can add these into your life.
In the late 1800’s the invention of the light bulb did an amazing thing for productivity allowing us to keep working after sunset. However with it came some unexpected health consequences that we may not have foreseen.
If you think about it our bodies are very much like our cars. If we look after them they look after us. Often it can be too easy to skip a service or let the tyres get so worn down that the car may not even pass it’s WOF. Would you do the same to your body?