by Rich Ellis | Apr 26, 2022 | Health, Immunity, Mental Health, Productivity, Wellness
Hormones are the chemical messengers of the body – each one sending out specific instructions to each organ. But it’s easy to overlook just how important our hormones are until they aren’t working properly, since they control so many areas of your health –...
by Rich Ellis | Mar 3, 2022 | Fitness, Health, Mental Health, Productivity, Wellness
We generally know that a sign of health is a reasonable amount of muscle on our bodies. Obviously going to the extreme of body building can have negative effects on our health if we take it too far. Lean muscle mass is an indicator of health and we are going to...
by Rich Ellis | Feb 24, 2022 | Health, Immunity, Mental Health
Allostasis occurs when stress takes us away from our homeostasis or set point. If we do anything that takes us away from that point the body works extra hard to bring us back to it. Think of this in a context of exercise. When we workout we push our bodies slightly...
by Rich Ellis | Feb 22, 2022 | Diet, Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Productivity, Wellness
There are many ways in which you can work on improving your ability to concentrate on a task. Social media has taught us to blink and scroll without even giving something a second thought. Fair to say our attention spans have got shorter and shorter. So what can we do...
by Rich Ellis | Jan 26, 2022 | Fitness, Health, Immunity, Mental Health
Running on the road uses your tensile strength whereas running on the beach uses your contractile strength. TENSILE: The tensile system essentially loads up the connective tissue and uses its elasticity to propel you forward – the key element here is the ground force...
by Rich Ellis | Jan 25, 2022 | Health, Mental Health, Productivity, Uncategorized, Wellness
If you working remotely or in some kind of hybrid model then the following tips from Thrive will help make that transition easier of the ongoing process a little more palatable. Many of us first transitioned to remote work in 2020, and two years later, some workplaces...