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Regular exercise does so much more than building strong lean muscles and a healthy heart – it offers a wealth of “above-the-neck” benefits too. Exercise has been linked to everything from boosting brain power and helping control addiction, to inspiring creativity and...
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 - especially...
The people returning to the office are not the same as those who left in March 2020. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index compiles input from 31,000 people in 31 countries, labour trends from LinkedIn, and trillions of productivity signals from Microsoft 365 to offer a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We all know the benefits of a good night’s sleep. Not only does it make us feel better, it enables us to combat fatigue and work more productively. But one US company is taking this a step further and paying its employees if they get the recommended amount of rest....