Life Hacks

When it comes to resistance training, we’ve written before about how Resistance Is Useful! (Especially As We Get Older). We’ve talked about how it doesn’t have to involve gyms and big iron clanky things: Resistance Beyond Weights …and also about how it doesn’t have to be a lot, for example: How Useful Is “Exercise Snacking”,…

First introduced as a diabetes medication, GLP-1 drugs quickly took hold for off-label use as weight loss aids, even when the science was still very young. Here’s one of our first articles on that, back in the day: Semaglutide’s Surprisingly Big Research Gap As for that popularity? Check out: 1 in 5 US Women Aged…

Spoiler: it’s good What dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this deoxyribonucleic coil, …must indeed give us pause! Researchers (Dr. Umaimah Zanif et al.) did a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 40 night-shift workers tested whether taking 3mg of melatonin daily for 4 weeks before daytime sleep (because: night-shift workers) could improve the body’s…

On May the 4th (International Star Wars Day), we joked: May The Fourth Be With You ✨ If you’re trying to remember what that mystical web-like thing is that surrounds us, fills us, and binds us together… It’s collagen! So, to help your body make more collagen, make sure to get plenty of protein, vitamins…

First, what is leaky gut? It’s when the barrier between the gut and the rest of the body gets punctured, and things that should definitely stay in the gut escape into the rest of the body. You may be wondering: how does the gut get punctured and is this only a risk if someone’s stabbing…

We’ve written before about the benefits of intermittent fasting, such as: Intermittent fasting is mostly enjoyed for its metabolic benefits, such as How To Prevent And Reverse Type 2 Diabetes. We also covered a very related topic, with intermittent fasting once again being on the suggestions list: Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity! ← this is actually…

We’ve written before about supplementation of calcium and vitamin D, for example: Vit D + Calcium: Too Much Of A Good Thing? ← this also talks about safe and effective doses, and what goes wrong if you take too much And even if you get the dosage right, there are still more ways to mess…

Bananas are a healthy fruit for most people (there is such a thing as a banana allergy, so we can’t extend it to all people, but certainly most people). Full of fiber, carbs for energy, vitamins and minerals, and a stack of nutritious phytochemicals. One thing we will quickly say as a small counterpoint, which…

First introduced as a diabetes medication, GLP-1 drugs quickly took hold for off-label use as weight loss aids, even when the science was still very young. Here’s one of our first articles on that, back in the day: Semaglutide’s Surprisingly Big Research Gap As for that popularity? Check out: 1 in 5 US Women Aged…

How healthy are your kidneys? Most people don’t know, unless a problem has already been identified. There are clinical tests that can be done (they’ll just need a urine sample from you; ask your doctor about it), but there’s some screening that can be done at home already: Are Your Kidneys Healthy? Take This One-Minute…

Usually, when we talk about coffee (and/or caffeine) and cardiovascular health, the question is more about potential increase of health risks, often because of dipterpenes such as cafestol and kahweol, which can raise LDL cholesterol: However, that’s not the whole story… A matter of time The crux here, when it comes to “is coffee good…