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How Exercise Affects Your Gut
Though it is well known that diet can certainly modulate the composition of the gut microbiota, we are only just beginning to understand how exercise affects your gut and gut microbiome. However, considering the many roles of the gut in the development and maintenance of overall health, it is not surprising that there is great…
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The Benefits of Becoming a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner
The new lifestyle medicine (LM) diplomas and lifestyle medicine’s recent addition to the curriculum at medical schools such as Cambridge University represent its emergence as a standalone specialty. However, despite its basis in a holistic approach to health, LM is not a complementary or alternative form of medicine. It is a mainstream, evidence-based specialty that…
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7 Health Benefits of Nature to Humans (Backed by Science)
Why is nature so important to human health? Intuitively we’ve always known how good time in nature feels. Recently researchers have exposed the health benefits of time in both green and blue expanses.
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Lean Microbiota vs Obese Microbiota | Systematic Review
Obesity is a severe health problem the world over, affecting 650 million adults worldwide. Shockingly, over 124 million children are also suffering from obesity. For this reason, researchers have become increasingly fascinated with establishing the key factors that could be altered to reduce this health burden on the global human family.
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Realizing the Promise of Lifestyle Medicine
The popular catch-phrase “patient-centered care” is often used, but may be missing the mark in many cases. Another catch phrase is “data-driven strategy” but are medical practices taking the time to understand what the data is telling them? Recent studies have attempted to decode these dynamics. In this article, we propose a new approach to…
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How To Successfully Launch An Online Program
There’s always something new to learn about launching an online program, no matter how many times you’ve launched one. Tools are constantly being developed to provide new ways of targeting prospects from your ideal audience more exclusively and powerfully during a launch. Your audience’s expectations and digital behavior can alter. However, the nuts and bolts…
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Immunoglobulins For Digestive, Immune and Sports Nutrition Support
A healthy digestive system breaks down foods and liquids into carbohydrates, fats, and proteins so the body can absorb them as nutrients for growth and energy. It also contains much of the body’s immune system, protecting against pathogens or other toxic substances consumed in food or water. As with all complicated systems, the human digestive…
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Upregulating Microbiome Health to Boost Immunity
The field of immunology is at a fascinating crossroad. In recent years, immunological research has evolved to include an understanding of tissue microenvironments as a fundamental determinant of immune responses. This area of research has led to the integration of the microbiota as a regulator of immune responses.
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Healthy Blood Sugar Levels 101
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 422 million people with diabetes mellitus (DM) and 318 million with impaired glucose tolerance (dysglycemia). This is an important public health issue that requires attention given its relationship to a plethora of chronic diseases as well as economic burden. We know that overweight (BMI > 25)…
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How Omega-3s Support Your Body’s Immune Response
Boosting your immune system is one of the most beneficial steps that you can take to enhance overall health, and now more than ever we would like to do what we can to optimize our health.