Journal
Exploring the connection between nutrition, lifestyle, and whole-body wellness.
Did You Know Heart Disease Is the #1 Killer of Women — and Most Find Out During a Heart Attack?
The leading health risk for women is not breast cancer, though breast cancer receives the most public attention and fear. It is cardiovascular disease, which kills more women than all cancers combined. And yet the conversation about women's cardiovascular health...
Did You Know the Window to Protect Your Bones Closes Earlier Than You Think?
The standard medical recommendation is to begin monitoring bone density at age 65. For women with typical risk factors, this means the first DEXA scan arrives after an entire decade or more of accelerated bone loss has already occurred, loss that began in the years of...
Did You Know One Hour of Phone Use Before Bed Cuts Your Melatonin in Half?
Most people are aware, in a vague sense, that phones before bed are not ideal for sleep. That awareness has not translated into behavioral change for most, and the reason is probably that the framing has remained abstract. Dr. Matthew Walker, neuroscientist and sleep...
Did You Know You Can Eat Well and Still Be Critically Deficient in Key Nutrients?
The assumption that a reasonably healthy diet provides adequate nutrition is widespread — and, according to the research of Dr. Rhonda Patrick, biomedical scientist and founder of FoundMyFitness, frequently incorrect. Population-level data on micronutrient status in...
Did You Know Perimenopause Can Begin in Your Mid-30s?
For many women, the years between their late 30s and early 50s are marked by changes that are difficult to explain: mood instability, disrupted sleep, unexplained weight gain, anxiety that seems to come from nowhere, memory lapses, and a general sense of not feeling...
Did You Know Morning Sunlight Is the Most Powerful Free Health Tool Available?
If a single daily habit could improve mood, regulate hormones, deepen sleep, sharpen focus, strengthen the immune system, and reduce stress, with no cost and no side effects, it would be considered a medical breakthrough. That habit exists. It is morning sunlight...
Did You Know Sleep Loss Is Quietly Rewiring Your Hormones?
Sleep deprivation is often framed as a productivity problem — something that makes you tired and unfocused. But Dr. Matthew Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley and the world's most cited sleep researcher, makes a more serious case: chronic...
Did You Know? Your mouthwash may be harming more than helping.
Did You Know Your Mouthwash Could Be Raising Your Blood Pressure? Most of us were taught one simple thing about mouthwash: it kills bad bacteria and keeps your breath fresh. That part is true. But research by Dr. Nathan Bryan, a leading nitric oxide biochemist,...
