Category Archives: Sleep
Adapting Your Diet & Lifestyle To The Winter
Most of us understand that the colder months are associated with less sunshine, shorter days, and a lower activity level. But few (if any) of us make adjustments to our nutrition, training and lifestyle regimen to compliment it. Interestingly, some have suggested that failing to make the proper changes in the winter is one of…
How Stress Makes You Fat & Sick (and what to do about it)
Most of us recognize that excess stress is bad for our health and body composition, but not many of us understand why. Because if we did, we’d probably start paying a little more attention to the techniques for reducing it; instead of treating it like hippy mumbo-jumbo or a curfew from Mom and Dad, and…
Live It NOT Diet! FAQs - Low Energy
If you’re still in the first few days (or week) of Phase 1, low energy is perfectly normal. The more insulin resistant you are, and more you’ve been relying on sugar-fuel, the more difficult the first few days of Live It NOT Diet! are going to be. Try to think of it as reassurance that…
The Only 9-5 To Consider
We’ll leave the discussion on why you should quit your day job and get out of the 9am – 5pm rat race for another day. For now, we’ll look at new research that strengthens the case for embracing a 9pm - 5am sleep schedule. Other than total sleep duration, research has suggested that your bed-time…
Pushing for the Perfect Poop - Using Your Stool as a Prevention Tool
Bowel movements are one of the best gauges of health. So it’s unfortunate to hear that people are uneducated on the topic, and ignoring clear signs of dysfunction. But perhaps we can blame western medicine for that, as they’d rather take your blood pressure, look in your ears and write-up a prescription then ask about…
Is Poor Sleep Making You Sick?
We’ve already discussed the importance of consistent quality sleep with respect to body composition. Although, the impact is just as significant in determining our risk of disease and mortality (1, 2). “The cumulative long-term effects of sleep loss and sleep disorders have been associated with a wide range of deleterious health consequences including an increased…
How Poor Sleep Makes You Fat
Sleep is of utmost importance to your body composition, because it can positively or negatively effect your hormonal profile. Making significant changes to cortisol (stress), leptin (food intake), ghrelin (hunger), and growth hormone (muscle building). Since most of us are already bundles of stress, we don’t need any extra because of a lack of sleep.…
Health Before Wealth
Throughout the week there’s a lot of things that make me say WTF! However, two that continue to stand out include: Millionaire Celebrities choosing DUI’s over a Limo/Taxi Successful Businessmen choosing Hamburgers over Steaks The first is obviously out of stupidity, but what’s wrong with the guy in the suit? Meals are expensed, money is…
