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All articles by Kimberly Langdon
The Power of Mitochondrial Health for Optimal Aging
Skin. It protects your body from harmful things in the environment, regulates your temperature, and allows you to feel sensations like pressure, temperature, and pain. Heart. It continuously pumps life-sustaining, oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. Kidneys. They remove waste from the blood and return cleaned blood to the body. It’s easy to see how these...
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12 December, 2024
Latest Discoveries on Optimizing Brain Health for a Lifetime
Improve results for your company. Create meaningful connections with friends and family. Carry out retirement plans—whether transitioning to becoming a high-level business consultant working 10 hours weekly, (finally) realizing your entrepreneurial visions, or running a suburban farm. That’s just a teaser of what you could achieve now and beyond, well into your golden years, with...
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10 December, 2024
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Core
What are some things in life that most people think are synonymous—but are, in fact, not? Here are a few off the top of our heads: shrimp and prawn (fun fact: one’s found in freshwater, while the other comes from saltwater!), venom and poison (mostly a matter of how they’re delivered), and core and abs. ...
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30 September, 2024
Social Prescriptions: A New Kind of Doctor’s Order
Imagine walking into your doctor’s office, expecting the usual advice about diet and exercise, but instead, your prescription reads: "Join a local hiking group." Wait, what? Yes, you heard that right—your social life might just be the key to better health, and doctors are catching on! Welcome to the world of social prescriptions, where your...
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27 September, 2024
Performing a Breast Exam on Yourself: A Few Tips
You’ve probably heard that it’s a good idea to “check yourself” regularly for breast abnormalities, but what exactly does that mean? And what should you be looking for? The first thing you should know is that self-exams do not take the place of mammography because of their limitations in dense breasts and masses under one...
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24 September, 2024
Top Foods for a Flourishing Gut
Paying attention to gut health is all the rage these days, and for good reason. The discovery of axes between the gut and non-gastrointestinal organ systems (e.g., gut-brain and gut-skin axis) has uncovered the links between gut health and the development of various chronic health conditions. Translation: your gut health is vital to your overall...
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15 August, 2024
Top Foods and Drinks That Often Contain Hidden Mold
When we think about mold, the first thing that often comes to mind is the greenish fuzz that occasionally appears on forgotten leftovers. But mold isn't always so obvious. It can be lurking in some of the most unexpected places in your kitchen, hidden away in foods you consume daily. While some molds are visible,...
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14 August, 2024
How Is AI Transforming Our Approach to Health & Wellness?
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of artificial intelligence (AI)? Using ChatGPT to draft work emails, whipping your resume into shape, and data analysis? Or creating stunning visual art from simple, sometimes outlandish, text prompts? Sure. But beyond bettering your workflow and leisure time, AI has also revolutionized almost every aspect of...
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31 July, 2024
10 Healthy Habits Every Parent Should Teach Their Kids
Teaching your child healthy habits can set them up for a lifetime of optimal physical and mental well-being. Here are 10 crucial healthy habits to encourage your kids to practice. #1: Stay physically active Encourage your child to move—and love moving—every day. This helps: Improve cardiovascular fitness, concentration, balance, skills development, and flexibility Build self-esteem...
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20 July, 2024
Thinking Your Way to Wellness
Most of us think we'll have to actively do something to achieve wellness. Things like … Sticking to a regular exercise routine Swapping out calorie- and trans-fat-laden ultra-processed foods with nutritious, fresh whole foods Improving sleep hygiene to get at least 7 hours of quality shut-eye every night But what if you could attain wellness...
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17 January, 2024
7 Practices That Make a Big Difference to Heart Health
The heart is arguably the hardest working organ in your body. Even during rest, it beats anywhere between 60 to 100 times per minute, pumping blood throughout the body, delivering life-enabling oxygen to every cell while removing waste products and carbon dioxide. Of course, you’re probably already aware of the importance of heart health. But...
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05 September, 2023
10 Foods That Kill Your Mood (and 10 Foods to Boost It)
Food is not just for survival; it should also make us feel good. Unfortunately, some of our go-to foods have been shown to negatively affect brain health and send us into a state of doom and gloom. Here are the top 10 foods to avoid if you want to keep your spirits high. 10 Foods...
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07 July, 2023
5 Natural Ways to Improve Memory
Preserving your memory—whether working, short-term, or long-term—is quintessential to living a meaningful and fulfilling life. But how can you stay out of the clutches of age-related cognitive decline? While memory decline is common with increasing age (research suggests it could happen as early as middle age!), it's not inevitable. You can take active steps to...
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05 July, 2023
5 Common Health Concerns Women Experience Differently than Men
You may have heard of the gender pay gap, but there’s another gap in our society that negatively impacts women. It’s the gender research gap—an ongoing problem where women’s experiences and unique health issues are overlooked in medical research studies. The gap happens because women have been historically underrepresented in research, with the majority of...
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27 June, 2023
Can You Lower Your Biological Age?
Have you ever wondered why some people are more sprightly at 85 than others at 55? Does it really all come down to lucky genes, or do they have a secret pass to the fountain of youth? While we have yet to discover an actual mystical spring of eternal vitality, research in anti-aging and longevity...
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30 May, 2023
Alcohol Is Probably More Damaging than You Think
For so long, we’ve been told that “light” and “moderate” drinking is perfectly safe—and that it might even lower our risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Well, guess what? In a shocking turn of events, recent research has upended everything we know about what's considered a safe level of alcohol consumption. The World...
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30 May, 2023
Top Skincare Trends: Fact or Fad?
There are always a handful of new or trendy skincare ingredients that find their way into the spotlight each year. And while some appear deserving of their hype even without further research (e.g., vitamin C), others may make you do a double-take (e.g., bee venom, anyone?). So, to help you navigate the tricky waters of...
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01 May, 2023
Seed Oils: Are They Really as Bad as They Say?
Toxic. Obesity-causing. A recipe for heart problems and a slew of auto-immune disorders. Are seed oils really all that? While typing “seed oils” into any search engine and scrolling through the results would likely have you screaming, crying, and rushing to evict those bottles of canola/sunflower/corn oil from your kitchen, recent research suggests seed oils’...
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11 April, 2023
Your Gut Microbiome and Health: What’s the Link and are Probiotics Actually Effective?
It's found exclusively in your gastrointestinal tract but has far-reaching effects on nearly every aspect of your health and well-being…What is it? Yep. It’s the gut microbiome. Well, OK, we know the title is a dead giveaway—so if you’re looking for a challenge, try these questions: What health conditions have been linked with an “unhealthy”...
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04 April, 2023
Support Your Menstrual Cycle with the Top 10 PMS Supplements
It’s easy to assume that PMS is an inevitable part of being a woman. As we move through the phases of our menstrual cycle each month, PMS is something we’ve come to expect. While Premens doesn’t affect every woman, it affects most women’s health. Did you know that 75% of women experience PMS in one...
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23 August, 2022
