Wellness

Beauty & Skin

How Collagen Supplements Support Healthy Skin

The hype is strong with you, collagen supplements, but are you legit?

The Many Benefits of Marine Collagen

Are consumers being baited with the “just slap a technical-sounding keyword in front of an established product to revitalize sales” method?

Collagen-Rich Foods That Fight Aging and More

It usually means one of two things when buzzwords like collagen manage to rise above their thousands of competitors in the riotous health and wellness market: either the people running the scam are really smart, or the product is actually legitimate.

Introducing the Ultimate Hair-Growth Diet

Nutrition is for losing belly fat, and overpriced, medicated goop is for hair loss—that’s how most of us are conditioned to think.

Brain Health

Onnit Alpha Brain Review

Our editorial team reviewed Alpha Brain, a nootropic supplement from Onnit, for ingredient quality, research-supported benefits, side effects, and more.

Huperzia Serrata: Not Just for Alzheimer’s

Table of ContentsWhere Is Huperzia Serrata From?Huperzine A and Its BenefitsWhere to Find Huperzia Serrata The mossy, spindly extensions of Huperzia

Can Food Affect Mood?

It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.

Nutrition’s Role in Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery

Nutrition is understandably not priority one in the chaotic moments immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), but as soon as the patient is stable, nutrition therapy shares center stage with other key tenets of TBI rehabilitation.

Nutrition and Brain Health: How it Works

Navigating the current knowledge base in regards to brain-boosting foods often feels strangely paradoxical, like we know too much and not enough at the same time.

These Plant-Based Brain Boosters Can Upgrade Your Memory

While fitness and dieting experts dominate the nutrition conversation using weight loss and muscle growth as their only criteria for quality, the memory-boosting effects of nootropics continue to go underappreciated.

Digestive Health

Onnit Total Gut Health Review

Loaded with prebiotics and probiotics, betaine hydrochloride, and plenty of natural extracts, Onnit Total Gut Health is aiming for a comprehensive approach to digestive health.

Can Food Affect Mood?

It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.

Fiber: An Epidemic-Level Deficiency

In an era of TV remotes with built-in bottle openers and self-twirling pasta forks, it’s no surprise that we’ve become too lazy to chew.

Meet the Probiotics A-Team

One of several casualties of the single-minded assault on germs sponsored jointly by cleaning product commercials and modern healthcare providers is the collective misunderstanding of probiotics.

Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Colitis, Chron’s, and More

When inflammation becomes a state, and not a protective response, the body tends to react poorly.

Abdominal Weight and Insulin Resistance

Recognizing the connection between weight status and insulin resistance is a start, but understanding the actual mechanics involved provides a crucial defense against diabetes.

Safe and Sustainable Ways to Boost Metabolism

In actuality, metabolism refers to any chemical reaction taking place at the cellular level in living organisms—many of them having nothing to do with weight loss.

The Weird Science of Lactose Intolerance

Not only is lactose intolerance common, it’s so prevalent across the world, doctors are hesitant to even acknowledge it as a diagnosable condition.

Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?

Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.

Energy

Electrolytes for Energy and More: A Beginner’s Guide

In the same way that chemistry students create reactions using a variety of compounds, our bodies rely on a special roster of positively and negatively charged minerals to execute a wide variety of internal “reactions,” or functions.

How to Stay Focused Without the Jitters

Energy drinks and sugary snacks may be louder, sweeter, and faster-acting than natural sources of sugar, but rarely are those benefits conferred without some form of reckoning down the road.

Eye Health

Seek Out These Nutrients to Reduce Cataract Risk

As has been the case with so many other eye diseases, when investigating any nutritional influences on the risk of developing cataracts, we were reintroduced by the research to a very familiar roster of nutrients.

Does Diet Matter for Macular Degeneration Patients?

Too often, highly common eye disorders like macular degeneration are lumped in with general aging-related vision loss and subsequently swept under the rug, which hurts everyone involved in the patient’s case.

Dry Eye Must-Haves for Screen Junkies

Perhaps “screen junky” isn’t a label befitting someone who is required to stare at screens all day for work, but whether you’re working, binging a show, gaming, or all of the above, you may notice some eye health issues start to develop as a result of heavy screen use.

How Taurine Supports Eye Health

It’s been a decade or more since taurine made its way out of obscurity using the global stage that is the energy drink label, but the public knowledge gap is still going strong.

Food & Drink

Collagen-Rich Foods That Fight Aging and More

It usually means one of two things when buzzwords like collagen manage to rise above their thousands of competitors in the riotous health and wellness market: either the people running the scam are really smart, or the product is actually legitimate.

Best Foods for Post-Workout Recovery

Anyone who has taken more than one hiatus from exercise knows that it’s not that first return workout that you should be afraid of, but the day after.

Can Food Affect Mood?

It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.

The Healthy Food Swaps Master List

Making healthy food swaps is a great opportunity to live in the positive—to think about the (surprisingly) tasty stuff you can still eat, not what you’re giving up.

Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Colitis, Chron’s, and More

When inflammation becomes a state, and not a protective response, the body tends to react poorly.

Nutrition and Cancer: An Introductory Guide

Chemotherapy and surgery may currently preside as the most effective treatments for cancer, but they can’t do what nutrition therapy can—they can’t (reasonably) prevent the cancer from forming in the first place.

Safe Sweets for Diabetics

For diabetics, the knee-jerk reaction of swearing off sweets altogether can be problematic for a number of reasons.

Foods to Eat (and Avoid) While Undergoing Chemotherapy

In the chemotherapy patient’s personal war against cancer, every ounce of control they can wrestle away from the disease is a victory that can contribute to brighter outcomes—especially when it means they can eat foods they enjoy again.

The Carcinogenic Foods Master List

Fear has a way of dimming the details, but it’s in the details that health-conscious people looking to reduce their cancer risk can find success.

Heart Health

Fiber: An Epidemic-Level Deficiency

In an era of TV remotes with built-in bottle openers and self-twirling pasta forks, it’s no surprise that we’ve become too lazy to chew.

Nutrition and Heart Health: A General Overview

The heart is more than just a pump, which is why nutrition for heart health can get a little complicated.

How Diabetes Raises Heart Disease Risk

While it may be convenient to put each health concern in a box, focusing on one treatment at a time, the diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) connection provides an important lesson: the human body doesn’t work that way.

An Introduction to the Mediterranean Diet

We often stress the importance of seeking out the healthiest versions of wrongfully stigmatized nutrients (i.e., fat and carbs) instead of avoiding them, a concept that the Mediterranean diet embodies perfectly.

Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?

Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.

When Good Fats Go Rogue: The Omega-6 Conundrum

Fat gets a bad rap, mainly because it’s oversimplified.

The Seafood-Opposed Dieter’s Guide to Omega Fatty Acids

Even if your seafood aversion requires a generous shellacking of tartar sauce every time you can’t avoid eating fish, we can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have fish at least a few times a month.

Olive Leaf: Nature’s “New” Catch-All

Unfortunately, most lye-cured olives have been sapped of a sizable portion of their nutrients by the time they get anywhere near your table, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still reap the health benefits of this ancient fruit.

Immune Health

Meet the Probiotics A-Team

One of several casualties of the single-minded assault on germs sponsored jointly by cleaning product commercials and modern healthcare providers is the collective misunderstanding of probiotics.

Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?

Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.

Electrolytes for Energy and More: A Beginner’s Guide

In the same way that chemistry students create reactions using a variety of compounds, our bodies rely on a special roster of positively and negatively charged minerals to execute a wide variety of internal “reactions,” or functions.

Joint Health

Best Foods for Post-Workout Recovery

Anyone who has taken more than one hiatus from exercise knows that it’s not that first return workout that you should be afraid of, but the day after.

Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?

Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.

How Does Glucosamine Relieve Joint Pain?

Sure, gravity wins in the end, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use everything at our disposal to keep our weight-bearing joints from breaking down prematurely.

Sleep

Safe and Sustainable Ways to Boost Metabolism

In actuality, metabolism refers to any chemical reaction taking place at the cellular level in living organisms—many of them having nothing to do with weight loss.

What’s Valerian Root, and How Does It Improve Sleep?

The majority of herbal sleep aids under objective scrutiny have been proven safe and non-addictive; that’s not the hard part when it comes to making it through the vetting process and into common use.