Wellness
Learn how to harness the power of nutrition to improve your mood, energy, focus, and more.
Aging
The 5 Best Collagen Powders On The Market Right Now
We’ve evaluated the best collagen powder and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
Deep Dive into Cellular Senescence and Aging
Senescent cells are linked to accelerated aging, chronic disease, and bodily decline. But is it possible to reverse senescence?
Fisetin Benefits: Dosages and How to Take It
The fisetin benefits we know about today (e.g., anti-aging) are from relatively recent research. We dive into said research, including dosing and more.
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.
Beauty & Skin
The 5 Best Collagen Powders On The Market Right Now
We’ve evaluated the best collagen powder and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
Primal Kitchen Collagen Fuel Review
As collagen quickly matures past “new kid on the block” status, we look to Primal Kitchen Collagen Fuel to see if it can lead the market in quality standards.
Best Collagen Supplements for Sagging Skin
Collagen decreases with age, leaving wrinkles and dryness, but these 8 supplements can help revitalize your skin and return your youthful glow.
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
The 6 Best Nootropics of 2023
We’ve evaluated the best nootropics and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
Best Ashwagandha Supplements
We’ve evaluated the best ashwagandha supplements and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Find the one that fits your needs and budget.
Best Nootropics for Studying
Your brain activity isn’t set in stone—you can alter your cognitive performance with nootropics.
The 3 Best Mushrooms for Anxiety
Medicinal mushrooms are becoming an increasingly popular way to support health—including reducing anxiety or stress.
Qualia Mind Review
Qualia Mind is regarded as one of the most comprehensive nootropic supplements on the market. So we tested it to find out.
Qualia Resilience Review
Stress being in no short supply these days, Qualia Resilience is intended to help you rise above, but does it?
Top 10 Herbs for Happiness
Research in recent years has pinpointed several adaptogenic herbs that can help us feel happier, less stressed, and more excited about our lives.
Fisetin Benefits: Dosages and How to Take It
The fisetin benefits we know about today (e.g., anti-aging) are from relatively recent research. We dive into said research, including dosing and more.
The Health Benefits of Coffee Fruit and How to Use It
Once considered a useless byproduct, coffee fruit actually has ample antioxidant activity with brain-boosting and fat-fighting potential.
Mental Clarity: Tips and Supplements to Sharpen Your Mind
If you’re like many of us, a productive, in-the-zone kind of day sounds like a pipe dream—but it doesn’t have to be.
Neurohacker Collective Review: Qualia Mind & “Smart Drugs”
As self-proclaimed nootropic nerds, the Neurohacker team has invested thousands of hours of researching, testing, and personally using Qualia Mind and their other products to ensure each supplement is as easy to use as it is effective.
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
The mossy, spindly extensions of Huperzia serrata may not look like much to the casual observer, but the compounds therein can improve memory and other cognitive functions for Alzheimer’s patients to potentially great effect.
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
Best Digestive Enzymes to Beat the Bloat
We’ve evaluated the best digestive enzymes and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
6 Best Probiotics for Men
We’ve evaluated the best probiotics for men and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Find the one that fits your needs and budget.
7 Best Probiotics for Women
Probiotics aren’t just for digestive support. The best probiotics for women can support vaginal care, help prevent yeast infections, and a lot more.
10 Herbs for Healthier Digestion
Poor digestion is both frustrating and painful, but several herbs or plants are well-known for improving various qualities of digestion and gut health.
When to Take Digestive Enzymes (+5 Benefits)
Learn all about the benefits of digestive enzymes, what to expect, and the best time to take them.
Betaine HCl: Top 5 Benefits for Gut Health and More
Betaine HCl naturally boosts gastric acidity to fight back against indigestion, but that’s not all it’s good for.
How to Heal Your Gut
There are several ways to improve your digestive health and relieve those uncomfortable symptoms.
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.
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.
Energy
Best Ashwagandha Supplements
We’ve evaluated the best ashwagandha supplements and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Find the one that fits your needs and budget.
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
The 7 Best Non-Alcoholic Beer Options for 2023
We’ve tried the big brewers down to the craft guys, so here’s our list for the best non-alcoholic beer. Pick the one that best suits your palette.
The 8 Best Bone Broths of 2023
We’ve evaluated the best bone broths and have narrowed it down to eight contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
Coconut Aminos vs Soy Sauce
Coconut aminos and soy sauce are two popular condiments in Asian cuisine—but is one healthier than the other?
Chia Seeds vs Flaxseeds
Not just for hippie granola and growing chia pets anymore, chia seeds and flaxseeds are nutrient-dense powerhouses that may aid weight loss and improve health.
How Much Alcohol is in Non-Alcoholic Beer?
Questioning whether or not alcohol is in non-alcoholic beer may seem silly, but most NA beers do contain some—find out how much and if it matters.
The 7 Best Healthy Coffee Creamers
In a world full of sugary and chemical-filled creamers, it can be hard to find healthy options—but these seven delicious and nutritious options fit the bill.
Lamb vs Beef: Is Lamb Healthier Than Beef?
In this battle of the red meats, who is the winner? Let’s take a look at the nutritional quality, health benefits, and taste of lamb vs. beef.
10 Best Whole30 Snacks
Although Whole30 recommends eating primarily whole and unprocessed foods, there are plenty of Whole30-compliant sweet and savory snacks you can grab for an on-the-go bite.
Primal Kitchen Alfredo Sauce Review
Our review team found plenty to like in this paleo, keto, and no-sugar-added alfredo sauce, but we’ll let you judge if it holds up to classic alfredo.
Best Keto Salad Dressings
While keto-friendly salad dressings lack carbs and sugar, you won’t be missing out on any flavor with these seven.
Grass Fed vs Grain Fed: Which Beef is Best?
A grass-fed and pasture-roaming cow is more humanely raised, has superior nutrition, and provides extensive environmental benefits over grain-fed cows.
How Non-Alcoholic Beer Is Made
There are many ways to make non-alcoholic beer, but some have found a way give NA drinkers a tasty alternative to traditional beer.
Canola Oil vs. Olive Oil
Take a deep dive into the nutritional and culinary pros and cons of canola oil and olive oil (spoiler alert: olive oil is the winner).
Chickpeas Vs. Lentils: Which is Healthier?
Let’s settle the chickpeas vs. lentils debate by analyzing their nutritional profiles, cooking characteristics, and ways you can use them in the kitchen.
Almond Butter vs. Peanut Butter
People have been snacking on peanut butter for decades, but is the new(ish) kid on the block superior?
Does Apple Cider Vinegar Go Bad?
Does apple cider vinegar go bad? Learn how to store it for longer shelf life and how you can make the most of ACV’s benefits.
The Health Benefits of Coffee Fruit and How to Use It
Once considered a useless byproduct, coffee fruit actually has ample antioxidant activity with brain-boosting and fat-fighting potential.
Doughp Review: Is Doughp Cookie Dough Worth It?
If getting hooked on cookie dough made by a brand that supports people struggling with addiction (and mental health) isn’t enough irony for you, let us remind you the company is called “Doughp.”
Crowd Cow Review: Is “Craft Meat” Worth It?
After an admittedly drawn-out sampling campaign, our editorial team has come to a verdict on Crowd Cow’s direct-to-consumer meat products.
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.
Yes, These Foods Contain Added Sugars
Normally, we’re content to bounce around new and/or controversial theories on nutritional concepts all day, but every so often, we have the luxury of seeing in black and white.
Why Vegetable Oils Are Unhealthy
There’s something disarming about seeing the word “corn,” “safflower,” or “vegetable” sandwiched between fifteen-letter-long preservatives on food labels, which is one reason why unhealthy vegetable oils have evaded serious criticism for so long.
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
Best Vitamin D Supplements
We’ve evaluated the best vitamin D supplements and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
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
The 5 Best Collagen Powders On The Market Right Now
We’ve evaluated the best collagen powder and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
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
8 Effective Adaptogens for Sleep
Sleep troubles are undeniably frustrating and exhausting—but these eight adaptogens may be able to help.
L-Theanine and Melatonin for Sleep: How Much to Take and When
Combining L-theanine and melatonin for sleep will have you drifting off (and staying asleep) in no time. How? Let’s take a closer look.
How Long Does Melatonin Last? Everything You Need to Know
You don’t want to make up feeling worse than you did before you went to bed, so how long does melatonin last in your system? It all depends.
Som Sleep Review: Does It Work?
In an industry needlessly bogged down by an unspoken commitment to capsules, capsules, and more capsules, Som Sleep and their drinkable sleep supplements are calling for change.
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.
Stress-Eat the Proper Way with Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a small, bushy plant native to India, the Middle East, and some regions of Africa.
Herbal Remedies for Sleep, Not Sedation
Virtually any problem that even subtly shifts your body out of its natural balance, i.e., homeostasis, has the potential to keep you awake at night.
Vitamins & Minerals
The 8 Best Multivitamins for Women of 2023
We’ve evaluated the best multivitamins for women and have narrowed it down to eight contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
The 6 Best Multivitamins for Men of 2023
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Best Vitamin D Supplements
We’ve evaluated the best vitamin D supplements and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
Does Calcium Really Prevent Iron Absorption?
Iron has a bone to pick with calcium, and for good reason—maybe.
The Economic Impact of Nutrition
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked while mulling over lunch choices: How is this decision going to impact the economy?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why Every Weightlifter Needs Vitamin D
It’s that time of year when we find ourselves echoing that fateful warning forever crystallized by Game of Thrones: Winter is coming.
Trace Mineral Deficiencies Silently Threaten Public Health
It’s human nature to assign priority based on how much of a particular nutrient is required, but by fixating on macronutrients like calcium, potassium, and so on, we’ve created a gaping blind spot in public knowledge.
The Most Common Nutritional Deficiencies
Sugar, salt, and fat have presided over the American food industry as a tyrannical threesome for some time now, and thanks to their massive success, they’re well cemented into the infrastructure.
How Does Magnesium Help with Stress?
Everyone knows what carbs and fats do—at least on the surface—but the mention of trace minerals like magnesium tends to elicit a less confident reply.
Women's Health
The 8 Best Multivitamins for Women of 2023
We’ve evaluated the best multivitamins for women and have narrowed it down to eight contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.
7 Best Probiotics for Women
Probiotics aren’t just for digestive support. The best probiotics for women can support vaginal care, help prevent yeast infections, and a lot more.
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