Wellness
Learn how to harness the power of nutrition to improve your mood, energy, focus, and more.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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