Vitamins were first discovered in the early 1900s, and this spurred the interest in modern nutrition and diet modification. Vitamins are organic compounds (meaning they contain carbon elements)...
It’s funny that although 80% of the extracellular fluid in the body is lymph and 20% is blood, we spend a whole lot more time talking about the latter. If you neglect this often-forgotten system, then...
The concept of bacteria in our gut affecting overall human metabolism (and by extension, our weight and overall health) has only been around for about a decade or so, but ancient healing arts have...
All cells run on energy. That energy comes from the sun either directly (sunlight) or indirectly (food). You may have heard me mention acid-alkaline balance multiple times throughout the...
What Is Metabolism? Metabolism is the entire suite of biochemical processes that occur within living organisms whose goal is to change food into energy by either breaking something down (catabolism)...
Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Fail? Most people do not keep their New Year’s Resolutions. Only 5-10% of people keep their resolutions. 80% of people give up on them by February. My...
