Exercise is vital for our health, and I’m a huge proponent of my patients and the general population working out frequently.I don’t think you can make an argument for the futility of exercise in helping to modulate health.But, as great...
One of the things that I love about functional medicine or integrative health, is that we focus on fixing the base-level problems that contribute to illness.The reason I love this approach is because, for many people, they’re never given answers...
I’m going to start winding down this sleep series by talking about something that I never once considered affecting sleep (until recently).And that is how histamine release can cause you to wake far earlier than you normally would and disrupt...
Heart rate variability (HRV) has become a hot topic for those interested in monitoring their own or their clients' sleep, recovery, performance, or overall health.It’s not a metric that we focused on in medical school, and it’s not one that...
Part of the sleep series is going to be devoted to 2 drugs that have some fairly consequential effects on our bodies and how we sleep.I’ve written about both of these drugs multiple times, but the facts are so many...
Sleep is something that I have been focusing on personally for some time. Even if you have everything else in the world right (like exercise, diet, relationships, etc.) and you failed to get adequate sleep you’d be anything but healthy.Plenty...
I love it when we’re able to produce a new supplement.As you can tell, we’re not much in the habit of producing new products every single month.Part of the reason I keep our release schedule this slow is because we’re...
It’s no secret that working out or exercising is a pathway to better health.Placing your body under physiological stress has a long list of benefits. From increasing your cardiovascular health, improving brain function, and enhancing immune system response I can...
Wearable fitness trackers have become a billion-dollar industry.It would be hard for me to say this is a bad thing.Fitness trackers like the Apple Watch, the Fitbit, the Whoop, the Oura ring, and more are giving people incredible insight into...
