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Episode #234: Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis – The Forgotten Side of the Energy Expenditure and Weight Loss Equation
Did you know that the amount of calories that you burn when you are not exercising is more important than the calories that you burn while you are formally exercising? Our total energy expenditure consists of exercise energy expenditure and non-exercise energy expenditure also referred to in the scientific community simply as NEAT (non-exercise activity…
Episode #233: Introduction to Stimulating and Mood Enhancing Essential Oils and Some Tips for How to Use Them
To follow up on yesterdays episode, today we are going to review some nervous system stimulating and mood enhancing essential oils. I will cover five of the most popular essential oils used for stimulating and mood enhancing properties and give you some additional tips about how to use these to take advantage of their properties…
Episode #232: Introduction to Calming Essential Oils and Some Tips on How to Use Them
I am slowly becoming a strong advocate of essential oils. Essential oils offer an alternative to chemically derived fragrances and antibacterials that have been used for thousands of years and whose chemical properties and traditional uses are now being confirmed by modern science (duh!) As I continue to dive in and learn more about essentials…
Episode #231: How Views and Paintings of Nature Impact Hospital Patient Outcomes and Why That Is Important for YOU
Do you ever go out in nature and feel calm and more at peace? Scientists are starting to understand that nature has a calming effect on our physiology and a calm physiology is a healthy one. Today on the show we are going to discuss some some research that shows how hospital patients benefit from…
Episode #230: Seven Steps to Create a Non-Toxic Home
Today, we are continuously exposed to thousands of times more carcinogenic compounds than we were just a few hundred years ago. We have very little control over many of these exposures, but we can control the environment that we create in our home which is where most of us spend the majority of our time. …
Episode #229: How to Get Back on Track with Your Health and Fitness Routine
Sometimes life happens and for one reason or another you fall way off of a routine that allows you to create your best level of health and fitness. It happens to all of us. The key is not to beat yourself about it and strive for perfection, but instead have some strategies in place that…
Episode #228: Why We Get Headaches and What We Can Do to Prevent Them
Headaches are not caused by lack of Tylenol and although Tylenol and other over the counter medications can be a great short term fix, you are not doing yourself any favors by ignoring your body’s warning signal which is exactly what a headache is. There are several reasons that you might get a headache…
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Episode #226: The Power if Having a Tribe. What We can Learn From Our Ancestors Beyond What They Ate
Through millions of years of evolutionary history, people lived in tribes. It wasn’t a choice, it was a necessity. Therefore, generation after generation natural selection favored those who could band together to thwart of potential dangers than one man alone could not stand a chance against. Over the last 100 years we have seen a…