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All About Vitamins & Minerals

Everything you need to know about vitamin & minerals for good health

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It’s not breaking news that vitamins and minerals are essential to good health. Most of us have been told that since we were in diapers. Heck, even Lucky Charms brags about being “fortified with 12 essential vitamins and minerals.” So they must be important! But why, exactly? How many vitamins and minerals are there, and […]

All About Vitamin D

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Vitamin D, aka the “sunshine vitamin”, is crucially important for the body. And yet most of us are probably deficient. Grab the convertible or get on your bike and head to the beach!

Research Review: Postworkout vitamins — help or hindrance?

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Exercise provides a form of “good stress” that helps the body compensate and get stronger. But what happens when you “block” that natural stress process with antioxidant vitamins C and E? Is it good or bad? Well, this study suggests it might be both… and that if you’re concerned about insulin sensitivity, maybe you should hold off on that multivitamin for a little while.

The True Cost of “Optimal” Health

Want to live as long and healthy as possible? Here’s what it really takes.

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Common longevity advice seems to involve an extraordinary amount of effort, time, money, and complexity. Is it all necessary?

Are seed oils bad for you? Vegetable oil vs. olive oil vs. butter

It’s time to sort the science from the pseudoscience.

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Are vegetable and seed oils “toxic”?! From TikTok to bestseller lists, vegetable oils—a.k.a. “seed oils”—are a big topic right now. To be fair, folks have debated the merits of vegetable oils dating back to when they first entered the marketplace. More recently, however, with the advent of the carnivore diet, vegetable oil hate has roared […]

How to stop tracking macros and trust yourself around food

Four steps to ditch the food scale and rely on your own appetite again.

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Do you feel overly attached to tracking macros but don’t know how to stop? Here are four steps to freedom.

How to live the longest, healthiest life possible

You can’t outsmart millions of years of human evolution. But you can make the most of the years you have.

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We’ll tell you what NOT to do too…

All about fats

Which fats are healthiest? Are there such things as “unhealthy fats”? All your answers here.

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From brain health to vitamin absorption, fats do a lot of good for your body.

Should you track your macros?

The merits and pitfalls of tracking macros, plus whether tracking is right for you.

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Tracking macros isn’t for everyone. Here’s how to determine if this practice can help you and your goals.

The top 8 most common stress-related questions, answered.

These are the challenges most likely to plague your clients—and maybe you, too. Here’s a round-up of sage advice.

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The irony is that it’s kind of stressful to find answers about stress. There’s so much conflicting information out there. But if you’re a health and fitness professional, your clients—maybe even your friends and loved ones too—will likely turn to YOU for counsel. They’ll ask things like: “Is stress REALLY toxic?” “Do you think stress […]