Biohacking for athletes
Are you interested in exploring new performance possibilities, hastening your recovery time and pushing beyond your current boundaries… Continue reading
Are you interested in exploring new performance possibilities, hastening your recovery time and pushing beyond your current boundaries… Continue reading
Move and enjoy: Just be active! It doesn’t always have to be planned or gym workouts. Simply sitting less, and getting more physically active throughout the day wherever possible is also essential to reducing one of the major risk factors for metabolic syndrome, obesity. One strategy for sticking with exercise is to make it enjoyable … Continue reading
Nutritional genomics, or nutrigenomics, is the study of how foods affect our genes and how individual genetic differences can affect the way we respond to nutrients (and other naturally occurring compounds) in the foods we eat. Nutrigenomics has received much attention recently because of its potential for preventing, mitigating, or treating chronic disease, and certain … Continue reading
Become proactive with your health: Seek information regarding health from a qualified holistic practitioner, to help prevent ill health and support individual health long term. Take charge of your own body and learn from it. Even when you may feel well, it’s important to also track your health and monitor changes over time. This way … Continue reading
We often talk about the importance of exercise (aka physical activity) and how it can improve your health. You’ve heard &/or read it in the media how it can reduce the risk of developing diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. It’s human nature to think “it won’t happen to me” and I … Continue reading
Chronic disease development is often slow and silent and then BAM! all of a sudden you’re obese with pre-diabetes and have cardiovascular problems – hence the title “creepy chronic disease”. No one likes to be snuck up on like that do they? It may take decades but if we don’t look after ourselves it will … Continue reading
Metabolic syndrome is not a disease in itself, but a collection of risk factors that often occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. A person is diagnosed as having metabolic syndrome when they have any three or more: central (abdominal) obesity – excess fat in and around the stomach (abdomen) raised … Continue reading
We’ve all been told exercise is good for us. But what actually are the benefits of exercise? Weight control Exercise can help prevent excess weight gain or help maintain weight loss. You don’t need to set aside large chunks of time for exercise, just take the stairs instead of the elevator or park the car … Continue reading
We’re famous for being a sporting country, but how many of us Aussies live up to our energetic reputation? The bad news is that around 75 per cent of us aren’t on the go enough to meet the minimum daily recommendation for exercise … so here are some good reasons to get off the couch … Continue reading
All biochemical reactions, intracellular activity and electrical (life) energy are under pH control and therefore it is one of the most important biochemical balances in all of human body chemistry. pH controls the speed of biochemical reactions including the way our bodies utilise enzymes, minerals, vitamins and food supplements. It does this by controlling the … Continue reading