Does sunlight harm you?

The American lifestyle almost requires us to live entirely indoors.  We spend approximately 87% of our lives in enclosed buildings, and just 7% of our time outside. That’s less than half a day per week — a far cry from our not-too-distant agrarian past. If you look at the impact of indoor living on our

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How to cut sugar from your diet

You’ve probably heard sugar isn’t dangerous in moderation. After all, how much can a single cookie really affect your health? But when we look at thousands of studies on sugar over the past 100 years, there’s a very clear and alarming trend—people are dying from sugar. In reality, one cookie wouldn’t cause lasting health problems.

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Craig Emmerich: An Engineer’s Guide to Optimizing Health

What happens when an electrical engineer combines his passions for nutrition and biochemistry to help others live healthier lives? That’s exactly what Craig Emmerich and his wife Maria have done by creating a successful nutrition business and co-authoring numerous books on the benefits of a low-carb, ketogenic diet.

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Stop sacrificing your health for your business

I was recently a guest on the Red Beard Radio podcast, where the host, Brian, asked me an important question: “What do entrepreneurs do that makes us more likely to go to the treatment side of your practice, than the prevention side of your practice?” In other words, what are the habits that result in

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How fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health

No matter where you are in your current wellness journey, you probably know that sugar is a threat to your metabolic health. And while America is waking up to the dangers of processed sugar, we’re now faced by yet another (and possibly more dangerous) alternative: fake sugar. The number of new foods containing sucrose, or

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