You’ve smashed your workout—#doneanddusted—so now you can reward yourself with all your favorite foods, right? Well, not quite. What you eat after a workout has to meet certain nutritional benchmarks. It’s all about maximizing those gains, helping your muscles grow and repair, and reducing fatigue.  “Soon after exercise, the body is most effective at replacing… Continue Reading

It’s common knowledge that our livers play a vital role in processing alcohol and other drugs, like aspirin and ibuprofen. But this vital organ does far more than help your body recover from a boozy night out. As Medical News Today reports, the liver is also responsible for “breaking down carbohydrates, making glucose, detoxing the body, storing… Continue Reading

Maintaining good gut health isn’t just about digestion—it gives you a stronger immune system, too. Kombucha, kimchi, kefir… you know these foods are all fermented, and you probably also know that they’re good for your gut. But if you’ve ever wondered why or wanted to understand the science behind good gut health, you’ve come to the… Continue Reading

Most people give up on their New Year’s resolutions after just a week — only about one in five people can maintain a resolution for two years, according to a frequently-cited study. So what is the difference between those whose resolve barely outlasts their New Year’s Day hangover and those who stick to their plans?… Continue Reading

Name me something more annoying than waking up in the middle of the night and then having trouble heading back into slumber. I’ll wait. Well, big plot twist ahead, because the top reason for waking up in the middle of the night is that doing so is simply part of your normal sleep cycle. But… Continue Reading

More often than not, your average day is likely saturated by staring at a computer, a mobile device, or a television screen. The information age and the advent of new media have made it near impossible to take a pause. We are flooded with an endless stream of information and our brains have a hard… Continue Reading

*According to a new study published in the journal Cancer, the more aerobically fit you are, the less likely you are to develop lung and colorectal cancer.  *People who were most fit were 77 percent less likely to get lung cancer and 61 percent less likely to get colorectal cancer compared to the least fit.… Continue Reading

In science’s ever-changing understanding of the human body, gut health issues have taken a center stage in recent years. While the gut was once viewed as our digestive system alone, it’s now known to affect everything from our mental health to our skin. Part of the reason our gut is so important is because of… Continue Reading

Getting a good sleep can be tough, and this can lead to feeling less than refreshed when you wake up in the morning. Falling asleep and waking up are brain processes we don’t fully understand, but research suggests these transitions are a lot more gradual than the flip of a switch. Even if you feel… Continue Reading

Researchers at Harvard University were working with a pretty well-established idea: “Higher fitness levels would be associated with lower rates of incident cardiovascular disease.” Not exactly a groundbreaking observation. But what was interesting was the reason for their work. What they hoped to figure out was whether there exists an easy, in-person way that doctors… Continue Reading