Why Your Chair Is Harming Your Health
Studies continue to confirm that sitting for extended stretches throughout the day — as most of us do — quietly undermines our cellular and metabolic health.
In fact, prolonged sitting has become so hazardous that many experts now refer to…
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Strength Training For Body and Brain Power
Sitting is considered an “action verb” in the grammar world, but in the real world, it is the opposite “action” of what our bodies were created to do.
Defined as “a continuous period of being seated, especially when engaged in…
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Sunshine, Health and Happiness
Too much of anything is detrimental to our health.
Too much of a particular food, too much exercise (yes, exercise can be detrimental if done out of balance with rest or overexerted too fast), too much sitting/rest and even too…
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5 Powerful Reasons Muscle Matters More Than You Think
If you want to live a long, active, and vibrant life—not just in years but in quality—there’s one factor that quietly underpins your longevity, energy, and independence: muscle.
Most people chase health by focusing on cardio or cutting calories, but…
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Use It or Lose It: Keep Your Most Precious Assets, Your Body and Brain Intact
When it comes to our bodies, our brains, our muscles, our skills, our knowledge, everything seems to follow the lose it or use it principle: If you don’t use it, you lose it.
Or, if you do use it, you…
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Strength Training Exercise For Body and Brain Health
It is a sad fact that 8 out of 10 adults do not do enough proper exercise. This means their muscles do not get worked anywhere near enough to keep vital “growth and repair” hormones stimulated and flowing. The growth…
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Muscles are Mandatory
Although modern medicine is continually finding cures for many diseases and illnesses our health has been steadily declining since World War II. In the last four decades alone the prevalence of overweight adults has increased from 31 percent to 64…
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Muscle Aging is Not Chronological
Scientists have identified multiple genes that regulate physical strength and biological age. Most notable among them are those involved in the sustainability of our muscle tissue. It’s the decrease in the expression of these genes that causes our muscle to…
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Strength Training is NOT Optional
The weakness and loss of energy we associate with getting older, such as difficulty walking distances, climbing stairs, or carrying groceries, are largely due to muscle tissue loss. This muscle loss, for the most part, is from living an inactive…
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Muscles and Metabolism…
Many people are confused about our metabolism (our body’s engine) and have little idea of how to keep it in good running condition.
What do you think has the biggest impact on it? Age? Activity levels? Thyroid function? Wrong, wrong…
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