Did you know your heart beats 100,000 times a day? Responsible for circulating blood and oxygen through your body, your heart is the center of everything that happens in your body. When you don’t properly care and nurture your heart, you put yourself at risk for complications and disease.
All hormones play a crucial role in your body, but there is one that holds the skeleton key and is considered the master: Leptin. You may have heard of leptin called the "satiety hormone" or "starvation hormone." It controls all energy metabolism in your body, and plays a significant role in fertility, immunity and brain function.
You committed to an exercise program. You're following a diet that a friend or coach recommended. And you’re doing everything conventional wisdom claims to do to lose body fat. Yet still... no change. But have you checked your hormones? If your hormones are out of whack, your metabolism will get wonky and weight gain, disease, and frustration will follow.
Good morning, sunshine! Not a morning person? Don’t worry. You don’t have to be cheery about it to reap the rewards of rising early. The health benefits of getting outside in the morning and catching some proverbial “rays” are substantial and well documented, and provide you with an easy way to boost not only your outlook on the day ahead of you, but to make an impact on your ongoing sleep patterns.
