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.
Meet Your Master Hormone: Leptin
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.
Are your hormones stalling your progress?
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.
Do You Have a Food Sensitivity, or a Food Allergy?
One Year and One Hundred Pounds Later
Lizbet Miller had to get her health in order. The mother of two and loving wife wanted to set an example for her family to live a healthier lifestyle. She struggled with chronic health issues since she was a baby. So when she started experiencing pain in her upper abdomen, nausea, and chills, she didn’t think much of it.
Five Health Benefits of Having Appropriate Activewear
But did you know that the activewear you buy might not actually be good for your body? Women’s activewear needs to do more than just look pretty; it could — and should — support your body correctly, and make exercising easier. In this post, we’re going to discuss the health benefits of having the appropriate activewear for women and why it’s important for women to be wearing the right apparel.