Does Warm VS Cold Weather Make A Difference
Remember back to the Rocky movies of the 70’s with Sylvester Stallone trading his running on Philadelphia streets for boxing meat carcasses in a refrigerated...
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How Do Processed Foods Cause Cancer
Let’s start this discussion with the necessary disclaimer that all food processing companies will insist on – there is no direct correlation between processe...
Is BMI Really An Accurate Measure of Our Health
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a mathematical formula, first devised in the 1830’s, that divides a person's weight by the square of their height to arrive at a num...
Long-term Effects of Steroid Medications
Steroids are a synthetic version of hormones normally produced by our adrenal glands which are 2 small glands found just above the kidneys. Corticosteroid d...
Reasons You May Become Dehydrated More Quickly Than Others
Between 60% to 80% of our body is made of water. When we’re dehydrated, we have a lack of water in our body and our body doesn’t have enough water to perform...
Supersize or Not: Is It Really That Much More Unhealthy?
Here we sit with our car idling, in the drive-up line at our favorite fast-food restaurant. Do we want to upsize our order for just another 99 cents? We ca...
How Do Psychedelics Affect The Brain
Psychedelics are substances that have powerful, and often unpredictable, hallucinogenic effects on us. The most common psychedelics are LSD, psilocybin and...
Clues That Heartburn May Indicate Something Else
It is very likely, all of us have experienced some form of heartburn in our lives. We ate something that didn’t agree with us. We ate too much, or we ate t...
My Thoughts on Cryotherapy for Hair
Cryotherapy, sometimes known as cold therapy, for around the last 100 years, was used for medical therapy. The most prominent use of the term referred to th...