metabolic

Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

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    I love chocolate so much I even have a bowl of chocolates in my office I eat from almost every day.  Now I don’t recommend a bowl of easily accessible sugary treats to be within arms reach while you are trying to work, speaking from personal experience, ahem… but let’s gloss over that for now and instead focus on why eating chocolate in moderation may not be as bad for you as might assume! Most medical studies looking at the health properties of chocolate focus on dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source […]

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How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

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  Although the traditional approach to weight loss focuses on calories in vs. calories burned, we are starting to become more and more aware about how our environment actually impacts our weight.  There are many contributing factors, well beyond diet and exercise, that cause significant issues in our metabolism. In fact, the environment has such an impact on our weight that there is an entire category of environmental chemicals that are now considered obesogens — chemicals directly responsible for contributing to obesity.  Obesogens increase fat has, modify our basal metabolic rate, alter our gut microbiota, promote chronic inflammation, interfere with

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Grounding To Boost Your Metabolism & Lose Weight

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  Directly touching the earth impacts your metabolic functions, and as I found out, can even help you lose weight.   The first study to look at the basal metabolic rate of grounding was published in 2010. In this study, half of the participants were grounded and half were sham-grounded in a double-blind placebo-controlled study. After grounding (or sham grounding) the patients for 40 minutes, all of the parameters of metabolic function immediately improved in all of the grounded patients, but that boost was not seen in any of the ungrounded patients. Heart rate increased slightly, respiratory rate increased, and

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Constant Noise Impacts Your Health More Than You Think. 10 Ways To Fix It

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Chronic background noise doesn’t just irritate you, and it doesn’t just prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep… …it’s actually impacting your long term health. By more than you think!   Chronic levels of noise found frequently in modern society has been shown to significantly increase your risk of heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, stroke, even atrial fibrillation. Not to mention upping your risk for insomnia, a huge health crisis in-and-of itself! And it doesn’t stop there.   Not only is chronic noise increasing your blood pressure, increasing inflammation in your arteries leading to heart attack and stroke,

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