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The feeling is universal: elevated heart rate, tense muscles, racing breath, and an overall sour mood characterizes the effect stress has on the body. But this isn’t an isolated experience felt by an isolated few. The symptoms of stress are all too common.
The feeling is universal: elevated heart rate, tense muscles, racing breath, and an overall sour mood characterizes the effect stress has on the body. But this isn’t an isolated experience felt by an isolated few. The symptoms of stress are all too common.
Wim Hof found stillness in the cold. While battling grief in the wake of his beloved wife’s suicide, he felt drawn to icy water. Immersing in it brought a rush of adrenaline, a spike and then deep subsiding of heart rate and, ultimately, clarity.
Here’s the simple truth: there aren’t certain exercises that explicitly build muscle or shed fat. Laying on a mat and doing leg lifts does not burn fat around your core, doing squats does not burn fat around your glutes, and curling doesn’t burn fat around your biceps.
Kale is a sort of pop-culture superfood icon. It’s hailed as one of the healthiest things you can eat. But why? What makes this leafy green so good for us?
But even though sleep is such a core part of daily wellness and even survival, many have trouble achieving the quantity and quality necessary to be at 100%. Below are three tips for a consistently better sleep.
Extracting juice from the beet root gives you a liquid rich in nitrate. Once in the body, nitrate metabolizes into nitric oxide that, although the science is still unclear, appears to have powerful positive effects on endurance.
Vagus nerve stimulation has begun to emerge as a promising treatment for mental health disorders. Deep breathing exercises can provide this effect to some extent, but researchers are more focused on nutrition. Tweaking levels of gluten, probiotics, antioxidant agents, and antibiotics have a direct impact on vagus nerve activity through...
Not only can you build a tolerance to cold weather and water, you can actually boost your overall health: a supercharged immune system and reduced stress can be expected from deliberate cold exposure.
Having trouble thinking of areas in your life that could use improvement? Listed below are some of the most common new year's resolutions. Give them a read and pick something to work on!
But for how prevalent Christmas is, most people know very little about it. Sure, this is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but there’s far more history to the holiday than is popularly known.
With the holiday season in full swing, it’s a good idea to start brainstorming gift ideas. It’s easy to revert to the same old tropes (you can only give somebody socks so many times). Instead of boring, standard presents, try something new this year instead: the gift of cold-pressed juice....
Buckle up, Thanksgiving is on its way. For most this means a hearty feast with close friends or family. For others (perhaps a more motivated lot), Thanksgiving day involves a morning 5 kilometer race, or “5k” as it’s casually referred to. This is the American way of earning the calories...
Daylight Savings refers to the practice of advancing clocks an hour during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later time. The other half of the year sits in standard time, where the clocks are turned an hour back. It is here, during the dreaded colder months, that darkness...
With this in mind, let’s cook up something delicious, incorporating beets. Here’s a simple roasted beet recipe that lets natural flavors shine.
The New York City Marathon: 26.2 miles of glorious pain that winds through all five boroughs of the city. Runners glide through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and finally Manhattan, ending among the fields of central park.
What’s the deal with Halloween? When did we start donning costumes and shoving our faces with assorted sweets? Today we’ll take a short trip through history to examine one of America’s largest non-religious holidays.
