You know that eating nutrient-rich foods is key if you want to be healthy. That’s because “nutrients” is the catch-all category for substances found in food that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life. But what about...
Let’s face it: The world is a nutty, stressful place and it’s not doing your sleep favors. For many of us, sleep ends up being the thing that gets brushed to the side in order to prioritize life’s “more important”...
More doctors, therapists, and dietitians are starting to help people boost mood with food. That is, they’re embracing an emerging field called “nutritional psychiatry”, which identifies research-backed dietary strategies to help alleviate depression, anxiety, and more. Nutritional psychiatry wasn’t really...
So, what do anxiety, twitchy muscles, fatigue, killer PMS cramps, and chocolate cravings have in common? They can all be signs of low magnesium levels. Magnesium is an essential mineral with a crazy-important job. It takes part in at least...
A decade ago, no one talked much about the gut microbiome—the collection of bacteria, yeast, and other organisms residing in your lower intestines. But now, it’s one of the most popular areas of health and nutrition research. Studies show that...