Serious Health and Fitness

07/21/2022

The longest 60 seconds ever.

Gosh, so true!!

03/04/2022

For help when you can’t relax. You do need down time.

01/13/2022

There is a significant difference between trying to be YOUR best and trying to be THE best. When you focus on being your best, you are only competing with yourself, and striving to be the best version of yourself.
It’s incredibly rewarding.

08/28/2021

This is why you should be selective about your food. It’s more than having a “cheat” day.

The SAD (Standard American Diet) is over 60 percent ultra-processed food mostly from commodity crops—wheat, corn, and soy turned into hundreds of thousands of food-like products that bear little resemblance to our evolutionary diet. Those who eat the most of these addictive foods are the fattest and sickest among us. This nutrient-depleted diet not only makes us obese and sick but drives us to consume more and more “food-like substances,” looking for the missing nutrients. ⁣
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Today our vegetables have been bred for yield, starch content, disease resistance, drought, shape, shelf stability, and hardiness for transport; not for flavor, nutrient density, or phytochemical richness. Ever taste a store-bought cardboard-like, perfect-looking tomato in the middle of winter, then try an organic, heirloom tomato picked from the vine in late August? You will know exactly what I mean.⁣
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Food, it turns out, is the biggest driver of imbalances in your biological networks, and the biggest lever for rapid change, reversal of disease, and creation of health. While most doctors have not seen the power of food (mostly because they were not trained in how to use food as medicine), I have seen miracles over decades. And so have thousands of my Functional Medicine colleagues. Except they are not miracles.⁣
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There is no other activity you do every day that has more power to change our biology than what you eat. Food carries information molecules, instructions, code that programs your biology with every bite for better or worse.
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Real whole nutrient and phytonutrient-rich food does the opposite—turns off inflammation, increases antioxidant systems, balances hormones and brain chemistry, boosts detoxification, increases energy, optimizes your microbiome, and turns on disease-preventing, health-promoting genes.⁣
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I choose real, whole food every day. I want the same for you, which is why I wrote my latest book, The Pegan Diet. Learn more at PeganDiet.com⁣

03/25/2021

Baby steps.

🎈🎈🎈

03/21/2021

Never too late

10/10/2020

It’s making a start and seeing progress. Begin now.

10/02/2020

If you decide that’s how it’s going to be, it will.

08/12/2020

It really is what you eat.

Dr. Jason Fung completed medical school and internal medicine at the University of Toronto before finishing his nephrology fellowship at the University of Ca...

07/10/2020

Plant wisely

07/04/2020

It’s time to turn the page. You are ready.

❤️

06/28/2020

You decide

06/21/2020

Water, tea, coffee. There are so many other options

Background: Policymakers worldwide are considering requiring warnings for sugary drinks. A growing number of experimental studies have examined sugary drink warnings' impacts, but no research to our knowledge has synthesized this literature. To inform ongoing policy debates, this study aimed to iden...

02/28/2020

So honestly, why wouldn’t you?

Discover the science of how strength training keeps you young

02/24/2020

You only lose if you give up. Hang in there.

01/29/2020

Be patient with yourself.

12/20/2019

Can you imagine seeing your grandma or great-grandma sprinting past you in a race? Don’t be surprised if you do, as it is far from impossible! Julia Hawkins, nicknamed “Hurricane”, is a real living miracle. This 103-year old lady is a mother of four, grandmother of three and great-grandmother ...

12/11/2019

Don’t let your age define you.