Wouldn't it be great if there was a magic formula that could help everyone live healthy lives and lose weight when they wanted to? While most people acknowledged that there are no magic tricks, many still hope that there is one. Most of us want to find that specific vitamin, mineral or drug that if we take, will make us superhuman. Everyone laughs out loud at the thought of this in public, but then secretly hopes that a cure-all fix does exist. Many diets tend to shed the same type of hope on people looking for an easy way out. They lead their new followers to believe that subjecting themselves to an inspiring protocol will be cake. The psychology of dieting is more complex than that and is

The CDC recently reported that 22% of adults have some type of disability that affects their daily life. This has a total cost of $400 billion per year. They also reported that up to 40% of the deaths each year in the United States are from preventable causes. Let those numbers soak in for a minute. One could reason that this burden could cause health insurance cost to go up. What if we could cut the emotional and financial costs of that 40% of deaths each year or cut the $400 billion spent on disability costs each year. This would free up a lot of resources that could go toward reducing costs of healthcare elsewhere. We cannot take away treatment from people living with disabling conditions

There is a special awareness week for everything these days. Sometimes the ones that seem novel are actually the most important. This current week is mercury-free dentistry week. The goal is to raise awareness that everyone should seek out dentistry care that is mercury free. It is focused on raising awareness of mercury fillings and promoters are trying to make sure people know that they should not be receiving these amalgam fillings. In fact, former recipients may want to have their old amalgam fillings redone in a less toxic manner. This event is heavily promoted by Dr. Mercola, one of the foremost leaders in the wellness world. He will even be matching donations, up to a certain amount,

Exercise, sleep, stress control, emotional stability and nutrition are just a few things that are necessary to everyone's health. It can be hard to pick which one needs to be addressed first for our kids and it can be tough to decide which actionable steps should be taken. Everyone wants their children to be healthy, smart and successful, but don't know where to start. Parents spend piles of money on athletics, on tutors and on preventative healthcare and wellness. But they look at some simple opportunities to keep their family healthy as chores, thus avoiding them all together. Lets face it, there is a reason that we avoid implementing certain self improvement tasks on ourselves or family.

What are epigenetics? Most people don't even know that they should be asking this question. So why should you care? An article published in 2008 reported that only about 5-10% of cancer cases were due to genetic defects and the rest were preventable. What?! The CDC even lists cancer as a preventable disease. And the reason is this thing called epigenetics. Most people are not doomed to a specific fate because of our genes. But lets be honest, we often blame our genes for our health issues. Genes are kind of like a light switch. If the switch gets flipped, the light turns on, or off for that matter. For example a gene that has the potential to cause breast cancer must be switched on to actual

Insomnia affects millions of Americans. Although you may not believe that you are diagnosable, you could still be losing enough sleep to disturb your daily routine or even diminish your health. When waking in the morning, you should feel rested and ready to take on the tasks ahead of you. If this is not you, then there is likely some tweaking that needs to be made. Everyone is different and will respond differently to added changes. Most changes have minimal risk and are worth experimenting with to see if they help. 1. Don’t eat sugary foods or high carb foods after a certain time that you set. If you are already following a ketogenic diet or have an intermittent fasting schedule timed, then

At about minute 50 of the semi-final round of the 2018 World Cup match between France and Belgium a corner kick soars toward the Belgian box to meet the head of Samuel Umtiti, a French center-back. The ball glides off of his head and squeezes into the goal on the edge of the post. The announcer proclaims “just a glance” off the head. The announcer also notes that the goalie started too far back, he wasn't covering that corner well enough and got caught off guard. In this situation the goalie couldn't recover and this turned out to be the only goal of the game, dashing Belgium's dream at a World Cup Championship. Now they will wait 4 years to try again. But what if the goalie was ready? What