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Exercise After Menopause: What You Need To Know

Menopause is one of the most significant events in a woman’s life, and with it comes several changes that can affect function. Moreover, the post-menopausal period comes with many health considerations that can have a profound impact on one’s life. However, it isn’t all doom and gloom. See, many of the negative factors that occur

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Stop Taking Loans on Your Health

Over the last few years “hustle” culture has embedded itself into the lives of people across the globe. However, while the drive to work yourself to the bone in your twenties, thirties, and forties to set yourself up in your later years may have a positive impact on your financial situation, it is likely to

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New Research on How to Prevent Alzheimer’s Now

People are currently living longer than ever before – and while you would be hard pressed to find someone who thinks this is bad thing, it does come with its own unique set of challenges. Namely an increase in the risk of developing several age-related diseases, with one of the most common being Alzheimer’s disease.

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Habit Stacking: How to Build Exercise Habits

Changing your routine to adopt better lifestyle behaviours can have a profound impact on your health and fitness. It is also something that most people find extremely difficult. Which is why we are always on the lookout for useful methods that can improve motivation and make the process easier – like habit stacking, for example…

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Best Time to Work Out Based on Sleep Animal

Should you work out at night, mid-day, or morning based on your sleep animal: Lion, Bear, Dolphin, or Wolf? Most people seem to think that waking up early and “getting after it” with a solid workout is the best way to start the day. But what if I told you that this is simply not

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How to Workout to Promote Longevity

Exercise is for everyone. In fact, I would argue that exercise becomes more important as you get older. It helps stave off disease and illness, enhances functional ability, and ultimately promotes longevity – which is pretty important for everyone if you ask me. How does exercise effect longevity? Getting older typically occurs alongside a number

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Home Based Exercise Goals – Improve Your Fitness and Mental Fortitude

In this time of uncertainty and isolation it is easy to become despondent and disheartened.  To sit on the couch day after day, watching your health, fitness, and mental state decline. To simply give up. But there is a much better way. Yes, you may be stuck at home. Yes, you may not have any

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How Exercise Prevents Sickness

Everyone on the planet knows that exercise is good for them. In fact, over the last few years it has been shown to not only prevent the onset of physical ailments like heart disease and diabetes, but even nasty mental illnesses like depression and anxiety. It really is a cure-all. And now there is reason

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Too Cold To Feel The Burn: Exercising In Cold Weather

John Barry As fall changes to winter, the temperature and overall weather outside change as well. I’m located in New York City, where this past week, just like most of the country, has been experiencing a cold snap. I personally run for my commute during the week, so choosing not to exercise outside due to

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Cardiovascular effects of prolonged exercise

It is well established that cardiovascular exercise is one of the best ways to improve heart health – but is it possible to do too much? Well, in today’s article that is exactly what we aim to find out.   Does prolonged exercise cause heart disease? It may go against conventional wisdom, but there are

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Regaining Homeostasis With Diet & Exercise

Hunter Bennett In scientific literature, health is often defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being – and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity. With this in mind, health is a state of optimal balance that ensures the individual can manage every aspect of their life effectively, without the disease,

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Exercise: Is It Passion Or Addiction?

Hunter Bennett You would be hard pressed to find someone who could possibly consider exercising a bad thing. It helps us manage our weight and reduces our risk of disease and illness. Additionally, exercise improves our mental health and cognitive function. Yep, in the simplest sense, exercise is good. However, as I am sure most