Fall Activities to Keep You Young

Fall, while beautiful, often reminds us that we are inevitably getting older. Aging is unavoidable but it doesn’t have to be an indicator of a less-enjoyable life. If you find yourself falling into a negative...

Don’t Hit Pause on Your Sex Life

Sex is a natural part of life, even in our later years. Many women however, seem to believe, erroneously so, that menopause is synonymous with an end to a healthy and vital sexual life. Not...

The Truth Behind Menopausal Mood Swings and Other Bothersome Symptoms

Understanding why they and other common menopausal symptoms happen can not only empower us to soldier on through them, but come out on the other end with a greater sense of understanding for ourselves, as...

Vitamin D Does Your Body Good

The reason vitamin D is so powerful is that most of us aren’t getting enough through our diet plan, as it’s found in so few foods. Your body can make vitamin D naturally if you’re...

An Overview of the Gut-Brain Link

It might seem funny to consider how your gut can influence your brain…but think about it—have you ever experienced a “gut feeling”? Here, you’ll get an idea of how the microbial life in your gut...

Fighting Chronic Stress and Building Resilience

Stress is one of the things in life that we just cannot avoid. In fact, things or events that activate our stress response, or stressors, are everywhere in the environment and can include things like...

Your Personalized Spring Health Tune-Up

Although we humans are not computers, we all need to reboot ourselves every now and again. Let’s take a look at a few ways we can do this so that we can be at our...

The Health Benefits of Physical Activity: Weekend Warriors and Sedentary Behavior

Currently physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth leading cause of mortality globally and the CDC report that an estimated 300,000 deaths in the US each year are related to physical inactivity and poor...

10 Unexpected Causes of Fatigue

Have you noticed that you’re feeling more tired than usual over the last few days, weeks, or even months? Feeling a little tired occasionally is normal, but when you feel extreme tiredness that occurs seemingly...