So as this round of festivities winds down and we await the next onslaught, have you ever wondered why some people can eat anything they want and not put on weight? You, on the other hand, need to smell food, and it magically lands on your midriff? If this has
Rest and cooling yourself down could easily rank as the most unlikely, forgotten tool in your health kit. When I first started exercising, about nine years ago, my trainer would "instruct" me to run on the treadmill at a speed of 17 miles per hour. He was being
Your mind and body are always switched on responding to external stimuli. A default mode network (DMN) then is a network of regions that are activated when you are able to turn this off. If you have never heard of this term, pay attention, it affects your nervous system, your
Fasting is extremely common this time of the year. We recently celebrated Navratri, where many people fasted or ate one meal a day. But have you considered the possibility that how much you eat can affect your perception of reality? Yes reality! These past few years, I have been reading
ChatGPT is everywhere. Will it soon take over your lifestyle? Tell me what to eat, how to exercise, when, and how much.
Troponin is a protein found in your body. It is used as a marker to evaluate the risk of a heart attack. Typically, a doctor would recommend one if they feared that you might have had one. Can it also be used to predict the risk of COVID-related heart risk?
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a topic I have spoken about in the past. If I revisit it today, it is simply because it is possibly the most important variable you should know about yourself. After body fat percentage, perhaps. So why is HRV so important? At the risk of
The human body needs iron, an essential mineral, to survive. It helps you produce haemoglobin, for example, which is required to deliver oxygen. So does drinking coffee affect the absorption of iron? Is there a way to still drink coffee or tea and still be able to absorb iron? Research
Nitric oxide is made in the body by the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) from the amino acid arginine. Arginine is an element in the protein you eat. Why, you ask, am I focusing on nitric oxide? When you eat nuts and seeds, lean meats, yoghurt, and dairy, your body
Energy drives the universe. Energy from the big bang created our universe. In turn, the sun powered ours. To exist, we need energy in the form of food. But do you know just how much your need for energy drives your choices, habits, and actions? Your body exists in a
Memories! Ah, I wish I could pick and choose which ones to keep and which ones to remove. But it seems my mind likes to retain the memories that I don't want and forgets names, numbers, and people like they were the plague. Is there something you can
Sleep. Is there an ideal pattern, amount, or time of day? Should you be embarrassed about sleeping too much or too little? To find out, let us look at how we have slept through the ages. Generally speaking, we have slept at night and then again during the day. Night