While there are no 'quick fixes' when it comes to healthy hair and skin, Vital's Hair Skin & Nails supplement can help improve the condition of these beauty assets. The post This Supplement Will Actually Give You Healthier Hair, Skin, And Nails appeared first on Women's Health. Powered by WPeMatico...
People often ask me why I use supplements. After all, our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn’t take them. Our ancient ancestors didn’t take them, nor did our medieval ones or our pre-industrial ones. In fact, nutritional supplementation is one of the most modern inputs you can imagine and, in a perfect world while eating a perfect diet,...
It may not share cinnamon’s popularity, but turmeric is another spice with powerful culinary and medicinal qualities that deserves our attention. Turmeric, known officially as curcuma longa and historically as Indian saffron, is a rhizome (root) of the ginger family. Its horizontal root system is dug up, baked, and ground into a bright orange powder,...
When I say “electrolytes,” what do you think of? Maybe rowdy professional athletes dumping a cooler of some neon-colored sports drink over their coach’s head after winning the championship. Electrolytes have a much bigger role in winning than just soaking the coach. What do electrolytes do? If you’re an endurance athlete or a keto dieter, you...
Protein is an incredible essential macronutrient. Fat is plentiful, even when you’re lean, and there are only two absolutely essential fatty acids; the rest we can manufacture from other precursors if required. Carbs we can produce from protein, if we really must, or we can just switch over to ketones and fats for the bulk...
Magnesium is an essential mineral that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. You’d be hard pressed to find any activity in the body that doesn’t use magnesium in some way. It has literally hundreds of functions. Cellular energy production, protein synthesis, DNA and RNA synthesis, and cell signaling—which controls the secretion of certain hormones, among other...
Resveratrol is touted as an anti-ageing substance that can also aid weight loss. Here, an expert shares if resveratrol supplements really work, as well as safety. The post What Are Resveratrol Supplements — And Do They Have Any Health Benefits? appeared first on Women's Health.Powered by WPeMatico...
Are you sick of dietary propaganda? Me too. This week's guest has been wiping the floor with ridiculous, government-mandated, top-down nutrition recommendations for decades now.Powered by WPeMatico...
There's actually another supplement out there that could also help you get some sleep—in fact, your body might even be deficient in it already: magnesium. The post Should You Start Taking Magnesium For Sleep? appeared first on Women's Health.Powered by WPeMatico...
As a health-minded individual, you’ve no doubt gotten the memo that omega-3 fatty acids are important. You may dutifully eat your weekly servings of small, oily fish. Perhaps a fish oil pill is even part of your daily supplement routine. But do you know why? Looking back, I used to write about omega-3s a lot in...