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THE MAGIC PILL Imagine a pill that could reduce your chance of getting Alzheimer’s or Dementia by 50%. Pharmaceutical companies would be rich. And the general public would make this pill part of [...]

Have you spent most of your life living and dying by the numbers on the scale? Our value, worth, attractiveness, and status are often determined and internalized by our scale. The scale is often [...]

When was the last time you really loved movement? For most of us, it was when we were kids, using the natural environment as our playground—climbing trees, pretending to be animals, or mimicking [...]

Here in ‘The Excited States of America,’ intermittent fasting or IF is all the rage. But fasting has been around since the dawn of mankind and even plays a role in most world religions. Long [...]

Seven years ago, Cavin Balaster sustained a two-story fall. He was diagnosed with diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and given less than a 10% chance of regaining consciousness beyond a vegetative [...]

Two of the top personal trainers in New York City are advocates of Gymnastic Strength Training, a balanced approach to training that combines strength and mobility. If the word ‘gymnastics’ has [...]

Many believe that yoga is simply a stretching exercise, and a lot of endurance athletes assert that they are not flexible enough to take it on. But if you ask ChauKei Ngai, yoga is so much more [...]

“[Wearables] are only successful when you use them to learn more about your own body. That’s the missing link … They cannot be used as the actual answer themselves. If you outsource your own [...]

This is your brain. This is your brain on a modern Western diet.       The brain is truly an incredible instrument. We exist at different levels – physical, emotional, mental and [...]

We would all choose a happy, healthy heart over a hardened one, but are we looking at the wrong numbers to predict heart health? Since the late 1970’s, we have equated high cholesterol with heart [...]