As we head towards winter, I wanted to provide a little information on how our immune system works and how you can prepare your body to stay as healthy as possible over the coming months. Getting sick is never fun, but even more, is often unneeded. Yes, we may occasionally get a cold, the flu, or some other illness, but if our immune system was in proper health then we would get sick less often.

I’ve been asked many times about the one vitamin or supplement a person needs for good health, about this or that diet, about going Vegan or going Carnivore, and much more.

So I wanted to take a moment to look at some things here. Not the pros and cons of different diets or the importance of one vitamin over another, but instead — how you can determine what is right for you.

We’re seeing fat loss with muscle gain, faster muscle gain while continuing to lose fat, lower resting heart rate and blood pressure increased energy, lowered inflammation, bettered mood, significantly decreased cravings, and much more.

If you search for “energy supplement” on amazon, you get over 4,000 results.

How can any reasonable human sift through all that and find the ones that work? Or which ones are bogus?

I did a deep dive into the truth about “increasing your energy”...

The American Sleep Association estimates that 50-70 million US adults have a sleep disorder. That's about 20% is the US population. Furthermore, insomnia is the most common specific sleep disorder, with short term issues reported...

When you think of “vitality” what do you think of?

For most people, it’s some image of an active life, bursting with energy: shining eyes; spring in your step; the zest of life.

But if you go just a little bit deeper into this idea of vitality, it’s not...

The word “micronutrients” sure sounds nice.

Health marketers use it as a generic catch-all term, but usually without any specific meaning.

It’s easy to have an idea about what it probably is –– small nutrients, right? –– and it’s...

What’s interesting is that food product manufacturers know there are millions of people like you. (We say, “food product” because much of the time what they sell is not really “food” and much more of a “product”)

They know consumers around...

Heart disease is the single greatest killer in America –– nearly 836,546 every year. That works out to about 1 person every 38 seconds, every single minute of every single day. This isn’t something that happens “out there” or to someone else...

There are thousands and thousands of cases where people can eat “healthy” and exercise hours and hours and still not get rid of that last bit of belly fat or those last 10 pounds.

Why is that?

For our long-time readers this will come as no surprise but…

There’s more to weight loss than just “input and output,” aka diet and exercise.

There are other factors at play, hidden variables to the weight loss equation that keep many people stuck––unhealthy, unsatisfied, and frustrated. 

So let’s dive into these more subtle factors so you can approach your own journey to optimal health and optimum weight fully informed and primed to realize your most important goals.

First, let’s start with some basics.