Cellular energy is a must for athletic performance. Challenges to cellular energy include medications, work-every-day, and environmental toxins. Health depends on restoring cellular integrity and…
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Category: Nutrition for Fitness Training
How to Support Cellular Health: The Five “R’s”
Materials in our environment can have an alarming impact on our health: our food, our water, even home and personal care products all might be…
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The Truth About Collagen: Incomplete Protein, Incomplete Anabolism
Collagen supplements have recently entered the ring as a contender for possibly facilitating anabolism, often replacing whey and other common protein powders as pre and…
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Does Leucine Lessen Longevity? Unraveling Mysterious mTOR
The branched-chain amino acid leucine, long considered the kingpin of essentials for muscular growth, recently came under attack by some scientists as potentially lessening one’s…
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Understand the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
Food consumed as fuel for life’s demanding activities not only provides energy, but also has a direct effect on circulating blood glucose levels. Understanding a…
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Logging for Success: For the Love of the Log
In the world of health and fitness, we often hear the words, “log your food” or “journal your day,” as they can make a notable…
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How to Add Healthy Calories to Meals – Ideas to Share with Fitness Clients
The world of diet culture primarily focuses on telling individuals to “reduce”, “limit”, “restrict”, “avoid” and “eliminate” certain foods and/ or entire food groups. When…
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Nutritional Periodization: Fueling for the Work Ahead
Prudent nutrition plays a key role in promoting personal training clients’ hypertrophy, power, and strength when coordinated expertly with resistance training. If we take that…
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Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics: The Symbiosis of Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness
As science draws ever closer to the reality of personalized nutrition for optimal performance, nutrigenomics — the study of the interplay between nutrition/bioactive food…
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Herbal Adaptogen Supplements: Trusting Alternative Options for Better Health
Plants have long demonstrated their ability to provide a plethora of essential metabolites, such as carbohydrates, nucleic acids and lipids, as well as many secondary…
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Is Sugar Stealing Your Youth?
Food serves as fuel for the human body. However, as we continue to learn about links between health and nutrition, we begin to understand that…
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Understanding the GLP-1 Class of Drugs: Both Sides of the Weight Loss Issue
The prevalence of diabetes, rising worldwide, affects an estimated 463 million people. Type 2 diabetes accounts for approximately 95% of all cases, and remains challenging…
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