Food and Mood: Diet and Exercise

Food and Mood: Diet and Exercise

A positive attitude is one of the keys to exercise and losing weight, but changing your diet and your exercise habits can both have an impact on your mood, whether you realize it or not....
Three Ways to Stay Hydrated While Drinking

Three Ways to Stay Hydrated While Drinking

One of the most common tips for avoiding, or fighting, a hangover is to drink plenty of water. We already know that we should drink water during our regular, day to day activities. The amount...
Five Fast Foods to Fight a Hangover

Five Fast Foods to Fight a Hangover

One of the hardest parts of fighting a hangover is dealing with your appetite. After you've spent hours torturing your gut with all manner of intoxicant, it often doesn't itself doesn't have the stomach for...
Making Sense of Milk Thistle

Making Sense of Milk Thistle

Even the healthiest diet will come across certain ingredients or substances which are toxic. All meat, to some extent, contains toxins. Organic foods can contain toxins. Even the air that we breathe and the water...
The Benefits of 5-HTP

The Benefits of 5-HTP

5-HTP, otherwise known as “5-Hydroxytryptophan”, is a compound that is produced in your body whenever it makes serotonin. In previous articles, we've discussed the importance that serotonin has in mood regulation, which is why for...
Food and Mood: Iron

Food and Mood: Iron

Whenever Popeye or his friends were in danger, the grizzled sailor would simply pop open a can of spinach and gain both a passion for fighting, and incredible strength. In those days, spinach was promoted...
Four Healthy Drink Ideas for the Winter

Four Healthy Drink Ideas for the Winter

If you're living in the parts of America and Canada that are getting hit with the dreaded “Polar Vortex” phenomena, you already know that it can put a serious hurting on your ability to go...
Fighting the Winter Blues

Fighting the Winter Blues

Seasonal affective disorder, appropriately shortened as SAD, is a real condition that many of us may take at face value; it's known as winter depression, and though you may not realize it, it can seriously...
Sleep and How It Effects Your Mood

Sleep and How It Effects Your Mood

“Beauty rest” may not be a cute way of describing a restful night of sleep. When we get the right amount of sleep at night, it helps us to be more alert, but it also...
Nasal Irrigation and Seasonal Discomfort

Nasal Irrigation and Seasonal Discomfort

We've all seen it; that strange little blue pot, sometimes made of plastic, usually in a bathroom. We've seen the commercials. We may have even seen someone use it, or try to tell us about...