3 Ways Sleep Affects Your Metabolism
1. Poor Weight Maintenance Skimping on sleep can lead to weight gain, especially around the waist where stress-induced pounds often collect. Studies…
How to Deal With Pandemic Burnout
If you’re feeling exhausted nowadays, you’re not alone. When stressful stimuli outpace our chances to recover, it can lead to burnout. “During…
PUMPING IRONY: Collateral Damage
You might call it collateral damage or simply the tipping point to have an already fragile industry, but COVID-19 is pushing assisted-living…
Nutritional Support for Your Immune System
The best defense when it comes to protecting our overall health is a good offense, so physical distancing and rigorous handwashing remain…
PUMPING IRONY: Distant Relations
The Sundays of my 1950s youth often found me fidgeting in the back seat of our family’s car traveling far beyond our…
The Audacity to Farm
Growing up in a mostly white, rural community in the North, Leah Penniman often found solace within the forest. “When human beings…
8 Ways to Laugh More
Practitioners of gelotology — the study of laughter and it is effects on the body — take it very seriously. So much…
PUMPING IRONY: Lessons around the Links
When Minnesota’s golf courses reopened last week, the Frail Foursome, of which I am a charter member, was granted a peek at…
The Food-Sleep Connection
It’s obvious enough our food choices influence our digestive and metabolic health. What’s less obvious — but no less important — is…
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: 5 Supplements for Mental Health
The most effective approach for building and looking after good health is sticking near to what nature intended. And when it comes…
