Several studies directly investigated the effect of fish oil on metabolic pathways that underlie muscle growth, with very interesting...

Helder If only I had more willpower, I could stop eating so much junk food. Can you help? For me this is not the fact that you have less...

Passive ROM This is the range of motion a joint can move in under no load or tension under external control, such as another person or...

Cinnamon is popular spice worldwide. It exerts numerous biological effects on the body. Cinnamon is frequently treated as an...

When done on a regular, sustained basis (that is to say, something close to daily, for fifteen, thirty minutes at a time), meditation...

This is a question a lot of people seem to ask. Helder what training split should I do? One body part per day? Push, Pull, Legs? What do...

Stress can wreak havoc with your metabolism, raise your blood pressure, burst your white blood cells, make you flatulent, ruin your sex...

As we glide down into slow wave sleep, some obvious things occur to facets of the stress-response system. For starters, the sympathetic...

Can some physiological response to your average, run-of-the-mill mammalian stressor, if too long or too frequent, get you into trouble?...

The primary job of the immune system is to defend the body against infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The...

Broadly, there are two types of gastrointestinal disorders. In the first, you feel terrible, something isn’t working right, and the...

Millions of people are taking sleeping pills. Did you know sleeping pills do not provide natural sleep? Sleeping pills can damage health,...

What is the Glycemic Index? The glycemic index (or GI) is a ranking of carbohydrates on a scale from 0 to 100 according to the extent to...

I for one no I am stressed, because when this happens I am in the toilet pretty regularly. This is the purview of the gastrointestinal...

When you are stressed do you tend to eat everything in sight, in a mindless mechanical way? Or are you on the opposite side of the scale,...

No other species in the universe demonstrate the unnatural act of prematurely and artificially terminating sleep. Doctors, Nurses,...

Thermal environment, specifically the proximal temperature around your body and brain, is perhaps the most underappreciated factor...

Short of sleeping pills the most misunderstood of all sleep aids is alcohol. Many seem to think alcohol helps them fall asleep more...

What is stopping you from sleeping? Many of us are beyond tired, why? For most people who do not have a sleeping disorder, most likely...

Take a group of healthy, lean young males in the mid 20's and limit them to 5 hours of sleep for just one week and you will find a marked...