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4 Core Benefits of Strength Training

September 25, 2021 by Jaimi Jansen Leave a Comment

Strength training

When many think of strength training, they think of intense weight lifting and huge muscular men and women. Strength training, however, is much more than exercise aimed at getting huge muscles and everyone young, old, small, or big can benefit from it. It can help improve coordination, strength, circulation, bone density, and help keep older […]

Filed Under: Personal Training, Tips & Training, Wellness Tagged With: benefits, body, exercise, Fitness, Health, health and wellness, healthy, metabolism, muscle, personal training, training, wellness, Workout

3 Ways Exercise Can Promote Glucose Metabolism

August 14, 2021 by Jaimi Jansen Leave a Comment

Exercise glucose metabolism

Regular exercise is one of the best ways to promote health and manage chronic illnesses. The relationship between exercise and glucose metabolism, specifically, is important for everyone to know about. Athletes benefit from knowing how carbohydrates are used by the muscles to generate energy and under what circumstances. Non-athletes and those with type 2 diabetes […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Tips & Training, Wellness Tagged With: exercise, glucose, Health, metabolism, wellness

5 Amazing Benefits to Diaphragmatic Breathing 

January 18, 2021 by Jaimi Jansen Leave a Comment

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5 Amazing Benefits to Diaphragmatic Breathing Can Make Your Life Stress Free and Improve Airway  Functions! Health Benefits of Diaphragmatic Breathing  It is no surprise that how we breathe can affect our body and mind. If our body and mind are relaxed, for example, the breathing rate tends to be slow and not forceful. If we […]

Filed Under: Acupuncture, Healing, Motivations, Tips & Training, Wellness, Workplace Wellness Tagged With: acupuncture, alternative medicine, balance, benefits, body, CORE, energy, healing, Health, healthy, metabolism, sleep, stress, therapy, Vegetables, water, wellness

1 Outstanding Little-Known Tiny Habit Can Change Your Life

January 8, 2021 by Jaimi Jansen Leave a Comment

Tiny Habits

When it comes to developing habits and creating change, Tiny is Mighty and this 1 Tiny Habit Can Change Your Life. Practicing tiny habits and behaviors is essential to improving health and maintaining happiness throughout one’s life. Small habits can begin with flossing once a day, completing one push up, drinking a full glass of […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Healing, Motivations, Personal Training, Tips & Training, Weight Loss, Wellness, Workplace Wellness Tagged With: balance, benefits, body, community, exercise, Fitness, healing, Health, local, massage, metabolism, muscle, nutrition, personal training, santa cruz, sleep, therapy, training, water, weight, wellness, Workout

Do DNA Diets Work?

March 28, 2019 by Jaimi Jansen Leave a Comment

It is likely you have already encountered an advertisement for DNA-based diets on the internet. These may go by “nutrigenomics” or “precision nutrition” eating plans. These eating plans base their advice on a person’s own DNA to determine what foods are best for them. The diets are already available, but do they really work? Or […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Weight Loss Tagged With: dna, dna diet, genetics, metabolism, nutrigenomics, nutrition, precision nutrition

Type 2 Diabetes

February 7, 2019 by Jaimi Jansen 1 Comment

Diabetes is a complicated disease. While there are many types of diabetes, type 2 is gaining the most momentum and poses a threat to public health. This disease gradually damages health and organs. In addition, if left untreated it can even lead to blindness. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the prevalence of diabetes […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Wellness Tagged With: diabetes, disease prevention, glucose, insulin, metabolism, obesity

Nutrition, Microbes, and Gut Health

November 20, 2018 by Jaimi Jansen

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There is a unique connection between the human body and microbial life. There are about ten times more microbes (like bacteria and fungi) in the human body than there are human cells. Microbes in the gut (the gastrointestinal tract), especially, play a unique role in the metabolism, immunity, and incidence of disease in humans. Diet […]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Tips & Training, Weight Loss, Wellness Tagged With: digestion, gut health, Health, immunity, metabolism, microbes, nutrition, wellness

Why Diets Don’t Work

August 28, 2018 by Jaimi Jansen

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Diet fads are everywhere and more than often they do more harm than good. Diets plans tend to be strict, restrictive, expensive, short-lived, and (when unsuccessful) discouraging. Furthermore, the alarming number of diet fads out there make nutrition and health confusing for the common individual. The most common reason to diet is weight-loss, although it […]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: Diet, diets, don't, fad, fads, food, lifestyle, metabolism, nutrition, restrictions, why, work

How to Boost Your Metabolism

July 12, 2018 by Jaimi Jansen

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When we talk about the metabolism, we are talking about the sum of all the chemical changes occurring within your body to keep you alive and healthy. This is both the breaking down of calories to create chemical energy, and the construction of new molecules as your cells renew themselves. When we talk about boosting […]

Filed Under: Wellness, Tips & Training Tagged With: boost, boosting, Diet, exercise, high, intensity, interval, metabolism, nutrition, standing, training, water

The Effects of Nutrition During Pregnancy

June 28, 2018 by Jaimi Jansen

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For a long time, associations have been observed between adverse maternal intrauterine environments and the incidence of non-communicable diseases in later life. For example, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis studies the link between the epidemiological evidence of poor fetal and infant development with permanent detrimental changes in glucose-insulin metabolism (1). These alterations of glucose metabolism can […]

Filed Under: Wellness Tagged With: diabetes, epigenetics, fetal, gestational, metabolic, metabolism, nutrition, overnutrition, pregnancy, programming, undernutrition, utero

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