Unlock Your Potential: Exclusive Benefits for New Clients at Santa Cruz CORE
Are you ready to start a journey toward a healthier, more vibrant you? At Santa Cruz CORE, we’re thrilled to welcome new clients with open arms and exclusive offers designed to help you unlock your potential. Whether you’re dipping your toes into wellness services for the first time or a seasoned enthusiast looking for a fresh […]
Choosing the Best Milk Alternatives For Your Health: 5 to Embrace and 4 to Avoid
Choosing the Best Milk Alternatives For Your Health: 5 to Embrace and 4 to Avoid In recent years, grocery stores, coffee shops, and even one’s fridge have become filled with an array of milk alternatives, for those of us individuals who are unable to drink traditional cow, goat, or even camel milk. Then, there are […]
6 Super Fruits You Should Eat More Of That Benefit Your Body
A diet high in fruits and vegetables can lower blood pressure, lower the risk of heart disease and stroke, prevent certain types of cancer, lower the risk of eye and digestive problems, and have a positive effect on regulating blood sugar, which can help control appetite. To reap the benefits of eating more fruits, you […]
8 Inspiring Total Fitness Facts: Reshape Your Body & Brain
Reshape Your Body, Not Body Parts: Why the Total Fitness Approach Is Better and Inspiring The concept of total fitness has been around for a long time. It’s a focus on the whole body—including your mental and emotional well-being—as opposed to simply building muscle or boosting your cardio. The idea behind total fitness is that […]
6 Inflammatory Vegetable Oils to Avoid and Why
Should consumers heed warnings that linoleic acid (i.e., vegetable oils) induces inflammation and limiting their consumption will make individuals healthier? A systematic evaluation of 15 clinical trials showed no specific evidence supporting the theory that LA causes inflammation. This study supports current recommendations that a regulated diet of polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as LA, is […]
About Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance happens when a person cannot digest lactose, a sugar found in milk, and gets adverse symptoms. This is different from a milk allergy, which is when the immune system has a strong, often severe, reaction to a protein (allergen) found in milk. Lactose intolerance is quite common around the world and in the […]
An Expert-Recommended Probiotic Foods List
A healthy gut is a vital factor that defines healthy wellbeing. There are groups of good and bad bacteria living inside the intestine, fighting against each other to control your health. It creates a microbiome that is regulated by both of them. A balance is a must to keep the biome healthy. If bad bacteria […]
The Unique Interplay Behind Food Cravings
Food cravings have been experienced by most everyone and are fairly common. There are cases, however, in which intense food cravings are unwanted and become intrusive. Giving in to cravings from time to time is no big deal, but when these become uncontrollable, it can lead to overeating and excess weight-gain (Myers Et al., 2018). […]
The Truth Behind Bone Broth for Sports Recovery
Also known as “stock,” bone broth has been garnering attention due to claims that consuming it enhances the body’s ability to build collagen. Collagen is a key protein in connective tissue, and is part of bones, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, and the inner and outer linings of most tissues. Specific peptides in bone broth as […]
Revealing the Benefits of Exercise on Brain Function
The positive effects between exercise and brain function are well-documented, but what exactly about the brain does it affect? Does exercise make us smarter? If so, what type of exercise and how much of it? These are the types of questions that come up when the connection between physical activity and brain function is mentioned. […]