Feeling Good

Hormones are about more than their physical effect on the body. They have cognitive and emotional impacts, which, in turn, can loop back around and change your physical health. No one is at their most energetic when they’re feeling depressed. Luckily, there are four “feel good” hormones that can help you feel a bit brighter. […]

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Bitterness

If you can drag your mind back to your biology classes at school, you may remember learning about how we taste food. The tongue has different receptors for the five main categories of taste: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, umami (savory) and bitterness. For a lot of people, sweetness and saltiness are a lot more enjoyable than

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Protect And Prevent

Your brain is incredibly complicated and responsible for all sorts of different things. When it has problems, whether they’re physical or mental, you can feel it in all aspects of your life. There’s an intangible quality to mental illness, even when it does have a physical cause, and that can make it easy to forget

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Fiber

When it comes to the essential nutrients, fiber is a bit of an odd one. We can’t actually digest fiber, at least not completely. Yet, for some reason, we do need it to make sure the rest of our food can be digested. You can’t talk about digestive health without talking about fiber. Also known

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Cartilage

Let’s talk about something that isn’t actually a bone or a joint but is vital to them staying in good working order. That’s your cartilage, a type of connective tissue found throughout the body, often at the ends of or between bones, where it helps protect them from harm. Some fish have entire skeletons made

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Homeostasis

It’s bad when your blood sugar is too high, and it’s bad when your blood sugar is too low. That’s because what the body actually wants is blood sugar homeostasis. Homeostasis is when something remains steady and in the same condition, such as body temperature or fluid levels. And if your body wants to maintain

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