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Are Probiotics Responsible for Your Happiness? The Surprising Gut-Brain Connection. By Brad King, MS, MFS
When you think about love and happiness, your gut probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But what if I told you that a handful of tiny microbes living in your digestive tract could help brighten your mood, deepen your connections with others, and even make you feel more loving? Enter Lactobacillus reuteri and other gut-friendly bacteria. These “happy bugs” do more than digest food—they actively communicate with your brain through neurochemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin[1]. Here’s the scoop on how they work, why they’re missing in many of us, and how you can bring them back...
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Unleashing the Power of Thermogenesis: The Key to Long-Term Fat Loss
The linchpin in this bioenergetic process is a remarkable cell type known as brown fat. Unlike its better-known counterpart, white fat, which stores energy, brown fat is a veritable metabolic furnace that creates energy by literally incinerating your body’s fat stores.
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How and Why Carbs Make You Fat!
Let’s be real, everyone loves carbs. In fact, most of us are addicted to them! That’s because, many thousands of years ago, before the agricultural revolution, carbs were not nearly as plentiful, so we evolved to stock up on them whenever we could (think being stung by bees, just to taste some sweet honey). Despite today’s mainstream diet, which consists largely of carbohydrate containing foods (think bread, pasta, cereal, rice, etc.) to the tune of well over 50 percent of our calories, carbohydrates are not essential nutrients for our body. This is because our bodies have the ability to release...
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