Inspiration Grows Everywhere

What inspires you? The nurse who just won the Boston Marathon after she decided to do it, just for fun (1)? The world class athlete who, despite suffering a broken neck just days before the Ironman World Championships last year, rallied and toed the line at the very same race and executed a screaming fast […]

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Gut Health, Food… and Non Food

If I were writing this about twenty years ago, and I were to discuss the idea of diet cola and one’s gut, a diatribe about how diet cola is a great way to prevent you from developing a one might have been par for the course. As a 16-year-old girl interested in health, fitness and […]

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My Favorite Recovery Drink: Bone Broth!

What you’re looking at is not a commercially prepared workout recovery drink, nor is it what I personally what I drank for years and years. You’re looking at bone broth. Iced and blended.  And maybe sometimes with just a touch (a touch only inasmuch as not to inundate the body with sugar) of fresh beet juice […]

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How’s Your Sleep Hygiene?

Sleep awareness week is one of the nationally recognized themes I am a huge advocate of, perhaps even more so than other health issues. Why? Because it’s something which, despite being a fundamental part of one’s overall picture of health, is often overlooked, as if hours spent sleeping were easily interchanged for more time spent […]

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