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The Small Great Steps Toward a Healthier Weight
Dietary tips so you can maintain a healthy weight all year round. Because each patient is truly unique.
Your Health, are you going on vacation?
Summer has just begun and many are looking to lose weight now. And the faster the better. Your health is yours, and what matters is the weight you feel good at, that enhances your well-being, and that you can maintain... all year long. What others say or think... forget it.
Your Digestive Health Today
The month of June marks the Digestive Health, which is a pillar of our health, and so we share with you the vision of our clinicians on the subject. Thus, we share the vision of Dr Helena Santos.
Simplify healthy eating
Wok? Have you heard of it? It is the cooking utensil that cannot be missing in your kitchen! It can promote healthy eating. Learn how in this article.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: chronic inflammation must be fought
He followed a diet low in FODMAPs and it didn't work...I wonder why?
Although there is much success, a diet low in FODMAP does not always help eliminate intestinal discomfort or the symptoms return some time later and the causes may be diverse. Therefore, consultation with assessment and understanding of your particular case, is crucial.
Three strategies to optimise sleep.
I'm not going to tell you to get more sleep - you've probably heard that already. What you don't know is that, more important than the hours of sleep, is its quality and profitability. I'll leave you with three strategies or biohacks to get better sleep and recover more, even while maintaining the same hours of sleep.
The "creativity" behind the vegetarian diet.
The campaign in favour of the vegetarian diet as the saviour of world civilisation has not lost any momentum over the years. It has probably gained steam with the documentaries, personalities and influencers who advocate it and swear it can save the planet and our health. Anything that can improve health and performance has my utmost interest. I have tried to assess its merit, having come to some conclusions Read before starting (or continuing) in this boat.
The Hidden Side of Burnout
burnout comes when we stop working. Not because we don't want to, but simply because we can no longer do it. This seems to be the hidden side that goes unnoticed. But it can be the key to getting it back.
First reason why I do not follow or recommend a vegetarian diet
To talk about nutrition and diet these days is to get into a violent war. Nevertheless, I decided to dive into history, science and arguments to answer one question: is it the best for health and performance? In this first text, I dwell on the history of the food pyramid and how we were probably fooled.
Learn how vitamin D can help with autoimmunity.
An autoimmune disease does not have to be a sentence. It is possible to fight it and succeed. It is possible to win the war. It is possible.
2022: the year to stop being normal.
It's the time for set phrases, to the point of being tiresome. But it's still true: if the next few years are better than those that have already passed, it's because the best is over. And I refuse to let that be true!
5 last minute gifts
If you are still looking for ideas of what to give to those who want to improve their health, I leave you with 5 last minute gift suggestions.
Can an article on vitamin D and autoimmunity change the way you approach health and performance?
Could serious fractures in athletes like Dak Prescott and Conon McGregor have been avoided if they had their vitamin D optimised?
How food intolerances can be part of a world title
How eliminating intolerances from the diet may have helped Lucy Charles-Barclay to finally become Ironman 70.3 world champion
"No new lesion in the brain and the one i had in the neck is no longer visible"
It is at least fair to say that, although unlikely, it is possible to win the battle against multiple sclerosis.
One more nail in the coffin of the absence of evidence of the Protocol Coimbra
There is increasing published evidence supporting the use of the Coimbra protocol in autoimmune diseases. This article is a milestone in that process.
Biohacking for Peak Performance at KEO International Consultants
Burnout is not a mood disorder. Point.
The origin of the misunderstanding arises from assuming that the body does not act because the mind does not want to. It follows that this is the problem: the mind not wanting to. We often confuse fatigue, sleep disturbance and frustration that we feel because the body no longer responds as it once did, and is not able to perform as it once did, as symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Q&A: "Burnout related question: you mentioned to me being like stage 2 of "burnout". May I know how many stages there are?"
Burnout is not a lack of will, motivation or drive. It is not a depressive state and, therefore, not treatable with antidepressants.
Burnout is just a drained state affecting those who pushed too much for too long in pursuit of their goals, dreams and ambition.