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Circadian Rhythm: Why This Pattern is Key to Your Health
Understand the many ways a rhythmic circadian cycle can impact your health — and eight lifestyle factors that can help optimize it.
Rising Early May Reduce Depression Risk
Sleep timing may lower risk of major depression by as much as 23 percent, according to a recent study in JAMA Psychiatry.
The Lifestyle Guide to Supporting Your Immune System
Understand what factors outside of nutrition and exercise influence the health of your immune system.
Why Recovery?
The better and faster you can recover, the more progress you can ultimately make with your fitness — and the healthier you’ll move and feel. In this mini episode, Danny King, Master Trainer at Life Time, explains the difference between system and muscle recovery, and the ways we can optimize our efforts for each.
Coach Paul’s Top Tips for Unwinding Before Bedtime
These ideas can help promote end-of-day relaxation — so you can get a better night’s sleep.
Thyroid Health: How to Identify Imbalances + Tips for Support
Thyroid issues are prevalent: An estimated one in seven people are affected, with even more suffering from an imbalance — and many not even aware that their thyroid is behind their symptoms. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares the signals our thyroid might be sending us, the tests to ask for, and the lifestyle habits we can implement in our daily lives to nourish and support our thyroids.
5 Evening Routines for Better Sleep
Try these tips for better sleep at night, including dimming the lights in the final hours of the day and staying away from the bedroom until you are ready to go to bed.
6 Morning Routines for Better Sleep
Did you know that making your bed in the morning ups your chances of sleeping well at night?
A Holistic Approach to Health — and Weight Loss
When it comes to building optimal health — including goals like losing weight — fitness and nutrition are often the two main factors that are associated with results. But there are many other lifestyle behaviors that influence your ability to reach and sustain your goals. Anika Christ, RD, CPT, joins us to take a comprehensive look, offering strategies for better health as a whole — and weight loss as a byproduct.
11 Tips to Optimize Your Circadian Rhythm
Seeking better sleep? Try these morning and evening routines to get in sync.
The Sleep-Memory Connection
Quality sleep may help prevent Alzheimer’s, according to recent research.
7 Steps to Improve Your Adrenal Function
Plus, how a Life Time dietitian overcame her own adrenal fatigue.
5 Signs You’re More Stressed Than You Think
Signals not to be ignored that show your stress might be negatively affecting you in deeper ways than you realize.
How to Maximize Your Metabolism
Metabolism is more complex than simply being “fast” or “slow” or controlled by exercise. There are many things we can do in our daily lives to optimize it. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares how to build the foundation for a healthy metabolism, as well as ways to dig deeper if you’re not seeing results or feeling your best.
The Connection Between Alcohol and Insomnia
Here’s how that nightcap contributes to sleepless nights.
The Connection Between Caffeine and Insomnia
If you struggle with insomnia, you might want to cool it on the coffee. Here’s why.
What Your Sleep–Wake Cycle Is Trying to Tell You
Do you wake up between 1 and 3 a.m.? Your liver may need a detox, according to a Traditional Chinese Medicine concept called the organ clock.
The Connection Between Hormones and Insomnia
How estrogen, progesterone, and thyroid levels can affect your sleep.
How to Stop Insomnia
Explore the various root causes of insomnia and get expert-sourced treatments for overcoming it.
The 4 Ms of Health
Looking to make lasting health changes? Take these four factors into account for meaningful, sustainable progress.
5 Secrets to Fat Loss
In this webinar, Coach Anika walks through five areas to focus on for weight-loss progress post-2020.