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‘A healthy person wants a thousand things. A sick person wants just one thing: to be well again.’ – Naval Ravikant
Your physical body is a vessel that will carry you through every single day of your life.
There is no point having all of the money and time in the world if your body stops you from doing the things that light you up the most.
Here you will find articles and information that I have found useful for achieving better health in my own life. Sign Up to get new posts straight to your Inbox.
*Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and don’t play one on the internet*
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Top 3 Micro-Nutrients For a Healthy Immune System
Unless you have been living under a rock in recent weeks, you will be well aware that the Coronavirus or COVID-19 is making its way across the world. Although COVID-19 and the flu have similar symptoms, it has already been established that this new virus is much...
Acidity and Alkalinity in the Body – What You Should Know
When we tend to think of disease, getting sick, germs, viruses and the sorts, we don't usually think about the acid and alkaline balance in our bodies. In fact, not many people are really that aware that there is a delicate balancing act going on inside of you, and a...
How To Optimise Your Workspace For Better Movement
According to the American Time Use Survey, the average American spends 8.7 hours at work on the average workday. I don't know what the statistics are for similarly work-inclined areas like Western Europe but I imagine that the figure is more or less the same. That's a...
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Top 3 Micro-Nutrients For a Healthy Immune System
Unless you have been living under a rock in recent weeks, you will be well aware that the Coronavirus or COVID-19 is making its way across the world. Although COVID-19 and the flu have similar symptoms, it has already been established that this new virus is much...
Acidity and Alkalinity in the Body – What You Should Know
When we tend to think of disease, getting sick, germs, viruses and the sorts, we don't usually think about the acid and alkaline balance in our bodies. In fact, not many people are really that aware that there is a delicate balancing act going on inside of you, and a...
How To Optimise Your Workspace For Better Movement
According to the American Time Use Survey, the average American spends 8.7 hours at work on the average workday. I don't know what the statistics are for similarly work-inclined areas like Western Europe but I imagine that the figure is more or less the same. That's a...
5 of the Best Ways To Avoid Getting Alzheimer’s
Neal Barnard MD is a nutrition researcher and New York Times best-selling author. In September 2016, he released a powerful and informative TEDx Talk titled 'Power Foods For the Brain'. Barnard talks about how he 'lost' his dad many years before his actual death to...
Quiet Wakefulness: The Solution to Sleep Anxiety
Sleep anxiety is one of those vicious, self-fulfilling cycles where worrying about not being able to fall asleep or being sleep deprived makes you more likely to not fall asleep and be sleep deprived. While you can optimise your environment for sleep and use useful...
Blue Light Blocking Glasses: How They Work and Why They Work
Introduction to Blue Light Blocking Glasses For quite some time now, I have been struggling with falling asleep. Once I am asleep there usually aren't too many issues. Sure, I wake up a few times during the night, maybe toss or turn a little bit. But who...
How To Deal With Conflicting Health Advice
It's great that you are trying to look after your health. Maybe you have some recommendations from your friend, have seen what the news is telling you or have seen a few articles online about how to lose a few kilos in a month. The blessing of the age that we live in...
6 Reasons Why The Sun Is Your Friend Not Your Foe
Recent times have brought about the emergence of so-called 'solar-phobes': people who cower from the sun's rays, stay inside to protect themselves from the 'big cancer ball in the sky' and cover their skin head-to-toe when they venture out. The marketing of...
Best Breathing Exercises for Anxiety Relief (Guest Post)
This week's post is a guest post from Sunday Scaries about some of the best breathing exercises for anxiety relief. *** If you have ever experienced a panic attack or a sudden wave of anxiety, then you know exactly how miserable they can be. Your heart starts to pound...
5 Tips To Stay Healthy On A Long-Haul Flight
More often than not, flying long-distance is the most dreaded part of the holiday. Cramped seats, poor aeroplane food, re-circulated air. These are usually just part of the holiday package deal and long-haul flights are hardly the advert for happiness and health....
12 Basic & Natural Habits To Enhance Longevity – An Article By Ben Greenfield
Ben Greenfield is a guy that I have mentioned on this blog on more than a few occasions, especially in my Health and Wellbeing section. He was voted America's top personal trainer in 2008, was named in the top 100 most influential people of health & fitness in...
Get Better Sleep: The Pros and Cons of Each Sleeping Position
Before we even jump into the pros and cons of each sleeping position, it is seemingly obvious but also very important to highlight the fact that changing your sleeping position is quite difficult - but may well be very necessary. Not in the sense that it is tough to...
5 More Go-To Podcasts For Upgrading Your Life – April 2019
Affiliate Disclosure You may remember back in September 2018 when I published 'My 5 Go-To Podcasts Right Now'. That list is a great list for anyone looking to improve any and every facet of their life: from mental to physical to spiritual health. About 7 months on, I...
6 Big Signs You Have Magnesium Deficiency (And How To Fix It)
Until very recently, I only thought of magnesium as the chemical that burns into a massive flame when you put it in a bunsen burner when you are 12 years old. Of course, I knew that it had other functions too, hearing it occasionally thrown around in scientific...
The most common Intermittent Fasting questions
So it has been a little while since I began giving intermittent fasting a go and I am extremely pleased to report back that it has become an essential part of my daily life ever since. I will often finish my main meal of the day at 8pm and then fast for 12-16 hours...
Wim Hof Breathing – The Benefits of the Superhuman Method
For anyone that has not heard of Wim Hof or his famous breathing technique, then it is probably time that you were introduced. 'Iceman' Wim Hof is known for his ability to turn from normal human to superhuman just by the control and changing of his breath. As a...
Why I’m supplementing Vitamin D this winter
Intro to Vitamin D Vitamin D is not your standard vitamin. Sneakily enough, it is actually a hormone that functions throughout your whole body performing a variety of important tasks that are essential for optimal health. It is also a fat-soluble vitamin which means...
What are the benefits of bone broth?
If you have been anywhere near the realm of health foods, biohacking or optimum performance recently you may have heard of the small matter of bone broth. This seemingly simple recipe and concept is currently setting the world alight with its nutrient-dense content,...
Natural Hangover Cures
Affiliate Disclosure After discovering that my post about Preventing Hangovers was one of the most viewed pages on the blog, and having a fairly nasty one myself after Halloween, I decided to see if I could take the research a little deeper. Sure, I covered a bit of...
The 14 Best Brain Foods for Students
Affiliate Disclosure As a student myself, I know that having any sort of edge to keep you a bit more awake in lectures or a bit more focused in seminars is golden information. Not to mention improved memory for exams and keeping inflammation down so that physical...
EMF exposure and 6 things you can do about it
Affiliate Disclosure Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have been around long before us humans and will be around long after us. They are a key part of nature and we receive most of our natural EMFs from the sun and the earth itself. Then technology arrived. All of the...
How To Hack Your Room For Better Sleep
Affiliate Disclosure If you haven't already noticed by now, I am a huge fan of sleep. Not too long ago I wrote a post about how you can sleep better but since then, I have feasted on countless articles about sleep and read a full book dedicated to it. The benefits of...
My 5 Go-To Podcasts Right Now – September 2018
To tell you the truth, I think that my podcast list is pretty fire right now. For me, it's got the perfect mix of topics that I'm interested in. Go-to podcasts for when I need some specific guidance on anything physical, mental or spiritual. Stuff for general interest...
Why You Should Improve Gut Health – and How To Do It
Affiliate Disclosure Gut health is probably one of the lesser-known fields of personal health but is now starting to get the attention it deserves. Your gut health resides mostly in your lower intestine (colon) and is home to your gut microbiome. This is a community...
Good Stress vs Bad Stress – The Body
This is part 1 of a series that I will be writing about the good stress vs bad stress. Why? Because we all get stressed, some more than others, and how we manage the type and duration of that stress impacts every aspect of our lives. Either we become superheroes among...
How To Use Evernote – Organisation and Productivity
Affiliate Disclosure So about a year ago was when I first started thinking about starting a blog and considering a slightly more unconventional route for my future. When I started doing my research I would have one workbook for things I found online and one for...
4 Essential Steps To Tackling Phone Addiction
Don't get me wrong, phones are one of the greatest inventions ever. A phone can be almost anything you want it to be: a camera, a video recorder, a microphone, a calculator, an alarm clock, a translator, a telephone where you can actually see the other person, a...
Why I’m Giving Intermittent Fasting A Try
Before I jump into telling you why I'm giving intermittent fasting a go, here's 2 reasons why I have never given it a go in the past: 1. I love food. Neglecting food out of choice always sounded like an absurd idea. 2. Breakfast is probably my favourite meal of the...
Sleep Better, Deeper and Quicker: What the Experts Say
Affiliate Disclosure The 21st-century' Sleep Loss Endemic' is in full flow. In an increasingly interconnected world, we are not only sleeping much less than ever, but the quality and deepness of our sleep is also on the decline. To sleep better is to rest, wake up and...
Butter Coffee: The Healthy Caffeine Craze
If this blog post is the first you have heard of Butter Coffee, then your initial reaction may look something like this: via GIPHY Coffee, in general, has a lot of fans for a number of different reasons: the taste, the caffeine kick or even just the routine. As...
5 Productivity Hacks to Own Exam Season
Exam season is upon us. It is the peak time of procrastination, dread and the most infamous fear response of them all: cramming. If you still have enough time before your exams and essay deadlines, use these hacks to get ahead. If you are behind, use them to catch up...
No More Hangovers – Prevention, Cure and Bad-Ass Science
Drinking is fun. Hangovers are not. What causes us to become drunk has been studied extensively, but what causes hangovers less so. They turn us into light and sound-sensitive creatures, often unable to even look at food or drink and forcing us to remain curled up in...
Passive Income: Earning While You Sleep
Affiliate Disclosure After receiving a fair bit of interest about passive income in my post 'Rethinking Retirement', this one is a sort of follow-up which dives deeper into the concepts of passive income and how it can get you closer to your retirement goal, whatever...
Rethink Retirement – The Story of the Mexican Fisherman
Perhaps it is strange that I am writing a blog post about retirement, considering I'm only 21. I'm not writing it because I feel like I already want to 'stop working' in the traditional retirement sense. In fact, I feel more motivated than I ever have been. I am...