ChatGPT - the future of good health?

ChatGPT is everywhere. Will it soon take over your lifestyle? Tell me what to eat, how to exercise, when, and how much.

Troponin - test for Covid related heart risk

Troponin is a protein found in your body. It is used as a marker to evaluate the risk of a heart attack. Typically, a doctor would recommend one if they feared that you might have had one. Can it also be used to predict the risk of COVID-related heart risk?

HRV - the single best metric for health

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a topic I have spoken about in the past. If I revisit it today, it is simply because it is possibly the most important variable you should know about yourself. After body fat percentage, perhaps. So why is HRV so important? At the risk of

Iron - the role of coffee

The human body needs iron, an essential mineral, to survive. It helps you produce haemoglobin, for example, which is required to deliver oxygen. So does drinking coffee affect the absorption of iron? Is there a way to still drink coffee or tea and still be able to absorb iron? Research

Nitric Oxide - why it is so important

Nitric oxide is made in the body by the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) from the amino acid arginine. Arginine is an element in the protein you eat. Why, you ask, am I focusing on nitric oxide? When you eat nuts and seeds, lean meats, yoghurt, and dairy, your body

Energy balance - it drives behavior

Energy drives the universe. Energy from the big bang created our universe. In turn, the sun powered ours. To exist, we need energy in the form of food. But do you know just how much your need for energy drives your choices, habits, and actions? Your body exists in a

Memories - how can you forget

Memories! Ah, I wish I could pick and choose which ones to keep and which ones to remove. But it seems my mind likes to retain the memories that I don't want and forgets names, numbers, and people like they were the plague. Is there something you can

Sleep - what is ideal?

Sleep. Is there an ideal pattern, amount, or time of day? Should you be embarrassed about sleeping too much or too little? To find out, let us look at how we have slept through the ages. Generally speaking, we have slept at night and then again during the day. Night

Vagal Brake - activate by choice

Vagal brake is a term used in physiology to describe the process by which your body slows you down. In a good way, most of the time. To reduce stress, for example. If you want to learn how to activate it consciously, let us dive in. Your body has something

Stressed? Is there a way out?

I am stressed. No, not me personally, but a significant number of the people I meet. Stress then becomes a gatekeeper for the ability to live or not live a healthy life. If you are stressed, do you have an option? To find out, let us first examine the origins

Food Allergy tests - do they work?

Here! A big, fat file containing a list of food allergies is thrust into my hands. I am told to see all the things I am allergic to. So do you really have these food allergies, or is the report misleading? We all have food allergies. Most of them are

Festivities - Stay Healthy

It doesn't matter which part of the world you are in; over the next few months, you will witness Haloween, Deepawali, Hannukah, Chrismas, and then Lohri. How will you remain healthy despite the indulgences? The holiday season has a way of putting a mickey into the best laid