Month: March 2018

Enzyme Series Series 1: Protease Enzyme

Protease is an enzyme that breaks down protein. You’ll likely see this in digestive or systemic enzymes. Having a variety of proteases in important, so people need to understand that protease doesn’t mean it breaks down protein in the same spot, so every protease enzyme has a different…

Why Foam Rolling Might Not Be So Good For You

Foam rollers. You’ve probably seen them around and know them as little torture cylinders. They are now as ubiquitous in gyms as ab roller machines and

Case Study: How Tracy Used Megaspore

Interested in how Megaspore has helped others? Read what Tracy has experienced while using Megaspore on her family and pet.

10 Stoic Quotes That Will Cause You To Smash Your Mental Blocks

Stoicism has been used most effectively by both slaves and Emperors. By athletes and business executives. By fighter pilots taken captive. By people from every walk of life you could think of for thousands of years.  In other words, as Ryan Holiday would say, it works. Yes, it’s a philosophy. But it’s more like an operating system for human beings.

Microbiome Part 3: Gut-Brain Connection

All right. We are onto the next subject, and one that often gets overlooked when we’re talking about microbiome, or gut health, or any of those topics, is the link to the brain. There’s a term that you as the reader might have come across in the past.

Microbiome Part 2: Leaky Gut

All right. We have a very popular topic here to talk about in the functional health world, and that is “leaky gut”. I’ll put that in quotes also because that’s a commonly thrown around term where I don’t know if people who use it often even understand really what it means or what it is. Before we go further, what is leaky gut, as defined from a biological standpoint?