Genius Foods

circadian rhythm, which regulates the natural ebb and flow of your sleep-wake cycles. Use an app as an alarm ...

Insulin: The Storage Hormone I n chapter 4, I described how excessive insulin might turn our brains into ...

a single night leads to an unintentional ingestion of an extra 400 to 500 calories the following day, an ...

room outfitted with instruments that measure how their bodies use air, food, and water under d ...

weight and try to keep it off—they are fighting against the one-two punch of both lower leptin levels and ...

potent way of promoting healthy leptin dynamics. This is because carbohydrate consumption and the insulin ...

leptin’s most famous role involves its communication with the hypothalamus, receptors for leptin have ...

for its role as a repair hormone. Athletes have been known to use GH for its performance-enhancing qualit ...

young male students, while in the same study, two fifteen- minute sessions at 100°C (212°F) resulted ...

cortisol’s fat-burning effect will be shut down, and it will only exert its catabolic effect on yo ...

Unless we develop effective ways of defusing stress (which, let’s face it, is an unavoidable aspect of ...

foraging for berries under the hot East African sun. Suddenly, a lion appears in your ...

c a l l e d adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) into circulation. (Recall that hormones are long-range me ...

your muscles can get all the glucose that they need. The immune system becomes suppres ...

abdominal fat, the kind that wraps itself around your heart, liver, and other major organs, not only r ...

aerobic sessions (a bike ride or a hike in nature) and more intense bursts. Chronic medium-intensity card ...

Recent research has also highlighted new mechanisms by which chronic stress can impair your ...

free power-wash every night thanks to the newly discovered glymphatic system. We can optimize sleep ...

Genius Food #9 Wild Salmon The consumption of wild fish has been long associated with reduced risk for ...

Boost cognitive function and promote neurogenesis Protect the skin from sun damage and enhance skin appearance Pro ...