Month: March 2024

Experts generally rank diet as among the most important pillars of optimal health. For your health, performance, body composition (muscle, strength, and weight loss), brainpower, and beauty. Yet at the same time, they disagree about every facet of it: Are carbohydrates making you fat? Are PUFAs healthy oils or metabolic toxins? Should you go full…

Optimizing your health and longevity requires more than just a snapshot of your health—it warrants ever-evolving monitoring and refinement. That’s why regularly tracking key biomarkers related to vital areas like heart health, metabolism, endurance, and overall vitality is so crucial. By getting comprehensive bloodwork done every 3-6 months through InsideTracker, you can closely follow how…

Leveled up skin care with low Think Dirty® scores What happens when skin care meets Activation? We asked Lisa Barnes, VP of Research and Development at LifeVantage, all about what sets LifeVantage apart in our innovative approach to combine the two. Discover the science behind what sets TrueScience® Activated Skin Care apart from the competition….

Key takeaways:~ Sulfotransforation adds a sulfur group to neurotransmitters, hormones, and xenobiotics to transform them into metabolites that can be excreted.~ These enzymes play an important role in our body’s phase II detoxification processes.~ Your genetic variants in the SULT family of genes can impact how well these enzymes work. This is part of a…

March 13, 2024 | BY: BODi Fifteen years and more than a billion servings sold — Shakeology is a nutrition phenomenon. But what’s the story behind this delicious superfood shake? In the latest episode of The BODi Experience podcast, BODi CEO Carl Daikeler interviewed Isabelle Daikeler, his wife and co-formulator of Shakeology. They discussed the…

A “Rising Star” makes her mark in the Buck’s Mass Spectrometry Center and Proteomics Core Christina King, the associate director of the Buck’s Mass Spectrometry Center and Proteomics Core, woke up to some text messages on a Saturday morning earlier this year from friends congratulating her for “making the list.”  She was named a “2024…

If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) is a diet and lifestyle that promises weight loss (and health) while still letting you eat anything. IIFYM puts dietary flexibility first and foremost. It’s best known for not labeling any foods as “forbidden” or “allowed”. But does this form of flexible dieting actually work? Nearly a decade ago,…

Key takeaways:~ Many healthy foods contain oxalates, but dietary intake must be balanced with the metabolism and excretion of oxalates.~ Genetic variants can disrupt the balance of oxalates, leading to the formation of kidney stones or oxalate crystals.~ Genes also impact the biosynthesis of oxalates in the body. Members will see their genotype report below,…

Summary: Researchers mapped disease trajectories from birth to death, analyzing over 44 million hospital stays in Austria to uncover patterns of multimorbidity across different age groups. Their groundbreaking study identified 1,260 distinct disease trajectories, revealing critical moments where early and personalized prevention could alter a patient’s health outcome significantly. For instance, young men with sleep…

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