If you’ve ever hit “the wall” like a crash test dummy during a training session, chances are a well-timed energy gel could have kept you going.
What energy gels do
Like any complex machine, the human body will shut down if the gas tank gets too empty. Energy gels replenish the body’s finite fuel and nutrient reserves in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and/or electrolytes.
They’re a quick way to “fill the tank” when your workout burns through the 60 to 90 minutes’ worth of glycogen (energy) stored in your muscles.
While you don’t need energy gels for every workout, runners, cyclists, triathletes, and other serious athletes have made them a go-to fuel source during endurance workouts and …
If you’ve ever hit “the wall” like a crash test dummy during a training session, chances are a well-timed energy gel could have kept you going.
What energy gels do
Like any complex machine, the human body will shut down if the gas tank gets too empty. Energy gels replenish the body’s finite fuel and nutrient reserves in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and/or electrolytes.
They’re a quick way to “fill the tank” when your workout burns through the 60 to 90 minutes’ worth of glycogen (energy) stored in your muscles.
While you don’t need energy gels for every workout, runners, cyclists, triathletes, and other serious athletes have made them a go-to fuel source during endurance workouts and …
Chaga mushrooms are having a serious revival thanks to trendy mushroom coffees and teas.
Though you might mistake it for a giant rotten potato instead of your typical toad stool, folks have used chaga mushrooms for centuries thanks to its health benefits.
Let’s dive into the benefits — and potential complications — of adding this fungi to the menu.
What are the benefits of chaga mushrooms?
There’s a few reasons why you might want to give chaga a try. Studies show chaga mushrooms may offer benefits that could:
Chaga mushrooms are having a serious revival thanks to trendy mushroom coffees and teas.
Though you might mistake it for a giant rotten potato instead of your typical toad stool, folks have used chaga mushrooms for centuries thanks to its health benefits.
Let’s dive into the benefits — and potential complications — of adding this fungi to the menu.
What are the benefits of chaga mushrooms?
There’s a few reasons why you might want to give chaga a try. Studies show chaga mushrooms may offer benefits that could:
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ~Audre Lorde
When you hear the word “productive,” you likely think of something positive: busting through that work assignment, making your house sparkly clean, or crushing your hobby.
Productivity is what we all aim for, right? On workdays and even on our days off, we seek to make something happen.
Grinding and hustling are seen as admirable, and something to work toward, always.
If we fall short, we beat ourselves up, and sometimes even drag ourselves off the couch to force ourselves into productivity. We feel if we don’t complete all of the tasks, we’ve failed. We set crazy high expectations for ourselves then hate ourselves when we don’t mee…
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ~Audre Lorde
When you hear the word “productive,” you likely think of something positive: busting through that work assignment, making your house sparkly clean, or crushing your hobby.
Productivity is what we all aim for, right? On workdays and even on our days off, we seek to make something happen.
Grinding and hustling are seen as admirable, and something to work toward, always.
If we fall short, we beat ourselves up, and sometimes even drag ourselves off the couch to force ourselves into productivity. We feel if we don’t complete all of the tasks, we’ve failed. We set crazy high expectations for ourselves then hate ourselves when we don’t mee…
If you still need a gift for the goodest boy, you can spoil your furry companion with their very own home. This holiday season, Vrbo is selling five luxury doghouses that are beyond Fido’s best bark-in-their-sleep dreams.
Design by Mekhi Baldwin; Photography via Vrbo
Fetch your alarms
Want to get your paws on one of these pet homes? Only five doghouses inspired by popular Vrbos go on sale December 9 at noon CST.
If you still need a gift for the goodest boy, you can spoil your furry companion with their very own home. This holiday season, Vrbo is selling five luxury doghouses that are beyond Fido’s best bark-in-their-sleep dreams.
Design by Mekhi Baldwin; Photography via Vrbo
Fetch your alarms
Want to get your paws on one of these pet homes? Only five doghouses inspired by popular Vrbos go on sale December 9 at noon CST.
Friends, if you love our Fudgy Vegan Brownie Cookies (they’re a fan favorite!), we have a holiday twist that must go on the cookie-making list! These chocolate peppermint cookies are crispy on the edges, fudgy in the middle, plus super chocolaty and perfectly sweet and minty! We are truly obsessed — these are too good to leave out for Santa (sorry, Santa).
Bonus points? They’re so easy to prepare (just 1 bowl and 30 minutes</st…
Friends, if you love our Fudgy Vegan Brownie Cookies (they’re a fan favorite!), we have a holiday twist that must go on the cookie-making list! These chocolate peppermint cookies are crispy on the edges, fudgy in the middle, plus super chocolaty and perfectly sweet and minty! We are truly obsessed — these are too good to leave out for Santa (sorry, Santa).
Bonus points? They’re so easy to prepare (just 1 bowl and 30 minutes</st…
Your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, loved ones, and even complete strangers appear to have an unfortunate superpower: they can change your mood—from joyous to sad, from chipper to insecure, from smiling to upset—in an instant….
Your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, loved ones, and even complete strangers appear to have an unfortunate superpower: they can change your mood—from joyous to sad, from chipper to insecure, from smiling to upset—in an instant….
An overly simplistic view of the lymphatic system is that it is network of highways and collaboration centers for the cells of the immune system. Immune cells use lymphatic vessels to travel about the body, while the hundreds of lymph nodes scattered throughout the lymphatic system are important locations at which immune cells exchange information about signatures of infection and damage, managing the immune response. Like all tissues, lymph nodes are structured in certain ways, and that structure is degraded by the processes of aging. Lymph nodes become fibrotic, for example, and these changes impede the activities of immune cells.
There is evidence to suggest that the degenerative a…
An overly simplistic view of the lymphatic system is that it is network of highways and collaboration centers for the cells of the immune system. Immune cells use lymphatic vessels to travel about the body, while the hundreds of lymph nodes scattered throughout the lymphatic system are important locations at which immune cells exchange information about signatures of infection and damage, managing the immune response. Like all tissues, lymph nodes are structured in certain ways, and that structure is degraded by the processes of aging. Lymph nodes become fibrotic, for example, and these changes impede the activities of immune cells.
There is evidence to suggest that the degenerative a…
Paleo takes eating old school — 2.5 million years old, to be exact. It encourages us to eat like some think our ancestors did in the Paleolithic period, long before a Publix, Ralphs, or Piggly Wiggly had popped up on every corner. Cavemen lived on whatever they could forage, fish, or hunt for — so basically, animals and plants.
Paleo takes eating old school — 2.5 million years old, to be exact. It encourages us to eat like some think our ancestors did in the Paleolithic period, long before a Publix, Ralphs, or Piggly Wiggly had popped up on every corner. Cavemen lived on whatever they could forage, fish, or hunt for — so basically, animals and plants.
