by Thomas DeLauer | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, Brain & Body
For the past 9,000 years, Native Americans have employed cayenne pepper as both a food and medicine, and for good reason. Cayenne pepper has powerful pain-relieving properties when applied topically, which comes from the impact of the active ingredient in cayenne...
by Thomas DeLauer | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Nutrition
It seems like everywhere you turn nowadays there is a new documentary or article delving into the meat and dairy industry – animal treatment, hormones, deforestation. This might have you thinking, is possible to lead a healthy, fit, energetic life free of eating...
by Thomas DeLauer | May 22, 2016 | Blog
Vitamin D – A History Vitamins are defined as an essential nutrient that your body cannot produce on its own and must acquire from the diet – vitamin D is not actually a vitamin, but a hormone, which is a chemical that regulates body physiology. Your skin...
by Thomas DeLauer | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Brain & Body, Nutrition
We all know that too much stress is a bad thing. When we are stressed we are less in control of our mood, our fitness tends to deteriorate and we will experience physical and mental fatigue. To exacerbate these problems, chronic stress has been linked to headaches,...
by Thomas DeLauer | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Nutrition
If you’ve been around in the health space for a while, you know that sweet potatoes are all the rage, but I wanted to do this video because I want to talk about what the difference between a sweet potato and a yam is, because we seem to use these terms...