Human Nutrition

An archaeologist and chef explains how to follow our ancestors' lead when it comes to dietary choices and cooking techniques for optimum health and vitality. Our relationship with food is filled with confusion and insecurity. Vegan or carnivore? Vegetarian or gluten-free? Keto or Mediterranean?...

Is a vegan diet healthier? Should I try going low carb? Is it always a bad idea to skip a meal? Are superfoods all they're cracked up to be? Is fat still bad for you? Can I eat to improve my chances of conceiving? Recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to nutrition, this...

In this game-changing book, Keith Frayn, an international expert in human metabolism and nutrition, dispels common misconceptions about human metabolism, explaining in everyday language the important metabolic processes that underlie all aspects of our daily lives. Frayn describes the communication systems that enable our different organs and tissues to cooperate, for instance in providing fuel to our muscles when we exercise, and in preserving our tissues during fasting.

The Art of Expressing the Human Body, a title coined by Bruce Lee himself to describe his approach to martial arts, documents the techniques he used so effectively to perfect his body for superior health and muscularity.

Do you want to lose fat and stay young, all while avoiding cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and a host of other illnesses? The Paleo Solution incorporates the latest cutting-edge research from genetics, biochemistry, and anthropology to help you look, feel, and perform your best.

Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals—especially trace elements—to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids—mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated from ocean water—as fertilizer on a variety of vegetables, fruits and grains. His extensive experiments demonstrated repeatedly and conclusively that plants fertilized with sea solids and animals fed sea-solid-fertilized feeds grow stronger and more resistant to disease. Sea Energy Agriculture recounts Murray's experiments ...

Colloids and colloidal systems are essential to life. They are extremely useful,even indispensable, in many commercial and industrial situations as well.They function in everybody cell, in the blood, and in all body fluids, especially the intercellular fluids, formerly known as "humours." Therefore, increased understanding of colloids and their attendant phenomena, as well as the application of their operating principles, to enhance human health considerably is discussed in this article. Colloidal science is relatively young, however, and the number of qualified experts is few compared to ...

This book aims to help anyone seeking to improve themselves. It serves as an honest guide, helping you to quickly achieve your goals by drawing on my life experiences and providing clear paths to success. This book follows the story of my life as I remember it. The strategic planning, nutrition, meal plan, and workout guides at the end are intended to help anyone achieve higher levels of mental and physical fitness using principles developed over the course of my life as a dedicated fitness leader.

In recent years "recovery" has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers. In Good to Go, acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden takes listeners on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world.

As a top-level decathlete for 25 years, Joe Hippensteel sustained over 100 injuries and searched the medical world and alternative and physical therapies to find a way to eliminate pain and injuries in training with little success. So he discovered and developed the magic 24 Ranges of Motion you’ll learn in this book. With this new methodology, Joe was able to train harder, longer, and at a more intense level for many more years, pain and injury free.

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies. In January...

Your Journey Starts Here… There’s no doubt that what you will learn from this book is the future of medicine and healthcare. The only question is how long it will take for the ineffective broken system to give way to noninvasive and powerfully productive processes that can remove many, if not all of the maladies, both psychological and physical that plague the global population today? We invite you and all others to engage in your own life at such a heightened level that you radiate the confidence required to maintain youth, vitality, and strength as self-healers. With assertive ...

Unlock the Ancient Secrets to a Long and Fulfilling Life: Your Essential Guide to the Art of Nurturing Life (Yang Sheng) Are you searching for true harmony between your body, mind, and spirit? The Art of Nurturing Life offers the timeless wisdom you need to balance every facet of your existence and build a solid foundation of health for yourself and your loved ones. In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to lose the fundamental balance between our physical, emotional, spiritual, relational, family, and professional energies. This book reveals how these areas are deeply interconnected, like ...

Do you want to be an ace at reading and analyzing people? Do you want to know what’s going on in their mind so they can be influenced more effectively? Do you want to make more sales or bag more dates? The secret weapon to almost everything that you want is connected to developing fulfilling, positive and rewarding relationships with people. It not just increases social proof or popularity among your social circle but also boosts your chances of achieving greater professional success.

Stubborn belly fat, drained energy, and “borderline” lab results after 40 don’t mean your body is broken—they mean your metabolism is begging for a different plan. Abundant Metabolism exposes the real culprits behind midlife weight gain and fatigue: blood sugar swings, lost muscle, chronic stress, poor sleep, and quiet inflammation that diets never address. Instead of counting calories or punishing yourself with workouts you dread, this 30-day roadmap shows you how to rebuild your plate, reset blood sugar, protect hormones, and restore true energy with simple, doable daily habits. ...

In Next-Level Metabolism, integrative physician Dr. Jade Teta shows you how to understand your metabolism and create a personalized lifestyle that works with you, not against you. This is NOT a diet book. This is a solution focused on your physiology, psychology, personal preferences, and practical circumstances. It’s an individualized, adaptable toolkit—one you can’t lose—that will help you take your health expertise to the next level. Stop outsourcing your health, and take back control with a road map that lets you create your own path.

Transform your understanding of the human gut: An enlightening journey through the most underrated organ with Dr. Giulia Enders' groundbreaking exploration of digestive health, microbial connections, and whole-body wellness. Discover the secrets of your digestive system—and how to hone a...

What if you could understand the intricate mechanisms that control how our cells age—and learn how to combat them? Cellular Aging and Consequences in Humans: Nutritional and Clinical Studies delivers a comprehensive exploration of cellular senescence and cutting-edge anti-aging strategies that may hold the key to healthier aging.

"Conquer the NSCA-CSCS Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist" is an essential resource for anyone aiming to achieve the prestigious NSCA-CSCS certification. This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of the certification process, from understanding exercise science to applying practical training techniques. It begins with an introduction to the NSCA-CSCS credential, highlighting its benefits and the career opportunities it offers. The book delves into exercise science, covering anatomy, physiology, ...

What if the greatest misunderstanding in human health is not what we eat, but what our anatomy has always been telling us? In The Meat Effect, Jesse J. Jacoby & Anthony Lowther dismantle the cultural myths surrounding flesh consumption through the lens of physiology, biochemistry, microbiome ecology, and spiritual biology. This groundbreaking work reveals the measurable ways meat disrupts human biology, from endotoxins and acid load to hormonal imbalance, inflammation, vascular damage, and accelerated aging. Through poetic science and meticulous research, the authors show why the human body...