Everyone of our 20 trillion cells needs Magnesium, and it’s also used in over 600 biochemical reactions in the body as a cofactor or ‘helper molecule’. It’s vital for energy production, regulating our nervous systems, building and repairing DNA, contrasting and relaxing muscles and forming proteins (1). However, up to 80% of us are deficient […]
Category Archives: Love Yourself
The title of this blog does make me feel a little like a snake-oil salesman, making impossibly grandiose promises. Surely, it couldn’t be that simple right? Well, according to scientific research maybe it is. So what is the magic bullet? A tablet, an injection, a form of surgery? No, it’s simply gratitude. Really, cultivating a […]
Virginia Woolf said that “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food has an incredible capacity to make us feel good. It’s not just about flavour and the feel-good factor. Food contains micronutrients that can impact on the way our bodies and our brains function. A survey by the Food and […]
Napping is not just for dogs and children. Some of the world’s most influential thinkers and leaders have catnapped every day. Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali, John F Kennedy and Calvin Coolidge all found that a short snooze left them refreshed, recharged and ready to work. Science confirms that napping can help beat the […]
A long time ago, I was a lawyer. In that corporate world of high flying Type-A personalities and shoulder pads, my colleagues wore their stress levels like a badge of honour on their pin stripe power suits. Working 14 hour days, skipping lunch to annotate extremely important (and impossibly long) documents and conducting life-or-death conference […]
When you’re working out, you’re probably not thinking about the aftermath. However, that striking sweat odour that impregnates our beloved gym bag isn’t pretty. So be proactive, and you can prevent it and make you bag smell as sweet as roses! Here’s 2 home made great gym bag freshener solutions to solve your stinky bag problems […]
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Lower back pain is a common ailment that can make even the least strenuous tasks unbearable. No matter what activity you’re doing, whether it’s sitting at your desk at work or playing a game of basketball, you’re using your back so the pain can often be unavoidable. In many cases, weakened back and abdominal muscles […]