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How To Maintain Your Gains and navigate through Thanksgiving
Who doesn’t love Thanksgiving? Good company, good food, and even better dessert. It’s all fun and games until you end up in a self-induced food coma and need to be rolled away from the dinner table. We’ve all been there. Then the next day comes around and we’re faced with that moment we all dread….…
Read MoreSitting All Day? A Survival Guide
Whether you’re fresh out of college and used to trekking around campus or you’re leaving a job that requires you to be active, adjusting to a sedentary, nine-to-five job can be really difficult. Many work places try to bring natural light and beneficial elements in, but getting trapped at a desk for eight hours every…
Read MoreEurycoma Longifolia As Natural Testosterone Booster
An objective review of the mechanisms by which E. Longifolia acts to raise testosterone Samson Jagoras Natural Therapies: Herbology & Detoxification: NUTR06102 Robert T. Davidson, PhD August 6, 2017 For years Malaysian Ginseng (Eurycoma Longifolia) has been prescribed as an alternative medicine to raise testosterone levels and aid in erectile dysfunction naturally; however, the…
Read MoreWhat Do Fitness Success Stories Have in Common? Part 2
Getting fit and achieving your lifestyle goals is an incredibly personal, emotional, and life-changing process. It looks different for every single person, and the people who are able to discover what really works for them are the ones able to maintain a consistent lifestyle. In our last blog, we discussed some of the tactics and…
Read MoreWhat Do Fitness Success Stories Have in Common? Part 1
Everyone is looking for that one single thing that will give them the body they want, but, like most things in life, losing weight and achieving the lifestyle you want isn’t always simple. At the end of the day, the main thing in-shape people have in common is that they’ve tried a bunch of different…
Read More5 Ways You’re Holding Yourself Back – Part 2
Do you feel like you just can’t finish anything you start? Do you feel like you can’t even get started in the first place? You aren’t alone. In our last blog, we discussed two ways we hold ourselves back and how to fix them. Today, we are finishing up with three common personal pitfalls. Do…
Read MoreVitamin C and the common Cold
Every spring, when the allergy colds strikes, the sale of vitamin C supplements increases. On every desk in a America you find supplements like emergen-c and citrus tea being guzzled by the gallons in an attempt to prevent or stave off the lurking cold. But according to research, you are going to get the cold…
Read MoreIodine plays a major role in regulating thyroid function, in turn supporting a healthy metabolism and growth
Iodine plays a major role in regulating thyroid function, in turn supporting a healthy metabolism and growth. Unfortunately, many adults don’t consume enough iodine-rich foods to begin with; but then move in “diets” in an attempt to lose weight and further restrict their intake of iodine rich foods. An area of particular interest is the…
Read More5 Ways You’re Holding Yourself Back – Part 1
At Pursuit, we understand how we can be our own worst enemies. In fact, we probably understand it better than anyone you know. You may look at our certified personal trainer team and see a bunch of people who have it all together, but we’ve struggled and wrestled with our own demons. In fact, we…
Read MoreThe Next Level of Nutrition – Nutrigenomics
Currently we are at the forefront of a nutritional science revolution. Nutrigenomics is revolutionizing the way that we view personalized nutrition. By leveraging personalized genetics we can understand how the foods we eat, both macro and micro, impact our physiology at an individual cellular level. Companies like DNA.fit and fitnessgenes.com are bringing this insight to…
Read MoreNiacin
Niacin is the vitamin that is found in nutritional supplements that makes you feel itchy and flush. However, it is a very powerful vitamin also known as vitamin B3 and is proven to help raise your good cholesterol. It can treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well as niacin deficiency and can reduce the…
Read MoreThe effect of vitamin B12 on carbohydrate and lipide metabolism
One of the most intriguing aspects of micronutrients is its impact on nutrition partitioning and body composition. The research on B vitamins is quite extensive and in particular the results of B12 (Glutathione) suggest a congruent relationship between blood glucose control and B12 metabolism. The mechanisms between B12 and carbohydrate metabolism is still not fully…
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