Own My Health Daily Podcast

When the why is powerful, the how is easy. If you want to achieve great success with your health goals, you need a powerful reason.

If you experience chronic aches and pains with exercise or just daily activities, you are someone who could benefit from an increased focus on recovery. One part of this is using a foam roller. Foam rolling can improve flexibility, reduce inflammation and relieve soreness.

Your intestines are loaded with bacteria. The estimates say that we have somewhere between 30 trillion and 100 trillion bacteria, both good and bad calling our intestines home. They make up what we call the gut microbiome.

Today is a good day to make some progress toward optimal health. Today I want to give you technique you can work into your nightly routine to improve sleep. Its called cognitive offloading. A fancy term for get all your thoughts out of your brain and onto paper to help your mind relax.

Today I want to tackle a very debated topic when it comes to weight loss and that is the calorie in vs calorie out equation in weight management.  At the end of the day, calorie in vs calorie out is correct. However, the equation is far more complex than we fully understand.

Plants are a vital part to a healthy diet.

One of the most important things we can nail when trying to improve our health is knowing how to develop a new habit. 1) Keep it simple 2) anchor it to an existing activity 3) provide an emotional reward.

Flexibility is the ability of a muscle to passively lengthen. Mobility is the ability of a joint to move through a range of motion. So flexibility is muscles, mobility is joints.

Waking up during the night can be a frustrating and difficult problem. Today’s episode I want to provide some tools for you to use in the moment when you find yourself laying in bed after waking up in the night. Focus on your breath, relax muscles, try a guided sleep meditation, get out of bed after 20 minutes and wake up at your normal time.

Carbohydrates can be broken down into simple or complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are things like whole wheat bread or pasta and starchy vegetables like sweet potatoes, oatmeal, brown rice, quinoa, beans and legumes and most regular vegetables.