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You go out of your way to buy quality food, you avoid using cosmetics laced with chemicals, and you may even purify in your home and office. But what about the water you drink?

Have you thought about where your water is coming from? What may be in it other than hydrogen and oxygen, and most importa...

I often get asked - why do I spend so much time, energy and money on tracking my body.

Why do I track my body temperature? My heart rate variability? My sleep? My body fat?

Why track all of these things? And why spend so much money on gadgets and apps to help track these things?

Here's my answer ...

Do you have a question about red light therapy (RLT), photobiomodulation (PBM) or low-level laser therapy (LLLT)? (They are all the same thing.)

Well, this article is for you. I have spent weeks researching the literature on red light therapy and have created this comprehensive guide to answer ever...

If it's wintertime, and you're living a long way from the equator - in places such as Finland or Canada or the South Island of New Zealand - you're not exposed to much sun light.

This lack of sunlight impacts our health, wellbeing and mood. So much so that their is a disorder associated with those ...

We are fortunate to live in an era where international air travel is cheap, fast and easily accessible. With non-stop flights reaching 18 hours, we can get from one corner to the world to the other in a day.

Long haul airline travel is a marvellous advancement for business, trade and holiday makers...

Unless you live on a pristine mountain top or in a remote forest, you are exposed to a high amount of man-made toxins and pollutants.

These toxins are products of exhaust fumes, furniture, plastics, deodants, beauty products, cleaning products and pesticides (to name a few).

Concentrations of thes...

Discipline equals freedom. This is actually a book title by Navy Seal Jocko Willink. But it's also a quote that sums up my morning routine.

Every morning (except sundays, those are the days I enjoy my freedom) I get up and follow a list of tasks (to see my routine in one page click HERE)

A 'to-do ...

I recently turned 30 years old. Of these 30 years, I spent a good 15 of them obsessing about health, wellness and performance.

Sporting success was my top priority in my late teens and early 20s. 

Unfortunatley, this myopic desire for success led to massive health problems. Thus my attention turne...

Avoiding animal meat and animal products is often touted as being 'healthy' in mainstream media. But this is not the case, in fact, as I will explain in this article. Vegetarian and especially vegan diets are far from being the perfect diet for the human body.

Below, I explain why you should never ...

You exercise, watch your portion sizes, go for plenty of walks and follow all the fat loss tips in your favourite health magazine... but you can't quite shake that pocket of fat under the arms or around the belly...

You're not alone. Your stubborn fat issues are not a result of too little exercise ...