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I recently heard from a Brain Warrior who, after a lifetime of having a healthy weight, began struggling with postmenopausal weight gain despite eating organic foods, taking high-quality supplements, and doing intermittent juice fasts. All of a sudden at age 47, she started feeling hungry all the time and as a result, she put on…

Menstrual cramps can really cramp your Warrior lifestyle, sometimes pushing you to choose the couch over that karate class. That’s not the only way menstrual pain impacts your brain health. Studies in the journal PAIN  show that cramps can also lower your ability to pay attention and cause abnormal changes in your gray matter. When…

OK girlfriend, it’s time to dump the dairy. I know what you’re thinking… “What? But milk does a body good!”. You have been told that if you have not “got milk” you are missing out on something. And you have seen a constellation of movie stars and celebrities smiling at you from beneath their milk…

We’re learning more and more about the surprising reach and power stress has over us. Would you have guessed that food high in fat and sugar (aka junk food) is worse for your health when you’re under stress? A study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that two women whose diets are high…

I won’t ruin your day by telling you how your hamburger gets to your plate. But if you have a picture in your mind of cattle grazing serenely in a green and lovely pasture, I can tell you that most of them raised for food in the United States aren’t so lucky. But the burgeoning…

Organic foods cost more than conventional ones, and they’re said to be no more nutritious. So why buy organic? The Annals of Internal Medicine published a study that turned out to be quite controversial. After reviewing 17 human studies and 223 studies of nutrient and contaminant levels in unprocessed fruits, vegetables, grains, milk, eggs, chicken,…