I believe that planning is THE KEY to eating healthy and staying on a healthy track. At least once per week you see our kitchen filled with bowls that have different kinds of beans soaking overnight, our fridge filled with two gigantic mason jars of green smoothies, and our freezer full of washed and cut […]
Wellness Wednesday
5 Ways to Live Yoga off the Mat
For the past 8 weeks I’ve spent a lot of time on my yoga mat going through 200-hour yoga teacher training with Corepower Yoga. This is the same studio I started practicing at a little over a year ago when I got a new job here in San Francisco. Sitting down all day at my […]
Managing Stress without Using Medication
(Guest post by Jon Reyes. Jon is a respected and expert voice in a plethora of health related subjects with over 10 years of writing under his belt). If you have ever experienced stress and anxiety, you know how much of a burden it can be to complete everyday tasks and even getting out of bed […]
6 Tips for Healthy Hair
I was not blessed with the luscious locks gene, nor such healthy hair and scalp. Typical for us Nordic people, my hair is fine, thin, flat, brittle and overall pain in the butt to style. So I try my best to give my hair nutrition it needs to regain some volume and shine. When we moved […]
My DNA-test results with Vitagene
A while ago I took DNA test with San Francisco-based Vitagene because I was curious about my ancestry (my guess was 100% Scandinavian :), but there was one little exotic surprise too). I also wanted to know how my genes might affect my health, i.e. what were the health related risks based on my genetic […]