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MORE EVIDENCE THAT MEAL TIMING MATTERS
If you frequent this blog, there’s no doubt that you know “calories are king (and/or queen)”. When it comes to weight loss, weight gain, or maintenance, energy balance is what dictates the body's response to its respective environment.
You also know that calories are not all that matter.
We at Level TEN pride ourselves on focusing heavily on biofeedback; things like sleep, digestion, energy levels, etc. As such, we also recognize that there is more to “optimizing” your nutrition. We have to consider WHAT you are eating, not just how much. And it’s also becoming more and more clear, from a scientific standpoint, that WHEN you eat can also play a role.
GUT HEALTH FOR ATHLETES
Did you know that optimizing overall gut health has the potential to improve athletic performance?
The human gut microbiome has been a growing area of research and studies have shown that there is a complex relationship between diet, exercise and the gut microbiome.
It has been shown that dietary interventions can alter the gut microbiome in as short as 24 hours and quantity, timing, and nutrient composition of various foods and nutrients can alter the growth of various species!
ADDRESSING POOR ENERGY LEVELS NATURALLY
Struggling with poor energy? There are many aspects of our lifestyles that can affect energy levels, including non-restorative sleep, stress (both psychological and physiological), nutrient deficiencies, certain medications, infections, illness, exposure to toxins and other imbalances within our bodies.
THE GUT MICROBIOME
Nearly 2500 years ago Hippocrates said, “All Disease begins in the gut.”
2480 years later, the Human Microbiome Project was funded by the National Institutes of Health to understand the microbial components of the human genetic and metabolic landscape and how they contribute to normal physiology and predisposition to disease.