Author: healthtost
Workshop note — The UMERE Journal Hyaluronic acid is the most common ingredient in modern skin care. It is found in serums, moisturizers, cleansers, masks, eye creams and lip products. Recommended by almost every dermatologist, beauty editor and skin care influencer. And yet — when you stop using it, something interesting happens. The Immediate Feeling Most people who stop using hyaluronic acid report that their skin feels drier at first—sometimes dramatically so. This is falsely interpreted as evidence that HA was working. But the truth is much worse because this dryness actually represents: skin that had become dependent on a…
I’m sharing a roundup of my favorite trusted health and fitness certifications if you’re considering becoming a wellness professional. Check out all the details below! Hello friends! what are you doing I hope you are having an amazing week so far! Mine is PACKED with client calls and podcast interviews, but I’m looking forward to a long, relaxing Easter weekend with the family. For today’s post, I wanted to talk a little about health and wellness certifications, especially now that I’m working on two new ones: High Performance Health and Integrative Health Professional Level 3. I love to learn and…
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new method to determine which proteins are most likely to trigger an immune response—a discovery that could help improve transplant care, regenerative medicine and other fields where the immune system plays a critical role. The results, published in biomaterials, challenge a common assumption in the field that all proteins are equally likely to elicit immune responses. Some proteins can cause a very strong response even when only tiny amounts remain, while others are much less bothersome. This gives us a much clearer roadmap for designing safer, more durable biomaterials.” Leigh Griffiths, Ph.D.,…
I have been an advocate for men’s health my whole life. I also support women’s and children’s health. Scientific studies over the years, and my personal and professional experience, tell me that men are not doing well, and their lack of well-being affects the lives of their families, friends and communities. According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, “Men in the United States face many of the same health problems that men face to a greater or lesser degree in other developed countries. In 2022, life expectancy for men in the United States was 74.8 years, more than…
In November 2025, I watched the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) conference. It was a great experience to connect with sexual health professionals and gain insight into what is currently happening in the field. During one of the sessions, I came across an exciting project: an effort to collect and centralize the academic literature on kink and the kink community into a single, searchable resource. They call it the Kink Literature Database. I was intrigued, so I interviewed the project coordinators: Steve Ratcliff and Stefan Lucke. Strap in – you’ll want to hear about it.What is it?THE…
No witty introduction needed here.The title says it all.Things I struggle with1. Writing periodic programs for Gen Pop ClientsI know this might ruffle some feathers out there, but I’m really struggling with the idea of writing periodic (ie, several weeks or months in advance) training programs for the general population.When working with a competitive athlete who has split the year between “off-season” and “in-season” as it relates to their respective sport……yes, it makes sense to write a more detailed, thorough and robust plan to prepare them for these rigorsBeing more meticulous with stress management, establishing accurate volumes and loads, managing…
Tuberculosis rates for Inuit living in Nunavik, the Inuit territories in northern Quebec, are 1,000 times higher than among non-foreign-born Quebecers, and a lack of local health care resources adds to the difficulty of the disease, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medicine Journal Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251824. The study, conducted in collaboration with Nunavik Inuit and led by a predominantly Indigenous research team, aimed to assess current Inuit experiences with TB care and elicit recommendations from Inuit for effective disease eradication tactics. First Nations and Inuit researchers interviewed 156 Nunavimmiut—Inuit people from Nunavik—of whom 61% were women and 37%…
Have you ever been asleep when you suddenly hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slam, or an explosion inside your head? You wake up, your heart is pounding, you sit up in bed, but the room is silent. Nothing has happened – but it was very real. This experience has a dramatic name: exploding head syndrome. Despite the alarming name, it is not dangerous, it is not painful and it is not a sign that something is wrong with the brain. What is it? Exploding head syndrome is a type of sleep disorder known as parasomnia. Parasomnias are…
Hello friends! Happy weekend and Happy Easter to my celebrating friends. I hope you have a beautiful weekend ahead of you! Hanging out at the pool – ours is still pretty cold so it’s nice to have a warm option!- meeting up with friends to watch the U of A game (GO CATS!) and spending Easter with our folks. We have Easter brunch at my dad’s and then my mom’s family comes here for a BBQ for dinner. (photos from our favorite blues and bris brunch at Loew’s this weekend! The dress is from Rent the Runway) For now, I’m…
“Pure beauty” is everywhere. It’s on the shelves of every major retailer, in the marketing copy of thousands of brands, and in the vocabulary of anyone who’s thought seriously about what’s been going on with their skin for the past five years. It sounds reassuring. It involves security. It indicates that someone has done the work of removing the bad stuff and leaving only the good. The problem is that “clean beauty” has no legal definition, no regulatory standard, and no independent certification body with any real authority. What counts as “clean” at one retailer is at odds with what…