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Simple's guide on intermittent fasting for skin health

Simple's guide on intermittent fasting for skin health

Your skin copes with a lot. If you live in a hot, sunny climate, it can receive almost constant sun damage. If you live where it's cool and dry, you may have to work harder to keep it hydrated. Big cities cover it in smog and dirt. It's not just where you live: so many things can affect your skin's health.

Simple's guide on intermittent fasting and menopause

Simple's guide on intermittent fasting and menopause

Menopause can be both an empowering and challenging time. While new opportunities and life paths open up at midlife, hormonal changes can also bring a range of uncomfortable symptoms. Thanks to these hormonal changes, women's health risks go up sharply after menopause.

A beginner's guide on how to start losing weight

A beginner's guide on how to start losing weight

Back in the day, you could eat whatever you wanted, not think about it, and not worry about weight gain or any health effects, or at least that's how it seemed. But today, it's a different story. You're a little older, perhaps less active than you'd like, and now, eating whatever you want means your jeans aren't as comfortable anymore.

Everything you need to know about losing weight postpartum

Everything you need to know about losing weight postpartum

If you've just given birth, you don't need us to remind you that you and your body have been through a journey together recently. As beautiful as that journey is, we get that you may be ready to get your body back to where it was in the first place. Maybe that means regular exercise. Maybe it means resuming a certain eating routine. Maybe it simply means being able to wear your favorite pair of jeans again.

Simple's guide on intermittent fasting and hypothyroidism

Simple's guide on intermittent fasting and hypothyroidism

When your thyroid doesn't work like it's supposed to, losing weight can be even tougher to achieve than usual. Perhaps you heard about intermittent fasting and are wondering if, given your hypothyroidism, fasting could be an option for finally changing that number on the scale. So, are intermittent fasting and hypothyroidism a good fit?

Simple's guide on autophagy: everything you need to know

Simple's guide on autophagy: everything you need to know

Our bodies, being the wonderfully efficient machines that they are, have a kind of self-cleaning function called autophagy. The research is still very new, but there are some promising results that point to intermittent fasting and autophagy being a sort of health and wellness dream team. Intermittent fasting may trigger the process of autophagy. And the intermittent fasting benefits we know and love (listed below) may actually be due to their connection with autophagy. Some of these fasting benefits are: weight loss, specifically from fat loss, improved cognitive function, reduced inflammation, lower risk of metabolic syndrome, improved heart health, reduced risk of diabetes.

Should you have 'cheat days'? Simple's guide to flexible intermittent fasting

Should you have 'cheat days'? Simple's guide to flexible intermittent fasting

If you've been in the diet world long enough, you might have heard about the concept of a cheat day. This is typically considered a day off from your diet. On the so-called cheat day, you can eat whatever and whenever you want, then you'll return to your regular menu the following day.