Nutrition for the soul
Food is the master of our lives. It drives celebration, commitments, tables of joy and tears of sorrow. It can lift you up higher than you have ever been, and in a swift moment have you crashing lower than you [...]
Wild and Sober This Season
Alcohol is very very very... very hard to give up. People come to 5EW because they want to get healthy. But what does that really mean? Most people can give up ice cream and pancakes and nacho hats, but alcohol [...]
Caffeine vs Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Sleep is elusive at best, something we look for behind closed doors, in little dark rooms, under special duvets. Some of us prefer hammocks over beds, or beds with millions of pillows over a sack next to the fire, but [...]
Food Wars: Soy
When I started lifting weights back in 2008 I thought it would make sense to do something about my diet. At the time, a normal meal looked like two bits of toast with some designer ham and cheese - the [...]
Skin: What’s Really Going on Under There?
High School was a time when our bodies started to change from these stick-like figures into curvy, shapely things. Our hair became longer, our clothes (in my case) shorter, and our skinny legs into functional pistons. Many of my classmates’ [...]
The Unexpected Key to Longevity
If you’d have told me a few years ago that community has the highest impact on our biochemistry and our internal environment, I would’ve dismissed it immediately. Being a sceptic comes at a cost. It means you miss out on [...]
Optimal or the Declining ‘Norm’: Where Are You Taking Your Health?
For many of us, having a deep and complex understanding of our body and what's truly taking place inside this magical thing often happens way too late. Disease is a huge wake up call for many, allowing them to reflect [...]
3 New Reasons to Embrace Yoga
1. Learn Real Patience Not the kind where you look at your watch every two seconds, grit your teeth and bare it in silence, but the other kind of patience – an eternal patience that doesn’t seek the approval of [...]
Finances Over Fitness
We all know the story: a friend summons up the courage to join a gym, totally committed to achieving some phenomenal life changing results, and then, after buying all the right gear (new shoes anyone) they turn up to the [...]
Liver Long and Prosper
The liver is essentially known as the project manager of our body. At times we can simply overwhelm her with too many projects. Could you imagine a work project without the proper structure or organisation? Well, the human body is [...]
