The Body Nerd Show

Crystals are having a moment - but what the heck are you supposed to do with sparkly rocks and do they actually do anything? These are the questions I set out to answer when I sat down with energy hea...

25 Jul 201945min

I sprained my ankle this weekend. And not just a sort-of-ouchy-sprain but a fall-on-your-face-and-burst-into-tears kind of sprain. But my approach to a sprained ankle (and any acute injury) is a bit d...

18 Jul 201921min

Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations are chronically underslept - are you one of them? If you've ever wondered how much sleep you actually need (and no, six hours a night isn't cuttin...

11 Jul 201925min

How you feel right now has everything to do with how you're moving and not that much to do with your age. Honestly! Your body is the sum total of all the things you've been doing on a consistent basis...

4 Jul 201916min

Fash-uh or fah-sha? No matter how you pronounce it, fascia is the body-wide web that holds your body together. In my opinion, it's the most important issue in the entire human body. And while it's jus...

27 Jun 201924min

I'm not a very good runner, even though I have almost every distance but the marathon under my belt. I still believe that running is for everyone, but that it's also a skill to be learned. So who bett...

20 Jun 201932min

When I stopped drinking coffee over two years ago, it was just for an experiment. But I ended up feeling so much better that I haven't had another coffee since then. So why did I stop? Well, it has a ...

13 Jun 201916min

When your neck feels tight, stretching seems like the logical next step. But if you're stretching all the time without relief, it's probably because your neck doesn't need more stretching. It needs a ...

6 Jun 201927min