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There are about a billion different products on the market for tracking and monitoring fertility. When you're trying for a baby, you often want to try these different products, to find one that works and helps you successfully conceive. The Ovulation Sticker One such sort of fertility product is the ovulation sticker. No, you don't stick these on your torso as a sign to your significant other that you're ready to try. They're stickers meant for use with a calendar or day planner, as a way to track fertility, ovulation, intimacy, and attempts at conception. Since ovulation stickers are just...

We've written a lot about collagen on this blog because it's one of the most popular supplements on the market today. As an abundant and helpful molecule in the body, it's hugely beneficial to take as a supplement – or so the theory goes, anyway. Science has yet to confirm specific benefits of taking collagen compared to consuming other forms of protein supplements and B vitamins, but we're hopeful about some ongoing studies. One post we wrote a while back was about the best way you can take collagen. In it, we discussed several different ways to take collagen: Topically, as...

Your base metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories for energy. People with faster metabolisms have more energy on a basic level; they're typically more motivated and active, though it's an open question which came first.  If you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can strive to do is boost your metabolic rate. Boosting your metabolism will give you more energy, which you can then use on other efforts, whether it's your daily work or working out. When you're young, you have a fast metabolism. As you age, that metabolism slows down,...

There's an interesting quirk of how the body works involved with supplements. Did you know that some nutrients are more or less ignored by the body unless other nutrients are present to use them? For example, your body cannot make use of collagen without having enough vitamin C on hand to absorb and use it properly, since vitamin C is a critical component of collagen synthesis. Similarly, you can take vitamin D supplements every day, but most of it will pass right through you without enough magnesium to help your body absorb it.  There are a lot of different nutrients...