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The best tasting vegan protein powder?
Posted on 19/05/2021
According to Google, thousands of people search for ‘what’s the best vegan protein powder’ every month. That’s a lot of people unhappy with their current protein powder and unsure of where to go next, or who don’t know where to start with their first tub. The reason this is such...
Can Curcumin Supplements Help With Joint Pain, Recovery, & Anxiety?
Posted on 10/05/2021
When you ask about the supplements people take, you can bet with some degree of certainty that you’ll hear all about multi-vitamins, omega 3, vitamin D, and a few other specific micronutrients. This is good because these are all the research based supplements with good efficacy. But what about Turmeric,...
The Awesome Vegan Meal Plan
Posted on 14/01/2021
We often get asked about meal plans and recipe ideas for vegans, which is unsurprising considering the rise of vegan and plant-based dieting over the last few years. If you're thinking about this - whether you just like the idea of an exclusive plant-based diet or are living a full...
Is Stevia the Healthiest Sweetener?
Posted on 10/11/2020
~10 minute read. Cliff Notes: For Stevia to be the healthiest sweetener, it would need to be beneficial or it would need to avoid the negative health consequences that the other sweeteners are responsible for There is no evidence that Stevia is uniquely good for you There is no good...
1 Product Sold = 1 Tree Planted: Partnership with The Eden Reforestation Project
Posted on 06/08/2020
Let’s start this blog with a little celebration. At the time of writing this blog we’ve planted over 86,000 trees and created jobs in Nepal, Madagascar, Haiti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Kenya and Central America; how AWESOME is that? And it’s all because of you, our AWESOME customers. By simply buying from...
10 Tips for getting enough protein on a vegan diet
Posted on 29/06/2020
Whenever someone looks to adopt a vegan diet, or simply look to reduce their animal product consumption while increasing the amount of plants they eat, one question inevitably arises: “but where will you get your protein from??”. For many this can become a tiresome question – we know this very...
Resistance training around the menstrual cycle
Posted on 21/11/2019
One of the most common questions we get asked by females how the menstrual cycle influences our nutritional needs. The intricacies of how the hormonal fluctuations associated with the menstrual cycle influence nutrition are fascinating, and anyone looking to work with female clients (or understand their own needs better) would...
Optimising a vegetarian/vegan diet
Posted on 16/03/2020
First of all, let us just clarify why we didn’t relate the title of this blog to ‘plant based’ diets, and instead opted to talk specifically about vegetarian or vegan diets. In recent years these terms have been used interchangeably, but this is a mistake. The standard definition of a...
Cold Therapy – Time to put it on ice?
Posted on 24/01/2020
OK, I’m sorry for the really cheesy title, but I couldn’t resist. Anyway, what I want to talk about today is cold therapy or, as it’s more commonly known, ‘putting ice on it’. Icing an injury, as per the old RICE acronym (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate) has been one of...
Carb Cycling and Cyclical Ketogenic Dieting
Posted on 24/01/2020
Weight loss is quite easy provided you are in a generally good state of health. All you need to do is ensure that your calorie balance is negative (i.e eat fewer calories than your body requires for maintenance) over a given period. Maintaining muscle mass, optimal health, performance and sanity,...