Getting Started with Content Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide for Health and Wellness Businesses
In today’s consumer-driven world, content marketing remains one of the best tools health and fitness professionals could leverage to build trust, develop relationships, improve conversions, and generate leads.
5 Strategies to Help You Remember Important Client Health Information
Regardless of whether you’re a personal trainer, health coach, or nutritionist, keeping track of clients’ health information can get overwhelming—fast. This is especially true when you have a large base of clients dealing with a unique mix of risk factors and health conditions.
Love and Connection: How Intimacy Impacts Our Health
Humans are naturally social beings—we evolved to form close relationships and build community because when we work together in numbers, we have a better chance of survival. As a result, our brains are wired to find pleasure and safety in different types of intimate relationships.
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E-Book: The Future of Health & Wellness in 2022 and Beyond
People have a wide range of feelings about 2021 coming to a close and diverse expectations for 2022.
AFPA Graduate of the Month: Alyssa Sparks, Holistic Nutritionist
During the last 230+ years, we’ve certified over 130,000 health, nutrition, and fitness professionals. Each month, we recognize one of our distinguished graduates who use what they have learned to inspire others and make a difference.
Good Bugs: How Gut Bacteria Impact our Brain and Mental Health
Often, we think of bacteria as the culprits of infections and illnesses – something to eliminate from our environment.
Thinking of Becoming a Full-Time Fitness or Nutrition Coach? Here’s What You Need to Know
From the outside, personal training and nutrition coaching often look like “The Most Rewarding Career”—both in terms of impact and financial returns.
Influence of Stress on the Immune System and Autoimmune Disease
Physical and psychological stress are natural experiences in all beings with complex neurological systems. On a biological level, the function of stress is to help us to respond and adapt to a changing environment to increase our chances of surviving and thriving.
Important Things to Remember When Working with Clients Who Have Autoimmune Disease
Every diagnosis brings on unique challenges. As an individual becomes aware of symptoms affecting their wellbeing, navigates the health system, receives a diagnosis, and then learns to manage the disease, the way they see their body and interact with their environment may change significantly.
Integrative and Holistic Factors that Contribute to Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune diseases are those that develop in conditions where the body’s cells are unable to distinguish between pathogenic cells and its own cells. The result: The immune system destroys its own cells.