kristen mitteness

I've written on the importance of breakfast before. Now I'm going to challenge you to 30 days of high quality (with a focus on high prote...

Have you ever woken up and noticed a new ache or pain? You might have attributed it to sleeping "wrong". Unless you literally passed out ...

It's another year for us to not only look forward, but also to reflect on the previous year (and possibly decade). Are you looking to mak...

I recently had a patient mention that her mid back was sore after holding her friend's new baby. Now, imagine doing that all day every da...

I heard the coolest analogy listening to Robb Wolf's podcast the other day. A guy had written in asking a question about his workouts. He...

Shortcut? To health? But, Kristen, you always talk about how there aren't any shortcuts to real health! Hey, you're right. And these are ...

When I start digging into my patient's diet, the most common response I get when they mention what they don't eat is red meat. I always f...

One of the most common reasons I find that people want to change their diet is because of their weight. They often have this number stuck...

Every time you eat, your body releases a cascade of hormones in response. One of them is insulin. It is produced by your pancreas in resp...

I received this question from a former student of mine. This is also something I come across a lot in practice. After asking my patient h...

Polycystic ovary syndrome, more commonly known as PCOS, may affect upwards of 20% of the female population in the western world. What's e...

This cookbook is the compilation of everything I learned from my first three books. It's not just a cookbook, though. It includes a lot o...

Are New Year's resolutions your thing? Regardless if you are into making changes in the new year, on Mondays or whenever, chances are, yo...

My #NoExcuses December workout challenge was such a hit that I decided to turn it into a year long program! Each Wednesday, I'll be relea...

It's another year and another wrap up of my favorite books I read in 2018. It was a year with more fiction, but I still read lots of non-...

We've seen the headlines that sitting is the new smoking. I see patients every day with aches and pains that I can confidently attribute ...

Many of us brush off walking as a form of exercise because it doesn't feel "hard enough". We often choose to drive instead of walk becaus...

The internet is full of all of the information you could ever ask for. We are more connected than we have ever been in the history of hum...

It's hard to believe that 2017 has come and gone and we're now looking to 2018. Rather then setting big, lofty goals, maybe making 2018 s...

When it comes to modifying your diet, sometimes it's hard to know where to start. Other times, you simply want to reset and get back on t...