We have known for years how important sleep is, but new studies are coming out proving it.  As it turns out, Sleep is not only important for your immune system, but also lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain.  Previous research has shown that our metabolism is negatively affected by sleep loss,' said Jonathan Cedernaes, lead author and a researcher at Uppsala University.  Sleep loss has also been linked to an increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Just ONE night of bad sleep can alter your genes: Pulling an all-nighter damages the DNA in our biological clocks,...

Chances are that if you’re 9-to-5 grindin’, you’re doing another type of grindin’ -- coffee bean grindin’, that is! Statistics suggest that as many as 83% of adult Americans drink coffee, which is no wonder. Whether sipped from a foam Dunkin Donuts’ cup or from an exorbitantly frothy almond-hazelnut-tiramisu-mocha concoction, all coffee has that the same magic ingredient: caffeine. Ah, caffeine. Sweet, precious, life-giving caffeine; on some days, it truly is an elixir, akin a special button that we can press to instantly put ourselves into “GO” mode. Unfortunately, like most good things in life, caffeine has its darker side....

Hey, you! Yeah, you, person reading this hunched over his computer at 3AM: get off the computer and go to bed, you silly night owl! (Note: For all you people reading this during normal-people hours, the above statement doesn’t apply to you. Keep reading anyways, because some knowledge is about to get dropped.) Most people don’t need a scientific study to know that lack of sufficient, restful sleep has a number of negative consequences -- increased irritability and stress, dulled reaction times, higher sensitivity to illness, and so on. Here’s something you might not know: it’s making you fat. In...

Being Selected. Just getting this far felt like a big win! When we sent our video to Shark Tank we really didn't know what to expect. When we were contacted and told we were selected to potentially be in front of the Sharks we were absolutely shocked! Of course we love our business and products, and to have the chance to make the world aware of them seemed like a truly business-changing opportunity. What we didn’t know was that we were ultimately selected out of over 30,000 applicants who all wanted what we did:  a chance to tell our story, our vision and how...