How to use fitness trackers to enhance performance and wellbeing—without losing touch with yourself

While our ancestors relied on their senses to assess how they were doing, increasingly, we rely on gadgets. Today, if you’re curious enough, you can measure your heart rate, your step count, your exercise intensity, and your sleep quality—sometimes all on one sleek device. In the best cases, these devices offer a bridge between what…

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Why Saliva is So Important

I’m sure by now you’ve heard me talk about the importance of remineralizing teeth. But what you may not know is how important saliva is to this process. First though, what really is saliva and what does it do? The smell of your favorite food, accidentally biting your tongue, and eating are a few things…

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A Week of Fiber-Rich Meals as a Runner

In this series, we pull back the curtain on how real people fuel their lives with real-life nutrition. Each weekly diary will showcase a different MyFitnessPal member’s eating goals, habits, and go-to meals to inspire your own journey—because progress, not perfection, is what truly matters. Today, a MyFitnesspal Principal Engineer in Texas who’s training for…

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