Resources
Welcome fellow health adventurer! On our resources page, you’ll find a variety of tools and information that can deepen your understanding and empower you to become a more informed consumer.
Take some time to explore and use these resources to further enrich yourself on your wellness journey!
See something missing or want to let us know what you think? We’d love to hear from you! Contact us here.
Your health journey partners and coaches,
Austin & Lynne
Calorie calculator
Note: You may see different calorie numbers if you use other sites. This may be due to the organization’s use of different data tables and equation formulas.
For different goals such as losing weight, or gaining muscle, there will be a different calculation.
- Fitness and calorie calculator. The calorie calculator gives you calories based on maintaining, losing, and gaining weight. This site has a complete list of fitness and health-related calculators.
Apps
- Eat this much: Eat This Much creates personalized meal plans based on your food preferences, budget, and schedule. Reach your diet and nutritional goals with our calorie calculator, weekly meal plans, grocery lists, and more. The app also connects retailers to shop online and have groceries delivered to them.
Fiber database
Different organizations recommend different fiber intake amounts.
- Dietary Guidelines for America (data from USDA) – search for food.
- Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+F
- USDA – Daily nutrient recommendations are based on the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) by age, gender, and activity level.
Certifications for supplements
- NSF – independent, third-party body that verifies the purity and safety of each batch of supplements it certifies.
- NSF sport – same as NSF and adds in that nothing is banned from any professional sport and everything meets what all the major sports can have. A banned substance gives an athlete a competitive edge.
- NSF sport – same as NSF and adds in that nothing is banned from any professional sport and everything meets what all the major sports can have. A banned substance gives an athlete a competitive edge.
- ConsumerLab – independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products.
- Consumer labs have a lot of info on stains for different conditions that will give you access if you want to see.
- Consumer labs have a lot of info on stains for different conditions that will give you access if you want to see.
- Labdoor – independent company that tests supplements. They buy products off retail shelves and online sites. Then, send a sample of each product to an FDA-registered laboratory for a detailed chemical analysis, which includes measurements of active ingredients and potential contaminants.
- Informed Choice: voluntary third party quality assurance and third-party supplement testing program, designed to minimize the risks of dietary supplement products from being inadvertently contaminated with prohibited and potentially harmful substances. Through our retail monitoring and testing program, we help reduce the risk of impurities and banned substances entering these products.
- USP: U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP). USP is a 200+ year old, independent, scientific nonprofit organization focused on building trust in the supply of safe, quality medicines.
How to read research
- How to read research: A Biolayne Guide, by Layne Norton. Layne offers readers a glimpse into the 5-part articles series. To see the full text, you will need to become a subscriber.
- Studying Studies, by Peter Attia. This is a 5-part article series along with an Ask Me Anything podcast on “How to read and understand Scientific Studies.” These are available without a subscription.
YouTube Playlist
- Check out our playlist on all things gut health. We’ll keep adding to this playlist so keep checking back when you’re ready for more.
Reading list
Online
- The Athletic Gut Microbiota
- 8+ Surprising Brewer’s Yeast Benefits + Nutrition, Uses
- Effects of Probiotics on Cognitive Reactivity, Mood, and Sleep Quality
- Fungi of the human gut microbiota: Roles and Significance
Books
- The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health, Justin Sonnenburg and Erica Sonnenburg
- Eating on the Wild Side, Jo Robinson. Jo Robinson explains that many of these newly identified varieties can be found in supermarkets and farmer’s markets, and introduces simple, scientifically proven methods of preparation that enhance their flavor and nutrition.
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