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Yvana van den Hork
Rank: Senior Editor
Position: Director
Yvana holds an MSc degree in Toxicology and Biology of the Wageningen University. She graduated in 1992. She travelled around the world and holds the record for the only woman finishing the The 100 Cols Tour solo without any external help. In 2005 she founded Pasio Ingredients, a sole proprietary ship  that was inspired by her then boyfriend Anthony who started importing and selling dietary supplements back in the late 90s and pioneering the iconic Jarrow Formulas brand as well as OSMO nutrition out of California USA.
Health benefits of infrared light therapy
29-06-2025

Health benefits of infrared light therapy

Health benefits of infrared light therapy In our previous blog article I wrote about the dangers of excessive sunlight exposure because it may result in a sunstroke. In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to infrared light. When energy...
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How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke?
15-06-2025

How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke?

How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke? My love has regularly maintained a friend's garden during the weekends in recent months. As a result, his skin gradually became more and more bronzed. Last week, the outside temperatures suddenly rose to...
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How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way! Sometimes you think, why make things difficult when it can be easy? At least, that's what it seems like these days when you read all the rave stories about Ozempic. Only to realize again why it's such a stupid idea. We already touched on it at the end of 2023 in an article about hypertrophy when Ozempic was already becoming a hype.That hype has still not blown over. What few people seem to realize is that Ozempic only helps with losing weight, but that if those people do not also start doing strength training at the same time (or continue with it), a significant amount of muscle mass is lost.What a shame!In line with our previous article about a 'beach body' , I want to take a different approach: strive for a super strong and muscular body!How do you achieve that in a responsible way? Then I can hardly do anything else than refer to the manual that everyone has been referred to for about 25 years when they want to seriously start strength training: Starting Strength van Mark Rippetoe. Nowadays you can watch videos in abundance on YouTube. Yet, we recommend that you also start here with the Starting Strength videos: https://www.youtube.com/@startingstrengthThat is far preferable to taking advice from some guy at the gym, who assures you that he has all the wisdom, but then teaches you exercises the wrong way, no offense to the good ones.I myself suffer from a kind of innate clumsiness, so that videos did not work out so well. Moreover, they were hardly available about 20 years ago. That is why I went to a gym where they practiced Olympic weightlifting to learn deadlifts.Then you will notice what a difference it makes whether you go to a regular gym where they just let you mess around or to a serious weightlifting school where good technique is taken seriously.In short, if possible, go to a gym where they practice Olympic weightlifting. If you can't, buy this book, watch videos and even better, record yourself and compare it to the videos you saw on YouTube!If you don't speak English very well, it helps to turn on the subtitles. Here are videos of the three basic lifts Squat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhoikoUEI8U Deadlift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2OPUi4xGrMBench presshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxD321l2svE
01-06-2025

How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way!

How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way! Sometimes you think, why make things difficult when it can be easy? At least, that's what it seems like these days when you read all the rave stories about Ozempic. Only to realize again...
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Diabetes and heart disease , how they are related and what can you do about it?
18-05-2025

Diabetes and heart disease , how they are related and what can you do about it?

Diabetes and heart disease, how they are related and what can you do about it? Last week, we were warned in many media outlets about a significant increase in heart disease as a result of a global increase in the number of diabetes patients. As a...
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Ready for summer with a great looking beach body
04-05-2025

Ready for summer with a great looking beach body

Ready for summer with a great looking beach body We have been blessed with such beautiful sunny weather in recent weeks, so that the thick layers of clothing could be stored in the winter wardrobe to be exchanged for summer clothes. As a result, it is...
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Acute versus chronic pain: what's the difference and how to get rid of it or learn to cope with it?
20-04-2025

Acute versus chronic pain: what's the difference and how to get rid of it or learn to cope with it?

Acute versus chronic pain: what's the difference and how to get rid of it or learn to cope with it? After writing the article on spine and foot abnormalities, I realized to not have said anything about also having a 'weird back' as a result of a...
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How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'?
24-03-2025

How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'?

How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'? Vapes have become very popular in a relatively short time. This is not surprising: smoking flammable cigarettes (cigars or pipes) is...
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Role of vitamin K: what's the difference between the various forms?
09-03-2025

Role of vitamin K: what's the difference between the various forms?

Vitamin K and more specifically, vitamin K2 is slowly becoming recognized as an essential vitamin for our health, so much so that almost no multivitamin is sold without vitamin K2.   In the past, we have also regularly paid attention to the...
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