Blog - Lean and Healthy

[3-Minute Blog] Why Poor Sleep Makes You an Unpleasant Person

Reading Time: 3 minutes 30 seconds Sleep is incredibly essential for a healthy body and healthy mind. Dr Matthew Walker puts this so eloquently in his bestseller book, Why We Sleep: “Every major physiological system in your body, and every operation of the mind, is incredibly dependent on sleep, wonderfully ...
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Category: Sleep
[3-Minute Blog] How Lack of Sleep Affects Your Weight-loss and Performance

Here is a quick background. In Why We Sleep, I spoke about the purpose of sleep. In How Lack of Sleep Impacts Your Immune System, I discussed how sleep deprivation affects your immune system, cardiovascular health and many other areas of your life. Today I explain how your sleep deprivation ...
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Category: General Health Sleep
[3-Minute Blog] How Sleep Impacts Your Immune System

Reading time: 3 minutes and 26 seconds In Why We Sleep, I briefly discussed the benefits of sleeping for our overall health, and particularly our brain health. In this article, I’ll continue to explore the health benefits of sleep. Let me start with one of my most favourite quotes by Dr Matthew ...
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Category: General Health Sleep
[3-Minutes Blog] Why We Sleep

Reading time: 3 minutes and 10 seconds You spend one-third of your life sleeping. Have you ever asked yourself, why you sleep and why Allah subuhanawuta’la made sleeping such an essential part of your day? In the last few decades, scientists have been searching for the real reason why we ...
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Category: Sleep
Mindful Meditation 101: A Muslim’s Guide to Mindful Meditation (Part 2)

In Part 1, we discussed what mindful meditation is and how it can assist in improving the quality of our salah. In this highly researched article, we’ll explore what latest science has to say about meditation and how we can utilise it to optimise our life. What science says about ...
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Category: Mental Health
Mindful Meditation 101: A Muslim’s Guide to Mindful Meditation

We have messed up priorities. We spend less time pursuing the things that matter most to us and more time pursuing the things that matter least to our success in this world or the Hereafter. Throughout the day, we function in a never-ending distracted mode. However, if we want to ...
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Category: Mental Health
4 Easy Principles to a Solid and Lasting Relationship

We all want strong and tranquil relationships, but do we know what the steps are to achieving this goal? In this week’s article, my guest writer Sister Takwa Sharif talks about four steps to stronger bonds. Using examples from the Quran, Sunnah, and science, she shows you that secure, long-lasting ...
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Category: Psychology
How Social And Digital News Media Ruin Your Life (Part 2)

Is the technology you are using extending your mind and expanding your abilities? Or is it breaking up your mind and being an obstacle to achieving the best version of you? In other words, are you the master of your devices, or its slave? In part one of this article, ...
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Category: Mental Health Productivity
How Social And Digital News Media Ruin Your Life

We live in a world of perpetual consumption. We consume more food and more resources than any other generation in human history. In that process of overconsuming things, we ruin our body. However, our bodies aren’t the only thing that we’ve ruined; we’ve also fogged and burdened our brains with ...
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Category: Mental Health Productivity