Elizabeth Somer Books

The first step in eating your age is to understand what’s really happening inside your body as the years pass. Metabolism is far more than a calorie-burn rate; it’s the sum of every chemical process that keeps you alive—from rebuilding tissue to converting food into usable energy. When we’re young, ...

From Eat Your Age: The Metabolic Makeover for a Lifetime of Health

Every phase of life brings unique nutritional challenges, but also tremendous potential. In your twenties and thirties, your food choices lay the groundwork for decades to come. This is when eating patterns become habits that either serve or sabotage you. I urge readers at this stage to emphasize wh...

From Eat Your Age: The Metabolic Makeover for a Lifetime of Health

Nutrients are your body’s most faithful workers. They don’t make headlines like trendy diets, but their daily tasks keep you alive, thinking, and moving. Vitamins are organic compounds needed in minute amounts—cofactors that enable enzymes to fulfill countless biochemical reactions. Minerals, in con...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium

RDAs are not arbitrary numbers—they are the distilled wisdom of decades of research and an evolving understanding of human need. When we talk about RDAs, we are referring to the levels of nutrients sufficient to meet the requirements of nearly all healthy individuals in a particular age and gender g...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium