Brandy Bryars Rogers

I’ve talked a lot about mitochondria, but I want to take a step back and give you a deeper understanding of energy itself. Mitochondria enable the process in your cells that effectively uses electrons from the food you consume and oxygen from the air you breathe to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is essentially the energy source for everything that happens in your body. Moving your muscles, thinking, digesting food, repairing tissue, regulating your temperature, producing...

For a long time, beauty has been approached almost entirely from the surface. We talk about skincare, makeup, treatments, lasers, injectables, and routines. The focus is almost always on what can be applied, corrected, tightened, brightened, or improved externally. And while there is certainly a place for those things, we are overlooking something happening much deeper underneath. The nervous system. I don’t think most people realize how visible chronic stress and dysregulation can become...

When I first started writing The Glow Effect, I thought the hard part would be getting the ideas out of my head and onto paper. That was just the beginning. It turns out every stage has its own learning curve. Some parts felt creative, some felt highly technical, and some were honestly more mentally exhausting than I expected. It was exciting, confusing, stressful, validating, and at times incredibly overwhelming. Somewhere along the way, you stop feeling like someone “working on a project”...