Toxic Tampons: Feminine Hygiene Alternatives

Posted June 18th, 2013 – 27 Comments

By Hannah Ransom When it comes to assaults on our health, women have a special place in our society. We have products specially made for us or pushed on us that inhibit our paths to the best health we can get. Here are some examples (and perhaps ones that I will write on more in depth in a future article): Makeup, hormonal birth control, high heels, perfumes/fragrances, vaginal “cleansers,” bras, and unrealistic body images. Do you get the picture? I know some of them sound a little crazy, and probably make you think I am a wacko, but rest assured, I still (occasionally) wear bras. What I want to talk about a little more today is “feminine hygiene products.” “What?!” You may be asking. Yes, that way in which we… Read more »

The Case for Strawberry Shortcake

Posted June 17th, 2013 – 57 Comments

By Matt Stone In late May I went out to a breakfast restaurant with my family in Nashville. There were lots of us. Like 8 at the table. The restaurant, in trying to be cute and clever, ended up aggravating me a lot more than I tend to get aggravated by small things. In their cuteness and cleverness, they called their seasonal strawberry pancakes “Strawberry Shortcakes.” After titling the dish “Strawberry Shortcakes” on the specials menu, they went on to describe the “shortcakes” as pancakes. I didn’t read every word of the description. Not one word of the description actually. Why? Because I already f’ing know what strawberry shortcake is, and I thought it was quite a novel idea to serve strawberry shortcake for breakfast. One glance and I was… Read more »

Father’s Day eBook Sale

Posted June 15th, 2013 – 18 Comments

Hey everybody… Starting this afternoon and running a hair past midnight (Eastern time) after Father’s Day, you can get any Matt Stone eBook for $2.99 on Amazon. All weekend basically. Normal prices are typically $9.99. Click HERE.

Marathon Training Diet: Performance and Protection

Posted June 13th, 2013 – 92 Comments

By Matt Stone Recently I received a couple requests to write something up on how to protect one’s metabolic health as an endurance athlete. It’s an interesting question, as the adaptations the human body undergoes to better perform endurance exercise are in exact opposition with the metabolic objectives of this site (discussed in greater detail in THIS POST and others). To be a successful endurance athlete and experience big breakthroughs in performance, it requires a reduced heart rate (so you can go faster at lower heart rates and sustain an elevated heart rate for longer periods), a reduced body temperature (so you can exercise for hours without your body temperature going too high), reduced muscle and bone mass (lighter load to carry mile after mile – also less wear and tear), and a reduction in energy allocated… Read more »

Eat for Heat Paperback

Posted June 11th, 2013 – 42 Comments

Eat for Heat is now available as a paperback through Amazon HERE. Small, skinny little fella, it’s a quick read and continues to be of huge game-changing importance for those who dare to make the subtle changes it discusses. Perhaps the best and most accurate review came just last week… “Weird that eating like this actually works… I don’t get it. I really don’t. Half the things I’ve learned about health and nutrition are incorrect. Especially when you are in a low metabolic state, which seems to be anyone who has any sort of chronic condition. I came across Matt Stone, actually from a Danny Roddy blog. I had been “Peating” for about 4 or 5 months, and actually felt worse than I ever have in my adult life. I have… Read more »

Bloating, Inflammation and Humidity

Posted June 10th, 2013 – 36 Comments

By Julia Gumm Boy, things are heating up here in the northern hemisphere. In my neck of the woods, we recently saw heat indexes in the high 100′s, accomplished in part by relative humidity hovering around 90%. In keeping with the theme of high numbers, my weight scaled up as well. Going with the flow, I guess. Does this happen to any of you? Heat and humidity set in and suddenly you’re retaining so much water you look like you’re seven months pregnant? Because it happens to me. Along with the belly, I experience swelling in my fingers, knees and any place in my back that was giving me mild trouble prior to the change in weather suddenly becomes a debilitating injury of dramatic proportions. It seems there’s an uptick… Read more »

Increase Metabolism on a Vegan Diet

Posted June 9th, 2013 – 43 Comments

By Chris Randall So there’s a rumor going ‘round that some long-haired crazy vegan dude started Eating for Heat ala` Matt Stone’s recommendations and experienced all sorts of toasty warm benefits from doing so. Maybe you read about it in, The Vegan Solution (or listened to it for free via Audible), or just heard it through the grape vine. Is it even possible to maintain a healthy metabolism and body on a diet comprised strictly of plants, let alone completely reversing and healing metabolic damage? That, my friends, is a good question. Let’s find out the answer by starting at the beginning. I started out on a fairly standard, whole-foods-based, relatively high-calorie vegan diet: Lots of rice, potatoes, quinoa, fruit, corn, legumes, etc. What can I say? I’m a total… Read more »

Different People, Different Results: Settling the Static Contraction Controversy

Posted June 7th, 2013 – 17 Comments

By Matt Stone Back in January I gathered up a group of people to test the benefits and drawbacks of a type of strength training known as “isometrics” or “static contractions.” You can read about it in the post “Strength Research Project.” The training is intriguing to say the very least, and the reviews of one of the most prominent books on the topic, Pete Sisco and John Little’s Static Contraction Training, shows a very confusing and varied array of reports of success and failure. In some reviews there are results being posted that seem impossibly good. Other reviews show not just stagnation, but regression. While fewer people completed the 10-week trial than I had hoped, the results of this small group were, just like the reviews – incredibly varied…. Read more »

The Health Benefits of Smoking

Posted June 6th, 2013 – 86 Comments

By Dr. Garrett Smith First, since we are going to discuss tobacco in this article, let me start with what I’m talking about. I am talking about real, organic, additive-free tobacco, the kind you need to do a bit of searching for. I am NOT talking about the chemical-laden cigarettes that are available all around us. The two are about as comparable health-wise as farmer’s market fruits & veg versus Monsanto’s “plant products.” In a similar vein to Monsanto twisting words (and arms) to sell us things like GMOs, the “dirty tobacco” industry’s intentional deceit of the public is put together very nicely here: Tobacco Explained: The truth about the tobacco industry…in its own words. If you want to talk about your health issues from standard, extra-toxic cigarettes in the… Read more »

The Vegan Solution- Available Now!

Posted June 5th, 2013 – 8 Comments

By Rob Archangel Team 180, the time has come: The Vegan Solution: Why the Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It is now available through fine retailers everywhere, however you want it. Paperback edition for when you wanna take that bad boy with you where there’s no electricity? We got you. How about for your Kindle? We got that too! BAM! Got a Nook reader and wanna roll with that? Hit us up at Barnes and Noble. Don’t wanna patronize the big guys in the eReader world? A smaller outfit more your steez? How about Lulu? And for those of you who prefer to read your books with your ears, an audiobook edition is available narrated by our main man Matty. Perfect for all you weekend warriors while… Read more »

The Vegan Solution

Posted June 3rd, 2013 – 28 Comments

By Matt Stone The Vegan Solution: Why the Vegan Diet Often Fails and How to Fix It is almost here. It will be released on June 5th. I decided to write this book to reach out to struggling vegans with my “methods” for an increase in metabolism. This is something I discussed many months ago at the dawn of this project in the post Why Vegan Diets Fail. It’s not anti-vegan nor is it pro-vegan, it merely goes into the many common mistakes vegans make that are anti-metabolic. There are many of them – dubbed “The Frigid Fourteen” in the book. I then go on to, of course, lay out some guidelines that have been effective for vegans and non-vegans alike. It contains some new features not found in my other books, such… Read more »

Does Stress Cause Weight Gain?

Posted May 29th, 2013 – 100 Comments

By Lianda Ludwig In the news recently Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch told the world that he doesn’t consider overweight women to be “cool enough” for their brand, and doesn’t want them shopping in his stores. Governor Chris Christie took his share of jokes and bashing after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. Jokes from talk show hosts emphasized that he couldn’t even control his own eating behavior, would you trust him to make decisions about important world matters? Unfortunately, we’ve been so brainwashed by the Diet/Medical Industry, that overweight people are often the brunt of jokes and sarcastic remarks from those who think that fat people deserve the scorn they receive. “Politically Correct” doesn’t come into the equation when it comes to the overweight. We have a myth-informed public… Read more »

Making Ourselves Sick

Posted May 27th, 2013 – 110 Comments

By Julia Gumm One of the first things people ask when learning about the mind-body connection is, what in the world can one do to change their thoughts? Especially subconscious ones? It’s a good question, and there are a few ways to address that, but one thing you must first get out of the way is whether or not you might actually rather be chronically unwell. Seriously. Lately, I’ve been devouring the work of Caroline Myss. Myss is a “medical intuitive” which means she can sort of glance you over, see where in your body you’re “leaking energy”, and based on that, predict and diagnose illness. Whoa, trippy stuff, I know. But the lady has a 93% accuracy rate, so I have more faith in her than say, Latoya Jackson… Read more »

Manorexia – Eating Disorders in Men

Posted May 25th, 2013 – 56 Comments

By Brendan Hannigan Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario: You are a typical American tourist visiting one of the major cities in Spain and/or Italy. You are middle-aged, wealthy, perhaps trying to escape from a stale marriage or reconnect with the dreams of your youth. You have been saving for this trip for months or years, and you’ve resolved to enjoy it to the fullest extent, so you stay in posh, comfortable hotels, take expensive tours, and eat gelato in cafes at every opportunity. You are surrounded, in these cities, by people of every conceivable shape, size, color, ethnicity, background, and socioeconomic status—beggars, buskers, backpackers, fellow tourists, swindlers, hobos, prostitutes, drug dealers, junkies, drunks—but you diligently ignore most of them, unless they happen to be quaint or entertaining. You’re… Read more »

Diet Recovery 2 Paperback

Posted May 23rd, 2013 – 22 Comments

Recently hailed as being “filled with good information, interspersed with pornography and bad language” – your favorite book, Diet Recovery 2, is now available in paperback through Amazon. It’s currently going for $8.72, but will rise to $12-13 next week, so get it while the gettin’s good. Be warned that it does indeed show a woman’s breasts in a fuzzy, low-quality image to demonstrate breast enlargement, among other things, with an actual decrease in body fatness (probably should have shown this by requesting that she send in pics wearing a sweater). It also contains roughly the same amount of swear words as the kids movie The Goonies (yes, I counted). It’s extremely offensive and something no mature person should ever consider reading. It even has jokes in it and some sexual innuendo with discussion of how metabolism… Read more »

Fertility Awareness/Sympto-Thermal Method

Posted May 21st, 2013 – 51 Comments

By Hannah Ransom Fertility awareness. The name itself conjures up all sorts of strange connotations. Many people hear fertility and immediately jump to people trying to get pregnant and assisted reproductive technologies. Others equate fertility awareness with the rhythm method or other outdated forms of natural birth control. In reality, fertility awareness is now the common name specifically for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness, which can be quite a mouthful. This method combines at least two biologic markers in women (namely, temperature and cervical fluid) in order to determine her current state of fertility. It is based on scientific facts, described below, and you do not need a regular cycle to practice it. All you need is a natural curiosity about your body and a bit of desire to… Read more »

The Mind Body Connection

Posted May 20th, 2013 – 88 Comments

By Julia Gumm “It’s all in your head.” That can be a really devastating thing to hear when you feel sick, especially from a loved one or a physician. After all, how can something you feel so viscerally- chronic pain, migraines, joint aches, even visible skin irritations- be all in your head? These symptoms are all over your body after all, and besides, it’s not like you wake up in the morning saying “Gee, I wonder how awful I can will my headache to be today! Could I go for a cluster this time?! Let’s hope my liver can handle all the Excedrin I’m gonna hit it with! Go me!” When someone tells you your pain or illness is all in your head, it’s actually pretty insulting. There’s a “just”… Read more »

The World’s Greatest Health Gurus

Posted May 19th, 2013 – 90 Comments

By Matt Stone I have watched ridiculous amounts of youtube videos of health gurus – mostly for shock and entertainment. I couldn’t bear the thought that all those hours of killing time were truly of no value. So here is my attempt to salvage those lost hours by bringing to the world the ultimate video compilation of the most hard-to-watch health guru demonstrations ever recorded on video. If you have some others that deserve to be in the collection, please leave those links in the comments section. Try to go with just one, as leaving more than one link in a comment will get it held up in moderation. And by the way, who is your favorite? Let’s just say I saved my favorite for last. Gabriel Cousens Paul Chek… Read more »

How to Recover from a Breakup or Divorce

Posted May 16th, 2013 – 78 Comments

By Matt Stone It was the fall of 2010. I came home limping from a men’s softball game – one of my rare appearances out of the house and wearing something besides my pajamas at the time, to a girl sniffling and wiping her eyes out on the patio. “Matt, you are the funniest, smartest, best-looking son of a gun I ever met. But I don’t think I’m in love with you anymore.” Okay, maybe I embellished a little bit on that quote. It was sudden, out of the blue, and stung. The great Matt Stone, savior of the universe, king of the impossible… dumped? This couldn’t be. I was completely heartbroken and devastated that this mediocre relationship had comed to a halt, and I did what any human does in a situation like this… Read more »

Angelina Jolie Undergoes Preventive Double Mastectomy

Posted May 14th, 2013 – 194 Comments

By Matt Stone News erupted this morning about Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy. I rarely see any news stories, which is why I so rarely “report” on something in this fashion, but this happened to catch my eye. A response was in order. I first came across the growing trend of getting your breasts removed – you know, just in case you get breast cancer, right at the very beginning of my health research in late 2004. I willed myself to read something from a mainstream health authority as part of my comprehensive education. It was Isadore Rosenfeld, “America’s most trusted doctor,” who I first heard advocating this. I couldn’t believe my eyes, for two reasons. It is shocking that this is the best the medical industry can do It is shocking… Read more »