Sugar Eating Competition Results

Posted April 6th, 2012 – 172 Comments

Here it is folks! The official day has arrived (although you are welcome to compete on Saturday or Sunday if you are unable to compete today for some reason). Please record the number of grams of sugar you consume in no more than a 60-minute period in the comments section below. With that, include your estimated body weight in kilograms (Pounds to kg calculator). And finally, divide the number of grams of sugar by your weight in kilograms to calculate your sugar consumption in Lustigs… Example: 600 grams sugar/60kg = 10 Lustigs The winner will be declared on Monday. May the best man and woman NOT win. It would actually be cooler if the man and woman with the most visible abs won, to help settle some fructophobia. 3 Titles will be given. 1 for Male with… Read more »

Robert Lustig Fructose Friday

Posted April 3rd, 2012 – 164 Comments

A couple of days ago, April 1st to be exact (unfortunately this wasn’t an April Fools Joke), anti-fructose crusader Robert Lustig, among others, were interviewed on a special 60 Minutes segment called “Is Sugar Toxic?” 4 years ago almost to the day I was saying “Fruc Fructose.” But nowadays I find myself saying “Luck Fustig!” While the case against fructose is very compelling on the surface (de novo lipogenesis, lower leptin secretion, raises uric acid levels, we’re eating more of it, statistically – soft drinks are fattening, sugar feeds cancer, yada yada), I had to face the fact that sugar, in all its glory, did some pretty impressive things for my health when I finally let my biofeedback, as opposed to a neat youtube video, some rat studies, and a couple dozen books, determine whether or… Read more »

The Metabolic Blueprint

Posted April 2nd, 2012 – 83 Comments

This website is in its 6th year, and at this point, I can honestly say I don’t really think there is much of a need for any special foods or special diets for most people to heal their metabolism – something I still believe to be the single most significant physiological change a person can undergo (and trumping most trivial matters of nutrition that people are obsessing over in the age of the internet). Sure, some foods may be better than others, and some approaches more efficient than others, but like I told someone recently over the phone - “if you were chained to a table at IHOP we could still achieve everything we’re trying to achieve here – so don’t sweat the small details.” Basically, I started out on this journey thinking… Read more »

Gaining Muscle Mass

Posted March 29th, 2012 – 158 Comments

I wrote about this topic a little over a year ago, as I was eager to share the results I got while doing Scott Abel’s Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET) while basically eating as many carbs as a I could. It worked. It was also totally and completely grueling and left me with some serious aches and feeling pretty burned out. I knew from the beginning that MET was unrealistic for the vast majority of people. It is complex, complicated, grueling, and, when performed as Scott Abel directs (75+ minutes 5 days/week), overwhelming and impractical. Lately we have been discussing pancakes, pizza, ice cream, chips, and other highly palatable foods for raising metabolism. And I have had dozens of people report very high temps (over 99F), often achieved from the 96′s, in as little as… Read more »

When is Junk Food Healthy?

Posted March 26th, 2012 – 177 Comments

Many people will answer this question with a simple “NEVER,” but the more you study and tinker with the human body the more you realize that there is a lot more going on than can be explained with a simple nutrition-centric view of health. By junk food I mean basic, standard, yummy stuff. Breakfast classics like french toast, waffles, pancakes, and pastries. Snacks like chips and cheese and crackers. Lunch bombs like cheeseburgers and fries or pizza. Dinners like pot pie, pasta, or what have you. Drinks like bubbly soda, lemonade, chocolate milk. And rich desserts like ice cream, cheesecake, cookies, and pie. This is what I’m talking about when I say “junk foods.” What I should really say is, “the yummiest stuff.” So when can the yummy stuff actually be used as a… Read more »

Lose Weight and Get Healthy!

Posted March 19th, 2012 – 326 Comments

Seen the phrases “lose weight” and “get healthy” paired together before? Me too. At least a “Jillian” times. Our entire society has come to equate losing weight with an improvement in health. Funny thing that weight loss stuff though. Not everybody gets healthier when they lose weight. In fact, by percentages, most people get more UNhealthy when they lose weight. A more appropriate phrase pairing might be…. “Lose weight and Lose health!” So why does everyone think weight loss is such a great thing? Why does just about every doctor in America think that if his/her patients lose weight, their health will dramatically improve? The answer is really simple actually… Weight loss causes a lot of temporary improvements in the biomarkers for things like heart disease and diabetes. Emphasis on… Read more »

Is Lyme Disease a Hoax?

Posted March 12th, 2012 – 186 Comments

Warning! There is a giant mob of bloodthirsty ticks crawling around like a pack of Gremlins headed towards a public swimming pool to reproduce en masse! Didn’t you know? Never get a tick wet, they HATE bright lights, and Never EVER feed them after midnight! Seriously though. There is an epidemic rise of Lyme Disease sweeping the globe. It patterns, not necessarily a rise in tick bites or tick populations, but a rise in articles about Lyme disease on the internet and shady alternative-ish docs treating it. I bet these bloodthirsty ticks can give you candida and leaky gut syndrome too! Well, as long as you avoid sugar, gluten, and lectins I’m sure you’ll be fine (I hope you are picking up the sarcasm there). While I am plenty interested in… Read more »

What Gets YOU Hot?

Posted March 8th, 2012 – 325 Comments

Oh yeah baby. You know what I’m talkin’ bout! That’s right sugarplum… I’m a health nerd. I’m talkin’ about what makes your hands and feet warm. I’ve been playing around with all kinds of different breakfasts lately to see what type of breakfast makes my hands and feet wicked toasty at 10am – the time of day, give or take a half hour, that I am most prone to feel that chilly dip in peripheral circulation. I’m noticing this to be a fairly universal time to experience a drop in mood and metabolism – especially coldness in the extremities. I’ve been telling people to really get breakfast right, use it to GET warm, and then, for the rest of the day, eat and drink to STAY warm. When you really eat… Read more »

Low Metabolism and Dry Skin

Posted March 5th, 2012 – 84 Comments

By Matt Stone A friend of mine was feeling a little bummed last night. Some underweight, hypothyroid guy she had been dating was acting all crazy on her – loving her one minute, then wanting to break up the next. He loved to cuddle, but didn’t like kissing. And all he wanted to do, she said, was binge on junk food. And so, to help console her, I went through all my notes from Ancel Keys’s The Biology of Human Starvation to show her that these were well-understood characteristics of poorly nourished hpometabolic males. I sent her stuff about his balls being small, for example, and she was like, “yeah, his balls are really small.” “The majority of investigators have agreed that the testes are reduced in size in semi-starvation, the… Read more »

Hunter Copeland Interview

Posted February 29th, 2012 – 66 Comments

If you missed my talk yesterday as part of the Paleo Summit, you’re in luck! For starters, as of midnight last night, you can purchase all the recordings plus transcripts and other bonuses from the Paleo Summit. If you are at all interested, get it now by clicking HERE. The price goes up after Sunday to like $99 I think (Warning! You are about to enter the internet sales vortex!). I hear some of the other talks were really good. I suspect both Jaminet and Kruse were both pretty interesting, although I haven’t heard a word of anyone’s talk yet. Just remember to IgNora Gedgaudas haha! Secondly, I just completed a written interview Q and A session with Hunter Copeland – a Johnny Lawrence-esque type of Alabama man (shown left) who comes… Read more »

Paleo Myths

Posted February 27th, 2012 – 92 Comments

The online PALEO SUMMIT is underway! Please go REGISTER HERE so you can hear my talk entitled “Matt Stone Debunks Paleo Diet” when it launches tomorrow. I also wanted to let you know that my latest eBook, 12 Paleo Myths: Eat Better Than a Caveman, is now available for pre-order. Normally I would breeze through writing a book like this, but writing an entire book about what is so head-thumpingly obvious has proven to be quite tedious! I feel like I’m writing a Master’s thesis on why a fork is not the best utensil for eating soup, if you know what I mean. So it’s still undergoing its final revisions and will be released March 10, 2012. If you get it before March 10th, the price will be $14.95 instead of its full launch… Read more »

Mild Water Intoxication

Posted February 22nd, 2012 – 80 Comments

Continuing with the last post on the symptoms of OVERHYDRATION, here is Sean Croxton and I talking on his Underground Wellness podcast about the dangers of fluid overconsumption. Don’t forget to register to hear Sean and I talking again in the upcoming PALEO SUMMIT, which you can register for by clicking on the big box that is currently afloat in the sidebar off to your right. Yeah, the one with the caveman falling off the side of a mountain haha. FYI, one of the things I mention in the podcast which is a particularly good example of the physiology behind the negative manifestations of the overconsumption of water, is this study showing that drinking water can induce seizures in infants. And THIS Write up on it. To listen, push the play button below. … Read more »

How Much Water Should YOU Drink?

Posted February 20th, 2012 – 246 Comments

By Matt Stone One of my greatest pet peeves when it comes to nutrition is the frequent use of blanket recommendations – many of them made on some theoretical basis, or made due to statistical probability (none of them particularly relevant to a real person living in the real world). And I feel like, over the years, we at 180D have been picking through these one by one – especially now as we leave this sort of standard view of nutrition in the dust at an accelerated rate. These blanket recommendations really degrade what nutrition, or dietary manipulation, can be – which is an amazing medical tool. The food pyramid is a real travesty, and gives nutrition a bad name. Dietary needs radically change – sometimes on an hourly basis. Nutritional… Read more »

Underground Wellness Paleo Summit

Posted February 15th, 2012 – 46 Comments

Hey dudes and dudettes… Believe it or not, but an online summit comprised of 23 interviews – from Mark Sisson and Gary Taubes to Denise Minger and Jimmy Moore, was put together on the Paleo Diet and Lifestyle by Sean Croxton of Underground Wellness. And I, ME, MATT STONE – was invited to participate. Yes, as ironic as that sounds, I was invited to share my perspective on Paleo. Sean didn’t want it to be too much of a “Paleo love fest,” which should give everyone a great deal of respect for Mr. Croxton. Anyway, it’s free to listen in to any of the interviews, including my talk entitled: “Matt Stone Debunks the Paleo Diet.” Click HERE to REGISTER.

2012 L.A. Fitness Expo

Posted February 8th, 2012 – 113 Comments

Hey look! That’s me heckling vegans “manning” the booth for the T. Colin Campbell Foundation!!! The girl over my shoulder called T. Colin Campbell later that day, asking for her butt, boobs, and bone density back. Howdy peeps… Here are some short video clips of the people I shared the stage with at the 2012 Fit Expo. I’ll post my short talk later, along with Mike Tyson’s – although it ain’t nothing special (mine that is, Mike’s is freakin’ hilarious – including the line “I hope I die this way” in reference to his vegan diet). As you browse through, it’s pretty funny to see the conflicting viewpoints of all these people. I find it actually makes things kind of refreshing in a way. Like more rules just slipping out the window. It is a good reminder of how funny… Read more »

Breakfast Cereal Causes Obesity!

Posted February 3rd, 2012 – 313 Comments

I mean, they serve this devitalized, sugar-laden, grain-based garbage to kids… why I oughtta!!! Some kids cereals have over 30% of their calories coming from sugar! White, crappy sugar! And grains? Obviously grains are responsible for the obesity epidemic. As Dr. Mercola has been talking about for years, (and you know he’s a renegade insider that really knows what’s going on), grains spike insulin. I mean, INSULIN!!! Jesus tapdancin’ Christ!!! We know that insulin is the fat storage hormone, and the more carbs you eat, grains and sugar especially… well, Adios kids. R.I.P. Sorry we’ve been making you all obese and diabetic with these damn breakfast cereals. And to think, marketing to young children with prizes and toys and cartoon tigers and toucans and stuff? Despicable!!! In a rumored rat… Read more »

Paleo Diet Myth Testimonials

Posted January 30th, 2012 – 281 Comments

Well boys and girls, the time has come. In a matter of weeks I will be releasing an eBook entitled 12 Paleo Myths. I don’t mean to single out this diet and pick on the poor little fella, because I could easily write a book called 12 Vegan Myths, 12 Low Fat Myths, The Weight Watchers Myth, 12 Low-Carb Myths, and so on. But the Paleo diet seems to be the one gaining the most steam in the alternative nutrition world at the moment. And if there’s one thing that drives me nuts about Paleo or any diet it is the blind infatuation of the leaders and followers of the movement. This infatuation needs some counterbalancing, and, more importantly, there needs to be a strong source of information about it for those who are… Read more »

RBTI Update

Posted January 26th, 2012 – 160 Comments

Apologies for my lengthy silence on RBTI. If anything, I took a lot of time to let it all soak in, and to see what really stuck. As you may know, the personal benefits I got from RBTI included fat loss eating to appetite – even eating lots of palatable processed foods, disappearance of chest pain that I had suffered from for years, and tremendous improvement with some pain/weakness I had in my feet that had gotten worse over the year prior. Plus my nostrils seemed to become less inflamed as well, allowing me to breathe deeper. I thought my pet allergies were gone forever too, but it turned out that I was only not allergic to the pets I was around during my RBTI education. I of course saw… Read more »

Heavy Periods and Bruising Easily

Posted January 24th, 2012 – 88 Comments

People love to get some cold, hard facts. In fact, after the prequel to this post was put up, someone immediately voiced a desire to have some “hard data” coming up in this post. Well, I hate to disappoint you, but the complex interactions that take place in an individual’s body often defy conventional wisdom and data that is, like L.L. Cool J, “as hard as steel.” Let’s look at a real life example. A woman in her 20’s contacted me because of some serious emotional ups and downs and some general feelings of fatigue. Stuff like, you know, getting to work, staring at her desk for a minute or two, and then bursting into uncontrollable crying fits. My first question was, “are you urinating more frequently?” The answer was… Read more »

Body Temperature and Mortality

Posted January 22nd, 2012 – 76 Comments

Two days ago, a long-term member of the 180 community alerted me of a study that sought to determine how body temperature impacted the mortality rate of patients checking into the intensive care unit for treatment. Now I normally don’t like to put much focus on studies. Anyone can go out and find studies that support whatever point it is that they are trying to prove. And I think those tactics are cheap and falsely reassuring. I have written about this at great length. Having said that, this study is pretty interesting. I have often quoted a passage by Henry Bieler that describes in great and specific detail what I consider to be a person with optimal health. And in that passage Bieler writes… It is possible for him to stand more treatments, operations and… Read more »