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 this whole weird, wild, wacky world of health is.
And it was actually interesting for us all to hang out together in the weird, bodybuilder environment we found ourselves in. On the internet we of such varying viewpoints might seem to be mortal enemies over the fine details, but together we shared some pretty close kinship – because in that building we all had a lot more in common with each other than with the calorie-counting bodybuilder folk looking for the latest supplement and slow-release protein powder. Hey, even the uber omnivorous Matt Stone won’t eat Splenda! Overdosed on that once and had a weird metal taste in my mouth for a day and a bad case of insomnia.
The first is Lori Painter – mostly raw vegan… high-carb/fruit-based. I have had’two banana and kale smoothies in her honor since witnessing her talk. I’m sure I’ll be writing about the?”life force” of living, raw foods someday. You probably won’t be reading this?blog anymore by then. Based on appearances alone, you?would want to?be doing what?Lori is doing…
Next in the lineup was Nell Stephenson, author of a new book called Paleoista. She is a hardcore Ironman triathlete and?Paleo eater?and perhaps the leanest woman at the entire convention – including all the crazy psycho bodybuilder chicks on meth and?roids. I almost tried to get a shot of the impressive striations in her calf muscles, as they twitched with worm-like veins scrambling about with each slight movement. But’thought that would have been a little douchey of me. It was nuts. If you wanna be super lean, be like Nell and exercise like 10 hours a day on a Paleo diet. Proceed at your own risk!
Then we have Dr. Del Millers. Total soy-chugging, PUFA-philiac badass. Typical bodybuilder nutrition type of stuff. High-protein smoothies and pancakes and stuff…
Followed by someone who should need little introduction here – AnnMarie Michaels of www.cheeseslave.com. She’s currently writing about me a lot (to the dismay of many Matt Stone haters) and doing some RRARF’ing. She’s very proud that she has doubled her food intake and hasn’t gained any weight, while temps are raging.I got her peeing on a refractometer and everything! Totally brainwashed her!!! Victory is mine! Here she discusses sweeteners amidst a hailstorm of questions about the glycemic index from a neurotic woman in the audience…
Next is Tara Rayburn. She’s a cool lady and very enthusiastic. She’s super real, talking about the pivotal importance of the things perceived as the “little things” (like taking a break during the?day to just breathe and relax)’that are actually quite important (unlike a lot of the dietary minutiae people lose their minds over these days)…
Next is Chuck Norris’s brother, Keith Norris. Keith doesn’t know that Chuck is his brother, but I say it’s so, and I’m Matt Stone – no need to back anything up with real scientific facts and data and triple blind studies. My gut told me he’s Chuck’s brother. So that’s just how it is. My first thought was, “no way he built that body on a low-carb diet.”? I got lucky and captured him talking about precisely that in the clip I got of him. He’s a super nice guy, and didn’t smash me with his fist like I feared. Our armwrestling match afterward was a blast. I’ve never had that much trouble defeating someone before!!! Longest 2.3 seconds of my bicep’s life!
Last but not least is Gina LaVerde. She talked about Autism, as she has a son who has recovered?quite well with some of the dietary tinkering they’ve done since he was diagnosed. Her son liked me because I talked about?ice cream. I got kids wrapped around my little finger. I’m like Ronald MattDonald like that. Her talk was very inspiring – almost tear-jerking with her healthy, vibrant little guy sitting there in the front row. Gina is a former vegan but is on the mend…
Stay tuned for my talk in the next post. And Iron Vegan Mike Tyson who exaggerates everything and rarely says anything that makes any “thense.”
I hope I am first, cuz I am never first!
loved hanging with you Mattcakey, xoxoooooooooooooooooooo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx haggis
“Mattcakey”….LOL!!! Luvn it!!
Joni, If you invite Uncle MattCakey over make sure and try his buttermilk pancakeys and his plaintains cooked in coconut ghee. Your family will never be the same. :-)
will do Debbie!! Your pics made me salivate…I won’t turn down the opportunity to let him cook fo sho! I think we’ll also take Uncle Mattcakey out to this great Puerto Rican restaurant where everything is yummy and fresh. I’m sure he’d love to eat there. That is, if I can get him here again. I’m sure I can book some speaking engagements.
Darn, Deb beat me to it. :)
That picture of you in the Eat Me shirt in front of those two is a riot…HAHA.
Don’t feel bad John, I just got lucky. I have some extra footage and the true story of how that picture was taken. I will blog about it. Someday. For now, I am just carb loading for warmth.
:-)
Matt Stone is a hero in my house! My kiddos are so excited for cookies and ice cream (and my better moods and higher energy). They can hardly believe their big ol angel eyes when I grab for some at the store. All hail the Stone-ster, Matt Stoney, eatin carbs by the carbie-machine (that would be a waffle iron, btw)
WOW, those are some interesting “facts” there, Keith.
How dare you claim that is Chuck Norris’ brother. You are an insane crazy con artist!
Wonderful post, your thense geeked me out. I should be sleeping, again, but I keep readin your damn stuff. I bought a refractometer! I didn’t know I could get them cheap before. Got the triple R 0-32 one. What if someone has low blood sugar but is dehydrated or low blood sugar with really dark urine would that screw with fracto tests? I’m interested in what types of things could complicate readings. I like the idea of being able to check things, and this seems like a cheap way to check something that is very important so I figure what do I have to lose! And my mother is diabetic so perhaps I could knock some sense into her, after all these (my whole life) years.
Hey Matt, what do you think of the recent post by the Jaminets at PHD on carb consumption? The conclusion being that higher carb intake increases thyroid, fertility and athleticism (robust and virile health in the short term), yet ultimately sacrificing longevity. Though they also mention protein restriction as promoting longevity in there as well, which we’ve seen mentioned in the past. RRARF, ETF etc clearly boosts health for many, but is this a viable long-term strategy for long life + health?
One other thing, related to sugar crashes/RBTI type stuff- you’ve talked extensively about sugar crashing, waking up at night etc being largely a function of what and when you eat, and framing such things negatively. My question is, other than the obvious and undesirable symptoms i.e. cold hands and feet, lethargy, mood swings etc, would you say there are other “bad things happening” beneath the surface that we can’t see/feel? Meaning, if someone is doin something wrong and experiencing said outward symptoms, can we assume that this is also setting the stage for any/all serious, chronic disease? Hopefully that question makes sense, thanks!
Not that we should all eat like the Okinawan’s or anything but this pretty much shows that high carb diets don’t sacrifice longevity. These are some of the longest-lived people in the world and they get about 85% of their calories from carbs.
http://fanaticcook.blogspot.com/2010/07/traditional-okinawan-diet-sweet.html
One of the hallmarks of aging is beginning to use more and more fat for energy and less glucose. Eating a high-fat, low-carb diet expedites that process, not to mention exposes us to the primary hormone of aging – cortisol. As body temperature/thyroid falls you see this take place as well. You see it with sedentarism too. The sedantarism of RRARF is definitely not sustainable. Nor is overfeeding. It’s just a temporary measure to get thyroid up, glucose oxidation up, and in turn maximize the production of the hormones of youth (progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, etc.).
You will be hard-pressed to find any correlative studies linking increased carbohydrate consumption to shortened lifespan.
Matt,
do you mean sedentarism exposes us to cortisol, or it leads to greater fat oxidation? I might just be completely misreading your comment haha.
Greater fat oxidation. Just sitting around doing nothing without doing ANY physical activity outside of the metabolism recovery period is probably not very helpful. It’s thought to raise cortisol too. But I meant it in terms of reinforcing fat oxidation instead of glucose oxidation.
Hey Matt,
I think you need a questions box. Then people could post things that are on their mind or that they’re wondering about. We could all vote on what subjects we want to investigate or debate about next.
So, if you’re still reading this comment list, I’m wondering what you think of this article:
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=401 “What Makes a Supercentenarian?”
and this:
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=5528 “High Carb Dieting: Pros and Cons”
The conclusion of the high carb dieting article states that moderate carb restrictions may be better for longevity. There is apparently an athleticism/libido vs. longevity trade-off (which is a fascinating idea in its own right). It then references the Supercentenarian article, which finds that supercentenarians (of which there are extremely few) tend to eat in one of two ways:
1. Intermittent fasting with calorie restriction
2. High (saturated and mono-unsaturated) fat low-carb diets
I really have to share this story real quick. Sorry it is not related but I have to get this off of my chest. My family, mainly my mother though, has sincerely told of paranormal encounters in the past. The house I am living in and have lived in since I was six months old supposedly used to be haunted. Now some seriously strange shit has happened, even to me, when I was growing up, but it all could have been in my head and reinforced by my mothers tellings. We’re talkin’ unexplainable loud roars from the basement when everyone is having too much fun, bad odors, things missing, dark masses in peripherals (dont really remember the details), supposed baby bottle launchings at prego stomach (my aunt) I would say a lot more but I don’t want to stretch this out and sound like I’m full of shit. But anyways..I was thinking, now that I’ve matured, nothing has really happened to me. There’s nothing in this house, I’m not afraid of the basement anymore etc…Sometimes I can still get spooked though and am conscious of my feet hangin too far off the bed though =P Point is, I thought of something that could logically describe the aforementioned although wouldn’t corroborate other family members stories. Mom has mental disorders. Bipolar, depression, I believe she takes a lil bit o’ anti-pyschotics too. I think the worst was taking place when she was pregnant, or had given birth recently, maybe to my brother or something. (she had shit happen as a kid maybe she’s always been nuts) So you know how if you are pregnant but you don’t eat enough the baby can literally suck shit out of you. My sisters teeth for example are TOAST. Well, what if my mom ate like shit, so her brain was all discombobulated from the babestins. Anyhow..She used to say that it all went away when she started to go back to church. My silly theory is…what if all that hardy (hearty?) sunday food and those potlucks got her brain chemistry back in order (somewhat…temporarily..) and she stopped trippin balls and got a taste of reality. Funny? Rarff related? Cheers.
“My silly theory is?what if all that hardy (hearty?) sunday food and those potlucks got her brain chemistry back in order (somewhat’temporarily..) and she stopped trippin balls and got a taste of reality. Funny? Rarff related? Cheers.”
LMFAO!
Interesting comment Bob. Just to add my two cents, I grew up with a friend with similar stories about hauntings, ghost ladies chasing her and dolls moving around on their own and attacking her and her sister, etc. She was recently arrested for murder and had been diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder-bipolar I think. I know her family ate poorly (lots of processed stuff) and didn’t have a lot of food in the house. I spent the night there once as a teenager and there was nothing in the house for breakfast or lunch. I was starving and miserable. Finally that evening the dad came home with a few groceries, but I never stayed there again because of the food thing.
I will pay attention the next time a healthy 90 year old person tells us what to eat. These handsome youngsters can do all the wrong things for quite a few years before their bodies fall apart.
I wouldn’t pay attention to what anybody tells you to eat. Including 90 year olds, as they all eat differently too. There aren’t really any absolute themes between longevity and diet.
lookin a little soft there, Matt. Got any recent pictures that’d do you justice?
Nope. I’m soft. Gained a few pounds back over the holidays by eating unlimited amounts of whatever was around and quitting RBTI.
Matt,
I just returned from the doctor after suffering a severe bout pf the chills and the “Blue Fingertips”. I received my bloodwork results back and he stated that I was Anemic and my “T” levels were low. Asked about my Diet exercis and diet lifestyle and then I explained that I had been low carb for almost two years. His thoughts were that I had done it way too long and he suggested that I lower my protein intake, and up my carb intakes via whole Grains, rice, etc., and oddly said that maybe I could up my fat intake since protein would be lower? I never have heard a doctor recommending higher fats? What are your thoughts on this? He said I looked very healthy from outward appearances but definetly had some things going on, thinking I should start first by changing my eating habits and placing my fitness level second? Will find out results from other tests today hopefully! Thanks..
Anemic with low T? Gee, I couldn’t have called that!
Eat the f’ing food!!!
That’s bullshit. You look slimmer than I’ve seen since your “I’m too sexy holding this pig head” banner. I actually find that a little surprising because I thought you were saying at one point that Sprint 8 plus weights after equals big muscle growth. This actually seems better if you’re managing a high metabolism and strength / low mass build for the lower resting stress on your organs.
Before the Holidays I was wearing the same pants I was wearing in the pig’s head photos. But didn’t do much besides eat cookies all day long in addition to regular meals until recently. I haven’t gained but a few pounds during all that though I would guess (haven’t weighed myself since November). Just one notch higher on my belt. That’s all. Buffet eating was treating my body composition pretty well, but I just kind of got sick of it I guess. I don’t think about it all that much these days, which is good.
@Bob Dean,
another victory for ETF! It can even exorcise demons!
Seriously, I have had numerous post partum clients with PPD, suffered with it myself, and can tell you that shit is REAL (meaning all in your unbalanced state). Once the woman’s health deficiencies are addressed, the weird stuff stops. Though I am open to the possibility/probability that there is more to this life experience than meets the eye, for sure weaker people have more likelihood to have “permeable boundaries”. In fact, I find a strong correlation in my clinic between “psychic openness” and leaky gut/GAPS./chronic allergies, etc. Traditional Chinese Medicine might describe this as an impairment in the Wei Qi, the “defensive Qi” that seems to correlate to the immune system. And voila, we are in the gut…
The food/minerals/mental health connection is huge, in my experience (PPD/OCD/general depression). Wish I’d started lookkng into it sooner!
Yeah my grandmother, who always ate like a bird and was a militant “healthy eater” (meaning restricting all food especially fats, and eating loads of bran etc) went completely nuts in her late 50s and ended up being packed off to the mental ward… a number of years later my mother, who also was a major food restricter and a non-fat AND low-carb dieter had a similar thing happen in her late 40s and spent a bit of time in the psyche ward also… I remember once she came over to my flat and translated what my dog was saying to me (pretty sure I didn’t find it particularly amusing at the time but it’s pretty damn funny now!) So based on that pattern I have approximately 4-7 years before I turn into a raving nut-bar in my late 30s.
I’m quite looking forward to it actually.
Err.. how can you be non-fat and low-carb?
I have wondered about PPD myself. Doesn’t the mother’s body prioritize nutrients to the baby? So if the mother isn’t really stocking up, that’s when she’d be most vulnerable to those things. Pregnancy would definitely be the time to ETF.
low-carb, not non-carb. she didn’t eat much :)
My sister is the only one who has had braces in this family and having kids destroyed her teeth. Her husband is a picky eater. We don’t get along too well ={ My sister always has diarrhea and has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and all kinds of stupid shit. Thank fucking god she didn’t listen to any health advice I would’ve tried to have given not too long ago. Oh, have some Braggs apple cider vinegar and stay away from white bread. My family is pretty toast…and I almost fell into the hole myself. Or maybe I am in it and I don’t know it!
Yeah my mum was actually a pretty unpleasant person when I was a kid… judgemental, snobbish, critical, etc… she’s started eating a lot more in the last I guess 7 years, and she’s now seriously a totally different person. SO much more easy-going (relative to how she was, at least) and the other day I even got a positive remark about something I’d done, without a single critical comment afterwards! Go food!!
Really appreciate the responses from everyone about my story. I believe there is a strong correlation with mental instability and lack of nutrition for sure. I know a couple chicks right off hand that are a little cookoo and have weird eating habits and stuff. They both are attractive…One of which has really big, oh shit excuse me..One of them probably wouldn’t mind if it were possible to live off of eating flower petals, she supposedly has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I would like to tell a story about my sisters encounter (8 years older than me) but I’d feel kinda guilty and she still swears it happened…some poltergeist shit, still boggles me. If she admited one day she made it up because she wanted attention and also maybe she wasn’t eating good and puberty had her all sorts of toast, I’d be like ya, ghosts are f**kin mental episodes. But until further notice, and with wishful thinking, perhaps we are intertwined with multiple dimensions of reality and sometimes they collide OoOoOoO 0_o
Weston A. Price found a correlation between poor diet and both mental disorders and delinquent behavior. In some cases he was able to partially cure some of these problems through diet. In one case he cured retardation through adult palate expansion. The retardation returned when his brace failed and the subject’s palate shrunk again. Price had some theories about a narrow palate affecting development of the pituitary gland. He noticed that some of the most notorious criminals also had some of the most obvious facial distortions. I.e. they had some ugly mugs. Catherine Shanahan expands on that by noting we have a certain genetic objective preference for beauty, which is defined by a mask of ratios some plastic surgeon came up with. Shanhan fit the mask to pictures in Price’s book and found that the natives on their native diets, regardless of ethnicity, always fit the mask. The degenerates typically did not. It does not take much deviation to start falling away from the objective standard of beauty. She also noticed that top Hollywood stars were much more likely to fit the mask.
AaronF,
Funny you mention Dr. Shanahan. She was my former doctor who promotes high fat/very low carb diets. I was doing her diet for over a year and wasn’t getting better. Also, I was always an avid gardener and was looking forward to having a huge garden of fruits(melons, stone fruit ect.) and veggies, but Dr. Shanahan is against carbohydrates even fruits so I thought “there goes my beautiful garden.” Good thing I found RBTI and High Brix gardening and snapped out of her theory fast.
Anyway, if you go to her website drcate.com and look at the post she did about the China Study, the Osteoporotic girl she references is me. On my last visit with her she told me that she was going to do a post on the China Study and I made the comment “oh that’s good because a lot of vegans treat it like the bible.” Never did she ask me to use my story nor did she even tell me she was going to use it. Worst part is she got many of the facts wrong. To make it clear I never read the China Study, only Denise Minger’s breakdown of it, so I new that the China study was flawed just like many other theories out there. I did ask her to take a look at Douglas Graham’s 80/10/10 diet book. She was very kind in doing that for me and she dispelled a lot of what Graham says in the book. She was also very kind to me as she let me visit her office every week to discuss food and health related subjects. I was at the worst of my disease and all the specialists were saying that they would try to preserve me as is, but that I shouldn’t expect to get my health back like I had before the accident. Hmmm…my spine was crumbling under me to the point where I fractured half of it and could barely hold myself up let alone walk, but you are going to preserve me? Great! Because as a 29 year old nothing says “living” like not being able to move! Coming from being an avid hiker who would hike a good 20miles in a day, every weekend, someone telling me that I’m stuck like this and shouldn’t expect to get my body back, is like cutting a birds wings off and telling them they can’t fly!
I understand that Dr. Shanahan wants to keep people from getting sick like I did, but it’s not from carbs or supposedly following a vegan diet. I was only vegan for about a year and before that I was eating tons of dairy(would eat a 32oz tub of cottage cheese in a sitting)eggs, beans and grains ect. I think it was SO wrong for her to violate the doctor patient confidentiality we had like that. Never mind the fact that she was inaccurate with many of the facts of my medical history. What’s even worse is people were commenting on her post about me and what they felt I did wrong( based on Dr. Shanahans inaccurate info of me)and she would then be having a conversation with these random people about my medical history. Anyone else see a problem with this? Sorry it’s just been bugging me for sometime now and whenever anyone mentions Dr. Shanahan I’m torn because she was very kind when I was her patient, but then she violated my privacy when she left the clinic here in New Hampshire. Sorry…end of rant! :-) I’m just so happy I found RBTI and gave Matt a call! Working with Su from Promise Outreach has really made me believe I have a fighting chance of fixing this mess! :-)
Blessings,
Jennifer
Yeah, I see a problem with that, and it’s called HIPAA. You might want to talk to an attorney, not necessarily to seek any damages, but at least to send her a formal cease and desist letter. Give her the fear of legal recourse and she may stop violating medical privacy laws. I would personally recommend doing this as a service to others who may be undergoing similar treatment regardless of whether you care to pursue it further.
I was not down with the second half of her book at all, especially the chapter on carbohydrates. She refers to all carbs as “sugar” and uses the word sugar kind of as a fear-mongering tactic. She doesn’t get into the details of glucose (or fructose) metabolism at all and spews the same old “don’t elevate your insulin too much” BS. I did feel her work was valuable converging the findings of Price with the Marquardt Mask.
I found the most obnoxious part of her book was when she tried to say that Valedictorians are the best looking and most athletic too. WTF? Seems to me that the most intelligent people have large, swollen craniums with underdeveloped mandibles and small, weak bodies. Your typical nerd body type – looking more like the depictions of intelligent lifeforms from another planet (aliens), and not the best looking.
AaronF, I thought about contacting her to ask for her to take down that post. She never mentioned my name specifically, but it doesn’t take a detective to prove it’s me she’s writing about. In any case, as upset as I was, I wouldn’t press charges against her. What she did was out of line, but as crazy as it sounds, her heart is in the right place. She BELIEVES that a diet based around veganism and specifically carbohydrates are what are causing the metabolic diseases of our time and she wants to keep people from serious illness. I like to think it is more that she cares about people and hopefully less ego driven. Oh what a world this could be if people could leggo their ego! I do agree with you though that me saying something to her may make her think twice next time she is dealing with her patients and the importance of confidentiality. Doctors can have their agendas, but at the end of the day, they need to understand we are not their experiment! Oh and her diet made me fear all carbs like the plague. She made me think that all carbs would cause my bones to deteriorate even further. After working with Su, I found out that I have extremely low blood sugars and am having a hard time digesting them. Talk about a nightmare if I were to have continued following her low carb diet.
Matt, I questioned the same thing when I read her book. I wont go into detail of the many conversations we had on the carbohydrate subject, I’ll just say I mentioned the Okinawans, the Kitavans and the Vanuatu people of New Guinea. What it comes down to is she has her opinion and I have mine. At the time, I was just trying to be respectful so I never challenged her opinion and just bit my tongue, even though I found there to be many contradictions put forth. It’s okay, I just hate that fear was ever a motivation for me. Fear can never really be motivating when it’s true essence is so paralyzing. That’s what fear does to me anyways! So good for you, Matt for helping people to let go and not fear. That’s the hardest part.
Blessings,
Jennifer
Alas, intelligent people really do tend to be more attractive.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/01/are_smart_people_ugly_the_explainer_s_2011_question_of_the_year_.single.html
“Seems to me that the most intelligent people have large, swollen craniums with underdeveloped mandibles and small, weak bodies. Your typical nerd body type ? looking more like the depictions of intelligent lifeforms from another planet (aliens), and not the best looking.”
That pretty funny, but not at all accurate in my view. In my experience, people who look that way are usually somewhat dumb, and, if not dumb, are usually very smart in only one subject, and dull as rocks in everything else. In other words, they are borderline autistic/asperger’s.
There are exceptions, of course; not to mention the inherent complexity of defining the criteria of what it means to be “smart.” Not only is defining and identifying said criteria a highly individual enterprise, but culture and society influence one’s view of intelligence. For instance, many people seem to believe that famous statesmen and politicians, such as Abraham Lincoln, are intelligent. There is, in fact, nothing in reality to support such a view. A candid history of Lincoln and other politicians, both past and present, generally reveals them to be cunning, manipulative marauders who have no real intelligence. (Yes, I know that is just my opinion.)
There are people in history who are undeniably intelligent. For instance: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Richard Feynman. The portraits of the young Isaac Newton suggest he might have been somewhat handsome and Richard Feynman wasn’t bad looking once he matured; although I honestly don’t have much a male aesthetic –I sometimes have to ask someone whose opinion I trust if a guy is good looking or average, or what– but one thing I do know: None of these men really fit Matt’s description, at least facially. Most significant contributors to the sciences that I can think of also fail to meet Matt’s description.
Look up the physicist Dr. Lisa Randall. She is one smart lady, and not at all hard on the eyes. I have heard that in “real life” she is rather striking and I bet when she was younger she was pretty darn foxy.
As for Valedictorians: who cares about High School politics, because that’s all that is.
I like the t shirt, Matt. I would like to get one to wear around my seven-year-old, who is being indoctrinated into the “hamburgers are always junk food” mindset. Stoopid preachy cartoons!
I actually find the Campbell girl quite attractive, more so than that smug git up front ;p But I am not gay so am influenced by that orientation.
Matt are you still doing your 100% effort sprints till the death then flapping around with light bench presses till you wanna puke workout regime?
I reckon it would be interesting if you were to blog down exactly what you are doing diet and exercise wise everytime you make a new post.
What Matt says and what Matt does seem to always be 180 degrees.
trust me Lee, she looked somewhat like a deflated ballon from all angles. The butt area was noticeably empty in her cargo pants. As was her lovely sweater, no lady bumps in sight. The dudes were just as sickly and caved in, sad to say
I dispute the idea that small-chested women less attractive to men – hasn’t seemed to hurt me yet :-)
(I do have a booty, though, and am clearly not starving or “deflated.”)
Small boobs rule! But not when on a chest that is concave from severe scoliosis, with resultant tucked lower spine and atrophied glutes.
And in no way does that it suggest that her resulted body originates from following a vegan diet.
Perhaps her spine got fucked from eating refined cereal, skimmed milk, ice cream, pancakes and waffles in abundance as a kid. Who knows, did you ask her?
I know two vegan ladies, grew up vegetarian through teen years, now vegan through their twenties and you could not ask for better female physiques. Diet or genetics?….probably the latter.
I just don’t think it’s a coincidence that the scrawniest, illest-looking young people at the fit expo were heading up the T. Colin Campbell Foundation booth. Take it easy. Me just being funny man.
omg don’t get me started on some booty…god bless you
I have tried measuring my speed doing sprints using my iPhone (not sure how accurate that is). I’m topping out at like 13mph, which I consider weak. Long long time ago, the night before I did my first MS150, I remember sprinting to catch the bus back to the YMCA. People were cheering when I got on and I was all like, in my head, “WTF? Really? That wasn’t even hard.” Somehow, either from that, or from something else, I came to the impression most people, including myself, could run 18mph if they were running all out. Although… I don’t know how I’d ever have measured it. I’ve been carrying this impression around for years and am now disappointed.
” people cheering ”
Like we were recently discussing Aaron, the standards are dropping.
I recently have been training “athletes” and the first day I tested their fitness.
Now I’ve never considered my self fast but I smoked these guys by a long shot sprinting.
It’s sad since I consider my self way out of shape right now after taking a long time off for fat gain experiments.
Seriously can’t wait for all of your new material dude. Matts too. You guys got me hooked for real.
I am trying to be consistent with 3, hard, short workouts a week. I don’t do sprints to get the breathing going every time, but I usually do it once per week and then do some muscular work in that oxygen-deprived state. Hardest thing ever.
Hey Matt,
I did a similar sprint workout this week on Tuesday with some pullups afterward (not that many pullups). I am still sore today (Saturday), and was really sore yesterday. I am wondering if being sore for so long is a sign that the muscle will build back up even more? Or is being sore for so long a bad thing? I didn’t get my optimal amount of sleep these last few days, so could it be that I just wasn’t recovering correctly? Is there a correlation between being sore a day or two afterward and muscle gains? Thanks.
Being sore is a sign of really challenging the muscle beyond its normal capacity. Doing the sprints beforehand is what makes the small volume of pullups so productive.
For sure! Today I did sprints and I got my heart rate up to 210!!!!!!! Of course, you can only get so accurate with a $40 heart rate monitor. I was excited nevertheless.
Every time I read your blog Matt I learn something new. I leave with the feeling I am reading a true genius. This time you again proved how smart you are by challenging Keith Norris to an arm wrestling match and not Nell Stephenson!
Elliot! Please comment more.
I remember you saying chocolate as opposed to pork has a modest affect on body chemistry, well, i’m about to eat two boxes of cocoa rice, (just ate my first) so I hope it’ll be kosher =P I’m a little worried about my protein intake so im gonna eat some free range eggs to top it off, if i can fit anything else, yesterday i was screwed..Someone please help me with tracking blog comment stuff. I tried to sign up with commentful.com but it seriously is like out of commission. I spend too much time searchin through these comments I need to be more efficient!
thank you bob for sharing and i appreciate how you express it too. nutrition is primary – to health, which is mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. without enough minerals , everything tanks.
and by the way – cocoa krispies hardly have much chocolate. it’s the chunks and bars of it and too frequent intake that harms. have a bowl of wilted chopped kale salad (lemon juice and salt) to even out the sugar. love, ” anothermother “
Your input is much appreciated Katheraw =) Wilted kale seems convenient, because whenever I’d buy a lot of fresh greens back in the dizay, i’d do good at first and eat some, but eventually it would start to rot in the bottom drawer of my fridge.
Real foodies represent! That’s so cool that you had AM with you there. I still wish I could have dropped everything and driven out to LA to see y’all.
Checkin in on my phone and I have to say loved the quotation marks around ” manning ”
I was like yea those dudes are vegan. For sure …. Little farther in you mentioned a lady and I was cracking up laughing cuz I did a double take…
I looking forward to Tyson video was hoping for it in here … Tyson going vegan ha maybe he will go raw vegan for a year … I’d fight em’ lol
You could take him now Chief!!! He ate only Miso soup and tomato soup for 2 months!!! I wanna see you suck down a Blizzard right in his face and then deliver a beat down.
that would be so much more rewarding than takin’ him out on punch out. the press conference shit talking would require a little bit of jerky eating to accidentally spit little meat bits in his face.
‘paper champ”
“PAPER CHAMP” !! eat your damn ear shaped vegan dog treats biatch !
LOL at Lori Painter saying (rough quote) “The deeper you go into investigating health the SIMPLER it gets” around 1:35 in vid.
She has no doubt explored the mighty depths of all things health.
Nell is skinnier than a “tay in the wind”. It starts looking wicked to me when a woman has really lean arms.
Where do y’all (you all) get coconut oil from? I’m tired of buying 31.5 oz at a time from Wal-Mart. The brand is LouAna and she’s only $5.98. I know I know she’s not organic and doesn’t come in pretty packing but she’s cheap. I figure if I eat cinnamon toast crunch every day then a little LouAna is ok.
I actually really like LouAna.
{Ok…I’m in “learning mode” now. The *thud* you might here is from me hitting the floor again. But don’t worry, I’ll get back up.} Given my WAPF background on all things grains, oils and fats, I have only purchased the more expensive organic virgin UNrefined coconut oil. It has many happy uses in my home. Now, why would the cheapy refined brand be ok? I have always understood this to mean refined oil has undergone bleaching and deodorizing. Does LouAna undergo hydrogenation?
The type of fat is what makes coconut oil therapeutic. But the virgin oil has a strong taste and odor that doesn’t bode well with a lot of people. And the virgin oil seems to trigger more digestive and allergy problems than the refined version. You probably think purified water is good. Why can’t purified coconut oil be good? The fats in coconut oil are vitually indestructible, so processing matters less with coconut oil than pretty much any other edible substance. Just don’t think it’s worth gettin’ panties bunched over.
Hmm, interesting. I have tried both refined (Spectrum brand) and virgin (NOW brand) and find I like the unrefined better. It actually tastes like coconut.
I Love the taste of the unrefined too! Can see how some might not like it though, if one isn’t a fan of coconut.
Hey Matt, have you ever tried macadamia nut oil? I was curious if you had and if you ever found it to effect your numbers in a negative way. I ask Su if she thought it was okay to use, but she isn’t familiar with it. I’m just not into the taste of olive oil so I’ve been looking for substitutions and macadamia nut oil seems to have a nice fat stable composition. Not that this means anything when it comes to RBTI and how the fat actually reacts in the body! Lol
I’m staying with Ana until somebody can beat 18 cents/ounce.
Next question. It’s still flipping expensive when you start deep frying. Is it ok to re-use the oil? Filter it n put it in fridge ok?
Yes. Not like, indefinitely. But I reuse fryer oil many times.
Thanks now
you can get nutivia brand organic virgin coconut oil from amazon through subscribe and save for $42 (with free shipping), two 54oz containers (just under a gallon total). this is the cheapest i have found for organic coconut oil (after comparing prices at various places for over a year… yeah, i’m a mom on a budget :P )
here is a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Nutiva-Organic-Coconut-54-Ounce-Containers/dp/B003QDRJXY/ref=pd_sim_gro_2
Is that the coconut smelly oil? I can’t use it anymore. I made my wife sick while she was pregnant smelling the house up with it. I have to use the refined.
JL Tropical Traditions has a refined coco oil that will keep the misses happy and not throwing up!
It scent and taste free, fries stuff beautifully.
You are Welcome
deb
@johnny,
Mountain Rose Herbs sells organic coconut oil by the gallon bucket for thirty bucks or so. Tasty. I use Louana for the frydaddy ;)
G Sheila, do you re-use your fry daddy oil? If so, do you filter it?
Hey JL –
I’m a scaredy cat about re-using oil I have done any deep frying with. Good to hear Matt say he braves it. Wish I had read that back when I was spending hours rendering leaf lard from my pastured pork farmer and using is as a precious resource for southern style fried chicken. Now THAT is heaven. Well, that and the pie crust you can make with leaf lard.
You mean a fry daddy that automatically heats to one temperature? You can use Louana (walmart brand) for the frydaddy!!!!!???? I’ve read about using CO to fry with and I see the warning labels on the bottles saying you shouldn’t use for frying, and I have a fry daddy but never tried it for fear that it would burn. If I can use coconut oil to fry it’ll be freaking NUTS. A gallon for thirty bucks, wholy crap. I think that’s cheap? I can’t stand the taste of ghee DX but I use it in small amounts for nutrition, or the placebo nutrition, whatevs. Also, if no one has tried it (i dont know about matts famous pancakes) I just used buttermilk mix and put blueberry kefir in it. Now thats what I’m talkin bout.
I like to use a brand called Nirmal. It is highly refined and comes in a yellow container. I don’t know how easy it is to get in various countries (I live in the Middle East and there is a big South Asian population so getting c.o. is easy). You could go to an Indian grocery store in your area and ask them to order it if they don’t have any in stock. It’s very cheap where I live but may be expensive as an import to a Western country.
Many Indian places I have been to in the US have a brand called Parachute which I don’t like personally. Parachute is also sold as hair oil… as in, the coconut oil you can cook with is in the hair care section.
I second others who are not big fans of the unrefined stuff.
As an aside, I have been using more ghee in my cooking and feel pretty good. The butyric acid is nice.
Lori Painter does look great. She talks as if she feels great too.
However, I failed miserably on Dr. Fuhrman’s “eat to live diet”. I was so sure
it was going to give me energy and, health. Nope. (Cold, weak, constipated and, fatigued easily)
I did the plan right. Followed to dotting my i’s and, crossing my t’s. No cheats. Spent tons
of money on organic produce. Spent tons of time creating delicious meals. I honestly enjoyed
the food. I would have loved for the diet to work for me. It makes me a bit green that others
seem to be healthy eating this way. Grrrrrrrrr!
Lori is a high-fruit eater. Fuhrman stresses low-calorie density plant foods. The most successful vegans in my assumption, stress large quantities of the most calorie dense foods that are high in carbohdyrates. Lori mentioned eating something like 15 pieces of fruit a day. Mostly bananas it seemed. Virtually impossible to get adequate calories on Fuhrman’s low-calorie greens and beans and shiz.
Well……..this gives me hope. :)
I developed many food intolerance’s when my metabolism crashed. I hope that this
will go away in time. Then I might just jump on the veg/fruit diet. I prefer the food.
I think I’ll always include some meat/milk/eggs just to be safe. I never want to repeat
the nightmare I have lived through.
Matt,
Your Twitter account said you live in Carbondale, CO – true? I’m in Boulder. Your advice for my heart pains worked. If your protocols cure my cold colorado feet, my wife will be happy!
Thanks man!
Where’s the clip of Gina’s talk? :)
Gina is the last clip, with the cute short haircut
Why did you go to this expo? Serious exploration or just trolling!
hey guys whats up
i know this is out of context, but since yesterday i have gotten a severe headache during sex just before orgasming. im really freaed out since this jas happened every single time since then. im a male, could it just be from the tension in my neck when im doing my humpilates session?
anyway just wondering if someone might share some experiences.
JC
JC,
Do you have a refractometer? If so check your brix before and, after sex.
It might be that you sugars are crashing.
When I was at my worst, orgasm was out of the question.
does rrarf do anything to fix candida issues?
I’m no professional, but I would say yes. As far as I’ve read here, if you boost your metabolism and you get your insulin sensitivity boosted and sugars corrected, you can “drown out” so to speak the candida. You’d have to search in google like “site:180degreehealth.com candida” or you could try and use this sites search function.
Usually eradicates candida issues, yes. Candida is such a lame alternative nutrition/health fad.
Dam ya, my tongue has never been cleaner. Thank you white sugar and white flour!
I assume you are referring to the white coating on the tongue. I’ve noticed the same thing, although fruit sugar too does wonders for the rosy color and clarity of my tongue – assuming it’s part of an anabolic diet (in other words, an all fruit deal makes it coated – if I throw in a couple cheeseburgers with that too, rosy like the sunset).
“The girl over my shoulder called T. Colin Campbell later that day, asking for her butt, boobs, and bone density back.”
BAHAHAHA!
Matt, I really am enjoying your blog. I stumbled accross it last week when I googled “Paleo hoax”. It’s a long story, but I had hung my hopes on low-carb Paleo (I know it doesn’t have to be low-carb, but I had thought it should be based on what I had read) to be the “answer to everything” and it has let me down. Big time.
I have my own problems with low body temperature (my doc always checked my TSH levels and shrugged…”you’re fine”), low energy, mood swings, obesity, etc…I figured it was genetic since I was skinny until I had kids, just like my mom. Then, no matter how much exercise and low-carb, low-fat, low-cal, low-whatever, we couldn’t lose the weight. I am reading your past articles on RRARF (did I get that right?).
I wanted to ask you, though, or some of your commenters, about Autism. Background: My two sons (7 and 10) were diagnosed with Autism. They clearly manifest physical digestive issues, pooping issues, picky eating, fixating on certain foods, etc. We have done SCD, gf/cf, and just gf, and the symptoms at first eased but always came back. Right now I am just giving Houston Trienza enzymes as they supposedly help break down the glutens before they reach the leaky guts. Here is my question: (please forgive the tangents etc…my brain has been foggy for 10 years now) Do you think that RBTI or your diet recovery can help with autism? I don’t know where to start. Do any of your ebooks address this? My son’s DAN doc wants him to start two extremely harsh anti-fungals for his candida, but I am hesitant. I am afraid to damage my kids even more. Thanks for reading.
Nickie
Any increase in body temperature would help. Autism has close ties to mitochondrial dysfunction. Candida and stuff like that is a non-issue as metabolism peaks, generally-speaking. Some of the basic principles of RBTI would help as well. Avoiding refractometer crashes below 2 would be a huge asset I suspect.
I’ve been trying to “Raarf” in as much food and calories as possible to solve my slow metabolism, cold hands and feet and many other problems. Things seemed to be going well as my temps went up for a week or so. My hands were warm and wasn’t swearing at the cold Canadian winter anymore! But, two days of eating less food and some stress, my hands and feet went back to freezing. I try to eat lots but my I’m always on the go which makes it difficult to prepare food. Nonetheless, I try to include some whole nutritious foods every day.
Would anyone have any suggestions of high calorie foods that stimulate the metabolism that I could include in my daily diet and not have to sweat over calorie-intake? I admit that I’m sick of eating white rice and processed foods make me feel heavy and not so good. Any suggestions or personal experiences would be reeeeeeaally appreciated!
Thank you!
G.
gussy i’m not sure i understand. you want some high calorie foods that you don’t have to worry are high calorie? isnt that the point ? making them high
what about skin disorders? are people having success reversing chronic skin issues with rrarf?
Sometimes. It certainly can have a dramatic effect on skin.
Haha, it does sound very confusing. Simply put, I am looking for suggestions of food (preferably not too refined/processed) that is metabolically stimulating hence high calorie. I have trouble eating enough food to get my body consistently warm and end up going back to cold hands and big apetite. A day of mine looks like pankakes in the morning, rice, veggies and meat or fish at lunch and something similar in the evening with bananas, dried fruit and cheese as snacks. I throw in some croissants, pizza and ice cream when I try to eat more calories, but these foods don’t make me feel too good. I’d love any dietary suggestions!
Chief-Is there a website where we can read your advice as well? I checked out your profile but perhaps you have more infos elsewhere. Your comments have been really interesting to me!
Thanks a lot :)
Those foods don’t make you feel good that day? Or not good in general. I find that when people really eat something calorie dense they feel stuffed, tired, groggy, foggy, and bloated after. Then feel great the next day and beyond.
Would raising metabolism help with a “sluggish” liver? I’m waiting for blood test results, but I have reason to think my liver is at least sluggish. After reading about fatty liver in relation to excess fat and/or fructose, I don’t want to do even more damage. Things like rice and corn are helping to a degree, but are kinda boring. Thanks!
Now that I think about it, I think I have to give these foods a chance. I eat them for a couple lunches and then crave vegetable broth and healthy stuff, and perhaps I will feel better the next day once I get warmer. They make me feel acid inside, acid reflux and irritated intestines and too much fat or too much dairy doesn’t go down well. But I think I’m on the right track, since this morning I woke up with warm fingers!! Damnnn yeah!! How long does it take though of eating like this for temperature to stay consistently warm? Does that mean the fat gain stops since the body is using it’s resources and not saving energy?
I reconize Gina la verde from a Body Ecology Diet utube video, so I would not say she is on the mend from a vegan diet but rather a very low calorie one, I was on it for 5 years and looked sick even though I was eating every hour.I think the most you could ever eat on that diet is around 1500 calories and the fact that it is being promoted to children with autism is scary.Check out the diet it’s crazy!
You talking about Body Ecology? Yeah, worst…diet…ever created. I could hardly dream up a more catabolic diet.