Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Damnit. I’m not even that legitimately interested in longevity research or the idea of “blue zones,” which I’ve pointed out many times as mostly just areas in the world where the people are uniquely SHORT, the greatest lifespan-enhancing characteristic since looking both ways before crossing the street. But here I am with yet ANOTHER blog post about these obnoxious blue...
Dec 12, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Many months ago I worked up a solid draft about the Blue Zones charade. I didn’t publish it right away, but knew someday that I would. And folks, Blue Zones Kitchen hitting #1 on all of Amazon this week is just the catalyst I needed to enthusiastically call bullshit on the what has been bothering me for a long, long time: this phony Blue Zones fad. Recently, someone who I’ve known...
Nov 10, 2018 | Hair Mineral Analysis, Nutrition, Podcasts |
Believe it or not, the 180DegreeHealth podcast makes its triumphant return today, November 9, EXACTLY 4 years since the last episode. That’s some hiatus! But the subject of vitamin A depletion as a potential dietary therapy for many conditions remains both too promising and intriguing to ignore. Today I chat with Dr. Garrett Smith about his thoughts and experiences with vitamin A thus far....
Aug 22, 2018 | Diseases and Disorders, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
180DegreeHealth, from the beginning, has been about two primary things: Slaying widely-held nutritional myths Figuring out what the hell is causing an accelerated increase in nearly all health problems worldwide over the past century, the last 40 years in particular, and determine how best to turn those trends “180 degrees.” Admittedly, 180D has done a lot more of #1 than #2. In...
Apr 14, 2018 | Body Composition, Metabolism, Nutrition |
First it was Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat. Every week you’d take 24 hours off from eating. You still ate every day, but there was a fast in there every week from say, dinner to dinner the following day. You could up the ante and do a couple fasts per week if you wanted. Then it was Martin Berkhan’s Leangains. A few weeks ago I heard a completely innocent civilian mocking his...
Mar 22, 2018 | Children's Health, Exercise, Nutrition |
About six months ago I got the urge to chew stuff. Hard-to-chew stuff. I was even thinking about getting some rawhide from the pet store or something (relax, I didn’t). I started pondering chewing, and it led me down a really long rabbit hole involving ABC gum, a toad, and a gimp. Now, be forewarned that if you are a health fanatic or recovering health fanatic with OCD tendencies, you...
Feb 21, 2017 | Body Composition, Metabolism |
Brace yourselves for the coinage of a cheap and somewhat sleazy-sounding new health and fitness-related term: The Metabolic Zone. What is this coveted Metabolic Zone you ask? It’s an elusive state of being where someone can eat well beyond the normal BMR calculations for their height and weight, exercise rather minimally, sporadically, and infrequently, and effortlessly and spontaneously...
Jan 28, 2017 | Body Composition, Eating Disorders, Metabolism, Nutrition |
Why is obesity in Central America so prevalent? That is the question… I’ve been traveling a lot over the past few months, and expect to travel a lot more. I’m writing this email from a Spanish School in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (don’t worry, I’m redoing their website for them, lol). It’s been a while since I’ve traveled, but I remember feeling like...
Nov 29, 2016 | Inflammation, Nutrition |
By Joel Brind So I’ve been writing for a few years now about the benefits of supplementing your diet with glycine. (Full disclosure: I’ve also been selling glycine online, cleverly disguised as a sweetener called ‘sweetamine??). I got into it because my studies on nutritional biochemistry and amino acid metabolism led me to try it out myself, both on lab rats and myself. I...
Aug 30, 2016 | Body Composition, Exercise, Metabolism |
My summer trip ended early, and I had to spend a couple weeks in a hotel room. In hotel rooms I often find myself doing something I rarely do, which is watch television. A LOT of television. Stupid amounts. The kind of TV-watching where you only stand up to dust the potato chip crumbs off of your shirt. I would have bought a bedpan to avoid having to go to the bathroom, but I would have had to...
Sep 26, 2015 | Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
The nutrition world is awash in fish oil worship. Typically, when the entire scientific community, food industry, and more are all singing the praises of an isolated substance or substances (EPA and DHA in the case of fish oil), you can be pretty sure there are some blind spots. And indeed there are. Omega 3 and Omega 6 are the two predominant types of polyunsaturated fatty acids. These fats...
Apr 23, 2015 | Articles, Diseases and Disorders, Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
By Joel Brind In one of my earlier posts on this blog, I discussed the largely reciprocal nature of the amino acids glycine and methionine. Specifically, too much dietary methionine depletes glycine, because your body uses up glycine in order to get rid of the excess methionine. This is a common condition these days, because the typical diet is high in methionine-rich muscle meats, but low in...
Apr 15, 2015 | Nutrition, Recipes |
By Matt Stone Ray Peat talks about dietary iron being a significant negative nutritional factor. As you know, I think Ray’s a smart dude. In the past I’ve stated, “If you disagree with Ray Peat, you better be real sure. Because Ray has probably thought about it and researched it much more than you have.” Anthony Colpo has also written a 500+ page behemoth about the role...
Apr 6, 2015 | Body Composition, Guest Posts, Metabolism |
By Scott Abel *Get three of Scott’s books on Amazon for just 99 cents today only HERE The 10-Day Metabolic Slowdown, and the 25-Day Rebound No study of the biology of weight-control and the ‘true? understanding of metabolism would be complete without revisiting the topic of ?metabolic damage? on several fronts. In this post I want to look at a very interesting research study on...
Apr 4, 2015 | Body Composition, Metabolism |
Yes folks, stupid me completely misrepresented caloric flux in the last post. But, kind and wise gent that he is, Ari emailed me and straightened me out within a few hours of posting it. Instead of posting his response in a comment or changing the article, we figured it made the most sense’to post it prominently here?for everyone to see. By the way, Ari’s book Forever Fat Loss,...
Mar 26, 2015 | Body Composition, Exercise |
By Matt Stone Does exercise work for weight loss? This is an age-old question in health circles. I have thought about and studied the general effectiveness of exercise for weight loss and general weight regulation for an eternity it seems. We are undeniably conditioned to believe that exercise is a powerful tool for weight loss. By burning lots of calories and getting into better shape,...
Mar 3, 2015 | Body Composition, Exercise |
By Scott Abel from www.scottabelfitness.com Part of the reasons I like to share articles with Matt at 180DegreeHealth is because he ?gets? the expansive notion of health and fitness. ?Health? has to be about much more than arguing about whether carbs are good or bad and the rest of the noise that passes for ?useful information? on the net. Health must also refer to ?being a member in good...
Feb 24, 2015 | Body Composition, Eating Disorders, Guest Posts, Metabolism, Nutrition |
By Madelyn Moon, author of The Perfection Myth Abs are where it’s at these days, right? Everywhere you look, left and right, there are headlines for the ?Top 10 Flat Tummy Foods? or my personal favorite, the ?Never Eat These 5 Foods if You Want Abs? posts. It seems to be a really hot topic as society continues to induce more and more unrealistic pressures on people to lean out....
Feb 16, 2015 | Eating Disorders, Recipes |
I found this splattered around social media and had to share it with you guys immediately. For regular folk, this stuff is really funny. For health and nutrition burnouts, it’s exceptionally funny. Remarkably funny. I’m so happy’this came into existence, being posted on YouTube just six days ago. Ladies and gents, I?present to you The?Katering Show. These three are some of my...
Feb 16, 2015 | Diseases and Disorders, Eating Disorders, Guest Posts, Nutrition |
By Joey Lott Here’s a story demonstrating health brainwashing that I hear or read time and time again. Undoubtedly you’ll recognize this story as well. Pat Smith feels unwell and can’t figure out what to do about it. Pat goes to healthcare professionals and gets tests done and gets a whole bunch of different diagnoses over the years. Sooner or later, Pat learns about some...
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