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Vitamin A Depletion Discussion with Dr. Garrett Smith

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....

Vitamin A: Vitamin or Villain?

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...

The OMAD Diet

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...

Do You Even Chew, Bro?

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...

Why Are Central Americans so Fat?

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...

Glycine and the Immune System

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...