Aug 19, 2014 | Eating Disorders, Metabolism, Nutrition, Podcasts |
Just an amazing and insightful conversation with Marc David, the founder of The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, in today’s episode of the 180DegreeHealth podcast. Marc and I share our stories of self-starvation out in the Wyoming wilderness, and the truly treacherous predicaments we found ourselves in once we had run out of food, and explore the psychological roots of the extreme...
Aug 11, 2014 | Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition |
My last post?part 1 of Diet and Inflammation?left off with my conclusion that the answer to the widespread prevalence of chronic inflammation was a nutritional imbalance incurred by the typical Western diet, specifically deficiencies or imbalances in 3 key nutrients: omega-3 (v. omega 6) fatty acids, salicylic acid and glycine (v. methionine). What exactly happens in inflammation? Inflammation...
Jul 28, 2014 | Diseases and Disorders, Guest Posts, Metabolism, Nutrition |
1. Preface Fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by pain, fatigue, depression, sleep disturbances, anxiety and many other problematic symptoms. According to statistics, it afflicts approximately 2-5 percent of the human population and is more common in women than men. The Medical community seems to see the syndrome in a somewhat narrow way. They usually recognize that the syndrome often...
Jul 24, 2014 | Guest Posts, Nutrition |
There’s no shortage of info out there about inflammation’s being the root cause of most of what makes people sick and die these days–from arthritis to diabetes to cardiovascular disease to cancer?and what to eat and not eat to put your body into an “anti-inflammatory” state. But there is a shortage of real knowledge about inflammation itself: What its proper role is...
Jul 18, 2014 | Guest Posts, Nutrition |
(Hear Ari speak in the upcoming Fit Solution Summit: Register HERE) According to the latest research published in the journal Cell, those of us who want to be healthy have a new reason to hate the sun (you know, besides the fact that the sun’s rays are deadly cancer causing poisons): Sunlight is addicting and stimulates the pleasure center of your brain–the same part of your brain...
Jul 16, 2014 | Exercise, Nutrition, Podcasts |
I’ve written about it in the past in plain, black and white terms in this article. Activity at a high heart rate requires a lot of carbohydrates for optimal performance. The longer the duration of that activity, the more carbohydrates you need to maintain peak performance. In fact, some research even shows that time to exhaustion doing various activities is perfectly proportional to the...
