Jun 26, 2014 | Stress |
Oh, by the way, welcome to the resurrected blog. Or, if this is?your first encounter with me writing blog posts, welcome in general. It seems 700 blog posts just wasn’t enough for me. I needed to write more, lol. Nah, not really. I just thought the newsletter format was too much to swallow all in one visit. So I’m breaking things up in lil’ chunks for you. I hope you like it....
Nov 20, 2013 | Uncategorized |
You have what some behavioral experts refer to as?a higher and lower mind, and they function very differently in how they perceive reality. The lower mind is the mental state you may go to when you haven’t had a chance to think things over. We’ve all had experiences where we had an initial negative reaction to something and threw a tantrum. Later, looking at the whole situation from...
Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Those of you who have communicated with me directly know that I am always eager to engage in a conversation about how people can forge their own unique path in terms of?what they do for a living. And now, as my health research has come to an apex of sorts, I find that eagerness growing. It’s been seven years since I signed up to start?a?mysterious thing called a “blog.” My...
Nov 16, 2013 | Body Composition, Guest Posts |
By Chris Sandel, author of The Health Trap Losing weight doesn’t necessarily lead to better looks. Likewise, gaining weight doesn’t necessarily make you look worse. The look of your body is more about changes in the relative proportions of muscle and fat. The number on the scale is almost completely irrelevant in most cases, and many people are making their body composition worse by...
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
New 2015 version of this article has been published. Check it out. -Vladimir 1. Preface “Penetrating red light is possibly the fundamental anti-stress factor for all organisms.The chronic deficiency of such light is, I think, the best explanation for the deterioration which occurs with aging.”?- Ray Peat * During the last summer, I spent quite a lot time reading Ray Peat’s...
Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone The slow trickle of books in an increasing number of formats continues. That latest is the revised version (put out in September)?of the original Diet Recovery now in paperback. You can order that on Amazon HERE. It’s also available as an audiobook in case you missed that announcement as well. Click HERE to listen. I originally wrote Diet Recovery with a belief that a diet...
Nov 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm Full disclosure: This article just might suck. Please keep reading, but my usual flair for wit, sensical sentences and my (at least) rudimentary grasp of grammar might be lacking. And there’s a reason for that. The reason is, I am operating under a certain haze of exhaustion. I’ve spent the past few days lying in bed, nursing cravings for gallons of orange juice, dark...
Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Gwyneth Olwyn Definition A restrictive eating disorder is best described as the misidentification in the brain of food as a threat. It is a chronic condition and has no cure. However, a successful recovery effort can result in a complete and permanent remission. It is currently defined as mental illness within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness (DSM) and psychiatrists are...
Nov 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone I’ve had peculiar longings for a lifestyle overhaul of late. It’s a long story involving goats. And maybe sheep and dogs, too. Don’t ask. Okay, fine I’ll tell you. You are so nosey! I’ve been doing extensive research on breeding animals. My interest in goats in particular stems back to my hardcore mountain man days when I had once had the idea to...
Nov 2, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Billy Craig For too long I’ve mocked the diet shake drink business. I’ve claimed that?it’s a multi-level marketing sham. I’ve pointed out irregularities in the product descriptions and marketing propaganda. I’ve asked why anyone would believe that a quick fix is available, and I’ve debated with many distributors who naturally wanted to defend their...
Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Andrew Kim? Introduction As the research evolves, the matter of diet and nutrition is being forced to be recognized as not only the most poorly understood of all the sciences but also one of the most complex, outranking all the others. Weight loss is a recurrent theme on this site and this should be expected, as obesity is the most common ?disease? in the United States.1 But herein lies a...
Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Everything you know about Diabetes is wrong. Or at the very least it’s a half truth, taken out of context, assumed but not proven, or worse. When I say Diabetes I’m referring primarily to’the most common form of Type 2?Diabetes (there are several types of diabetes’sometimes classified as type 2 that aren’t really type 2, such as?LADA). The following...
Oct 26, 2013 | Uncategorized |
? By Julia Gumm How did you get interested in health? I can tell you that for me, it wasn’t on purpose. No, it came about by accident, the by-product of my insatiable need to have reading material present at all times. By the time I was in elementary school, breakfast was just as much about the mental digestion of the nutrition label as it was about the physical digestion of the malted...
Oct 23, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Hannah Ransom In case you hadn’t noticed, October is breast cancer awareness month. Among other things, that means that we are blindsided with pink. There are, of course, good reasons to promote awareness of breast cancer since it is so prevalent and can be deadly (I personally lost an aunt to breast cancer last year). But everyone is ?aware? of breast cancer, so what are we really...
Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The ultimate affront to the barbaric practices of bribing kids to eat vegetables, restricting calories, forbidding certain foods, and otherwise interfering with a child’s instinctual eating cues is here. Everyone has their own ideas about what is and isn’t healthy to eat, how much people should eat and exercise, and so forth. And these ideas are typically imposed upon young children...
Oct 19, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Chris Randall After a slow, easy run on a beautiful Sunday morning, I decided that the only thing missing was a fat stack of pancakes. Yes, pancakes. Those succulent, golden, sweet, heavenly cakes spawned from the pan. I couldn’t remember the last time I had pancakes, and I was feeling adventurous so I figured, “Hey, what the heck?” They weren’t anything too special,...
Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Garrett Smith This article was written for those of you out there who, despite trying ?everything? to help improve your sleep, still find yourself having significant problems with insomnia (aka ‘sucky sleep?). I’m here to give you something else to try, something you have likely not tried before, and that I have had quite a bit of success with my patients with. I run into people...
Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Yes! Here I am, taking a break from the joys of?vacation such as?filling out police reports for my car getting broken into and rubbing Calamine lotion all over my Poison Ivy rash-covered body to bring you another homerun. Nah, grand slam. I love it when you call me Big Papi. I don’t mind really.All the National Parks that we drove 5,000 miles round trip to see?are closed...
Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm This one goes out to all my fellow ?hypochondriacs. You know who you are. In fact, you probably stumbled upon this page because you thought that maybe as a health website, we could assist in diagnosing the buzzing in your ear and the dang sore throat you can’t shake. Maybe this is just a pit stop on your way over to WebMd, where you’ll learn that the ache in your thigh...
Oct 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Bella Dodds Oh what a fun conversation: Pain vs. Pleasure! Well it could be if pain wasn’t such a taboo subject. But what better place to present this repressed issue then on a website created to have the very conversation that goes exactly 180 degrees in the opposite direction from societal norms? So here we go we’ll see what happens. I am a bit curious. Our society has evolved...
