May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm ?It’s all in your head. That can be a really devastating thing to hear when you feel sick, especially from a loved one or a physician. After all, how can something you feel so viscerally- chronic pain, migraines, joint aches, even visible skin irritations- be all in your head? These symptoms are all over your body after all, and besides, it’s not like you wake up in the...
May 19, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone I have watched ridiculous amounts of youtube videos of health gurus – mostly for shock and entertainment. I couldn’t bear the thought that all those hours of killing time were truly of no value. So here is my attempt to salvage those lost hours by bringing to the world the ultimate video compilation of the most hard-to-watch health guru demonstrations ever recorded on...
May 16, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone It was the?fall of 2010. I came home limping?from a men’s softball game – one of my rare appearances out of the house and wearing something besides my pajamas at the time, to a girl sniffling and wiping her?eyes out on the patio. “Matt, you are the funniest, smartest, best-looking’son of a gun I ever met. But I don’t think I’m in love with you...
May 14, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone News erupted this morning about Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy. I rarely see any news stories, which is why I so rarely “report” on something in this fashion, but this happened to catch my eye. A response was in order. I first?came across the growing trend of getting your breasts removed – you know, just in case you get breast cancer, right at...
May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm On April 24th, Penn State student Torri Singer began a petition on Change.org to “restrict use of thinspiration language and hashtags circulating the twittersphere. If you are blessed enough to not know what thinspiration (also known as ‘thinspo?) is, let me fill you in. Thinspo is an assortment of tips, tricks, diaries and photos all geared to inspire the reader to...
May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone As some of you may have noticed, the site she’s a changin’. Late last year I began inviting more and more guest authors to post on the site, such as Danny Roddy, Julia Gumm, Bella Dodds, and Amber “Go Kaleo” Rogers. Recently I’ve added a new About 180D page as well as a Site Authors page. On Wednesday the site header changed and now reads...
May 6, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Danny Roddy, frequent guest author at 180D with articles like THIS, THIS, and THIS – turned me on to a great interview with Dr. Ray Peat from 1996. It’s always really cool to see that Ray had put so many pieces of the puzzle together so long ago. Although Ray is difficult to follow along with at times as he doesn’t speak laypersonese (prompted many times to do it...
May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm Coming to terms with human nature in the 21st century is no straightforward task. We are equipped with the most primitive of biologies, a physiology that compels us to do two things: Survive and spread our genes. But teetering o?er top that eatin?, sleepin? and er, copulatin? machine, there balances an extremely sophisticated control center. It’s complex enough to get us...
May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone In the comments on a recent post the topic of dog nutrition surfaced. Several people mentioned switching their dogs to new diets or even applying my methods of “rest and refeeding” to a sick pet. TW writes… When I came home from college my dog was really sick and frail with obvious signs of Cushing’s. She had lost a ton of weight, collapsed often, peed in...
Apr 30, 2013 | Nutrition, Stress |
By Matt Stone There are three quick answers to this common question… Because you’re stressed. Because you didn’t sleep enough. Because you ate enough. Everyone in the health industry thinks that eating a meal should make you perk up and want to instantly break out into the Humpty Dance or other similar variant. Maybe throw in?a high-intensity interval while you’re at it....
Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Lianda Ludwig – some of you who participate on the 180D facebook page might recognize her name, has stuck with some of the basic principles of this site for quite a while. It was tough going at first. It’s hard to eat enough food to raise your metabolism and function well when it just sits there like a friggin’ rock. But eventually her metabolism rose, her health...
Apr 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone “C’mon, fire me up. Pour your sugar on me. Oh, I can’t get enough. I’m hot, sticky sweet. From my head to my feet, yeah.” ~Def Leppard The answer to our question, and just about any health and nutrition question, is “it depends.”? But the following is a level-headed, science-based, as well as experience-based set of guideposts to help you...
Apr 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone “What do you think about that Mr. Blue Duck?? That’s Quacktastic ack ack ack ack.”? ~Billy Madison Earthing as a health idea is the practice of connecting oneself to the ground – via direct contact or a mat or sheets that are grounded (or shoes as I wrote about in THIS POST). The objective, for lack of a better way to describe it, is to protect oneself from...
Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Hey it’s ladies night here at the D. Here are some things I’ve been reading lately or that I feel pretty confident is good – written by women or about women… The first is Taking Up Space: A Guide to Escaping the Diet Maze by Amber “Go Kaleo” Rogers. Amber has written for the site in the past with an article on Strength Training for Women. She is...
Apr 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone “Back then we didn’t have these fancy birth control methods. Like pulling out!” ~Pops; Dirty Work Everyone has their own criteria for determining what constitutes the BEST birth control method. For some, that means the method that makes you the least likely to get pregnant. For others, the best might be one that works very well and doesn’t make you...
Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Sometimes powerful and important reminders come from the most ridiculous and unforeseeable places. Like what happened to me yesterday for example. I was in a bad mood while driving, and asI passed by the local dildo shop there was a guy flying a small kite outside in the parking lot. Right there I was reminded to lighten up, and I immediately stopped brooding over what was annoying...
Apr 17, 2013 | Uncategorized |
5 Reasons to Take Away Her Salad By Matt Stone Guys, don’t let your wife or girlfriend eat salad. Or 100-calorie snack bars. Or even that Special K stuff. Over the last 40 years the dieting mentality has managed to work its way into the DNA of the human female. It’s hardwired from birth. Whether this self-starvation programming comes from actual physical strands of genetic material...
Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone “What about the one you lobotomized… Did he get a refund?”? ~Arnold, Total Recall I have absolutely no idea whatsoever what that quote has to do with this post. But it’s worth repeating I know that. Folks, the future has arrived. We have now ushered in the era of Soylent – the magical, lightly foamy, urine-colored food alternative. Rob Rhinehart,...
Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm The word ?humor? comes from the ancient Greeks. It refers to the practice of ?humoral medicine,? a school of thought that proceeded from the notion that the four fluids or ?humors? of the body, in balance or not, were responsible for the ups and downs of human health. These four humors and their corresponding organs and elements were black bile (gallbladder, earth), blood (liver,...
Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The following, and everything published at 180DegreeHealth is NOT a paid promotion. By Matt Stone I admit – I have dabbled in the world of peculiar health-oriented footwear – to some degree. For a couple years I wore a pair of those fugly Vibram 5-Fingers shoes. They were alright. I used them mostly for hiking in mountains and desert – hard on the feet but good on the body, as...
