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Why Am I Sleepy After I Eat?

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....

Earthing: Medical Discovery or Quack Scam?

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...

Earth Runners Earthing Shoes

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...

The Peat Whisperer Whispers Paleo

By: Danny Roddy; author of The Peat Whisperer Matt Stone and I have a lot in common: we both hate that sleepy-eyed bozo from Coldplay, we both had a crush on Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes from TLC, and we both agree that not since Wiene’s ?The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? has there been a film as important as Bay’s ?Transformers II: Revenge of The Fallen. In addition to the above, we...

Sarcopenia

By Matt Stone I’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately. My grandfather, age 87 and my last living grandparent, ain’t doin? so hot. And yes, he’s old. He’s falling to pieces. He’s going to eventually die. I’m not fighting that, and tend to look at whether it happens now or several months or even years from now as pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of...