What if I told you there was a way to fight disease, rebuild your immune system and improve longevity, and that it was FREE. There is, by activating Autophagy through fasting. WHAT IS AUTOPHAGY Autophagy is the process by which our body, eats or recycles itself during times of low energy. I know “eating itself” sounds bad, but it actually eats dead, diseased and damaged cells. Think of it like a really good spring cleaning, but on a cellular level. It's like burning soot out of your chimney or thawing the ice from inside your freezer. It's a system put in place to optimize the body and continue to run smoothly. How is Autophagy activated? If we go back to the fridge metaphor, or even the chimney, the problems arrive because we can keep burning or freezing things without ever Continue Reading
Some Benefits of Coffee
The fact that I need to defend coffee is shocking to me. There's no other beverage that I love as much as covfefe. I'm definitely not unique in my love for the nectar of the gods, but there is a large percentage of the population that fear this elixir. There seems to be a fear out there that you can only have one coffee per day or that caffeine is the next opioid problem. So for that purpose, I will describe some benefits of Coffee. This isn't going to provide any negative side effects of coffee, only benefits. If you happen to be someone who doesn't tolerate coffee, I feel for you. I would argue that the worst thing people do with coffee is add sugar. Coffee may be a negative for some people, but extra sugar is bad for everyone, we simply don't need it. Try Continue Reading
Being Overfat
There's one thing that everyone seems to be afraid to talk about, and that's being overfat. For so long, being fat has been extremely insulting and people take it very personally. In time, we've started saying things like 'big boned', 'overweight' and even obese - which somehow doesn't sound so bad. The thing is though, this is a problem. The reason this is a problem is because our levels of fat are becoming a major health crisis. People are gaining fat to the point that it's going to lead to a number of chronic health problems and we can't really point it out without hurting peoples feelings. We need to be able to be objective about what we're dealing with. It's not a weight problem, it's a FAT problem. If I gained way too much muscle mass or bone, am I overweight? Is that going to Continue Reading
The #1 Book on Weight Loss
If you've been around me much, or my online presence, you'll know that one of my biggest passions is performance enhancement and speed development. The science and practice of increasing power and speed are incredibly enjoyable to me. The increased outputs can have a great transfer to other activities, like sport. On the other hand, something that was never a "passion" of mine historically was weight loss and obesity, but that has changed recently. I recently discovered fasting and a low carb lifestyle, both of which are outlined in The Obesity Code , which I think is the #1 Book on Weight Loss. I UNDERSTAND Some of that changed last year. As a lifelong athlete and fitness junkie, weight has never been a problem for me, unless I wanted to get Bigger and Stronger. However, after Continue Reading
It’s Not Your Fault
I don’t think it’s any surprise that as a society, our health is deteriorating. The healthcare costs of reversible diseases is staggering. So many people you know, and maybe this includes you as you read this, have strayed so far from what it means to be optimal and in great health. So many of us are not in place we really need to be, and here’s the thing: It’s Not Your Fault. In some sense, we are all responsible for the decisions we make regarding our lifestyles. And yet, it runs much deeper than that. Our society is not helping us out. I wasn’t oblivious to that, I’ve always seen the pitfalls, but I recently heard a podcast and it reminded me how blatant this is. In one of Dr. Christopher Ryan’s podcasts, he discusses the idea that humans are unique in the sense that Continue Reading