Shroom Power If I learned anything from Super Mario Bros. it was that mushrooms can help you live longer and increase your athletic performance. I also learned that different mushrooms have different abilities. After hearing Tero Isokauppila appearances on great podcasts such as “Ben Greenfield Fitness” and “The Model Health…
We’ve all been told to increase our fiber intake. That it stops our GI tract from getting clogged up, prevents weight gain, and somehow prevents us from getting colon cancer. What if I told you none of this was true?Let’s take it back to the beginningA man named Peter Cleave…
I wrestled in high school so I know first hand many of the strategies used to cut weight: running, saunas, spit cups, fasting, those crazy sweat suits. I’m sure I’ve missed a few but you get the point. I wouldn’t eat and run 10-20 miles the last couple days in…
Salt Report The first step in understanding the benefits of salt is to fully grasp how natural it is It may be the most natural thing a person can consume. This is because hundreds of millions of years ago, humans evolved from ocean dwelling creatures. This is reflected in the…
Ever heard of Anti-nutrients? Anti-nutrients are a class of proteins that are found in various food groups that hinder your body’s ability to absorb nutrients They can do this by chemically binding to vitamins and minerals making them indigestible by your body and/or they can cause physical damage to your…
“Nutrition is a six-way teeter-totter. Have you ever tried to balance such a device?” -C.C Furnas, Man Bread and Destiny: The story of Man and his Food, 1937 Fat comes in many varieties, including saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, cis and trans I am a huge advocate of fat because it is…
“The diet-heart hypothesis is the greatest scam in the history of medicine”-Dr. George MannThe original cholesterol hypothesis, also called, the diet-heart hypothesis, goes something like this: “eating excess saturated fat raises LDL (cholesterol) which causes a thickening and narrowing of the arteries, which eventually leads to heart disease.”The man who…