In this week's podcast, we discuss the many benefits of eating an animal based diet. From an evolutionary perspective, eating a meat heavy diet was more advantageous compared to eating mainly plants. Today's society is loaded will easily acquired calories. There's a Starbucks or convenience store on every corner and…
For the article of the week this week, we review an article that tries to outline the world's most nutritious foods. To no one's surprise we don't agree with this list at all. The top food on this list was almonds and the second most nutritious food was an exotic…
For the podcast this week, we discuss the difference between omnivores and carnivores. This is a continuation of our conversation which argues that humans should be classified as facultative carnivores and not simply just as omnivores. The distinction argued on this podcast is that yes, humans are omnivores. This means…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the caveman diet. This episode was inspired by an article in Science titled, Neanderthals Carb Loaded, Helping Grow Their Brains. This article triggered a discussion around the validity of a low carb diet. Stating that carbs have always been a major part of our diet…
In this week's podcast, we discuss deuterium which is commonly referred to as heavy water. Heavy water has the same chemical structure as normal water, H2O, however the hydrogens are of a different isotope. Deuterium is a hydrogen isotope that contains both a proton and a neutron in the nucleus. This doubles…
In this week's podcast, we discuss how cancer spreads throughout our body. This is referred to as metastasis. It's important to understand how and why cancer spreads throughout the body because metastasis is the primary reason people are killed by cancer. It is responsible for 90% of all cancer deaths. The…
This week we discuss an article titled, How Long Does It Take to Put on Muscle?This article outlines what happens to your body when you first start a weight lifting regimen to try and increase your muscle mass.The first take away is that you'll get stronger before you get bigger. It…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the metabolic effects of chronic psychological stress. Our body's stress response system has been honed and refined for over millions of years to deal with physical stress in an extremely effective manner. However, our body handles the stress we feel sitting in traffic the…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the dangers of having a biopsy to diagnose cancer. Getting a biopsy after an abnormal scan is the current standard of care. It is the established dogma.There are plenty of examples throughout history in which the established dogma turned out to not be true. The…
For the podcast this week, we discuss the quality of insect based protein and whether or not they can be a sustainable protein source for our growing population. Increased access to dietary protein is a problem that needs fixing. Chronic inadequate protein intake and protein energy malnutrition currently affects 1 billion…