Fatworks sells purified, grass-fed beef tallow (fat) for cooking

Fatworks is a company that sells purified, grass-fed beef tallow (fat) for cooking.

Beef tallow is a great source of saturated fat. It is marketed for paleo dieters... however, beef tallow has been a standard cooking oil ever since man has cooked food. You kill the animal, melt the fat and cook the meat in it.

Also beef tallow it is non-allergenic unlike many plant oils which have sterols that cause issues.

Fatworks, Inc.
http://fatworks.wazala.com/

Getting aluminum out of your body is one of the best and easiest things you can do

Humans do not need any aluminum in the body. Aluminum is a neurotoxin, a poison for humans. Yet millions of people have astoundingly high aluminum levels due to our can-centered food system.

Getting aluminum out of your body is one of the best things you can do for health. Removing aluminum is easy in principle, but only shows big results with long term persistence because it is gradual. If you do this chelation below for six months or a year, you will make huge strides in lowering your aluminum. You may feel a little worse when you do a chelation cycle (below) because aluminum is being pulled out into the bloodstream from wherever it has settled, but overall you will feel a lot better at the end of the cycle.

How to get aluminum out of your body

What to do: Take Magnesium Malate in little bits (ex. 200-300 mg) througout the day. This binds to aluminum and you urinate it out. Bite off just a piece of a larger tablet every couple hours, going through a couple tablets a day. Spacing it out like this is much more effective.

It is best to do this in cycles, like 4 days on, 4 off, especially depending on how high your aluminum levels are. Play around to see what your body can tolerate.

Malic acid is the active ingredient that binds to (chelates) aluminum. The best form is Magnesium Malate a combination of magnesium and malic acid.

*Key point*: do not take a ton of magnesium malate at once--you will feel terrible, especially if you have high aluminum levels. This is because high amounts of magnesium malate will pull much more aluminum into your bloodstream than your body can clear out, so you will have high blood aluminum that has to resettle in the body.

It is much more effective to use continous little bits (like 200-300 mg) of magnesium malate every 3-4 hours to allow aluminum to clear from your bloodstream at an even rate.

How it works: Like a magnet which attracts iron filings, magnesium malate attracts and binds to aluminum. This general binding process is called chelation.

Great infographic by Gary Taubes

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Feed your natural sunglasses: nature's "shields" protect your eyes and skin from sun--especially if you have lighter eyes/sun problems

Overview: Most people don't get anywhere enough of nature's eye and skin shields. You can boost them by eating certain pigmented fruits and vegetables. An easy 1-2 punch is to eat certain spinach and a spirulina supplement every day.

Nature's eye and skin shields

Within the Vitamin A family, nature has a set of vitamins called xanthophylls that act as "shields" protecting skin and eyes. Two of them, colorful lutein and zeaxanthin, are found in high amounts within the human eye in the retina, lens, and macula (see diagram above), where they function as "sunglasses" that absorb excess light and reduce glare to prevent damage. If you don't get enough lutein and zeaxanthin, you risk macular degeneration and other eye issues, especially if you have lighter eyes which naturally have lower pigment.

Lutein, zeaxanthin, and their xanthophyll cousins are all around us at the salad bar and the fruit stand but most people don't get anywhere near enough of them. You probably know them well, they give color to the skins of fruits and vegetables. Lutein is what makes , zeaxanthin makes corn yellow .

Zeaxanthin tends to be harder to get in the typical American diet but both lutein and zeaxanthin are very important - don't rely and combined "lutein and zeaxanthin levels" stats
Zeaxanthin gets less press than lutein and is found 10X less than lutein in the American diet, but zeaxanthin actually makes up most of the pigment in the macula (see diagram). Lutein, on the other hand, makes up more of the pigment in the retina. So it is important to get plenty of both. However, many food stats show a simple "lutein and zeaxanthin content" number which doesn't tell you how much of each one the food contains--it could be mostly lutein.

So it is worth going out of your way to make a point of boosting zeaxanthin levels, which usually boosts lutein levels as well since they are found together often in the same foods.

Research is revealing benefits of a third xanthophyll: cryptoxanthinCryptoxanthin is a third xanthophyll that has been receiving more and more press especially for reducing arthritis and also anti-cancer benefits. I project that in the future, research will uncover more of the benefits of cryptoxanthin, but until then it is worth getting in into to your diet now.

What to eat?You could dramatically boost your levels of these super shields easily by eating just a couple foods each day that are high in each, most of which are found at the salad bar or fruit stand. A simple quick solution to immediately boost levels of all three of these xanthophylls you could just eat spinach and a spirulina supplement every day. Both spinach and spirulina are superfoods and have many additional benefits as well.
You can do a little Googling to find a multitude of food sources high in each, but here are some examples:

Zeaxanthin high sources - orange bell peppers are the "king" of zeaxanthin vegetables, spirulina is a great source and also a superfood supplement, corn, egg yolks

Lutein high sources - kale, spinach, collard greens, romaine lettuce
*Note: kale is so high in lutein you might want to eat just a couple leaves

Cryptoxanthin high sources - spirulina, butternut squash, red pepper, paprika, tangerines, mandarin oranges, papaya

A supergroup: the xanthophyllsThe three nutrients lutein, zeaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin described above are part of a very beneficial family of vitamins called xanthophylls. The other two are also very healthy:

-Astaxanthin - makes salmon pink and is a super antioxidant

-Canthaxanthin - used in tanning pills

Finally - A2 milk is on its way

Where cow's milk took a wrong turn
Casein = general name for milk protein

Since mankind first milked cows, A2 has been the original milk protein i.e. casein. However, nearly all of the cow's milk sold today is not A2 but has a mutation called A1 casein which causes allergies and has been linked to autism, Type 1 diabetes, not to mention bloating, cramps and other health problems. (These A1 casein-related problems are not related to being organic or grass fed.) Apparently several hundred years ago, the problematic A1 mutation emerged in Holstein cows and worked its way into the vast majority of dairy cows through interbreeding.

The goat milk boom
Up to now, the only way for most milk drinkers to avoid A1 casein has been to switch to goat milk which is naturally A2, which I did about five years ago (unless you happen to live in an area that sells sheep, camel, or yak milk).(1)  Goat milk is great except it is really expensive--at least $3.69 per quart, which averages over $14 a gallon.(2) Cow's milk goes for more like $4 or $5 per gallon, a huge difference. I literally spend about $200 a month on goat milk.

Australia leads the comeback of A2 cow milk in Guernsey cows
In response to major outcry against A1 cow's milk for years, there is now a resurgence of A2 cow milk production. It started in Australia where dairy farming is a mega-industry. They pinpointed Golden Guernsey cows that only produce A2 milk (which again is the original protein) and have begun a major exporting it. Here's their website http://www.a2milk.com.au/

US dairies now getting into the A2 trade
But now there are several dairies in the US that have started selling A2 milk, and many more are surely soon to follow given the widespread awareness of the problems with A1 milk.

In my area, I located a farm in Lancaster, PA called Yoder's that sell's A2 milk and will be driving up there for a "test run." If it works out, I may be making many trips... There is a another farm in Winchester, VA but is requires a "cow sharing" contract...

There is even a new brand of whey protein SFH which uses A2 cows. It is based in Maine.
http://www.sfh.com/education/science_wheyoverview

(1) I have always drunk a lot of milk, a half gallon a day or more, since I was a kid. But as I got older I noticed spaciness, phlegm, and other reactions from cow's milk.

(2) Goat milk also has more arachidonic acid (AA) that cow's milk which is inflammatory. AA is the opposite fatty acid from Omega 3s which are anti-inflammatory.

Phytonutrients and Zoonutrients

Remembering to get phytonutrients
Remembering to get phytonutrients i.e. plant nutrients can be hard precisely because they are largely left out of the typical American diet. (aka S.A.D. or Standard American Diet)

I was just watching the Joel Furman "Eat to Live" program rerun on PBS last night for the 1000th time this month. His main point is a good one: a big cause of overeating and obesity is the lack of phytonutrients (plant nutrients) in the foods we do eat. He gives the examples of a piece of white bread or chicken which have zero/nearly zero phytonutrients, whereas broccoli or kale have over 100 times more. Also, many types of cancer have been linked to a severe deficiency in phytonutrients.

Furman made a really good point, that you can eat a huge burger and fries and a soda, be totally full, but still be starving for phytonutrients.

It make me get back to making sure I get enough plant nutrients. I personally like sea plants much more than regular salad bar stuff. Many of the "superfoods" are types of seaweed/algae like spirulina and cholorella which are truly powerhouses. The new ANDI and ORAC scores are really good tools to figure out what plant foods you like are also high in phytonutrients.

Dr. Furman also mentioned the acronym GOMBBS: Greens, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, Beans, Seeds. These are the most nutrient-dense foods, he says.

I used to get a lot more phytonutrients when it was easy, I remember at some jobs in the past there was a salad bar at work and every day I threw down a big salad full of phytonutrients--and my weight was easier to control. Then in other years, while I didn't get have a salad bar I ate at Subway every day and would get a footlong with literally every possible veggie topping, from onions to olives to tomatoes, etc. so it was basically a huge salad on a sandwich (I had to stop eating at Subway when I went gluten-free).

So now I am left with no salad bar and no Subway. For a while I have been eating nearly every day at those Peruvian "Pollo" rotiserrie chicken places, which have Yuca/Cassava and cole slaw which are both good for you. I actually will drive across town just to get the yuca and the cole slaw. Cabbage has a high ANDI score of 481 out of 1000, I realized I actually crave cole slaw (which is mostly cabbage) and eat it every day.

So I'm back to finding more easy ways to get phytonutrients, like a big spoon of spirulina, a side of black beans, a few mushrooms, etc. A little salad with nutrient powerhouses is a lot better than no salad.

Don't forget about zoonutrients
There are a lot fewer people talking about "zoonutrients" per se, but they are crucial as well. Only a miniority of people should even consider being vegetarian. Milk, eggs, whey protein, meat, fish all have tons of micronutrients beyond just protein and fat. Here are a bunch:

calcium - no plant source has anywhere near the calcium of milkcarnosine and carnitine - two key muscle amino acids found only in meatglycine - a key amino acid found in giant amounts in pork skins, of all things, and also chicken breast and egg whites
COQ10 - this stuff sells for $50 a bottle but you can get it free by eating rare red meat
creatine - especially in red meat
alpha-lactalbumin and lactoferrin in whey protein
growth factors IGF-I and IIcertain essential sugars
good cholesterol - in raw or lightly-cooked egg yolksType II collagen - found in chicken cartilage - this stuff is actually sold as a supplement, definitely eat the cartilage of a chicken (end of the leg and breast bones)

Michael Pollan's take on Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm

Michael Pollan's take on Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm:

"[Polyface's animal rotation] is not a zero sum system...a truly sustainable system can actually improve the soil, improve biodiversity, leave the land better than before we removed our food from it."

at end of video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAHGbbjenhI

Michael Pollan author of The Omnivore's Dilemma featured in the documentary Food, Inc.

"I never touched a book in law school."

Can you graduate from law school without reading books? Apparently you can. Here's an example from the book The Dyslexic Advantage a pioneering book:

Ben Foss graduated from Stanford with a joint JD/MBA. He says "I never touched a book in law school. I learned to abandon reading." So what was the secret? Using text-to-speech software that reads anything on a computer aloud including the digital text version of law books. Foss actually listened at high speed 2 or 3 times the regular rate of spoken text. "That was the only approach that allowed me to keep up with all the assignments. I chose a totally different road than most students, because for me going through the book was like inching over an unpaved road, while going through my alternative formats was like speeding down the autobahn."

This is truly amazing because law school is generally regarded as the mother of all reading assignments. The sheer volume of reading especially the first year is considered so heavy it weeds out many people who quit, figuring law is not for them. This guy took a different approach and proved that simply reading text on a page fast has nothing to do with being "smart" and actually turned out to be unnecessary.

Try text-to-speech yourself here. http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
You can type anything and it reads it aloud.

The most explosive muscle fibers do not produce the biggest muscles

I make this comment to dispel the false logic that doing explosive workouts like sprinting or plyometrics should produce huge muscles. You can be very explosive and not particularly big. So don't worry that you are doing something wrong if you are doing explosive exercises and not getting huge. As long as you are getting quicker it's effective.

-Bodybuilders (most muscle size) do not have the most explosive muscle fibers. They have mostly intermediate (2A) fibers.

-While it is true that the most explosive (2B) i.e. sprinter fibers are the biggest in terms the size of each actual fiber itself, all these fibers together do not produce the biggest overall muscle volume. Reasons for that are not clear, likely fewer overall fibers.

You can see this easily in the fact that many (not all) athletes high in super-fast muscle fibers are actually pretty skinny. Examples: amazingly quick guys like John Wall, Neymar.

Sure -- many sprinters are have a pretty good muscle volume compared to an average person, but it's nothing compared to bodybuilders.

How do train super-fast muscles?
-Sprints and strides
-Boxing, heavy bag, etc.
-Drop and catch exercises, plyometrics, depth jumps, etc.

The "best" workout for you is the one that works the muscles *you* have

It's a simple concept: exercise the muscles you have. No trainer or book can tell you the best way for you to work out unless they know what sort of muscle fibers your body has.

The main quest is to figure out which combination of of the three major muscle types you have.

Super-Fast - most explosive
Fast - best at brute force including regular lifting
Slow - best at long endurance

Everybody has all three, but a boxer like Muhammed Ali has a huge proportion of super-fast fibers whereas a marathon runner has hardly any super-fast fibers and more endurance fibers.

High-intensity training (HIIT) has downside in lower hormonal response

High-intensity training (HIIT) is the big trend these days. Blow it out for 15-30 minutes at max intensity and go home. Some books like "The New ME diet" even say that you just have to do 2 workouts per week to stay in shape.

Sounds great, but it's never worked for me. I've definitely done lots of HIIT training for years, from sprints to super-slow lifting, but never really felt it was the solution. This blurb from Charles Poliquin helps to explain why:

"Here’s the bottom line: Multiple training sessions are great for natural trainers [i.e. not on steroids], as training volume increases anabolic hormone output. This is one of the problems with the one-set-to-failure approach of the so-called “high intensity” proponents. Although these workouts can result in progress for short periods, especially in overtrained athletes, the inferior hormone response is one reason I cannot recommend this type of training for long periods for any bodybuilder or strength athlete."

from Stepping up to Twice-a-day training
http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/421/Stepping_Up_to_Twice-a-Day_Training.aspx

In other words, the popular short high intensity workouts (see Drew Baye's site for example) can't produce the same anabolic (i.e. muscle building) hormonal changes as straight, raw volume i.e. time in the gym, on the track, etc.

I've noticed that when I get really in shape it always corresponds to higher levels of time working out, including increasing time by going 2X per day. As in, lift morning, run night etc.

Having said that, super-long marathon lifting sessions not the way to increase time in my experience. A common rule of thumb is that you should be done lifting in 45 minutes or less. If you've got more to do, do it tomorrow or double down and do it later the same day.

Don't run on concrete - asphalt is way better

I was running last weekend and hit a stretch of concrete along the asphalt path. Just the short stretch of concrete like 40 feet did more pounding that the rest of the asphalt combined.

Dyslexia is a sign of extraordinary brain wirings & talents

Dyslexia people typically have advantages in un-ordinary talents/brain wirings so being dyslexic could be a tip-off that you should investigate these talents i.e. "the dyslexic advantage". (While we're at it, same is true of ADD)

Great video on this page produced by authors of the book "The Dyslexic Advantage"
http://dyslexicadvantage.com/

The Unappreciated Benefits of Dyslexia
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/dyslexic-advantage/

"It’s a huge mistake to regard a dyslexic child as if his or her brain is trying to follow the same pathway of development as all the other kids but is simply doing a bad job of it. In reality, the brains of kids with dyslexic processing styles are actually developing in a very different way. They establish a different pattern of connections and circuitry, creating a different kind of problem-solving apparatus."

btw - Dyslexic Heart is a great song from the early 90s - kicked off the movie Singles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMIWKu0ZYE

Your body can make its own carbs -- and it is the best way to get carbs

There is a false myth that humans have to eat carbs because the body can't make them (whereas it can make protein and fat). In fact, the body can make carbs, the process is called gluconeogenesis.

gluco = sugar
neo = new
genesis = creation

= creating new sugar

How? The body makes sugar out of several amino acids, a key one being glycine. Common high glycine foods include meats, the highest being chicken breast.

Gluconeogenesis the best way to get carbs (though you still usually need other sources in addition) because all the carbs will get used properly and none will be wasted. Gluconeogenesis produces just the right amount of carbs that go to muscle glycogen and/or blood sugar but will not make excess carbs that turn to fat. Now that's efficient.

If you think about it, carnivorous animals have to be able to make their own carbs because carbs are necessary to feed fast-twitch muscles which only run on sugar. Cats, for examples, are carnivores and obviously have fast-twitch muscles to pounce.

Key points:
-your body will make sugar through gluconeogenesis from your muscle if you don't eat protein and have low blood sugar. That's why people who go on low-carb diets without enough protein lose their muscle mass and become skeletons.

-gluconeogenesis doesn't work when you eat fructose.-gluconeogenesis is really useful for diabetics -- you can have your carbs but can't have high blood due to gluconegogenesis

What do super-fast-twitch muscles look like?

Super fast twitch muscles i.e. Type IIb fibers

They look like this

Young Mike Tyson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRs5budNvxg

Ronaldinho & Neymar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNq3PrBZwNY

Fisetin - a breakthrough special weapon against AGEs, sugar overload and diabetes

Overview
In a nutshell, after searching for years for something that can remove super-damaging AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products) from the body, scientists finally found something that works well--Fisetin, an extract from strawberries. This is huge news for diabetics who suffer from extreme levels of AGEs, but pretty much everyone should take Fisetin because sugar overload is a pandemic in our society. I'm not selling anything, just putting out the message.

AGEs - the primary problem of the modern sugar-overload diet
Imagine you burn sugar in a pan until it caramelizes. It browns and sticks to the bottom, hard to get off.

This same phenomenon happens in the body when you eat way too much sugar, it is called glycation. Excess blood sugar caramelizes and forms particles which float around and stick all over the body, including stiffening/cementing the arteries and the heart. These sticky, hardened sugar particles are called AGEs - Advanced Glycation End Products. Fructose, in particular, is notorious for turning into AGEs in the body. Heart disease, Alzheimer's, and the circulation issues caused by diabetes -- including purple limbs that require amputation -- have been linked directly to AGEs.

Scientists have been looking high and low for ways to get rid of AGEs because the body is very slow in removing them.

Fisetin - the first AGE-breaker
After many years of searching for "AGE-breakers" i.e. something to clear the body of AGEs, scientists finally found Fisetin -- an extract from strawberries. You would need to eat about 50 strawberries to get the equivalent of one fisetin capsule, so strawberries won't do the trick.

Fisetin is no joke -- it is extremely effective at removing AGEs, and right now there is really nothing else on the market that does it. Remarkably, it is also relatively cheap.

In a few years everyone will be taking Fisetin.

Fisetin uniquely combats effects of the modern sugar-overload diet
Due to our modern sugar-based diet, just about every American has consumed astronomically-excessive amounts of sugar and therefore has a severe overload of AGEs stuck in the body. Even if you changed to a more healthy diet later in life, the AGEs from all the soda and candy you had as a kid are still stuck all over the body, wreaking havoc on organs and arteries. The good news is that that Fisetin can remove these AGEs.

In my view, in the future Fisetin and other AGE-breakers will save literally hundreds of thousands of people from heart disease and the effects of diabetes, two of the three biggest health problems today. It could actually save limbs from being amputated.

How much can you take? I have taken up to 10 fisetin capsules a day with no real negative side effects. Again, it is just an extract from strawberries.

Fat answers

Top 7 Most Common Reactions to Your High-Fat Diet (and How to Respond)

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/high-fat-diet-healthy-safe/

Note: BUT -- the key is not to eat fat and carbs together, that combination will cause problems. Just a big hunk of fat alone can be a good snack, a tablespoon of coconut oil or butter or even sugar-free chocolate. It can keep you going for hours steadily.

23andme is on sale

23andme is an extremely valuable DNA test featured on the PBS show show “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” It tells you a wide variety of genetic traits simply based on DNA taken from some saliva that you spit into a little tube and send back to them. I it  includes everything from what specific part of the world your halpogroup (both mother and father sides) come from to your eye color genes and 100s of other traits. I did it myself it was very revealing. Here are a handful of traits it can tell you about:

-Disease risk for Alzheimer's, hemochromotosis, etc.
-Eye/hair color genes
-Map of your genetic ancestry as well as subgroups. My mom-side haplogroup turned out to be a remote group from cold northern regions around Ukraine who spread to Finland and other places in Northern/Eastern Europe. My dad-side came from Doggerland a piece of land now sunk under the North Sea that once connected to Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Makes sense he has British, Dutch, and German roots among others.

Just to give an example, Thomas Jefferson actually had a haplogroup from North Africa around Egypt.

The service is on sale right now for $99 which is a steal it is normally $299 or more.

I'm not selling anything but I can say this is a good deal even at $299, $99 is a no-brainer.