Eating too many fats creates insensitivity to fat

What you eat, not your genes, determines sensitivity to fat

 
https://www.myvmc.com/news/eat-not-genes-determines-sensitivity-fat/

Glut 1 and cardio - takes longer to kick in than Glut 4, but it does kick in

This seems like a really important study. It says that Glut 1, which increases w cardio and helps use sugar better, increased w exercise - but only after 31 days. Glut 4, which increases w weight training especially, also increased, but after 5 days. Bottom line, it takes longer for the Glut 1 effect of cardio to kick in compared to weight training, but it is there.

Increments in Skeletal Muscle GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 After Endurance Training in Humans
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8638693/

Trodusquemine might remove cholesterol from arteries

Trodusquemine

New drug found to melt away heart-clogging fat with just one dose
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/diabetes-drug-might-also-help-treat-heart-disease

Getting off aspartame and caffeine

Starting March 1 this year I stopped drinking aspartame, sucralose, and caffeine, aspartame in the form of Coke Zero, sucralose in Diet Pepsi, and caffeine in Coke Zero and coffee. It's literally one of the hardest things I've ever done, and on caffeine, I had a sort of accidental relapse and I'm still not done yet 4.5 months later.

Caffeinated life Last year I had gotten to a point where I was drinking five or six coffees plus another five Coke Zeros or Diet Pepsis. It's odd that I even got to that point, because for years I was a person telling others not to drink Diet Coke etc., and I had gotten off coffee myself for years, although looking back I was still eating whole dark chocolate bars every day, which have about the same caffeine as a cup of coffee.

I'm surprised how central a role caffeine has played in my life, when I think about it. It went from Cokes and so much chocolate as a kid to coffees to Diet Cokes to whole chocolate bars and back to Diet Cokes and more coffees and on and on, all while knowing I was sensitive to caffeine. It just grew and spiraled to where I was getting caffeine equivalent to 10 cups of coffee a day.

Aspartame: addictive Looking back, without realizing it I'd been addicted to aspartame in Coke Zero and Diet Coke actually three periods, for years at a time, in the last fifteen years, and have gotten off of aspartame and gone through aspartame withdrawal three times. Lemme tell you, aspartame is hugely addictive. Most people I bump into who drink Diet Coke/Coke Zero drink a lot of it. Aspartame withdrawal is brutal and lasts weeks just to get out of the heavy duty symptoms, for me at least. It feels like you have the flu, you get highly sensitive to lights, and on and on. Aspartame gives a feeling of a "lift," and when you're off of it you feel the opposite, a let down.

There were periods the last couple years when I was drinking about eight or even ten Coke Zeros a day, and about 15 years ago I was going through 2 liter bottles of Diet Coke in a day, about 15 years ago. I knew aspartame wasn't good for you, made my brain just feel weird, but what I didn't know until the last couple years is that aspartame is addictive. I was just thinking about the caffeine in Diet Coke being addictive.  Luckily, aspartame and sucralose are pretty easy to avoid, so having been off them 4.5 months, it's hard to get them accidentally in your diet. I feel, though, that at 4.5 months off aspartame it will still be another 4 months or so for my brain to readjust to something close to normal.

On and off caffeine

Getting  off caffeine has been brutal as well. I see websites that say withdrawal symptoms last a few days or five days, or nine days. I think for a lot of people like myself, this is totally wrong. Your brain takes months to readjust after stopping caffeine. My caffeine withdrawal symptoms were super heavy, the fatigue, the brain fog, the muscle stiffness, and on and on.

There were some set backs. While I stopped drinking coffee March 1, I later discovered that some of the herbal teas I'd been drinking at cafes instead had real tea in them, so they were not caffeine free. Then, I had a big relapse while trying to actually make things easier. After four months off coffee, I thought, "maybe I can reduce the withdrawal symptoms by drinking a cup of decaf a day," sort of a belated tapering off, so drank a cup of decaf a day for seven days. Decaf has about 20% (or more) of the caffeine in regular coffee. Lemme tell you, after the week of decafs, I started to see the withdrawal symptoms come back in a huge way, major headache, fatigue to the point I could barely stay awake, brain fog, etc. So I stopped the decafs. Today is Day 6 of the return to zero caffeine, and the headaches are still there, although the fatigue has improved somewhat. Hard to believe that a week of decafs could bring back raging withdrawal symptoms, but no question they did, easier to understand when I think about the ten cups of caffeine I was drinking up to March 1. From here out, I'm going to be vigilant about zero caffeine. I found out that at Starbucks, on a list of about 10 herbal teas, only three were actually 100% caffeine free.

Overall, I think it will be another four months or so for my body to really readjust to being off caffeine, and even then, maybe never fully readjusted, but that's OK.

Another big benefit of getting off caffeine and artificial sweeteners is just saving money.


My view: if you think you can't function without caffeine, that's probably a good reason to get totally off of it

My personal view, based on what I've been through, is that if you can get off of caffeine, do it and don't look back.

*You may think you need caffeine, but that need is essentially to stave off withdrawal symptoms, that's what people mean when they say, "I can't function without caffeine," they're having heavy withdrawal symptoms in the hours between the effects of one dose and the next.*

How caffeine works: two unnatural states, blocking and overloading the  body's "I'm tired" sensors Caffeine works by actually sabotaging your body's own signals that say "I'm tired." Why would anybody want to do that? Well, somehow I did it for decades. Adenosine is the body's natural chemical that signals "I'm tired" by fitting into adenosine receptors. Caffeine works by fitting into these same receptors, so adenosine can't get in there, it gets boxed out by caffeine. This leaves a lot of left over adenosine floating around the body while caffeine is present--and when the caffeine finally wears off, the receptors become available and get flooded with all the extra adenosine, saying, "IIIIII'M TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRED." So you keep going back and forth between two unnatural states, a) "I'm not tired" when you really are, and b) excessive fatigue i.e. "I'm really tired" when your body may actually not be that tired.

Meanwhile, there's a second problem. Not only does caffeine use result in excess adenosine, it also creates extra adenosine receptors. When you consume caffeine over time, blocking adenosine from reaching its receptors day in and day out, the body compensates by making additional adenosine receptors in order to try to continue regulating tiredness. Somebody like me, who was up to 10 cups a day, would have a ton of extra adenosine receptors.

That kind of unnatural adaptation, creating an unnaturally high number of adenosine and receptors is how--scarily, looking back at it--I was able to drink two Coke zeros at 10 pm and then sleep when I was drinking ten cups a day--whereas normally if I drank just a half a Coke zero I would be up all night. Years of caffeine had altered my system that much.


So, when the caffeine disappears, that means someone has many more receptors active to say "I'm tired" than they normally would, hence the huge fatigue and other withdrawal symptoms. I'm still not clear how long it takes for the body to reset the number of adenosine receptors back down to normal after stopping caffeine, but experience tells me it differs greatly from person to person and can be weeks or months for some people.


Pulling off the Band Aid: How do you want your withdrawal, every day at inopportune times, or once and done?
So the real question for caffeine consumers is, how do you want your caffeine withdrawal: every day, in unpredictable spurts, for years and years as long as you keep ingesting caffeine, or once--it may be brutal, but at least it's over, like ripping off a Band Aid? Caffeine has a half life of about six hours, meaning at six hours half of it has metabolized and half is still in your system, so even ten or more hours later it could be lingering.


That's the spot, right there, in those hours when the effects of one dose of caffeine wear off, when the withdrawal symptoms are kicking in. It could be while you're in a meeting, or sleeping, or when you're trying to get to sleep. Add all those hours of withdrawal add up, it's whole days in a week, all at unpredictable times that can catch you off guard.


So, withdrawal I can tell you from experience can be awful, maybe one of the hardest things you'll ever do, but you'll concentrate better and sleep better after you really get off caffeine. You see studies about the positive benefits of coffee, but to me the negatives far, far, outweigh the positives. I love the taste of coffee, wish they could make it truly caffeine free, but until they do coffee is both sabotaging the function of--and increasing the number of--the body's fatigue sensors, that's how caffeine works plain and simple. Anything that causes such major withdrawal symptoms on a daily basis and is so hard a habit for so many people to kick I think is not really worth any side benefits.

IL-6 great explanation

Great explanation of IL-6 - Jade Teta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbFzRFTS7Ck

Great explanations of key molecules for fat loss and muscle growth

IL-6 - Jade Teta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbFzRFTS7Ck

Lactic acid is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDR4z6-Mu2g

IL-15 "The Arnold molecule"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWbtg0Tv5OQ

New discovery: Plasmin removes soft tissue calcifications

New discovery: Plasmin removes soft tissue calcifications. Plasmin is a type of protease i.e. enzyme that breaks down protein.

Plasmin prevents muscle ‘hardening’ after injury: study

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/12/08/plasmin-muscle-calcification-study/

If this is true, we could be hearing a lot more about plasmin, because calcifications are one of the key components of plaque, which causes heart disease. On the lookout for new plasmin supplements, I'm sure they will be on the market soon.

Lipophos and EDTA are kryptonite for heart disease

If you are serious about reversing--not just preventing--heart disease and getting your circulation back, you essentially need to clear the gunk out of your arteries. Most doctors cannot help you do this, because they are told by the establishment to prescribe meds like statins that just treat symptoms, not the problem itself. They call it the "drugs and surgery model": wait around until you are in such bad shape that you need drugs and/or surgery.

But new advances in medicine in just the last 5-10 years have changed the game totally and put patients' destinies in their own hands. I don't say this speaking theoretically. I have used these new techniques myself, experimented, and it is truly astounding--not an understatement--how they can steadily clear your arteries. Doctor's on the cutting edge say the same thing.

The gunk in your heart and arteries takes at least five forms, which I am writing a book about. New technologies can now remove all of them. Yet most people who need them don't even hear about them because their doctors are overwhelmed and Big Pharma wants to keep selling its drugs.

Roto rooter
Two of the most well-known forms of gunk are calcifications and cholesterol deposits.

If you have a few hundred dollars to save your life and are looking for a simple, can't miss way to start making heavy dents in your gunk and restore your cardiovascular system, Lipophos EDTA is it. There's no question that it works, here's one MD advocate:  http://jeffreydachmd.com/2013/05/heartdetoxmax-and-lipophos-edta/

Lipophos EDTA is really two products in one:
1. Lipophos alters cholesterol to allow it to melt. It's a byproduct of soy lecithin.
2. EDTA binds to calcium to strip it out of your arteries--not your bones. It's a common food additive, found in Mountain Dew for example.

You can also buy Lipophos alone separately, and actually you get a lot more for your money this way. You could combine both.

The *huge* point to remember about EDTA is that you want liquid EDTA. Almost all of the EDTA capsules sold today are powder. Hardly any of it passes through your intestines into your system. There's a way to hack the system: buy liquid EDTA from a dental supplier. Whah? Yes. The same liquid EDTA found in Mountain Dew is sold to dentists, to remove calcifications in "smear layer removal," whatever that is. Does it work? Yep, I've done it for years, gone through probably 12 bottles. Liquid EDTA is so powerful, you will vomit within seconds if you drink it straight. But if you dilute one capful it about 1.5-2 liters of water, it's fine.

Need to be steady and consistent
Be advised, this is not a one shot deal, you don't take one bottle of Lipophos EDTA wake up the next day with no gunk in your arteries. But you do wake up with less gunk in your arteries, there's no question about that. For the full job of reversing a lifetime's worth of gunk, you will need 50+ bottles of Lipophos EDTA to do the job. Sure, that may cost over $1000 and takes years. How much does a bypass cost, and how much is the rest of your life with heart disease cost? What you are doing is essentially a massive cleaning project. If you imagine pipes that have gunk built up over decades, that's what you have to clear out. It takes time, but it starts right away.

"Small" improvements are huge
It is important to recognize that for somebody with arteries 90% clogged, bringing that down to 70% triples blood flow. This could be done in a year if it is done right. It could be the difference between life and death.

Or if you arteries are clogged 70%, just reducing that to 40% over a couple years doubles blood flow and you are on the road to real heart attack prevention--not the statin kind.

Why statins are not the answer
Besides the fact that statins are linked to depression, suicide, and muscle loss, what most doctors don't tell you is that statins do nothing--nothing--to increase the volume of blood flow through your arteries. They just thin the blood.

To use an analogy, if there is a burning building, statins help prevent immediate deaths by keeping people moving through the hallways and stairwells to get people out of the building. But the long term solution is to stop the building from burning. If you are just taking statins, you are basically conceding that fact that your body is like a burning building, like a ticking time bomb waiting for a heart attack, and you're sitting idly by watching it burn. The tragedy is that there are a whole wealth of "fire extinguishers" available now that weren't available even 10 years ago, but most people don't know about them, including most doctors, due to Big Pharma wanting to people hopped up on drugs year after year.

Major asterisk: EDTA is extremely powerful in removing minerals, so you absolutely have to stop after each use and put back i.e. replenish minerals lost. This means three minerals specifically: calcium, manganese, and germanium. You can do restore calcium and manganese through supplements and/or foods like milk and almonds. For germanium, the best way is to take a few capsules of suma, an herb very high in germanium. Suma is good for you in other ways beyond germanium as well.

To be very clear, if you skip this step of replenishing these minerals--all three, not one or two--you will feel lousy and your body will not function right. I say this from experience.

To sum up, calcifications and cholesterol are two of the prime culprits known to cause heart disease, lack of circulation, etc. Lipop

Interesting look at examples of haptic i.e. touch intelligence

Interesting look at examples of haptic i.e. touch intelligence - near the bottom under "some activities/behaviors that reflect the touch intelligence"

Multiple intelligences - Lawrence Sherman - Miami U of Ohio
https://www.users.miamioh.edu/shermalw/mi_gardnernew98.html

"Sugar is sugar" is wrong

Remember those "sugar is sugar" commercials put out by the corn growers--who supply the toxic sludge high fructose corn syrup that is one of the primary poisons in America?

As pointed out in a previous post and as proven again here in this article, that idea is completely false--to the point of absurdity. There are dozens of types of sugars and some are much worse for the body than others. Some are also very good for you, like those labeled "essential sugars" which most people have never heard of: fucose, galactose, glucose, mannose, N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylneuraminic acid and xylose.

All we usually hear about is a limited handful of sugars like fructose, sucrose, dextrose, lactose, etc.

Evidence shows some sugars are worse than others
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/evidence-shows-some-sugars-are-worse-than-others-012915

Great places to find resources about fine and gross motor skills

Great places to find resources about fine and gross motor skills:

-Early age education sites
-Montessori schools
-Occupational therapy sites
-Physical therapy sites

So many cool lists of activities out there.

Different types of vision needed for different sports activities

All "vision" in sports is not the same. This site explains how different sports require different types of vision.

Sports vision - Hope Clinic
http://www.hopecliniconline.com/vision-therapy/sports-vision/

Proprioception

Proprioception - Dr. Axe
https://draxe.com/proprioception/

Proprioception is the sense of your own body, where its parts are including joints and how muscles are contracting. Breaks it down into its many aspects.

I think a lot of us as we get older tend to do a lot of "exercise" but often in the form of lifting and running. We get away from proprioceptive exercises.

What is "coordination"?

"Coordination": what is it?

Its more multifold that we usually talk about. There are many types of coordination.
-Fine motor skill (coordination of small muscles)
-Gross motor skill (coordination of larger muscles
-Hand-eye coordination
-Body-eye coordination
-Foot-eye coordination
-Gross-fine motor coordination i.e. working together (need a name for this)


Hand-eye
Hand-eye is about getting your hands to the right place at the right time based on what you see/sense. When I think of hand-eye coordination, I think of a Michael Chang volleying at the net in tennis, boxing hand speed drills, painters, flower arrangers, Jackie Chan, Tiger Woods, Steph Curry's pregame dribble-juggling drills, ping-pong, steering a car, certain kinds of gardening, etc.

I was always good at throwing, catching, and hitting which are usually considered hand-eye. But then again I'm not really that fond of juggling... and that's part of what puzzles me... although I can often throw stuff up in the air and catch without looking. Maybe something to do with eye movement speed making it different to track multiple balls while juggling? I have slower eye movement, I'm a slow reader etc. in terms of eye speed (not comprehension)...

Body-eye
This one interests me a lot, in part because we don't hear about it as much as hand-eye. If hand-eye is about getting your hands into the right position at the right time in coordination with what you see, body-eye is doing the same except its your body you are getting into position. Understanding what position and place to be in relation to what's out there. These are not just sets of moves done in isolation, they are movements in relation to what you see in front of you.

Eye-body examples include:
-parkour
-obstacle courses
-a running back juking defenders, cutting through gaps, sliding laterally, hurdling over a player on the ground, turning his body to prepare for getting hit he sees coming. All based on what he sees. Basically a human obstacle course.
-"weaving through traffic" ex. in basketball or soccer, etc.
-navigating through the woods/jungle where there is no path, have to move around/under/over all kinds of obstacles ex. trees, logs, branches, etc.
-swimming through a dense coral reef
-dancing where there is a lot of body position change i.e. not just moving in place or footwork/steps
-wrestling or tackling--getting whole body into precise position is key for both

Foot-eye
This one is interesting as well--obviously soccer comes to mind, ex. Messi. Anything that involves "fancy footwork."

It would be *really* interesting to see if people with great foot-eye coordination also automatically have great body-eye or hand-eye? Or if any of these types are related or are distinctly separate?
-soccer
-post play in basketball ex. Hakeem Olajuwon's "dream shake"--they always mentioned he played soccer growing up in Africa
-dancing ex. salsa, ballroom

Gross-fine motor coordination
I'm looking for the official name for this one, it means the combined coordination of both fine and gross motor togther in sync. There are lots of examples:
-swinging a baseball bat or throwing a ball, which require both a fine motor grip and a gross motor movement.
-tennis: changing grips (fine motor) along with the swing and movement around the court (gross motor).
-most activities that involve swining things like a bat or a racket or weights
-rowing and other pulling and/or pushing activities while holding onto a handle
-sculpting anything large
-crafts/building/repairs on anything large
-gymnastics (gripping bar or pommel horse etc. while moving body)
-playing drums
-playing big instruments ex. standup bass

Interesting breakdown of body movement talents

Interesting breakdown of body movement talents

http://www.americanluster.com/Articles/8-US-Jobs-That-Require-Strong-Flexibility-Balance-and-Coordination-Abilities;256.aspx

Very good charts on details of muscle fiber types

Very good charts on details of muscle fiber types
http://strengtheory.com/muscle-fiber-type/

Smashburger is one of the best gluten-free places around

Smashburger is one of the best gluten-free places around and one of the healthiest places you can eat. They could also call it Smashchicken beacause their chicken is fantastic.

For gluten-free people you could order a gluten free bun (I don't) but more importantly they have a standard full-scale gluten allergy procedure for both the sandwiches and the fries. Excellent system.

Spinach, grilled onions, sauteed mushrooms, sweet potato fries, all healthy.

16 simple things I do regularly that have changed my health big time

16 simple things I do regularly that have changed my health big time

These are things I actually have come to do regularly over time, not just goals or ideals. Once you know where to get them, it becomes easy. I grew up on a diet of pop tarts, milk, bread, cereal, milk, Little Debbie snack cakes, milk, Chicken McNuggets, milk, pizza, milk, Big Gulps full of high-fructose corn syrup, Suzi Qs, slurpees, fried chicken, french fries, milk, Swanson frozen dinners. Going to Subway sandwiches in college was the first time I discovered that veggies were not just for decoration. I had a lot of eczema and rashes on my feet growing up from wheat and milk allergies I didn't even know existed. "Gluten" and "glycemic index" were unheard of. I got through high school on M&Ms, Ho-Hos and mini-donettes with two milks, driving my blood sugar sky high to start the day. I look at the packages on these today and my eyes pop, they are a combination of everything to avoid: refined flour, refined sugar, and trans fats combined with saturated fats. You're basically eating diabetes. What a recipe for disaster. I'm actually surprised I'm alive after looking back at the industrial garbage food I ate growing up. We didn't really know it was garbage though.

1. Stop at the salad bar (Wegman's, Whole Foods) and eat spinach, green beans, and mushrooms every day. Spinach and green beans have something called TMG which is crucial to eat with protein to break down homocysteine, keeping arteries clear, in addition to other vitamins.
Note: if you don't like these raw--which I don't--throw them in the microwave for 30-60 seconds and they become much more palatable, plus cooking releases nutrients in spinach.

2. Eat beans frequently, as long as you can tolerate them. Beans are fiber bombs with lots of phytonutrients, very good for you. Beans made from scratch (see #6) are far better than canned beans.

3. Eat kale and/or spirulina a few times a week to reload hard-to-get zeaxanthin and other major phytonutrients. Especially if you have light eyes. Just a couple times a week works, they are powerful.

Note on #1 -3: you don't need to eat a ton of these foods to make them effective. Just one serving a day is a huge benefit. Use the G-BOMBS of Dr. Furman as a good guideline. You don't have to eat everything on the salad bar. Many people fall into all-or-nothing thinking. They envision having to eat a giant plate of greens three times a day and instead don't eat any. Just a handful of spinach with each protein meal, or at least once a day--just a little is very powerful nutritionally and exponentially better than none.

4. Eat nuts frequently. A handful of almonds for leucine, arginine, manganese and maganesium and a good source of fat. Alternatively, go for almond-based bars when you grab a snack. Leucine triggers mTor which is body's signal for muscle building.

5. Switch to sweet potato fries or yuca fries instead of regular french fries. Potatoes have higher GI and also are toxic nightshades with solanine. Note: you may have heard potatoes are a "complete protein," that is very misleading. They are technically "complete" for the few grams of protein they contain, which is so miniscule that it is insignificant as a protein source.

6. Eat at "Pollo" rotisserie chicken places instead of fried chicken places. Rotisserie chicken avoids the MSG and refined carbs of breading found in friend chicken. Choose beans as one of the sides, the pollo places make the beans from scratch, so much different from canned beans.

7. Ditch all bread, gluten and refined carbs at regular meals (i.e. anything other than post-workout), instead eat yuca, sweet potatoes, including sweet potato fries which are increasingly popular. Post-workout is the only time for refined carbs.

8. Ditch regular cow's milk, choose goat milk/yogurt or sheep yogurt instead (if you drink milk). I'm waiting for sheep milk to come out! Modern cow milk is linked to so many issues from autism to allergies to simply difficulty in digestion. Goat and sheep milk have none of these, though they do have lactose.

9. At burger or sandwich places, order with no bun and tell them you have a gluten allergy. The bun, not the burger, is what's fattening.

10. Stop drinking sugar drinks including soda and fake juices with high fructose corn syrup. The only exception is within an hour post-workout.

11. Balance your omega 3s using both fish oil and chia seeds. It's not either/or--you need both fish oil and chia seeds (alternatively flax for women) because there are two different types of omega 3s, short chain (EPA, DHA, DPA) and long chain (ALA). Have to balance them both, you will feel much less inflammation when you do. One big spoon of chia seeds every other day does wonders.

12. Put lemon wedges in your water. Any time you go to a place that has lemon by the water dispenser, drop it in. Not only vitamin C but lots of flavinoids. You can even eat one including the skin.

13. Stop eating nightshades. Some people, like me, cannot process solanine, so nightshades become extremely toxic. Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers (black pepper OK), egglplant, etc. If I eat these my joints get really bad really quick. Sounds hard to avoid them, but its easy one you start. Little bits like a dab of pepper won't hurt you, it's not an allergy its a toxin really that hurts your nerves and joints. If  nightshades are a problem for you like they are for me, you will feel *so* much better by cutting them out entirely.

14. Drink a liter of Fiji water a day. You say "but it's so expensive"--not if you buy the giant 1.5 liter bottle for only $2.29. Buy the small bottles and its twice the unit cost. Fiji water contains by far the highest levels of silica of any spring water on the market, and drinking silica-rich water is the only known proven way to eliminate aluminum from the body. Aluminum is one of the major toxins of our time, linked to all sorts of disorders.

15. Throw down a whole can of olives. Eating olives is much more healthy than olive oil, which is often rancid. A can costs around 2 bucks.

16. Be careful on eating heme iron. I have hemochromotosis--I knew it before but it was confirmed by 23andme testing--which means I absorb excessive iron from foods that I eat, especially meat. Heme iron is the highly-aborbent kind, found in red meats especially. If I eat red meat too often iron piles up in my bloodstream. Learn what heme iron is and pay attention to how you feel after eating iron-rich foods. In men especially, the liver builds up iron over a lifetime, so that older guys often have too much iron stored up so that it literally fills up all the available storage space in the liver and ends up dumping out into the bloodstream. Ask your doctor for your iron levels, or just give blood, they check your iron before you donate. *Reducing iron is actually easy to do, you no longer have to give blood, just buy IP-6 which is phytic acid and it will take it down very quickly.


One of the benefits of doing all of the above is your overall balance of phytonutrients i.e. plant nutrients will skyrocket. Most Americans are extremely deficient in phytonutrients, but by filling your diet with key superfoods you can quickly flip the script in the other direction.

Good blog "Organic Fitness"

Good blog "Organic Fitness"
http://organicfitness.com/

I like how Eirik challenges a lot of the conventional fitness-speak and ideas and focuses on natural patterns, as well as some of the phrases he has like "rewilding our bodies."

“We are a guinea pig generation"

Science catches up with what we already knew

This dark side of the Internet is costing young people their jobs and social lives--Washington Post

“We are a guinea pig generation." Couldn't be more true. The previous generations, the Baby Boomers and Gen X, were guinea pig generations for toxic industrial food systems that gave them heart attacks, diabetes, and cancer. The current generation is a guinea pig generation for toxic media.

I'm positively baffled by parents who give their kids iPhones and let them sit around all day on the laptop. Basically training them to be addicts. I'm still more baffled by parents who model internet addiction to their kids by their own behaviors.

Today parents need to use every possible means to get their kids off of internet and live regular lives. I have a flip phone and don't own a computer, still manage to function just fine.