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Recently, The Huberman Lab did a show devoted to microplastics. The show was good, and I learned some things, but I think he missed some details. The Effects of Microplastics on Your Health & How to...
Read more →A topic that is getting a lot of publicity this year is the thesis that America has a toxic food problem that is making us sicker and fatter than other countries. RFK Jr. and some prominent voices on...
Read more →There are endless debates on how to lose weight. I'm bored of them because people have lost weight using numerous diets: low-fat, low-carb, vegan, keto, fasting, and even a Twinkie Diet. It is the...
Read more →There persists this belief that coming off caffeine will result in headaches for a few days. I hear it frequently on health podcasts as if it were accepted gospel. Even Michael Pollan, who wrote...
Read more →Back in 2015, I shared the success I had with raising my body temperature. I was able to increase it over the course of about 2 years and I've maintained that increase ever since. > 97.0 –> 97.5 –>...
Read more →Recently, I got an alarming comment on an older post informing me that potatoes are high in cadmium. As someone who has been preaching the benefits of the Potato Hack for a while, I wanted to dig...
Read more →This post is a continuation of the discussion of Detoxification Notes (Science Not Woo-Woo). Correct me if I am wrong on this part, but I see a real problem with chronic low-carb diets if one is...
Read more →In the previous post, Detoxification Notes (Science Not Woo-Woo), I shared what I learned about detoxing the body from the Energy Blueprint Podcast. A brief summary would be: 1. In order to detox,...
Read more →In the previous post, Fear of a Toxic Planet, I described my views on toxins and briefly on detoxification. I said: > Toxins are stored in our body fat. The best way to reduce toxin load is to not be...
Read more →A common theme I see everywhere in the health space is how toxic our environment has become. Our food, our water, our soil, and pretty much everything is loaded with toxins that will make us sick,...
Read more →Since going caffeine-free just over a week ago, I have noticed an odd side effect: I'm super hungry. Even though I eat right before I go to bed\\, I get massively hungry in the middle of the night. I...
Read more →The month is almost half over, so I thought I'd provide a quick update on My Caffeine Detox Plan. My last coffee was on September 30th. Then for a week, I continued to drink some tea. On Sunday,...
Read more →Today is Day 1 of my most challenging self experiment to date. I am going to go the entire month of October without coffee. No decaf either. My prior record was 4 days in 1997. :o I outlined my goal...
Read more →I am back from my 9 day trip to Central Ohio. When I last visited Ohio 3 years ago, I wasn't full Paleo/Primal. My focus back then was on reducing bread, not eliminating it. I also was not paying...
Read more →In the post What I Learned During My Coffee Detox, I covered the results that I experienced by gradually lowering and eventually taking a full 2 weeks off from coffee. As informative as that test...
Read more →The last time I did a serious coffee detox was in 1997. I was long overdue. I got down to a single espresso by August 22nd. In the end, I went 14 days without coffee. During this time, I did still...
Read more →Well, I have done the unthinkable. Today is Day 7 with no coffee. Yes I am drinking decaf and yes I understand that it does have trace amounts of caffeine in it. I'm shocked at the number of people...
Read more →This paleolithic nutrition book was high on my list to read for a while. !Primal Body-Primal Mind: Empower Your Total Health The Way Evolution Intended (...And Didn't) Primal Body-Primal Mind:...
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