Cold Showers DO Get Easier
A thing I hear repeated often on health podcasts is that cold showers don't get easier. That is just not true. Of course, they get easier. The trick to making them easier is to remove the decision....
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The Return of Cold Showers
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Several years ago on this blog, I posted a little bit about cold showers. It was one of many health experiments that caught my attention. My interest was building resiliency, strengthening the immune...
Read more →Gluten / Wheat - The Final Chapter
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About a year ago I began eating wheat on a regular basis. Not daily. Maybe 1-3 times a week. Fortunately for me I didn't experience any issues. This is great because if we go back to 2009, I was...
Read more →No Soy Friolento
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Today I learned a wonderful word. From 10 Spanish Words That Have No English Translation: > 7. Friolento/Friolero > > Someone who is very sensitive to cold. > > Él es muy friolento y siempre pide...
Read more →How I Reintroduced Alcohol
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I was just asked how I reintroduced alcohol after a multi-year absence. Prior to giving up alcohol completely, I liked going to brew pubs and trying out the sampler trays. It wasn't something I did...
Read more →Wheat Resiliency
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I wanted to respond to a comment on my post Peanuts and Resiliency from Terance. > Do you think that the resiliency/fragility argument can be applied to wheat products as well? I seem to be much less...
Read more →Peanuts and Resiliency
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This is going to be a quick post about a story that just came out. From the article Shielding kids from peanuts might cause peanut allergies: > Children are much less likely to develop peanut...
Read more →The Temperature Wimps of San Francisco
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I don't get it. I will never understand why men will step out of their houses wearing a jacket or coat when the temperature is in the mid 60s, when they know it will be sunny and 70 F in an hour or...
Read more →The Neurotic Approach To Food
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In the last post, I used the phrase "neurotic approach to food". I want to explain this more. When we dive into nutrition and make an effort to eat healthy, regardless of what healthy means to us at...
Read more →Healthy vs Resilient
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This post is a follow-up to Loosening the Paleo Collar, where I try and determine what aspects of the Paleo diet were responsible for the benefits I experienced. Instead of following an ever...
Read more →A Guide to the Good Life
Background: During my college years I never took a class on anything even close to philosophy. It is still a new topic for me. !A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy A Guide to the...
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