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Because they all died.
My grandfather was a marine. He was drafted when he was 18. His platoon was on the frontline of the Korean War, fire fights back and forth over the 38th parallel. I only know bits and pieces of the horror my grandfather saw, and nothing from his own words.
Social Isolation – A Big Deal!
These are all quotes from an upcoming presentation revolving around chronic fatigue…It is amazing how deep the rabbit hole goes. “The typical American feels they have no-one to confide in and an average social network of two people. America is the most socially...
Seek First To Understand
I love science. I love information, but “This fundamental belief about the role of information and knowledge in determining behavior is wrong and unscientific. Giving people information does not make them change.”
Don’t Be A Nutritional Dick
If you ever post content about judging a stranger on their food choices, you are digging a deeper divide between yourself and “them.” You are creating a war you will never win. You are creating an Us Vs. Them, a Have vs. Have-Not mentality that will put any human on the limbic defensive. Stop it.
Your Flag Is Your Effort
Your flag is your effort over time. Your flag is your mostly silent journey that nobody really cares about but you…and that’s 100% ok.
Play The Game
In our industry right now there is this pendulum swing back from CrossFit that all metabolic training is horrible, criminal even, especially within the general population.
Tears.
So Grandma, thank you for raising my father, for feeding him, for loving him, and providing him with more questions than answers, and oh so many struggles that made him who he is today. And thank you for the lesson that life is short and that I must always appreciate others…you too.
Low End Carb Recommendations – Too High or Doesn’t Matter?
Carbohydrate is the critical substrate for bouts of endurance exercise, especially at higher intensities 1-5. It has been well established that higher carbohydrate intakes are advantageous for these sports, although some data has been collected, most of the...
Keto and Glycogen – More Questions than Answers.
I was just sent the 2016 paper by Volek et al. investigating self-claimed long-term Keto-Adapted ultra-endurance athletes vs. endurance athletes who eat mow down carbohydrates. The study is super interesting and I am sure all the researchers would agree that there are...
Caloric Restriction, Carbohydrates, and Hormones.
Anyone who has the view that sugar is the devil and insulin is it's minion, don't read this as you probably have already made up your mind and think I am in bed with the soda industry down here in the Jungle. Caring and well meaning Nutritionists or Functional Med...
H2O2 and Why Your Stupid Diet is Stupid.
High fat and ketogenic diets are all the craze now, but it is important to remember that High Fat and High Carbohydrate diets in a hypercaloric situation are both going to induce metabolic inflexibility and… “It is likely that the pyruvate dehydrogenase flux is key to...
Everything is Sets and Reps
Everything is sets and reps and we are always practicing something.
