I love steak…chicken…fish. It all tastes good to me. I want to make sure I get enough protein to maintain and build muscle. But it begs to question, is more really better? I’m not talking about the myth of the dangers of so called high protein diets on your kindeys (if you are not even getting 1g/lb of bodyweight then you have nothing to worry about…which is most people). But now looking at ageing and longevity, I am more concerned about what is the right way to eat? I …
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
I wanted to go over the most often questions I hear/read about IF and how to use it. This could also be a great starting point for someone just trying it out as well as for the more advanced people.
Q: What is CR and IF? How are the 2 related?
A: CR stand for calorie restriction where you basically eat less calories every day compared to your “normal” eating requirements. This could be as low as …
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A recent study by American researchers also concluded that detox diets do no more than the body’s own natural system to get rid of toxins. They said most modern books and detox kits serve up “empty promises”.
Scientists and dieticians argue that the benefits people feel are not due to their body getting rid of excessive toxins but are due to changing from what is likely to have been a “poor” diet.
The quotes in this article are taken from an interesting report by the BBC news here. …
I remember many years ago watching a training DVD from a well known trainer talking about his approach to weight loss. At one part he shows a picture of a bodybuilder guy in very great shape saying “He can still eat 5000 cal a day and lose fat! Don’t you want that?”. Ummmm…..No actually.
It really struck me to start thinking about my own eating habits and realizing that I don’t want to eat all day, I want to have a life outside of working out and food preparation and …
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life” – William Londen
The Gut – Your Center for Health and Wellness Starts Here
Our gut is a probably the most overlooked and overworked part of our body with all the responsibilities it has. A living environment of nerve endings, carefully balanced bacteria, and tightly weaved cells that digest food and handle/absorb it’s nutrients. Our gut has many important duties including:
Breaking down and digesting all your foods and drinks
Providing the body with …
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I know what you are thinking…..what the heck is he talking about getting a “fat” metabolism? What this means is that you want to teach your body to burn more “fat” for daily energy than “carbs”. Why you ask? Excellent question. Well first off the better you get at burning fat, wouldn’t it make sense that the easier it will be not to gain fat in the long term? Secondly, everything I like to focus on here is based on health and longevity, no quick fixes at the …
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. – Mark Twain
Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better. – Edgar Watson Howe
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin
What do we want out of life? Whether it is to help others, be healthy, lose 20lbs, build more muscle, start your own business, build a castle in Scotland, …
Building bigger muscles is at heart a hormonal event. Hormones such as insulin, growth hormone, testosterone and cortisol are giving the body signals on whether to build muscle, or break it down. While exercise is necessary to create a stimulus for certain hormones to be activated, it is also just a small part of the equation. This is why you will see so many people putting in hard effort at the gym day after day, and never really getting any results. So throw away all those books, stop spending $400/month on …
Well my quick experiment with a 3 day fast is officially over and sometimes I just think my life is a TV sitcom that just hasn’t been picked up yet. I learned some important things about myself and other lessons to use from this point on.
Fasting feels like it does speed up healing – Of course this is all just speculation as I would have to go back in time, clone myself and put us each on different protocols to see which had a better recovery rate. Although I do feel …
Ok, was going to wait a while to get into this but seems it is fitting into my own personal schedule as I am looking to do a 3 day fast. But let’s just quickly overview the longer fasting benefits.
Health in my mind is simple and based on a cellular level. So a healing process would be anything we can do to help cleanse cells, clear away waste from metabolic processes, detox those wastes from the body, and increase cellular rebuilding.
Sounds like fasting to me. The longer one can fast, the …
