Author Archives: Mike Sheridan
The Antidote for Alzheimer’s
Once you understand how excess carbohydrates can negatively affect your body (1, 2, 3), it’s easy to see how they can wreck your brain. Yet, conventional wisdom continues to tell us obesity and diabetes are controllable, while Alzheimer’s and dementia are just ‘bad luck’?? Sure, there’s some genetic susceptibility (ApoE4), but this does NOT mean…
Research Recap – Feb 2016
Nutrition: A new review study shows that heavily baked and boiled vegetables have less nutritional value than their raw counterparts, because of reductions in polyphenols (antioxidants). Interestingly, frying and steaming (in a pressure cooker) seemed to have the opposite affect; increasing the nutrient levels by 50 and 125%. The other way you can improve the…
5 ACTUAL Super Foods (Hint: Agave Isn’t 1 of Them)
If you look hard enough, you can come up with something “super” about any food. But, what you should really be looking at, is whether all those benefits make up for the drawbacks. For instance, you could say soy is high in protein, or wheat is high in fiber, but does that mean they’re good…
Strength Innovation – Gymnastic Knee Raises
There are various feats of strength that make you say WOW, but for some reason the bodyweight gymnastic moves always seem to be the most impressive. Probably because you can immediately try them yourself (and quickly appreciate how difficult they actually are), but also because the control demonstrated by the pros is something to be…
Fatness & Sickness – It’s Your Fault When…
Peruse my writing, and you’ll quickly notice I’m not one to point the finger at obese individuals for their excess body fat. As clearly, we’re not living in a world with a bunch of lazy, undisciplined, sloths. Most people are making a conscious effort to stay fit, by exercising regularly and eating healthy, but it’s…
Research Recap – Jan 2016
Nutrition A new study from McMaster University demonstrates the major impact dietary protein has on muscle gain and fat loss. The researchers split participants into a high protein group (2.4g per kg bodyweight) and low protein group (1.2g per kg bodyweight), and had them train 6 days per week while eating the same number of…
Are We Really Born to Run?
Tell a runner they’d get better results lifting weights, and they tell you they’re trying to lose fat not gain muscle. Tell them having more muscle makes you burn more fat, and they tell you they enjoy running. Tell them the ‘runners high’ is experienced faster with HIIT, and they tell you they’re trying to…
High Dose Vitamin D is Ineffective? Not So Fast
Last month my Twitter was blowing up with articles questioning the effectiveness of vitamin D, and head-turning titles like: “Vitamin D increases risk of falls.” “Have we been wrong about vitamin D?” And my personal favorite. “The sun goes down on Vitamin D.” This was the article I ended up clicking on. Not only because…