Category Archives: FAQs

How Low Should You Squat?

Aside from the Daily Deep Squat Hold (bodyweight), you should avoid squatting to a point where you’re experiencing a posterior pelvic tilt or butt wink. It’s not a big deal when you do it without weight, but when there’s a bar on your back or front, it places the load directly on the base of…

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Can’t Sleep? Blame Technology

You get home from a busy day at work, and after a nice dinner with your wife, you’re anxious to sit down to some mind-numbing entertainment. It’s been dark out since 6pm, but it’s hard to tell in your nicely lit home, with the 60-inch screen blasting bright images back at you and your wife…

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4 More Red Meat Myths – Neu5Gc, AA, TMAO and AGEs

Replacing saturated fat with starchy carbohydrates is probably the easiest way to get fat, sick, and heading to an early grave. Yet despite the scientific evidence and practical experience (see general population), we’re still wasting research dollars and media coverage trying to blame red meat. As we’ve discussed in the past, the conglomerate of observational…

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How to Booze & Still Lose

The holiday’s are here; and lets face it, most of us are going to be having a few drinks. Especially if it’s one of those lame work parties…. …or worse, your significant others lame work party! At which point a little inhibition reduction is essential to keeping the conversations flowing and the awkwardness to a…

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Is Drinking Wine Part of a Healthy Diet?

History may suggest that the fermentation of fruit to make alcohol was only a 10,000 year-old practice, but recent evidence in the journal PNAS shows that we were able to metabolize it LONG before that. The researchers discovered that the version of the ADH4 enzyme necessary to breakdown alcohol (Class IV alcohol dehydrogenases) was present…

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But My Doctor NSAID to Take These – What Aspirin & Ibuprofen Are Really Doing

Hate to generalize, but if you’re a Baby Boomer you’re probably used to popping Advil or Aspirin when something hurts. Headache? No problem. Back ache? Handled. Arthritis? Taken care of. Someone else is in pain? “Did you take an ibuprofen?” What’s worse, is that many have been advised to take a Baby Aspirin each day…

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Nothing Sweet About Sweeteners

Regardless of the source, ‘sweet’ triggers a reward response in the brain that makes us feel good – similar to the pleasurable experience from a drug. “Sweet sensations evoked by sugar-sweetened foods and drinks are probably one of the most precocious, frequent and intense sensory pleasures of modern humans.” Lenoir et al, PLoS One, 2007…

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Live It NOT Diet FAQs – Bad Breath

If you’re in Phase 1 of Live It NOT Diet!, you’re going to notice a change in your breath (or perhaps someone else will) when you enter ketosis. Some notice it more than others, but the ‘keto breath’ is pretty distinct in that it smells a little bit like paint thinner. You might still notice…

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