Category Archives: Health & Longevity
10 Red Flags You’re Unhealthy That You Call “Normal”
Doctors use symptoms to diagnose illnesses, and one could say a symptom is your body’s way of communicating something is wrong. The problem is, some of us have lived with these symptoms for so long, they’re no longer classified as symptoms anymore. They’re simply classified as “normal.” Many times these problems are treated with medication,…
The 3 Ways to Prevent Muscle Loss
Whether you like it or not, muscle loss eventually ends up on your priority list. With most going 40-50 years not thinking about it, until one day their doctor lets them know they have sarcopenia (or osteoporosis). One of the reasons we see a rapid loss in muscle with age is because of a blunted…
Exercise Intensity (HIIT) Trumps Exercise Duration (Cardio) for Disease Prevention
Despite conventional thinking (and advice), low-volume high-intensity interval exercise (aka HIIT) results in far greater improvements in cardiometabolic health markers than moderate-intensity endurance training (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). With a multitude of research studies praising HIIT for it’s ability to enhance vascular structure and function (1, 2) increase ventricular mass and stroke volume (1,…
Building Muscle? Do Post-Workout the Right WHEY
If you’ve completed Live It NOT Diet!, you understand that dairy is best consumed in it’s full fat form (heavy cream, aged cheeses, and butter). Mainly because that’s where most of the benefit lies (when dealing with the pasteurized variety), but also because it contains minimal amounts of lactose and whey. [Lactose is the sugar…
Don’t Mess With the Microbes – Gut Bacteria, Obesity, and Disease
The hottest trend in 21st century research (at the time of writing this post) is swapping the gut microbes of mice to pinpoint the impact of different bacterial strains on our health and body composition. With various studies showing considerable evidence that a bacteria-shift alone can turn a lean mouse into a fat mouse (1,…
Anxiety & Depression – Chemical Imbalance or Dietary Disaster?
The awareness campaigns for depression are bothersome. Which may seem like a cold-hearted comment for anyone dealing with it, or anyone that has a friend or family member dealing with it, but not when you take a look at what’s causing it. Perhaps frustrating would have been a better word than bothersome, as the main…
Exercise to GAIN Not Lose
If you’ve read Live It NOT Diet! you recognize that “you can’t out-exercise a crappy diet.” And if you’ve read Eat Meat And Stop Jogging, you understand that “training to go further and more frequently does more harm than good”…. …especially when it involves excessive amounts of steady-state cardio! BUT, that’s not to say you…
Sitting is the New Smoking?
You’ve likely seen the headlines that “Sitting is the new smoking.” And unfortunately, just like smoking, the recommendations to avoid it have taken just as long to surface. But what’s worse, is that quitting may be even harder! As there’s been a dramatic and consistent rise in sitting time since the 1950’s, and it’s largely because…