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Older Bolder Foundation Series Topics Summer (and Fall) 2018

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Here’s the first few months of Foundation Series post topics we’ll be serving up over the summer (and into early fall). The list is of course subject to change (what I really meant to say there is expand) as new and interesting information comes around, but this will serve as our likely roadmap for the summer…

  • Optimizing Lean Body Mass, Not Weight Loss, is Priority One
  • Excessive Body Fat Isn’t Your Friend
  • Can You Exercise Your Way to the Body You Want? Probably Not.
  • There is a Far, Far Better Way to Eat (and Live)
  • The Less Insulin, The Better
  • Almost Everything You’ve Been Taught About Macronutrients is Wrong
  • Carbs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 1)
  • Carbs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 2)
  • Carbs: Additional Thoughts on Grains
  • Proteins: Building Blocks of Champions, with a Catch
  • Fats: The Stunning Deception that Persists Today
  • Fats: The Good Guys
  • Fats: The Bad Guys
  • Exercise and Fitness: Functional is Where It’s At
  • Exercise and Fitness: Less is More (Really)
  • Exercise and Fitness No So Secretion Weapon No. 1: Fat Adaption
  • Exercise and Fitness No So Secretion Weapon No. 2: Move, Move, Move
  • Body Composition: Food, Exercise, and the Two Everybody Forgets
  • Stress: Some Unconventional Suggestions
  • Stress: Orthorexia and Health Data Obsessions
  • Stress: Get Thyself Organized
  • Sleep, O’ Sleep, Where Art Thou? (Part 1)
  • Sleep, O’ Sleep, Where Art Thou? (Part 2)
  • Nutritional Ketosis: A Look Back at History (Jimmy Moore’s Book in literature section)
  • Nutritional Ketosis: Why Even Go There?
  • Nutritional Ketosis: The Pregame
  • Nutritional Ketosis: Jumping in With Both Feet
  • Nutritional Ketosis: Staying in for the Long Haul

Starting Tomorrow: Older Bolder Foundation Series

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Beginning tomorrow, and running once or twice per week through the summer (and probably into the early fall), we’ll begin posting key topics in a Foundation Series, geared to outline a core set of principles for anyone of any age to live by, but particularly geared toward those over 30 who have drifted away from a healthy, fit, and above all – optimally functional lifestyle.

I’ll never forget the first time, in a recreational setting, when a guy two years younger (I was 31 at the time ) said, “you know, once you hit 30, you begin to lose a step, and it’s all downhill from there”.

We happened to be playing frisbee golf in one of the beautiful parks in Salt Lake City at the time; despite the fact that I soundly beat him, I remember as it it were yesterday feeling pudgy and bit out of shape that day, my weight have crept up slowly during my residency as the time and stress demands of medicine and a young family slowly and inexorably pushed fitness to a back burner.

Fast forward a few years, and like so many in our busy world, I was packing on the weight and slowly deconditioning, my physiological and functional ages ‘maturing’ faster than my chronological age.

The principles upon which a much healthier life should and could be built – the critical foundation of healthy living – were beginning to evolve in earnest back then (this was the early ‘80s).

Now there’s a flood of information available, much of which has been and still is antithetical to what’s been served up as conventional and medical wisdom for several decades, new information that’s changing the very core of human potential – not just for the highest tiers of professional and recreational athletes, but for the rest of us “mere mortals” living and working everyday lives.

Tomorrow we’ll outline the first bundle of topics to cover in our upcoming foundation posts.