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Moving more fights obesity, even in septuagenarians.
Metabolic syndrome impacts muscles too via out of control inflammation.
Just do it – no more Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.
Eating seafood leads to more sex and higher pregnancy rates? At least in Michigan and Texas. Even the New York Times weighed in on this one.
Suicide in health-care workers is still a major issue.
Promising trials of reversing T2DM with nutritional ketosis.
Details on the tick bite induced Alpha-Gal allergy – a nifty podcast featuring Dr. Scott Commins, UNC Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy.
Antibiotics in meats via the New York Times – wait just a damned minute, the FDA took care of this, right?
Just like your grandmother used to say, if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn’t. As always, Caveat Emptor.
The junk-food lifestyle and toxins impair brain recovery.
An ecological argument for gut microbiota restoration.
Does the gut microbiome when in nutritional ketosis protect against seizures? Looks like it.
Like many of you, I’ve been intrigued for several years by what I’ve read and heard about the benefits of spending time in a true state of nutritional ketosis.
My wife and I, both in our late 50s, have been for the most part eating been eating a Primal aligned diet since mid-2016, and since July of 2017 have been diligently compliant, with daily carb intake for her ranging in the 60-80 gm/day range, and me running in the 40-60 gm/day range.
We’d both noted significant weight loss, improved mental clarity, much more consistent energy throughout the day, better sleep (including resolution of nighttime heartburn), and a host of other “hey, this is really working” benefits along the way.
Personally I’d lost 100 pounds during the 15 months leading up to January 2018 (somewhat ironically exactly that amount on 31 December), though found further weight loss stalled for the first quarter of 2018, something I found incredibly frustrating.
Reflexly reaching back into my conventional wisdom / traditional medicine bag of tricks, I assumed that I just needed to up my workouts to burn more calories, no doubt entering into a pattern of chronic cardio, generating more stress (read cortisol release), in fact furthering hampering weight loss efforts, and self-inflicting a workout related back injury along the way (dammit).
A mentor suggested taking a step back, honestly and objectively taking stock of where I was with my food plan and activity approach to things; he at one point suggested taking a realistic look at my macronutrients and tweaking things a bit to enter a legitimate nutritional ketosis for at least 6 weeks, and probably longer pending my results.
I’ll share more of the nitty-gritty details next week, but the past six weeks in nutritional ketosis have been nothing short of astounding.
I’ve noted profound improvements in mental acuity and endurance, creativity, overall energy, workout performance (HIT resistance 2-3 days per week, extended walking/hikes 5-6 days per week, limited sprint sessions every 7-10 days), virtual absence of hunger, increased satiety, and perhaps most astoundingly, my weight loss stall has been overcome with an effortless 14 lb drop in these 6 weeks.
This N=1 account is anecdotal to be sure, but yet another account that supports the claims that we’re designed to be fat burning machines. I’ll share more details about my personal keto journey now and then, with another post next week detailing a closer look at my macros, using a compressed eating window/ intermittent fasting, and more.
An egg a day lowered cardiovascular disease (and other) risks in a study of half a million Chinese.
Canadians are happier living the rural life; it appears they’re not alone.
You’ve seen probably this by now, but a VLC diet improving control in T1DM shouldn’t really be all that surprising.
In response to a question about gut microbiota and obesity, we referred a friend to this post by Dr. Guyenet this week.
If so, consider taking a hard look at The Keto Reset Course multimedia package put out by Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns; I’ve been going though it on the recommendation of a friend who said it was worth every penny just for the interviews they did with thought leaders, researchers, scientists, and athletes (not just the endurance folks either). She was right.
We’re of the mindset here at Older Bolder Fitness / the Older Bolder Life that you never ever ( and I mean ever) stop learning in life, and with the explosion of great books and courses out there in the ancestral nutrition and lifestyle arena over the past decade, there’s a plethora of wonderful books worth reading (and re-reading down the road again).
For probably the next year, we’ll be reminding you of some of the critically important books that have been published in this arena, books that you’ll likely want to keep on your bookshelf, or at least borrow to plow through and soak up all you can.
That said, I’m really enjoying Jimmy Moore’s Keto Clarity this week, so much in fact we’ll likely post a fairly detailed review in the next few weeks.
