Heavenly Metabolic Glory
Figuring out how to safely increase your metabolism, and improve your health, is in many ways a cross between art and science. It’s common for people to want a system to give them a...
Monthly Archive: November 2015
Nothing Here To Stress About
I’d just like to stress that even though I know it has often been stressed that stressing about stress is more of a stress than the original stress that caused your stress, it...
How Do I Love Thee Sugar?
The idea that there is a relationship between inflammation and disease is not new. In recent times, sugar has been unfairly blamed. The reality is however, that sugar is highly anti-inflammatory. Let me count...
Bring Back Brown Bag Breathing
Even though in recent times it has been given a bad name, carbon dioxide production and retention in the body is part of a process which directly protects against stress and disease. Put another...
Prepare To Be Salt Struck
One way of looking at salt is to see it as an all purpose, metabolism enhancing, stress reducing, anxiolytic, anti-depressant. When dietary sodium is restricted this tends to slow energy metabolism, lowering body temperature...
Blinded By Reye’s
Although aspirin generally comes with a warning against its use by children – due largely to an historical association with Reye’s Syndrome – there is much evidence suggesting a very different story. According to...
Coffee Cheer
A large proportion of the very popular ‘antidepressant’ drugs on the market today, are prescribed with the intention of attempting to increase levels of active serotonin – the so called ‘happy hormone’ – circulating...
Joyous Jelly Jammin
Many popular ideas in relation to amino acid requirements have been influenced by evidence regarding their impact upon growth rather than health and longevity. Cancer can be seen as a disease of excessive growth,...
Sugar Isn’t As High As You Think.
Although plain old white sugar has been blamed for increased rates of obesity and degenerative disease, statistics show that the intake of sugar per capita (including both sucrose and HFCS), has stayed roughly the...
La Conga Dulce
Exposure to stress of any kind depletes glycogen stores in your body at an increased rate and as such, can create an immediate need for sugar. When glycogen in storage begins to run low...