We used to just call it, NOT EATING. But now it has a name. Intermittent Fasting And its all the rage. Keto is like so 2018, am I right? Dr. Oz is even on the bandwagon, and we all know he NEVER gets on bandwagons... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSYXJJA7Nrs This is pretty much sums up how I've felt about IF since it first burst onto the scene circa 2010, “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” ― Robert Oppenheimer Much ado about nothing. My 2 cents has always been you see improvements in health because YOU LOST WEIGHT and … [Read more...]
Do Movies Ever Change the Game? Part 2: Cloudy Blood, Fuel and Boners
November 20, 2019 by
"Doesn't Cloudy Blood Scare You?" The Game Changers has done an incredibly good job at capitalizing on the fact that, You Don't Know, What You Don't Know. Before we go on, we need to agree on at least one fact, We're ALL a complete ignoramous when it comes to most things. So before we start to think about why something is true, we should instead think about, How much do I actually know about this subject? What relevant information could they be leaving out? Is this claim falsifiable? Those are pretty much the basis for the scientific method. So when you see a scene like this: Immediately after hearing about vascular endothelium and vasodilation … [Read more...]
Do Movies Ever Change The Game? Part 1: “Middlemen”, Athletes and Leucine
November 13, 2019 by
"Have you Seen Game Changers?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpglxHTJVM Yes, I have. Its a very good MOVIE. Lets get that straight, it's not really a documentary. Much like Westside vs The World It's a MOVIE. For entertainment purposes. It's not exactly an evenhanded, scientifically accurate, look at the world of the "Plant Based Diet" And by "Plant Based", those in the movie seem to mean Vegan or Vegetarian. TheIssue with These Types of Sciency Movies. You only know, what you know. Which also means, You don't know what you don't know. So the obvious question is, How do you KNOW if the STORY you're told is TRUE? Before I get into … [Read more...]
A Calorie IS a Calorie, But The Food Isn’t the Same
August 23, 2019 by
"I Just Don't Believe All Calories Are The Same" Here's the thing CALORIES are the same. ALWAYS A calorie is just a unit of energy. "From a thermodynamic viewpoint, a calorie is of course a calorie. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only transformed. Thus, the human body is constantly transforming energy—in this case, kilocalories—by combusting foodstuffs to produce heat." - Is A Calorie a Calorie? But food? Food with all of it's constituent parts, isn't just a uniform unit of energy. On the most basic level we know that per unit of mass (gram) carbs, proteins fats and alcohol all have … [Read more...]
Processed Food: Are They Really Pure Evil?
August 8, 2019 by
"Don't Eat it if it Comes From a Box" How often do we hear that these days? What's so bad about food from a box anyway? Well, the nutritional zealots look at it this way: The response usually comes down to some variation of, "It's Processed Food" With headlines like these, Processed Food must be one Bad Hombre: Highly Processed Food Linked to Earlier Death Why Eating Processed Foods Might Make You Fat How Processed Foods Wreak Havoc On Your Health Could it be that we've finally found THE REASON 70% of Americans are overweight (this stat includes obese)? Processed Food: Satan For All Ages All the previous nutritional devils have fallen by … [Read more...]
Food is Religion Part 1: Finding Your Salvation in False Gods
August 2, 2019 by
Dr. Layne Norton says it all the time, "Food has become the new religion" I think he's right. Religious people describe themselves as: Christian Jewish Muslim Flying Spaghetti Monster When it comes to food many of us do the same: Paleo Raw food Atkins Keto How many people lately have been doing the Beyoncé or Tom Brady diet or J-Lo no sugar challenge? How often is it you hear this or that person lost weight doing this diet or such and such eats ___insert magic food___. Why? Do any of those people actually know ANYTHING about nutrition and what's going on with the body? How could people actually think they "discovered" … [Read more...]
NSCA National Conference 2019 Review
July 25, 2019 by
NSCA National Conference 2019 Review After 13 years, back in the nations capital. That means no TSA cattle calls and pat downs for this gut! Fun story: The very 1st NSCA event I ever went to was the 2006 National Conference in Washington DC. I wasn't even certified, had just started working (ie I was super poor) and went for a single day (they used to have single day ticket). Highlight was Dr. Pearson handing out string before his presentation as a prop to demonstrate why hypertrophy is important. The string represents the muscle tissue. As you fold the string over onto itself that's the same as thickening of the muscle cell...ie muscle cell … [Read more...]
Con-Men, Fear and Lifestyle Multilevel Marketing (MLM) ….
May 29, 2019 by
In College I took a FILM CLASS. Evidently, that qualifies as a "general elective" and makes you a liberal artist, or some BS. But the truth is, I learned a LOT. The one film that I really enjoyed was Elmer Gantry. Elmer is a traveling con-man who shows up in a small midwestern town and gets the people there to join the revivalist church. Long story short, he cons them into paying for salvation. A fire happens, burns down the church (its a giant tent), kills his lady (the purveyor of the church) and he leaves town quoting a great line from the Bible when asked what he's going to do next. What's Elmer Gantry Have to Do With Fitness? Elmer Gantry … [Read more...]
