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Dr. Jack Kruse Booted from Carnival 2012 Low Carb Cruise

May 8th, 2012 · 454 Comments · Self Experimentation

Yesterday afternoon I got wind of the story. Here’s one. A Nashville neurosurgeon was escorted off a Carnival Cruise Line ship Sunday after a post on Twitter led authorities to believe the doctor was planning a bioterrorist attack. The tweet appeared to come from Dr. Jack Kruse and made it seem as though he was [...]

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Putting it All Together: Moderate Carb Paleo, Resistance Training & Kettlebells, Intermittent Fasting and Cold Thermogenesis

May 6th, 2012 · 35 Comments · Exercise & Training, Fat & Weight Loss, Intermittent Fasting, Self Experimentation

Putting it All Together: Moderate Carb Paleo, Resistance Training & Kettlebells, Intermittent Fasting and Cold Thermogenesis

This is the post I was planning on drafting for last Monday when disaster struck, and I simply decided immediately to put everything off for a week that I was doing and had planned. Cold Thermogenesis I’ll start at the end, since it’s the newest thing. A month or so ago I first began to [...]

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Cold Water Therapy and Experimentation Recommences

April 9th, 2012 · 109 Comments · Self Experimentation

Cold Water Therapy and Experimentation Recommences

As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we moved a year and a half ago where my gym has a spa sized-cold plunge they keep chilled to around 40-45F for the guys. I experimented with it for years, but after a few months with the drive & downtown parking, I gave it up in favor of [...]

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Cold Therapy and Adaptation, and Ray Cronise

April 9th, 2012 · 111 Comments · Deep Evolution and Ancestry, Disease & Health, Self Experimentation

I’m first going to generally recap some of my thoughts surrounding the goings on over my previous post covering this topic, now standing at 895 comments. The post covered the controversy over Dr. Jack Kruse and his ideas concerning a “Leptin Reset” and “Cold Thermogenesis.” What I think was accomplished more than anything is what [...]

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Synthesis: Low-Carb and Food Reward/Palatability, and Why Calories Count

February 29th, 2012 · 691 Comments · Fat & Weight Loss, Real Food, Self Experimentation

This is a post that’s been sorta relaxing, sipping scotch in the back of my mind since last August after the Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS11). It has to do with the dispute and controversy between Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat, and Dr. Stephan Guyenet, a long time [...]

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The Moderate Starchy Carbohydrate Experiment

February 27th, 2012 · 227 Comments · Real Food, Self Experimentation

The Moderate Starchy Carbohydrate Experiment

Saturday toward the end of my post I proposed another of my self experiments. Alright. Time for a bit of self experimentation. Today is Saturday, 2/25 and as providence would have it, I’m recording another podacst with the great low-carb diet advocate Jimmy Moore next Friday, 3/2 (rather than the usual months, it will air [...]

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Richard Nikoley Interview 2: Free-ing the animal; at Being Primal

September 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Real Food, Self Experimentation

In case you missed part 1 of my interview with Dean Dwyer of Being Primal, or missed out on all the wonderful things he wrote about me, you can catch it here. Part 2 of what will be four parts is now up and ready to watch, with even more wonderful things written about me. [...]

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A Weight Loss Progress Update

August 19th, 2011 · 32 Comments · Food Porn, Intermittent Fasting, Self Experimentation

A Weight Loss Progress Update

Just a note about how things are going lately in shedding the roughly 15 pound gain I reported about in this recent post. Back down to 180 as of this morning, three pounds off since AHS, and things are moving well. Some moderate carbs but not excessive, my morning Huge Fat Bomb smoothies, doing intermittent [...]

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My Ancestral Health Symposium Presentation – Self Experimentation #AHS11

August 7th, 2011 · 72 Comments · Self Experimentation

My Ancestral Health Symposium Presentation – Self Experimentation #AHS11

I’m planning on doing a number of posts over a number of days about the monumental Ancestral Health Symposium 2011 (AHS11) on the beautiful campus of UCLA. And I’ll also put up some pics I took and others took. If you attended and took pictures and would like to share them with others, please email [...]

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I finally raised my body temperature above the 97s

April 11th, 2011 · 29 Comments · Self Experimentation

At long last I had a relatively idle day yesterday, and knowing it would be so from the start, I did what I often do on such a Saturday, Sunday morning — or both — laying in bed around 8ish, room well awash in sun despite curtains — just enjoying trying to sleep more, though [...]

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