The Healthy User Effect “The Broccoli Study” I got this comment on a YouTube video – “What did humans evolve to eat?” While I’m not sure about the sincerity of the question, I want to go ahead and discuss the problem with linking broccoli consumption and health. The Study So lets say I was going…
What did humans evolve to eat? I discussed “What are humans designed to eat?” and revealed the most obvious “smoking gun” to answer this question – our brains. Here’s the briefing on our brains: The vast size and energy demands of the human brain required a diet that differed from that of our hominid ancestors. I’ll cover…
Uber Heart Attack So I want to tell you how you’re going to die…and me too – statistically speaking – and it’s not what you think. You see you’re most likely to die from Uber drivers giving you a heart attack. For real. But it’s not the drivers fault. Your Future Work So imagine this…
Meat and Global Warming Over the last several weeks, I’ve been curious how much I am contributing to global warming by eating so much meat. So I dug in, read and researched, and reported my finding initially under an Instagram story (saved under “Climate Change“). Evidence is pretty strong that the burning of fossil fuels…
How Lectins Invade A small spotlight has been put on lectins showing what can happen when we eat things that we aren’t designed to eat. There are thousands of lectins and not all of them are created equal. Some like gluten are well known though may not be as harmful as most think, while others…
High Fat vs Low Fat Diet? Which is better? Fat is Bad We’ve been told fat is bad, especially saturated fat, that it leads to heart disease and should be avoided or eaten in moderation. Some people have tried to differentiate between healthy fat and unhealthy fat. Fat is Good However the tide is starting…
Is Fruit Healthy? We’ve been told ad nausem – without question – that we should eat our fruits and vegetables. But what if this advice wasn’t so good? In some writing that I’m working on, I titled a section “The Fruit Fallacy – An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Paid” that addresses this long…
“Are GMOs Bad?” GMOs, Genetically Modified Organisms, are a complicated subject. You will hear how they are saving the world or ruining it. While watering my plants, I had a thought about GMO crops specifically. Then you can decide if you think they are good or bad. Here’s the tweetstorm version of it (and under my saved…
“Does Red Meat Cause Cancer?” Countless people have tried to pin cancer on red meat, but what’s the truth? It was a reason why Dr. Layne Norton, a very smart PhD who is not a slouch when it comes to nutrition and physiology, said a carnivore diet is a stupid idea – yet i did…
Intermittent Fasting Intermittent fasting (IF) is largely used for 2 reasons: Autophagy Calorie Control (fat loss) Should you do it? How often? Here’s how I like to look at it: Here’s my tweetstorm on the whole thing (the original Insta story is saved under I.F. fyi): Most people do intermittent fasting for 2 major reasons:…