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June 5 - June 25, 2022
fats? William Castelli, the director of another study in Framingham, Massachusetts, that started in 1948 and is currently in its third generation of participants, has an answer: “We found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active” (emphasis added).
what. In a review of seventeen observational studies covering 263,938 total participants, no correlation was found between egg consumption and heart disease or stroke. Surprise, surprise, a lot of evidence points to sugar, particularly fructose and high-fructose corn syrup, as the culprit instead.
54 percent of doctors still believed that dietary cholesterol (like what is found in egg yolks) significantly correlated to elevated levels of bad cholesterol.
Fats make dairy taste good, and they make dairy good for us.
coconut yogurt brands, including the one from New Earth Superfoods,
Skipping Is Better Than Cheating
You’re going to be far better off skipping breakfast altogether and waiting until you can get a good lunch or a snack with actual nutrients involved, rather than eating a bunch of sugar.
There is a time and place for sugar—it’s just never going to be at breakfast.
studies have found less muscle loss from fasting than from long-term calorie restriction.
As far as your macronutrient balance, just focus on substituting good fats for the sugar and simple carbs. Eat whatever protein and fiber you like; as long as you add fat and cut the sugar,
it never hurts to give yourself a full break.
The longer we carry an idea, and the more times we access it, the deeper that idea becomes grooved in our psyche.
when being right about something is your career, you have even more reason not to admit you might have been wrong.
Flexibility of thought is one of the greatest attributes any human being can have,
a disturbing percentage of the food we’re eating is so processed that even insects won’t eat it.
the 100 trillion bacterial organisms in our guts far outweigh the amount of “human” cells we have in our body.
studies show that almost half the people living in the United States are magnesium-deficient.
low magnesium has been linked to diabetes, hypertension, sudden cardiac death, headaches, asthma, and a lot of other ailments.
Your body slows down, and it sends up warning signs in the form of irritability, fatigue, loss of appetite,...
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consequences for vitamin D deficiency feels like a roll call at the sick ward: depression, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s disease.
A supplement is something that enhances or completes something else. It is anything that you do to intentionally boost your nutritional profile or increase performance.
getting twenty minutes of sun is a supplement
not a substitute for solid food and physical activity.
you can’t just take a pill and own the day if you eat like a sloth and move like one too.
GREENS BLEND
MAGNESIUM
KRILL OIL: SUPPLEMENT OMEGA-3
SUPPLEMENT VITAMIN D
too much sun is bad for the skin, but not enough sun means we don’t get adequate vitamin D.
important for over two hundred bodily processes, concerning everything from optimal mood to bone health.
has been shown in clinical research to help reduce body fat mass, maintain muscle mass and reduce fractures, and correct mood-related issues.
SUPPLEMENT PROBIOTICS
Saccharomyces boulardii.
we are at war against nutrient deficiency.
ACTIVE B VITAMINS
Sunwarrior, Healthforce Superfoods, NuMedica, and LivOn.
avoid most supplements that contain heavy caffeine; it’s there to cover up the weaknesses of the core product.
We are the accumulated momentum of all our choices.
The key things to consider supplementing are greens, probiotics, B vitamins, krill oil, vitamin D, and additional minerals.
you don’t need a million dollars to relax and do nothing.
Mindfulness is simply being aware and conscious in the present moment. That’s it.
Rohn who said, “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Aubrey Marcus Podcast.
The Joe Rogan Experience,
Lewis Howes’s School of Greatness
Jocko Wi...
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diet and lifestyle, I listen to Ben Greenfield’s and Shawn S...
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If you are going to own the day, you have to own the hour, and you have to own the minute.
Spend your minutes investing in your future self, filling your emotional coffers, and building value and enjoyment, or spend minutes depleting your emotional bank account.
We all have the same amount of the only currency that matters: time. To spend your minutes well—that is the only goal of a life well lived.
