Why cold thermogenesis? Because it’s a fundamental foundation for health and longevity.
Modern comforts lurk behind every Disease of Civilization. Obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis – you name it. Old bromides about diet and exercise provide minimal help. Prescription drugs undermine any possibility for long-term healing. The crucial missing piece for nearly everyone is cold thermogenesis – i.e., generating heat by getting cold. It is much, much more than heat, though. [Read more…]
The ‘real’ Paleo Diet is certainly much better than the Standard American Diet. The modern Paleo Diet, however, is pretty far from ancestral eating. 
If you’re a lab mouse, lucky you. There’s lots of good research on how to make mouse brains work better. If not one of those little guys, well … hedge your bets on brain health anyway. They reveal it to be as simple as getting coconut oil in your diet. 
Coconut oil seems to be useful for almost everything except engine fuel (so far). Even health scientists have been caught up in all the hullabaloo … PubMed lists nearly 1,600 research articles on it, almost half of them published in the 21st century. Its value is so high, and price is so low that EVERYONE should be using it every day. 
The most misunderstood and under-appreciated mineral that your health depends on is iodine. Unfortunately, almost everyone has iodine deficiency. Without enough of it, you have absolutely no chance of being as healthy as you should be. None. 
Sorting out the why, when, what, and how of fish oils is a mind-bending labyrinth of obfuscation. So-called ‘whole food’ fish oil supplements are far from whole and certainly not foods. Yet the right stuff is crucial for many aspects of good health. Here are some thoughts to guide you in deciding what to do about fish oils. 
The biggest killers in modern times are not heart disease or any kind of cancer. It is death by medicine – aka, iatrogenic disease. Here is just a little about what you should know and watch out for. 
Your single most important lifestyle choice for preventing and even reversing the Diseases of Civilization is your eating pattern, specifically the duration and frequency intermittent fasting (IF). Cardiovascular disease, dementia (including Alzheimer’s Disease), diabetes, obesity, cancer, arthritis, metabolic syndrome all respond positively to IF. 
When it comes to insulin resistance and diabetes, everyone agrees that eating right is vital for good health management of diabetes. If you don’t know what that means, then you will not recognize the bad dietary advice coming from mainstream medicine. 
Although your digestive system may seem to be simply a tube, with the mouth as its entrance the anus as its exit, the wide variety of jobs that it has says more about how complex it really is and why the good bacteria that live there are so important. The main tasks of the digestive system, of course, are to break down bulk food, absorb nutrients, and eliminate waste. It also plays a major role in the immune system. The lining of the small intestine, in fact, houses an astonishing 70% of the immune-producing cells in your body. This is right where probiotics come in handy.