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Why do dogs so varaciously sit for hours chewing on a bone? Is it because they are bored? Heck NO! It’s because that is one of the places you’ll find the most nutrition packed away in a solid container. Bones are packed with protein, calcium and a myriad of other minerals and nutrients that we may be missing from our diets. One of the biggest things that Paleo followers avoid is organ meat. Animals usually go for the liver first in a wild game kill because it is truly one of the worlds best super foods. So what is another way we can make sure we are maximizing our health and to add to that our money?

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I have a friend that reversed his MS by following a Ketogenic diet and taking LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone) for a year. The fact that our bodies do not get what it needs to protect itself takes it toll over decades and that is why so many strange diseases are increasingly being seen at a rate of 600% or more than 50 years ago.
 
Dr Terry Wahl’s was a doctor that came down with Multiple Sclerosis. After being wheelchair bound she decided to fight back with more than medication.
 
Watch her informational and inspirational TED Talk.

These top 5 mistakes that people make on a Ketogenic diet do not come from some comprehensive study performed in a laboratory, but from my own experience helping people correct issues or put on muscle while on a ketogenic diet. They are also mistakes I have made recently.

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Is Salt bad?

Turns out that all that sodium in our fast food isn’t much of a problem so all you salt-o-phobes can chill out, eat right and quit worrying about eating too much salt! Since this does fly in the face of everything doctors are out there saying they of course want to recommend not taking the study too seriously as they don’t feel as though they have enough info yet!

So it turns out that cutting your salt does not decrease your heart risks. So cut your carb intake and your body will regulate your salt level automatically!

The findings were posted in the Journal of the American Medical Association and available to read about on Reuters located HERE

After spending a week watching the Starz hit Spartacus, I was curious to find out if Gladiators were actually in incredibly ripped shape and what they ate if that were the case. It turns out that Gladiators were called Barley Men. They ate a primarily vegetarian diet that was in no way similiar to the normal free living inhabitants they entertained. They ate no animal protein but mostly barley and legumes for the purpose of gaining weight. A gladiator who was overweight was able to be cut and bleed more while being able to continue fighting. If a gladiator was lean and cut it would have cut into muscle and the chance of the gladiator being able to continue was greatly reduced. So in a recap, a vegetarian high grain, high legume diet was used to fatten them up!

To read into more detail the archeological article is located here

I found this interview of an Endocrinologist that treats Infertility to go right along with the science I have been reading about lately from several studies.

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Let’s start with a brutal evaluation of being in Ketosis for over 2 months straight. I did not get enough sleep, I missed too many of my daily supplements and I only got two or less days of workouts in each week. Some weeks I did not get in a workout at all.

This last week I was not very concerned with staying in Ketosis after getting my blood test done. I cheated several days this week. Just eating ‘NORMAL’ I managed to go up 7 lbs on the scale in a week. Most fo this being water weight. It’s good I’m not trying to actually lose body fat yet!

As of tomorrow I will be back in ketosis and I will be doing a CKD (Cyclical Ketogenic Diet). I find this to be the best long term method of eating based off of everything I’ve studied. It also seems to contain the best rate of long term success. On a CKD you ‘Carb Up’ about once a week for a period of time between 12 and 36 hours. This allows the opportunity for the depleted glycogen levels in your muscles to not just replenish but to supersaturate with energy. The flexibility also seems to allow a mental time of relaxation from even having to think about what you’re eating.

When you come out fo ketosis and begin to reintroduce carbohydrates into the diet in larger amounts you will find that your body will need more water to begin to store the carbohydrates throughout the body. This causes you to put on water weight due to the “hydrate” need of carbohydrates! So when you ease up a little bit expect to quickly gain a few pounds. Don’t worry about it because almost all of the water weight will be added to your muscles!

After finding out that our beloved US Department of Agriculture had updated the food pyramid in 2010, it was time to take a look at it.

Now I’m by any means not a farmer but I do know enough people who have farmed or had cattle that will tell you. If you want to fatten up a cow you need Read the rest of this entry »