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Send us Fan Mail I know, that sounds a bit strange, to say the least- give up an incredibly popular and overprescribed drug   and eat a small fish instead- what??   My point is this: the modern, 1970’s based medical establishment, which is totally drug based, has been enlisted to force feed us all lots of statins and other drugs, and for what?   PROFIT.   That is the bottom line!   Profits from st...

Send us Fan Mail One place that folks who strive to eat healthy fall down at is in their consumption of vegetable oils- corn, soy, canola- the list goes on, and they are all basically really bad.   The big one I notice is margarine, which is actually worse than just the fake oil it is made from, since the hydrogenation process it undergoes to make it solid loads it up with trans-fats, which are th...

Send us Fan Mail For many, many years I went to gyms.   I lifted weights at the YMCA, and ran on the streets.   I also did some stretching, but it was kind of hit and miss.   Those were my younger days…   Now, I am in my 66 th year, and I have learned a lot since I started seriously working out in my 20’s!   In the beginning, I followed the bodybuilding advice of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Za...

Send us Fan Mail I have been experimenting with Xylitol for a while now, and while this low calorie sweetener is almost exactly like sugar when substituted for it, the results of it on the body are amazingly different!   For one: sugar is deadly to oral health!   Sugar in your mouth is tantamount to oral suicide, since sugar feeds the bad bacteria that causes tooth decay, and also results long ter...

Send us Fan Mail All of us here are aspiring or existing Paleo People- or at least we should be!   We want to get in touch with nature, and live our lives in harmony with the natural world of health and wellness, eating real foods that are healthy and nutritious, and eliminating fake food like substances pushed upon us by the mainstream, like grains, sugars, and processed foods and sugary crap.  ...

Send us Fan Mail Blood pressure, most importantly the notion of high blood pressure, is a long-running pool of misinformation and bad treatment.   The measurement of taking the blood pressure originated in 1905, and has not changed since then!   It was actually discovered in the 1880’s, but the final measuring system was finalized in 1905-   Hardly cutting edge science and medicine!    But the med...

Send us Fan Mail Now I know- all you hear about lately is Keto this and Keto that; not nearly as much paleo as was the case a few years ago!   That’s typical- people are rather faddish, all following the latest trend, and abandoning something else- even if it was working wonderfully for them!    But, far more commonly, they jump on the next bandwagon, before ever really committing to, and followin...

Send us Fan Mail This is the true iteration of this endless plea, and is one that actually makes sense!   Black Lives Matter means very little indeed.   But Black Nights Matter- well, this is important stuff.   If you are sleeping in a room with windows that let light into your bedroom, you probably have no idea that this is one of the most pernicious things that you can do to your health.   For h...

Send us Fan Mail I am getting a little confused by the paleo community all seemingly running like lemmings into the land of Ketosis!   As if, all of a sudden, the goal of ancestral living is to just get to ketosis, stay in ketosis, and glory in ketosis…   Getting into a ketogenic state is important- it is one tool in our paleo health toolbox.   I don’t deny this.   But to go on and on and on about...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s say you want to be healthy- a healthy, paleo type of a person!   You clean up your diet, substituting good fats and pastured proteins for your processed carbs and sugary stuff.   You start to exercise, and use body weight movements instead of machines and weights, and start walking and sprinting barefoot instead of jogging long, slow distances in heavily cushioned running sh...

Send us Fan Mail That’s prunes- that of course is what a dried plum is!   And recent studies have shown that prunes have amazing health benefits, and also taste really good.   But the big news is that you can actually reverse osteoporosis within your bones by consuming prunes.   It has been thought that once the bones lose minerals, they cannot be regained.   Thus, people as they age, in particula...

Send us Fan Mail I mainly plan to talk about actual balance- the balance so crucial to the human body.   But when I think about it, it is so obvious that balance as a notion is so important in every single aspect of our lives!   But let’s talk about the physical type of balance first.   I have been thinking quite a bit about this issue of balance lately, because I have been seeing so many instance...

Send us Fan Mail Now is the time when most folks are exercising.   And I do mean now- for the first week or two of the New Year.   I drive by local gyms, it seems there are endless versions all over my little community, all of whose parking lots are full.   For now.   I always wonder, ‘if there are all of these gyms, almost everywhere, and all of these people belong and go on a regular basis- why...

Send us Fan Mail   NSAIDS- Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.   You can get them over the counter, and there are others that you need a prescription for, but the bottom line is this: the short-term pain relief they offer comes at a huge price: the high risk of ruining your health!   I have posted an infographic from mercola.com that details the many problems with taking these drugs at www.pale...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes I think I get a little ‘out there’ on things, and I’m afraid this is one of those times.   I truly believe that nurturing your creative self, that part of you that does more than just work for a living, and then, when all the work is done, both at home and at your workplace, you just seek entertainment.   Now, I am not averse to entertainment itself, not at all.   I’ve p...

Send us Fan Mail Here is the thing about isometrics: almost everyone dismisses them!   There is no rhyme or reason about it.   My feeling is that no one has actually looked at the research, or ever experimented with this form of exercise- I mean, how can it be that pushing hard against an immovable resistance for a matter of seconds can:   Lower blood pressure, dramatically! Strengthen that muscle...

Send us Fan Mail Much is made in paleo circles of the importance of engaging in a “tribe”, whether it be family, neighborhood, church family, or even a stone-age tribe, should you happen to have one.   (And I don’t mean old Flintstone episodes)!   In fact, I am one of those espousing the essential nature of having a tribe.   It really is a necessary thing, for both physical and mental health.   BU...

Send us Fan Mail Once again, as we should be getting used to in modern medicine: they have gotten it all wrong! We have been told for decades and decades, at least since the early 1970’s, that high salt consumption is the worst thing ever, and it will kill us, giving us high blood pressure, and also heart disease after that.   Salt is bad bad bad, and we should do our best to consume as little sal...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most productive and efficient ways to work out is using something called aerobic isometrics.   It actually sounds contradictory, for after all isn’t isometric exercise working against an immovable object for time?   And isn’t aerobics moving the body at a steady state for a longer period of time?   Yes and yes.   But they actually come together very well, and when done...

Send us Fan Mail A growing trend has begun troubling me in the paleo sphere- concentrating on minutae.   Little things, in other words.    Instead of just focussing on the large issues in what is wrong in health and fitness these days, most of the paleo “in crowd” seem to be trying to distinguish themselves by choosing some small niche in the field, and going on and on about how important that one...

Send us Fan Mail Maybe you haven’t heard of sulphurophane.   Maybe you have.   But you need to know that it comes from cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower, as well as all of the greens that most folks don’t eat anymore!   Turnip greens, collards, cabbage and kale, brussels sprouts and surprisingly horseradish, which I love!   The thing is this: our ancestral relations all ate ton...

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Send us Fan Mail One thing you should definitely have in your paleolithic arsenal is apple cider vinegar, or ACV!   It is inexpensive, in fact, you can make your own, and also widely available   in stores.   The flagship brand is Bragg’s Apple Cider vinegar, but lately other brands have appeared on the market.   Just make sure you get the unfiltered ACV, not the standard clear version- you want it...