Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance

There is a lot of talk about the impact that our diet has on our health. So much so that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made it a central tenet to their “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA agenda. A tenet that has led to insisting that medical schools teach nutrition as part of the core curriculum to physicians in the United States. A position that has been held for almost a...

Picking up the conversation that we started on how to build an exercise routine for continued success breaking through the misinformation within the narratives we tend use to form our perspectives about how to exercise, how hard we should exercise, and how we should progress our training in order to see improvements in our overall performance. Walking through how to incorporate some simple rules o...

Continuing our discussion on the quips and phrases, buzzwords and jargon that gets used by professionals looking at the ideas and concepts put forth by proponents of metabolic health and functional health. Is it worth listening to, what should I believe, well... let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack...

Continuing the discussion on the potential nonsense be spouted by individuals in positions of power overseeing our public health that has lead to the resurgence of myths that have been disproven or shown to only be true in very specific conditions. Nonsense that gets picked and published leading to confusion as what advice we should disregard and ignore, and what advice we should listen to and fol...

A lot of time the approach to exercise is as if everyone is trying to be either a bodybuilder or an athlete... even though most of us are simply trying to exercise to improvement our health. This disconnection means that many are following plans and programs centered on some very bad advice, or looking to see improvements that may not be realistic. Disconnections that are grounded in the myths tha...

There is a lot of nonsense be spouted by individuals in positions of power overseeing our public health that has lead to the resurgence of myths that have been disproven or shown to only be true in very specific conditions. Nonsense that gets picked and published leading to confusion as what advice we should disregard and ignore, and what advice we should listen to and follow... well, let's talk a...

Everyone that touts the benefits of ice baths and cold showers to the use of fasting speak of the benefits of autophagy... but what is autophagy and why is is going to supposedly making me healthy? Well, let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.inst...

There are a lot of quips and phrases, buzzwords and jargon that gets used by professionals to make us appear to be more of an expert but do all these quips and phrases mean what we think they mean, well... let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.in...

All food dyes are unsafe... sugar is bad for you... you get fat from the fat in your diet... so many food myths persist but are any of these myths true and which should we disregard and ignore... let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.co...

It's that time of the year where we move clocks ahead 1 whole hour and as a result we lose productivity... lose sleep... feel tired... feel jet lagged without even traveling. Let's revisit the conversation we had about a year ago dealing with how a small time change that makes us feel this way? Is there something we can do to combat it? Something we might be able to take to help with easing the ef...

There has been a lot of talk about getting your "steps in" and using "light long duration" exercise, but does it matter if my cardio is in Zone 2 or not?. Let's take a few minutes and discuss if we need to be concerned about what zone we train in and if the hype around zone 2 is true. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack...

We keep mention ideas of fatness and overfatness and its negative impact that it might have on our health, well let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/sci.health.performance/ Threads @ https://www.threads.net/@sci.health.performance...

We keep hearing that women at menopause will start to suffer from osteoporosis... that we need calcium and vitamin D in our diet to make our bone strong... but what is the truth about bone strength and bone health, well let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @...

Health and fitness is often treated as big business, because to some it is... there are lucrative markets, most of them completely unregulated or very poorly regulated that forces us to have to become experts in physiology, pathology, endocrinology, medicine to wade through a lot of misinformation and disinformation that is out there. But what if that misinformation and disinformation is coming fr...

There is a lot of noise about gut health, a lot of advertisements about how a healthy gut is essential for overall health. In this noise, we often hear a lot about probiotics or prebiotics and the need to use supplements that contain either probiotics or prebiotics or both, but what exactly are these supplements and what benefit do they offer? Well, let's talk about that... Please make sure to fol...

Does it matter if I skip a meal? Is there a problem with eating late at night? There is a lot of noise out there, so much so that we get bombarded with a host of opinions and recommendations, most of which have less than adequate strength of support. Let's take a few minutes and discuss if we need to be concerned about either if we are trying to limit gaining weight or potentially lose weight. Ple...

There is a lot of talk about "getting your steps in" each day. So much so that at times it gets treated like a running gag, but is there truth behind the advertisement? Is walking and walking for a specific number of steps each day the key to our long-term health? Well, let's talk about that.. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education...

There has been a lot of takes over the last few days following the publication of an new advisory from the US Seurgon General pertaining to alcohol consumption and cancer risks, everything from "nanny-state overreach" to "it's about time" but what should we take away from the advisory and what is the evidence to support the opinion that alcohol might cause cancers. Well, let's talk about that... P...

One of the aspects of training and exercise that is often taken for granted is when in the day I should do my exercise. And if you ask a trainer or medical professional, you might get a host of differing ideas as to when it might be best to exercise… So, let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https:...

As we get to the holiday season, too often we are presented with a false thought that having a feast is somehow going to ruin your diet, the chances of making your weight loss goals, or your overall health... but one day or two of feasting won't ruin your health any more than one day or two of fasting will get you to those goals. Worse... thinking this way can lead to eating disorder like issues....

There is often a lot of conversation about which is the best and how much is too much when it comes to dietary supplements, especially as we confuse that a little might be of benefit but a lot may be harmful. With this idea in mind, let's talk about why we might take supplements along with taking an look at if there is actual value to using them... NIH Database- Dietary Supplements NIH Database- B...

We hear a lot of people blaming the tryptophan in our turkey meals for causing the food comas that we will be suffering from on Thanksgiving, but how true are the claims? Well, let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/sci.health.perfor...

There is a lot of talk about people having specific learning styles or that people have trouble learning new things when they get older. But what most of these discussions miss is how the changes in the neurons actually occur that leads to learning or forgetting. So, how might neuron changes explain the complexity of learning. Well, let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: Yo...

There is a recent study that has gained popularity across various news feeds that indicates that few minutes of exercise is all you need to improve blood pressure... but how? Well, let's talk about that. Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/sci.health.pe...

There are a lot of discussion going on that many of the convenient foods we have in our house, in our school lunches, that we have for snacks cause health issues or weight gain; that there are "healthier" alternatives we should be choosing... But how true are the claims... Well let's talk about that... Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific. Health. E...