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by Zachary Taylor on April 7, 2013
I find myself working more and more with people trying to lose fat. And there is nothing that forces you to learn faster than having someone sit across from you whose health is failing because of their weight.
As a result, I’ve spent far too long researching how to lose fat, gain muscle, and do it before someone’s motivational clock runs out. It’s taken me up and down the bookstore aisles and across the vast ocean of research journals and weight loss experts. It’s a dark and scary world, but I hope to shed some light on the path. Continue reading →
Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Ancestral Health & Nutrition, Ancestral Living, Carbohydrates & Starches, Exercise & Recreation, Obesity & Weight Issues, Sugar, Sweeteners, & Salt, Uncategorized, Understanding Fats & Oils |
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by Zachary Taylor on March 23, 2013
I once had the idea that raising and eating animals, particularly livestock, was a driving force behind destroying the planet. And so I tried to find a way of eating that I thought was healthy, but also protected our world.
That’s why I was a vegetarian for 3 years — I thought by not eating meat I could help save the planet. After all, Einstein thought it could. But Einstein was wrong. It’s not eating animals that destroys the grasslands — it’s how we raise and feed them. It has been the removal of livestock and their predators from grassland and putting them in commercial feed lots feeding them grain that has accelerated climate change and the desertification of our planet.
If you still believe driving a Prius or a Volt is more important than eating grass-fed meats, or that your 99-cent hamburger has nothing to do with climate change, desertification, or not being able to find an effective antibiotic for your child’s ear infection….read on. Continue reading →
Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Ancestral Living, Eating Meat & Organs, Eggs, Protecting the Planet, Traditional Farming |
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Tags: allan savory antibiotic resistance grass-based farms grassfeeding grasslands holistic management
by Zachary Taylor on March 6, 2013
The “Mediterranean” diet has made headlines once again with a new 5-year trial published in the February 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The headlines are claiming a “30% reduction in cardiac events.” This was an important study, the largest of its kind, but like all studies, it has its flaws and its implications for you and me are not as clear as the headlines would have you believe.
The idea was to see if adding a daily intake of olive oil and nuts to a “mediterranean” diet could help prevent heart attacks and stroke in this population of over 7,000 older and very high-risk individuals. So they created two experimental groups and tracked them for 5 years. Did adding all that olive oil and nuts make a difference?
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Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Ancestral Health & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Modern Dis-ease & Conditions, Nuts & Seeds, Understanding Fats & Oils |
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Tags: low fat mediterranean diet nuts olive oil
by Zachary Taylor on February 16, 2013
Ashley recently bought me a brand new juicer after being without one for some time. She settled on the Omega J8005 Masticating Juicer, which is probably my favorite overall among the mid-range juicers.
I got into juicing the way most of us got into it: staying up way too late being mesmerized by Jack Lalanne infomercials where he would show us his biceps and his personally branded juicer. I had a Juiceman II and loved it. I broke it several times and had to order replacement parts — I didn’t care. It was my tribute to the Juiceman himself. He’s one of my heroes, next only to Bob Ross.
Now that I’m back into the juicing groove, I wanted to share some tips and tricks from my own years of juicing, often learned the hard way. I like to think Jack would be proud. Continue reading →
Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Ancestral Health & Nutrition, Eating Fruits, Juicing, Vegetables & Greens |
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by Zachary Taylor on January 30, 2013
I’d like to share some research that not only shows the American Heart Association and the CDC may be quite wrong about their recommendations to lower salt intake to under 1.5grams per day, but that our bodies are biologically at war with such ideas.
For 40 years now we have been told by everyone from the government to our medical doctors that to stay healthy and live longer, we should keep salt intake to a minimum. The official US Guidelines caution us against eating more than 1,500mg per day (think 2-3 slices of bacon). But is there any truth to this? It turns out there’s not much.
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Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Heart Disease, Modern Dis-ease & Conditions, Sugar, Sweeteners, & Salt |
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by Zachary Taylor on January 20, 2013
What does it mean to age? Well, in the immortal words of a previous elderly patient, “it means I got no money and I can’t s#%t.”
True as that may be, scientists use a slightly different metric for aging, and the most advanced researchers are looking at a particular feature found on each strand of your DNA: telomeres.
Telomeres are like those plastic end caps at the end of your genetic shoelaces. They protect your DNA strands and keep them from fraying and you from aging. These telomeres shorten as you get older and some scientists now think they can use telomeres to calculate your real biological “age” — basically, the longer they are, the younger you are, and the less likely you are to get any number of chronic diseases. Protecting your DNA by could be the most important anti-aging key ever discovered. Here’s one way to do it:
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Posted in: Ancestral Health & Nutrition, Anti-Aging, Vitamins & Supplements |
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by Zachary Taylor on January 19, 2013
Ever wonder why people get more sick in the winter? There’s lot of theories, including that we spend more time indoors and close to others. One likely theory is that the flu virus can live longer outside a host in cold, dry air as proposed in a fascinating study here.
But there’s another reason I believe also completes this puzzle of why the flu only seems to come out in winter: Vitamin D deficiency makes us more susceptible to viral attack.
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Posted in: Ancestral Health & Nutrition, Modern Dis-ease & Conditions, Viruses and Infections, Vitamins & Supplements |
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by Zachary Taylor on September 1, 2012
Last week we ran out of eggs, which, according to my wife, is similar to the satellite going out during the finale of True Blood. A show I will never understand, but apparently a vampire named Bill is a real you-know-what.
I couldn’t get to the farm, so I had to buy some from the local grocery. When we finally got more pastured eggs, I took this rare opportunity to do a comparison. A little Egg v. Egg. A yolk-to-yolk death match. And I wanted to show you some things to look for in the eggs you serve in your own home.
So which egg will crack first? Will it be a scramble to the finish line? Or will this one be over-easy? Let’s boil it down. (I sincerely apologize for all this – it’s been a long week).
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Posted in: Ancestral Eating, Eggs |
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by Zachary Taylor on August 26, 2012
Today I want to introduce you to an amazing free application for your computer and mobile device. It’s called F.Lux, and it may change your life. I have no affiliation with the creator of F.lux, but I want to share it because I use it and believe in it.
Modern lighting at night — through lamps, TVs, and computer screens — are causing our biological clocks to break, and this breakdown is causing more problems than most of us realize. Right now, only researchers and sleep specialists are really tuned into the depth of the problem, though I think most of us intuitively know that excessive lighting at night is messing us up. F.Lux is one solution to this large problem.
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Posted in: Insomnia & Sleep Disorders, Modern Dis-ease & Conditions |
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Tags: apps brain health f.lux melatonin sleep
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I find myself working more and more with people trying to lose fat. And there is nothing that forces you to learn faster than having someone sit across from you whose health is failing because of their weight.
