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Feedback from a 180 Nutrition Program Graduate Salt Improves Circulation Last few years, traveling on the plane was becoming so uncomfortable for me. After 13 hour flights to Japan, my legs get so puffy. It used to be easier to get rid of this problem after the flight when I was younger, I just had [...]
by Dr Raymond Peat A year ago GlaxoSmithKline bought Sirtris, a company focusing on the biological effects of resveratrol, for $720,000,000. Harvard Medical School’s website, and broadcasts by Barbara Walters and Morley Safer have publicized resveratrol as a longevity-increasing drug, and millions of people are spending large amounts of money for resveratrol capsules. The main [...]
Training Rates (effective April 25th, 2011) FPS Membership rates are good for four weeks with a number of sessions weekly of your choosing. All fees for unlimited sessions are paid upfront in full – cash, check, paypal (debit/credit). I will match the rates of any other fitness professional that your friends or family may be working [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD “But the philosophy of Causes & Consequences misled Lavater as it has all his Contemporaries. Each thing is its own cause & its own effect.” W. Blake, c. 1788 What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD “Over the oxygen supply of the body carbon dioxide spreads its protecting wings.” Friedrich Miescher, Swiss physiologist, 1885 To reach useful simplicities, we usually have to sift through the accumulated rationalizations previous generations have produced to justify doing things their way. If we could start with an accurate understanding of what [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Diet, exercise, and medicine, damaging or repairing respiratory metabolism MAIN IDEAS AND CONTEXTS Lactic acid and carbon dioxide have opposing effects. Intense exercise damages cells in ways that cumulatively impair metabolism. There is clear evidence that glycolysis, producing lactic acid from glucose, has toxic effects, suppressing respiration and killing cells. Within [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD The biological idea of stress refers to the difficulty of adapting, and this involves energy, structure, and insight/orientation. Given enough energy, we can often adjust our structure to achieve full adaptation, and with insight, we can minimize the amount of energy and structural change needed, for example just by a change [...]
Part 2: Skin cancers — And Ultraviolet radiation by Barry Groves All types of skin cancer are attributed to exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) part of the spectrum of sunlight. UV is classified as three distinct wavebands: A, B and C. They are all believed to contribute to the development of skin cancer. UVA rays [...]
Sunlight Information: Skin Cancers and Vitamin D by Barry Groves Introduction For the past several decades the numbers of skin cancers, and particularly the deadly one, malignant melanoma, have risen dramatically among Caucasian populations throughout the world. In the USA melanoma is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer with a rate of 14.2 cases per [...]
A new look at an old way to get big and strong by Charles Poliquin Supersets and tri-sets allow you to perform a lot of work in a short period of time. The rest-pause method allows you to use heavier weights so you can recruit the higher-threshold muscle fibers, and eccentric training enables you to [...]
