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The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: October 26, 2014

Posted on October 26, 2014July 16, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

This was one of the side streets in the walled Old Town of Dubrovnik… also known as King’s Landing.

I always enjoy reading different points of view… like this article written against ketogenic diets. He somehow manages to equate ketogenic diets with Adolf Hitler. If you’ve read any of my stuff at all, you’ll probably know already that I disagree with a lot of what he says… but despite this, I found this to be an interesting read. One point I want to emphasize is that you can go ketogenic without having to measure ketones at all..

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: October 19, 2014

Posted on October 19, 2014October 20, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

This is a view from within one of the cavernous beer tents in Oktoberfest at Munich from my recent trip to Germany. They had some of the best tasting rotisserie chicken and beer that I’ve had… This was taken at around 10 am, and you can see that it’s pretty full. As the day progresses and gets later and later these tents really pack up… but no one seems to mind because the beer is flowing!

This episode of South Park has been making the rounds in the paleo-sphere, and I have to say I laughed out loud a couple times, especially when they go into the perils of gluten… and what it can make fly…
Another article about Lebron’s diet to go with the many others out there, only this one has pictures of his food!

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: October 7, 2014

Posted on October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

The BJJ Cavewife and I just got back from a trip through Germany and Croatia that included a visit to Oktoberfest and Dubrovnik (pictured above). Needless to say, as with all of our recent trips, thoughts of macros and nutrition and nutrient timing all went out the window. If I saw something on the street or in a store or on a menu that piqued my interest, I went for it… Now we’re glad to be home and ready to start eating healthily again.

NPR wrote an enlightening piece about synthetic biology which is the next step beyond GMO, in which they take genes from a plant and introduce them into a yeast culture to produce products more efficiently than nature.

The BJJ Caveman’s Random Reading: September 24, 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

While I wasn’t planning on it… it seems that ‘sleep’ has emerged as a theme in the past couple posts and what I’ve found my attention wandering to in my free moments. Could be because I’m in the middle of a tough series of overnight shifts and am feeling tired and sleep deprived and just plain exhausted and enervated.

Robb Wolf wrote a post about how important sleep is, and how he thinks it’s more important than both diet and exercise… something I agree 100% with.

The Benefits of Incremental Carb Introduction

Posted on April 9, 2014October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

This is a post written by Sarah Strange, one of the trainers at Robb Wolf’s Norcal Strength and Conditioning gym detailing her initial love affair with going low carb and then the subsequent struggles she encountered after going low carb for too long. She even had some unsuccessful trials with Carb Nite and Carb-Backloading which didn’t seem to help her.

The thing that finally worked for her was:

So what am I trying to say with all this? I’m saying that for any of you out there struggling to reintroduce carbs and continually hitting the wall, that carefully measured, small incremental increases a week might just set you free.

Random Links

Posted on April 8, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Random Links

Guess who else is playing with the Ketonix?

Interesting idea suggesting LDL is elevated because of a deficiency in tryptophan… although I don’t think this applies to me because I definitely get enough tryptophan in my diet with all the meat and eggs that I consume.

I really like the idea that Peter Attia also seems to have an inner fat kid in him that likes him some dessert… and now has incorporated his own cheat days… albeit only 4 times a year… but still.… Read More