In my review of VSL#3 Probiotic, I touched on a paper published in the Obesity journal, this October 2015 titled:
They concluded that:
VSL#3 supplementation appears to have provided some protection from body mass gain and fat accumulation in healthy young men consuming a High-fat and high-energy diet.
This of course made me curious. Some questions that immediately popped into my mind included: How did they run this experiment? … Read More
Once a few coworkers discovered the fact that I run a health website they asked me for some guidance in their efforts to lose weight as part of their New Year’s resolutions.
I thought it’d be fun to do some informal coaching to help them with their goals, especially since they were so motivated.
Unlike me, they don’t consider themselves to be biohackers or quantified-selfers, they don’t read health blogs or listen to paleo podcasts religiously, and they definitely don’t do blood tests or finger pricks for the fun of it.… Read More
Continuing with my theme this week of following Jimmy Moore’s fasting/cholesterol experiments here are my notes on Jimmy’s lipid panel after his second 17 day fast.
If you’d like to learn more about Jimmy you can check out his blog at LivingLaVidaLowCarb.com or read his books Cholesterol Clarity and Keto Clarity which I’ve reviewed here and here.
Here are some of the previous posts I’ve written about his blood tests:
Here are the links to the previous posts in this series:
I follow Jimmy Moore regularly on twitter and a few months ago he tweeted something that really got my attention: he managed to normalize his cholesterol!
The thing is, he hasn’t been posting his results in the typical blog format and instead has been reading them off on video-logs (vlogs) on Periscope which I’ve been too lazy to install.
I’ve finally hunkered down and figured out how to use Periscope and watched the episode where he revealed his results. Of course I took some notes and will share them here.… Read More
I came across an article on written by Dr. Crownover, a sports medicine physician, about five dietary interventions that can improve tendon health, and it got me thinking about all the different things that I’m doing currently doing to maintain my connective tissue health.
In the past year, as I’ve increased my training volume to BJJ 4-5x per week and weightlifting 1-2x per week, I’ve luckily avoided any significant injuries to set me back.
(I did have a minor bout of tendinitis at one point when I stupidly doubled my BJJ training volume to almost 10 sessions in one week… but I managed to recover after a week or two of rest and some ART).… Read More
In my last post I shared the notes I took from my consultation with the lipidologist. During that initial meeting she ordered all the labs we discussed and many that we didn’t.
After a week the results came back and we discussed them over the phone. Unfortunately there was a lab screw up and a bunch of the insulin resistance labs she ordered weren’t processed.
I of course took diligent notes that I’ll share below. As a warning, like the past couple of posts in this series, things do get a bit dense and technical, but I’d rather give you more information than less. … Read More