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.
Just watched this very interesting lecture by Nora Gedgaudas of Primal Body Primal Mind fame in which she explains that much of what the paleo community considers ‘adrenal fatigue’ is actually the result of central nervous system fatigue. There are quite a few moving parts before we get to the point where the adrenals secrete cortisol:
And a whole bunch of inflammatory cascades and feedback loops act on these parts of the brain, which then determine what the adrenals do!… Read More
Over the past couple years, I’ve placed quite a bit of stress upon my circadian machinery, what with all the overnight shift work (either 7pm to 7am or 4pm to 4am) and all of the time spent traveling, that I’ve felt the need to explore supplemental support. These are the various supplements I’ve been experimenting with off and on.
Now I don’t take them all at once, and I don’t take any of them regularly, but I do have them in my toolbox. There are some that I’ve found more helpful than others and some that I’m still trying to decide whether or not I’ve just spent money on expensive urine. … Read More
Fitness Nerds Podcast with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino
Gymnastic Bodies with Coach Christopher Sommer
Every once in awhile you’ll come across someone that will completely reshape the way you think about things, and you’ll walk away feeling amazed and wondering why you never saw things in this light before. I’ve felt this when I’ve encountered the works of folks like Tim Ferriss, Mark Sisson, Robb Wolf, John Kiefer, Dave Asprey, and Jimmy Moore.
The most recent guy I’m adding to this list is Coach Christopher Sommer, who is a coach for the US gymnastics team, and appeared on a couple of Robb Wolf’s podcasts (Episode 213 and Episode 230). … Read More
Bulletproof Radio Podcast Q&A Notes
These are some notes that I took from Dave Asprey’s most recent Q&A podcast. You can listen to the full episode here and check out the entire transcript here.
This is by no means meant to be complete. If you want the complete breakdown just go ahead and read through the transcript, although there are quite a few transcription errors (seems like they use either automated software or a foreign transcription service), so listening to the podcast will be more accurate.… Read More