The BJJ Cavewife and a few of her friends are taking part in an online Superhero Unleashed challenge run by Emily Schromm whom we first encountered on one of Robb Wolf’s podcasts. Since many of the BJJ Cavewife’s friends are new to the whole paleo thing they had a lot of questions about some of the requirements in the challenge, namely the whole ‘no sugar’ and ‘no refined carbs’ thing. When the BJJ Cavewife couldn’t explain things well enough she turned to me and I wrote this post as way to help them out.… Read More
Even Ben Greenfield Has Thyroid Problems While In Ketosis
Even Ben Greenfield Has Thyroid Problems While In Ketosis
In the span of a week or so, Ben Greenfield appeared on Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Exec podcast AND John Kiefer’s Body IO FM podcast where he discusses his experience training for and performing in Iron Man races while in full nutritional ketosis.
He describes one of the main side effects that he encountered being severe hypothyroidism… manifesting as severe sensitivity to cold, poor libido, and poor overall energy.
The way they treated this was to eat a lot of liver, dessicated thyroid, and sweetbreads which seemed to fix things for him.… Read More
A Successful Targeted Ketogenic Diet Experiment
This is a guest post written by Bosona who I met through one of the reddit/keto threads where he shared the findings of his own n=1 experiment using a targeted ketogenic diet (TKD), with great results. I asked him if he was willing to write a guest post for this site describing his experiment in more detail and he kindly agreed.
I think it’s useful for folks who visit to see that not all experiments with variants of ketogenic diets end up with crazy lab numbers. … Read More
Metamoris 3 is HERE!!!!!!!
BJJ Rank Cloud T-Shirt
Wanted to plug a cool T-shirt I came across from Ranked Gear, run by Jason Scully. Here was his premise for these shirts:
… Read MoreI asked hundreds of BJJ players of all ranks what 5 SINGULAR WORDS best describes what it is like to be and experience EACH Brazilian Jiu Jitsu rank. These are all emotions, feelings, and experiences from BJJ practitioners around the world.
Then I collected each word that pertained to each rank and I created Rank Word Clouds that create the rank that each word represent.
Interview with the BJJ Caveman on the Fat2FitHQ Podcast
Interview with the BJJ Caveman on the Fat2FitHQ Podcast
I was recently asked to be a guest on the Fat2FitHQ podcast (or if you want to listen to it directly on iTunes you can check it out here), which was a pleasant surprise since I had never been interviewed before… except for jobs of course. I have to admit that I was a little nervous, especially since this podcast was at one point ranked #7 in the iTunes Outdoor category.
I’m glad I did it. … Read More