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Most Americans nowadays are severely overmedicated, malnourished, and sick!
This sounds like an extreme statement, but is nevertheless true.
Most adults are on a number of drugs, from anti-depressants, statins, high blood pressure drugs; drugs to help you sleep, and drugs to wake you up. The average number of drugs the average American is on at any one time, are 7. At a cost of $1200 dollars per year, per person.
Of course, this is excluding the cost of going to see the medical doctor, and whatever procedure he decides you should have⊠Oftentimes, procedures and tests are given that result in huge bills for the patient, and those expensive tests are totally unnecessary.
Also, you can be prescribed drugs for which the doctor receives a âkickbackâ of commission for prescribing them. All of this is ethically highly dubious, but it goes on regardless.
Is it any wonder that medical bills are the number one reason for bankruptcy? Perhaps this is why anti-depressants are one of the biggest drugs to be prescribed!
How many drugs should a person be on? NONE! But this does not seem to be the goal of the doctor at all anymore. They just keep on prescribing, and never get around to weaning you OFF the drugs, which ALL have side effects, which you get another drug prescribed to to treat THOSE effects. This is a pernicious system, that feeds endlessly on itself, making us sicker, and more dysfunctional as time goes on.
Drugs are just treating our messed up lifestyles! A calorie restricted, low fat diet of processed and fast foods. A lack of good exercise, sunshine, and good sleep. Fulfilling relationships and conversation with the TV OFF are the best âprescriptionsâ you could ever have in your life. Getting out in nature with your bare feet in the grass and strolling down a woodland path will do more for your health than any stupid cholesterol drug can ever do!
Be a stoic! 1Moderation in All Things: Adopt a balanced lifestyle, incorporating healthy eating, moderate exercise, and ample rest.
Mindful Awareness: Practice mindfulness and self-awareness to understand and control impulses related to diet and exercise.Acceptance of the Uncontrollable: Recognize that certain health factors are beyond our control. Embrace acceptance and focus on how you respond to these circumstances.Mind-Body Symbiosis: Understand the profound link between mental and physical health. Nourish both aspects through positive thoughts and self-care practices.Rely on yourself, in other words. Be your OWN doctor! Drugs are usually NOT the answer.
The only real breakthrough of Western medicine was the discovery of penicillin and the whole class of antibiotics. Alexander Fleming discovered that this type of fungus had an antibacterial property. This led to discovery of the drugs that could treat deadly diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis and many others that wiped out these heretofore untreatable diseases!
This gave western medicine and your medical doctor a halo effect; such that now doctors are regarded as near god-like in their wisdom. No, they just gained access to a form of drug that is amazingly effective!
And what was the treatment of choice for Tuberculosis in the old days?
Doctors could only advise their patients to rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors.
This is still the very best advice you can give to people today. Itâs the very best we can do, overall!
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An Easter Story
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Chapter 3
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Part 2
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Chapter 1
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A Barbarian in Chicago full audiobook by Jay Bowers
This episode, I decided to include the audio readings of my book. I write under the names Jay Bowers, and Jess Thornton.
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I know, youâve heard it from standard medical advice your whole life:
âYou donât need supplements! Everything your body and mind needs is in the food you eat!â
Well, this might have been true, even a couple of hundred years ago, to some extent. But nowadays, when the majority of the âfake, engineered foodsâ most people ingest; things like seed oils instead of real animal fat, and soda pop and fruit juices instead of actual water, and fast food fake meat and white buns instead of real pastured meat- well, most of us donât really eat real food anymore!
A good first step for most of us at this point is to make a real commitment to health and wellness- commit to eating a carnivore diet! This means that you forget all the junk youâve been eating, and just eat meat, salt, seafood, and eggs for awhile. Nothing else!
I know, Iâve preached a good paleo type of diet for a long time now: meat, eggs, seafood, along with full fat dairy, fermented yogurt and kefir, and even a bit of sour dough bread from time to time, along with veggies and fruits, mainly berries and citrusâŠ
And I still stand by that, long term. But this is a ârebootâ if you are a SAD standard American Diet person. You need to âreawakenâ your whole body and mind to reality.
So, you go carnivore for two weeks, say. Suddenly, your body will reawaken to what it really needs; not pizza, and tacos with Mc Donaldâs crappy hamburgers and seed oil-drenched fries. Just meat, and salt! And eggs and seafood, thatâs all pilgrim.
Two weeks, thatâs all, and youâll be a new man/woman. (Not trans!! That doesnât really exist anywayâŠ)
I guarantee you will feel great- but you will also be happy that now you can embrace a true diet for the rest of your life- the Paleo Diet! The diet of your ancestors, ALL of them. Not vegan (NO ONE ever followed that diet in the past), not vegetarian (ditto), and definitely NOT the SAD modern American fast food crap and fake food diet of misery!
NOW you can include not only meat, eggs and seafood, but you can include full fat dairy like butter, yogurt and kefir, vegetables in your smoothies along with raw eggs, apple cider vinegar and cod liver oil and fruits. Occasional sour dough bread and nut butter- you are now living large!
Just keep out all the modern crap. And supplement (I use liquid vitamin D and liquid iodine (lugalâs solution) in my smoothie), but you can go with tablets if youâd like. For, in our modern depleted soils, especially here in the goiter belt of the upper midwest, iodine and vitamin D are musts!!
Iodine is an utter must, and in addition to fluoride being dumped into our municipal water supplies, that poison makes iodine even more unavailable to us. Iodine is an utterly necessary supplement!
As is Vitamin D- get your vitamin D checked; I guarantee you are deficient. You need to supplement; you need to go outside without sunscreen when you can, and you need to not wear chemical sunscreen!
You also need to eat lots more butter, and animal fats, fatty fish like sardines and salmon, and things like cod liver oil to replenish your dietary vitamin D, since that vitamin/hormone is stored in FAT.
And so, there you go, my prescription for you: go carnivore, and wake up! Then, commit to paleo for all time, and supplement to regain your natural, God-given health. And, as you enjoy your newfound health and vitality, avoid any government mandates, such as covering your face with cloth, getting horrid injections over and over, and hiding out and avoiding people. Ignore the government edicts, and avoid the medical establishment whenever possible.
Both are largely drug pushers, and deniers of healthy nutrition and goo
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New Year New You
Now I donât mean that each year you should try to become a brand new person! Not at all. What I expect of each of us is to gradually learn about ourselves and our environment, and by self-observation and gradual study, to improve ourselves steadily, both physically and mentally.
Iâm not kidding; I know this sounds pretty crazy in a way, but I really do mean it. While we do age and deteriorate in some ways, we should also learn going forward, and progress in any way we can. I mean, itâs not like we forever get stronger and faster- no, we do not! We should just change our focusâŠ
I used to do heavy single lifts to my max- now, I donât. In my 70âs, I donât want huge mass, either on my body in the form of muscle, or on the barbell itself. I can achieve what I want nowadays better with repetitions, and usually better on gymnastic rings than with the bar.
Iâve also discovered that shorter, although quite intense workouts, work better than long, marathon types of training. Iâve found that shorter, and less frequent workouts are actually more effective, and less draining as well as less prone to injury! Now, my twice or three times per week heavy basement workouts are 30-40 minutes MAX.
My meal planning has also become far simpler. My daily paleo smoothie has nutrients galore, including kefir, vitamin D and iodine liquid, along with ginger and turmeric, coconut milk and cruciferous veggies and lower sugar fruits like berries and citrus. But now, I no longer feel the need to slam down 8 oz or so at a time- 1/2 that is plenty, along with real food like meats and eggs, yogurt and a few well-chosen vitamin supplements like B1 and C. Mostly, I consume good meat, cheese and dairy.
Also, I do like to hike! In the winter, I hike in boots through the snow, and assist myself with ski poles through my woods. Again, this is so intense that not a lot of time needs to be spent- 15-20 minutes is plenty! I see people walking for an hour and more, and while thatâs fine for entertainment, thatâs how it should be regarded. Playing games like racket sports, touch football, softball, basketball, and ballroom dancing, for instance, might be fun for you, and thatâs fine. But, itâs NOT exercise! Itâs similar to watching spectator sports- football, basketball etc. Itâs fun for many folks (not me), and more power to them! But, it doesnât improve your body, not even a little bit, sorry.
Visiting your local library, and choosing really good books to read will definitely improve your mind. This includes fiction books as well as non-fiction: fiction books can transport you into other worlds and times, and from different perspectives. This is probably the most educational and transformative type of activity you can pursue!
Also, watching good YouTube videos can improve many skills that you would find difficult to learn elsewhere, and for free! And hobbies should be pursued avidly- nothing is so satisfying and rewarding as improving your musical skills, or archery or shooting sports. Things like gardening and landscaping, along with animal husbandry and artistic pursuits of all kinds develop both you, and your property as well.
Also, donât forget your spiritual side! A good church with a like-minded congregation and pastor can enrich your like like nothing else. Itâs sad and mistaken that this is so often ignored and overlooked: EVERY culture throughout history had a strong religious side. Every One. Just as they were also all meat eating! It is a part of being a healthy human.
When religion is lost in a culture, or a civilization, that group will
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Your daily workouts are crucial for your body, and mind!
Not only in the gym, or your living room, but outside and in the woods, roads, and park. They donât need to be written down or chronicled, or obsessed over. Not at all! But they do need to be something that you fit into your daily life, as an important part, forever.
When I was young, 20 or so, I started seriously working out with strength training. As a skinny distance runner in high school running cross country, which was only 2 and 1/2 miles, I was not at all pleased with my progress! I wanted to be like a superhero- strong, fit, and above all powerful. So I started lifting weights, as so many do, 3 times per week. Simple routines, of bench press, dips, military press, squats, bent over rows, chins, military press, and deadlifts.
Let me tell you; if you are young and implement such a strategy, you will very soon no longer be skinny! It will really build you up, both inside and out. Next, you will get into nutrition, and healthy eating. If you learn all about healthy, high protein eating, within a year or so you will appear to be a different, improved person. This is a wonderful way for young people to begin their adult lives!
Men or women, both will reap huge benefits from such a lifestyle. At first I included much running, but I learned to keep the distances at about 2-3 miles maximum. Anything else destroys your musculature, rather than enhancing it. Walking with ski poles as resistance in the woods, or heavy hand walking are vastly superior exercises, as is simply walking barefoot in the woods.
So, for many years I lifted weights, quite heavily, sometimes too heavily, and learned that less can really be more- higher reps, less weight can be wonderful overall. Your body can be sculpted as powerful and aesthetic together.
Now, in my 70âs, I am just as committed as ever. But now, in the early mornings I stretch in the living room, and do âvirtual resistanceâ exercises, along with isometrics and calisthenics in the AM. I do it in front of the television, and let me tell you it is the high point of my day! I pretty much only watch TV while exercising, and so that early morning 1 hour is entertaining, in that I awaken both my body and my mind together! I start the day both refreshed and happy, and my body is tuned and ready. I highly recommend this âcouplingâ of workouts with the reward of television.
I used to do an afternoon workout later, around 3 or 4 PM, of pure strength training in my dungeon of a basement with weights, a power rack, and benches. I would do that workout as a split- usually lower body one day, and upper the next.
At first I alternated day by day. As I aged, I realized that was too much, and would work my upper body one day, take a day off (but always keep the morning workout), and then do the lower body. Take another day off, and repeat. Worked wonderfully, as did replacing bench presses largely with gymnastic rings pushups, and squats with pistol squats on the rings, and ring rows. Added isometric/aerobic presses and chins and dips in the power rack, for time. (Timed static contractions, where you press constantly against the immovable rack bar for a minute or more).
I also often go for a stroll in my woods, with heavy hand dumbbells or ski poles. Just for 15 minutes or so, which is refreshing! Being retired, I now have the gift of time, and I try to take full advantage of this luxury.
I have largely stopped sprinting in my yard barefoot. I seems to be overly draining now. As do my daily workouts, sometimesâŠ
Now, I only want to maintain. I will increa
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You donât have enough magnesium! Probably, because almost no one does. The levels have been dropping in food sources for decades, and the diseases and illnesses caused by this lack are growing by leaps and bounds: high blood pressure, inability to sleep and relax, migraines and headaches, arthritis, diabetes (studies show magnesium is necessary to properly convert carbs and sugars), and the list goes on.
To even metabolize vitamin D you need adequate magnesium, and many mental phobias such as anxiety are linked to inadequate levels, and it also appears to be a shield of sorts against Parkinsonâs and Alzheimers.
Magnesium even is crucial to enable bone mineral density in post-menopausal women, along with relief from constipation (by relieving the smooth muscle in the gut) and also of gut problems and indigestion.
Magnesium oil seems to me to be the best vehicle to bolster your levels! If a food source has to be consumed and pass through your gut, only a fraction will be absorbed. I injured my shoulder, and started spraying magnesium oil onto my left arm to relieve the constant ache. It worked amazingly well!
It absorbs quickly, and seems similar to the coconut oil that I usually put on my skin after a shower. It moisturizes, and then the magnesium absorbs directly through the skin into the body, bypassing the digestive system entirely. So, a few sprays on your skin, and your magnesium levels are upped immediately- it relieves my shoulder and arm pain in a matter of minutes!
Of course, the added total body benefits are also spread throughout your entire body, without interference. To start using this natural supplement in this form seems to me to be a no-brainer!
I am not a big supplement proponent, being instead one that recommends you get all you need from real food instead. But for me, magnesium oil and liquid vitamin D3 are exceptions in this modern world we live in. Oh, and I also supplement with a small amount of liquid iodine in my smoothies, which also contain the liquid D3. Sunlight (and its accompanying vitamin D), and iodine (which is also very depleted in modern diets) are crucial, and easily supplemented.
But Magnesium is best absorbed through the âmany mouthsâ of the skin, and so are completely put to work in the entire body, without either being partially destroyed in the gut, or in causing indigestion as well.
The best part of protecting your health with magnesium oil, liquid vitamin D, and Iodine? Very cheap, very simple, and with incredible benefits with no side effects! Find a Doctorâs prescription like that.
This is a short podcast, but I think the bottom line is priceless. I had to get it out to you! Whenever I find something that is incredibly beneficial, with no downsides; that can literally help millions of people- I canât help shouting it from the rooftops, or from your iPhone!
Get yourself some Magnesium oil, and spray yourself to health. Anywhere on your skin is OK, but by the lymph glands (under your arms) is the fastest. And strangely, on your feet is recommended by manyâŠ
Experiment! There is NO wrong way, and the upside is HUGE!
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Perhaps youâve heard that our ancient Cro-Magnon ancestors in Europe of perhaps 35,000 years ago and more tend to have near-perfect dentition, despite not having toothbrushes, floss, or dentistsâŠ
Why do you suppose this is? And itâs not because they lived such short lives that they didnât have time to develop cavities and the like. Some did die young; indeed, such active lives in the outdoors, hunting with primitive tools and fighting large animals took their toll. But, as always when comparing mortality in ancient times, we often forget that mortality figures are skewed by infant mortality in those times before hospitals and birthing assistance. Many infants (and young mothers) dying in childbirth just make overall death rates far more likely, and much younger.
Indeed, many Cro-magnon men and women, once they reached adulthood, went on to live quite long lives. After all- they all exercised intensively, perforce, and ate a wonderful, Paleolithic diet of mostly meat, with some fruits and vegetables, when available. No sedentary couch potatoes were possible in those times!
Most skulls of these early humans display wonderful tooth health, lifelong, unless a tooth was literally knocked out by a bad fall, or in a brutal fight. Today, strangely, virtually all of us, with very few exceptions, have many major tooth and gums interventions over our lives, at great pain and expense. Why?
Back to the Future:
Certain things we are encouraged to do today should be gotten rid of! Others should be supplemented by other practices, ones that are more rooted in the biology of our Paleolithic ancestors.
For instance, I believe that dentist âinterventionsâ should be kept at the minimum. Sterilizing your oral cavity by, say going inside your mouth and completely carpet bombing the microbiome of your mouth and teeth, will destroy the bad bacteria, but also killing all of the good bacteria. Here is what recent research, and myself recommend:
Do NOT floss! Almost all dentists will deny it, but flossing pushes the bacteria from between the teeth deep into the gums. Not good!
Use a water pick appliance instead. Water gently flushes the teeth and gums, and does so comparatively gently.
Donât brush 3X per day, and donât use a fluoridated toothpaste.
Once at night before bed is plenty. An electric toothbrush is the best, followed by the Water Pick. Use a natural toothpaste like Earth Paste. If you can, avoid fluoridated water- fluoride is actually a toxic chemical, that causes weaker, more brittle teeth that also become mottled and brownish-yellow.
Do buy Xylitol sweetened gums and candies!
Xylitol, which is a natural sweetener made from plants, is indigestible to the bad bacteria in your mouth. BUT, they donât know it, and eat that xylitol to their fill- and then starve! Then, the good bacteria can multiply thereinâŠ
The last, and most transformative to your dental health, is to start oil pulling daily! If youâre not familiar with this ancient Ayurvedic practice, here is how to do it:
Keep a little dish or bowl of coconut oil in your bathroom. Sprinkle it liberally with Xylitol. (Itâs inexpensive, and can be used in baked goods as well in lieu of sugar).
Each day, as you prepare to shower, cut a small piece of the hardened oil (in winter), and spoon out a bit into your mouth in summer. Start in to âswishingâ it about in your mouth as you shower, pushing it all around, through your teeth, whatever, as you go.
At the end of your bathroom routine (mine is each morning after my workout), spit the oil out into the toilet,
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Letâs say you are young, 18-22 or so, and just starting out in life. You are hopefully well educated, and undoubtedly have some ideas of what you want to do, and how to support yourself, hopefully along with a family before too long.
Along with basic questions of career, and just how to get started, you really should consider as vitally important just where you should live! City and metropolitan area, suburbs of a large city, or small town and country?
Well, since the largest cities, like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Detroit are now all crumbling, crime-infested snake pits- well, I would avoid them at all costs. Especially if considering a family! The school systems in such places are horrible beyond words, as are all public works they control; things like water supplies are largely contaminated, crime is both unpunished and out-of-control, and the very air you breathe there is filthy.
Suburbs around cities tend to be much nicer, but the cost of housing in such places is prohibitive. It depends on the job you can get, but any normal income is almost impossible in such places to be enough, even with husband and wife both working, which is not ideal at all.
In my opinion, I would do exactly in your position as I did, many years ago. Get educated, either in college of in a vocational tech school, and then save all you can for a few years. Donât live at home and be a freeloader; this is actually immoral, and a cowardâs way out. Live cheaply, and work hard. Find a potential spouse who will do the same! This will serve to separate the âwheat from the chaffâ, and the two of you will build your characters and work ethic along with your bank account!
During this period in your life, work also on your health! After work hours (or before), make sure to work out daily, building your body and your âterrainâ, by eating as healthily as you can, and fortifying your body and mind with animal protein and some vegetables. Also, teach yourself to cook such healthy foods, which will be both more economical and good for you than eating out. Avoid fast foods, and processed foods completely!
And do not fail to also build your spiritual life! Find a good church (smaller is better), and attend regularly. Pray, and attend to the development of your soul! This may be the most important direction of all, so be attentive to what your deepest self truly desires.
All throughout this period of life, research and think about where you would like to live. Do you love where you already are, and is it a small town or city with rural surroundings? That is just fine, so start to look for a homestead for your family, a place where you can live peacefully forever.
If you donât live in such a place, then look for what would be your ideal. This could vary, but would be quite rural if you value western civilization a community of shared values. Multicultural places tend to be fractious, unsafe, and eventually anti-civilization!
Exotic locales might sound good, but actually are only good for vacations! People of European descent, such as myself and probably you, are evolved in a cold, harsh climate. We need struggle and hardship, things to solve and conquer. Without real accomplishments, Western man is unfulfilled, and never really happy! Hence our endless upward climbâŠ
Only when other racial groups come to join us, do we begin to unravel. Stay in a homogenous area, above all!
And so, youâve found a rural area with natural beauty, clean air and water, and folk that are very like yourself. You also need to be able to find a good job there, one in which you are abl
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Hopefully youâve heard by now of the Carnivore Diet!
It is very easy to understand; this is part of its charm. You canât go wrong- you only eat meat. For some, like Jordan Peterson and his daugter, you only eat beef, and salt. (If they donât, they suffer debilitating autoimmune conditions, and massive depression). And so, they follow this diet of necessity.
It is kind of, in my mind, an extreme paleo diet. Kind of an ice age diet, as if you were living during the last ice age, and only animals were available to eat and so survive. NO plants, or mushrooms⊠NOTHING.
And so, why should you, a fully modern human, with grocery stores and endless foodstuffs available, follow such a restrictive diet??
Well, if you have just about any health condition,, like diabetes, or psoriasis, or obesity- you are SURE to improve!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAZ238_g4Q
Link to Dr. David Unwin on low carb versus diabetes
And, just to point out- a Carnivore Diet is a NO CARB diet, by definition!! Not just low, but NO.
And so, my little paleo friends: Go Carnivore! (Or at least âCarnivor-ish), like me! I also include cheese, kefir, cream, butter and full fat yogurt, along with copious amounts of eggs and some cruciferous veggies and low carb fruits.
But that is the end result. For now, paleo pilgrim: if you are fat, sick and diabetic to any extent? Go Full Carnivore! Itâs not even difficult, not really. You will never, ever be hungry, and you will feel satisfied and energized, eating only beef. The only thing hard to deal with is social pressure, but what is that when set against you very health and survival, long term??
I guarantee that all your conditions and the state of your health will improve. Vastly in pretty much every case!
Stick with it, until you are feeling and looking amazing! (Iâm not kidding, results are that immediate, and inavoidable). Now, you can, one at a time, add in things: try chicken and fish. Still fine? Try eggs, then dairy. Still doing great? Try a bit of fruit or vegetableâŠ
All of that is just optional. The true freedom is just knowing that, in the final analysis: You really donât need anything by animal products!
You might ENJOY other foodsâŠbut you donât NEED THEM to have a âso calledâ BALANCED diet. Not at all. Itâs just gilding the lily, really.
So, go carnivore young man! (Or woman). Stick with it as long as youâd like, and as long as you enjoy ever-improving health and wellness!
It is a RESET!!
Just like restarting your computer brings it back to its virginal state, so too does âresettingâ your primordial self back to the pre-carb, pristine human state! Then, with your new health and knowledge, you can venture back out into the dangerous modern world, full of its perilous food-like substances, and hyper-processed garbage- but now, you know that true health lies in animal protein foods; not in medications and plant concoctions of oxalates and nightshades galore!
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I read and hear all the time about how we all should do certain things when we reach a certain age. If not, we are being irresponsibleâŠ
It starts really young: get your baby vaccinations- a LOT of vaccinations, all at once! (NOT a good idea. much better to space them out over years, and even better to pick and choose amongst the many pushed.). For instance: flu vaccine and coronavirus for babies?? Terrible idea!
As for the dozen or so usually pushed for infants, I would explore which ones are really necessary! (Recommendations change, but the number of vaccinesalways goes- UP!). If you or yours has a new baby, research this. All vaccines are definitely NOT your babyâs friend.
Now, I am not at the infant care level anymore, although I am soon to become a grandfather yet again. (Hurray!) My daughter knows all about appropriate, and non-appropriate vaccines⊠But let me say here- if you give your infant the flu vaccine and the coronavirus vaccine , among others at that early age- you are doing the wrong thing! Donât.
I am 71 now, and mainly concerned with my own health and fitness. Aside from my overall very healthy, paleo and largely meat and dairy based diet, ample sleep, and daily workout schedule, am sure to NOT take any prescription drugs.
I also have a daily smoothie, prepared in my Vitamix, of kefir, tart black cherry juice, citrus, including an organic unpeeled lemon, cruciferous veggies, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast of B vitamins, cod liver oil, ginger, turmeric, and current garden veggies I am harvesting in season.
My goals have not changed since in my early twenties. I strive to get stronger (not just maintain), and in some ways I still am! Having muscular endurance is crucial as well, but it is the truth that you donât get continually stronger over the decades, no matter what you do!
But is you look into Ben Patrickâs kneesovertoesguy.com
On YouTube. Endless helpful videos and demonstrations of how top cure your knees, along with feet, back, and most of the rest of your physical body!
Trust me: you can restore injured and even badly deteriorated joints with determined exercise and stretching, always doing such well within your limits and gradually progressing!
Here is how my own journey plays into all of this. I took a bad fall onto concrete pavers a few weeks ago. I broke my fall with my left hand, and my left shoulder was injured pretty badly, along with the tendon on my left knee. Ouch!
So, I have been doing daily therapy over my whole body, using virtual resistance by flexing the muscles and tendons just to the point where it does not hurt badly. A little pain, but more therapeutic than anything.
The worst thing I could have done? Go to the clinic, take pain pills, and do nothing, except schedule surgeries and more prescriptions.
I didnât do that, and now I am definitely on the mend. The pain is manageable, after I do my morning exercises. About an hourâs worth, just as I always do, but now gentler, and more focussed on the problem areasâŠ
So, the point is this- just keep on striving, to get stronger and more flexible and vital. The rules never change- they just sometimes need alterations given circumstances. Just never give up, and do it all yourself, researching and getting advice where you can. Like from Ben Patrick, who athletes love and medical doctors hate!
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I just fell down, hard!
I went out to the garage, in the rain, and slipped on the mud around our new sidewalk landscaping project. Itâs been dry here for so long that I think I forgot how to walk on mud, and my legs shot up in the air and I crashed down on my back. I was fine, and so just got what I came out for, and went back in the house.
But it got me thinking: Iâm 71 years old now. Such a fall might have laid up many folks, and severely shaken many others, so that their back, knees, or other body parts would need medical attention.
And that is my point- I am perfectly fine, although a bit dirty. In fact, upon reflection, I realize that physically, I can do anything I could do when I was 35, or 25. In fact, I am actually quite a bit stronger and more flexible than I was at those younger ages, and a m quite resilient overall. Mentally and physically, I can do anything I want to, and never even consider my age in choosing activities to participate in.
I say this not to brag, but to point out that any of us- all of us- should be in this condition for our entire lives! Not that I expect my mother, who is 97, to still be so capable as when she was younger; or her brother, Uncle Bob, at age 101 definitely canât do everything heâd likeâŠ. But, both of them (and my Aunt Janie, at 99) can all still get around and are largely independent in their homes.
I plan to follow in their footsteps, even if I do occasionally fall down, and I suggest that you do likewise.
What is it that they do daily, and that I also do, that keeps us all going along with such resilience, both mentally and physically?
1. Eat a diet of real foods: avoid fast foods and processed foods, relying instead on meats, cheeses, small amounts of vegetables and fruits, and nuts. Wild game and seafood, rather than grains, jellies, and cakes. Cook your food yourself, whether on the stove or the grill. Use a good sea salt for flavor, like Redmondâs Real Salt from the dead seas of Utah. ( I have no affiliation with that company).
2. Work out every day. Stretch, flex virtually, do calisthenics, get on the floor and stretch some more. Massage your feet, and exercise them, along with self-resisted neck exercises as well. Do it first thing daily. Do it in front of the TV- Every Day!
Also, do serious strength training 2 to 3X per week, in the afternoons. Gymnastic rings are a wonderful mainstay for this, as is a Power Rack!
3. Eat a large breakfast. It doesnât need to be right when you get up, after your stretching workout is better. 3 or 4 eggs is ideal! Coffee with cream is a wonderful addition; you can even have some as you work out in front of the television set.
4. Do your own manual labor. Donât hire it out, just because you can- provide for yourself as much as you can! Keep your own house, tend your own garden, yard, and woods. Make your home as meticulously as you make yourself, body and mind and soul.
5. Read daily. Walk and meditate every day, walk in the woods and in nature. Walk backwards. Live as rurally as you can, and relish it. This is the birthright of the European race, and we abandon it at our peril.
6. Go to church, and attend to your immortal soul as you do to your mortal self. They both add up to YOU! Donât emulate someone as shallow as Arnold Schwarzenegger, who says an afterlife is a fantasy. He should know better- and so should youâŠ
And there you have it. How to fall down and not get hurt!
With some digressionsâŠ
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Hello, and welcome to the Smoothie Cafe! We are here traditionally discussing health and fitness from a Paleo Diet point of view. A smoothie, made preferably in a Vitamix, is key to maximizing your nutritional density intake, and that is still my belief. But as in anything looked at honestly for a while, say 10 years or more as it is here, new facts come in, and opinions alterâŠ
As it is in life! When you are young, say in your teens and twenties, you are rightly concerned with getting started in life. You want to be strong and healthy, but much of it is to attract and establish a life with a like-minded mate. This is right and natural.
Much of your youth is fixated on finding the proper path (job), and the right place to live, and raise a family. Traditionally, this was just on finding a place to live near your job, that was safe and with good schools, etc. But, with the advance of Democratic socialism/liberalism, this has been perverted. Now, you need to find a place that is not contaminated by âwokeismâ and liberalism, which can transform a city or area into a place where:
1. Crime is not punished, and criminals run free.
(This includes nowadays all blue, democrat-run liberal cities, which are virtually ALL big cities!)
2. Schools are teaching nonsense and anti-civilization like âWhites are evilâ, âWhite Privilegeâ, and other aspects of Critical Race Theory, which is total poison and a total lie.
3. âTransâ and other Woke garbage. LGBTQ and all the rest of anti-civilization garbage.
Itâs hard to believe to me, who grew up in the 1950âs, that we are even talking about such disgusting craziness, and that young people have to deal with and process this crap. But it is there today, sadly!
I am now officially old- 71. I have grandchildren! While I still am very concerned with health and wellness, and am very much still a âphysical culturistâ (NOT a bodybuilder), I realize at this stage that the health of our country, state, and nation is just as important to the future.
And, even though myself, wife and family are all fit and healthy, side-stepping most âbig medicineâ misdirections, such as in covid vaccines and statin prescriptions, much of our population and so-called leaders are still very misinformed and are âloose cannonsâ of bad information and direction!
Here are my conclusions:
If you are older, like me- work out daily! Do stretching and âvirtual resistanceâ training, in front of the TV, every morning first thing. 30 minutes to an hour; you will enjoy it!
Also, work out with resistance training like pushups, especially on gymnastic rings, and work your whole body. Do rows and pullups, situps and squats and deadlifts. At least two times per week, forever. Donât ever stop.
And this, for every age:
Work out- same prescription! From 12- 112. Walk in your daily life, best is barefoot in the woods, on the grass. Sleep at least 8 hours per night, in total darkness- banish TVâs and other screens from your bedroom. Blackout curtains and white noise can help, if you havenât taken my other advice, and gotten the HELL out of big cities and suburbs with blue light and noise coming from everywhere!
If you are younger, with a young family or planning on one-
Get out of big cities! Get our of big suburbs, in metropolitan areas (They are all liberal/blue/socialist/communistic).
Get Out Now! It may not be possible in future!
Make sure you are in a red state, or at least purple one. And go rural; small towns are better than larger, small cities are much better than large, and so it goes. The furth
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I am at an odd place right now. Itâs now even that crazy, but it does confuse me- I have gotten a new computer!I know, that actually sounds good, not bad⊠but trust me: I was so used to my old computer that, even though it was slow, and sometimes frustrating- at least I always knew where things were, and how things worked in general.
Nowadays, however, although my computer is really, really fast- my prep work on things is really slow. I canât find where my podcasts are, my apps are all updated and different, and so it goes, on and on.
And I think that life, in general, is often like this. We work really hard on something, say to change our diet. We switch from the SAD American diet to paleo, and then we replace most carbs with protein from meat and dairy. We become much, much healthier, and hey- what could be wrong with that?
Well, our friends might treat us differently. They might denigrate us, saying that our diet is not healthy at all, since it is high in fat, and we donât do enough âcardioâ. We become confused, since old friends treat us differently, and although everything weâve done has been really positive for our health, things are just, somehow- different from what we are used to!
Just like my new computer: when things are better, even way better- they still are different. Different is inherently uncomfortable! It just isâŠ
This is when we need to realize that different may be uncomfortable at first; but if it is better, then we need to just roll with the punches and embrace it. Forge ahead with a big smile!
If you canât find your old files, donât worry about it for now. (You can always find them later, theyâre still there). What is important is to make new files- or go ahead and make more progress on your carnivor-ish kind of a diet, and savor the positive changes to your health! Do your daily workout, and push hard when you know itâs right, and taper off if you know you are under too much stress from other things in your life. Each day is actually new, and completely different, if we only realize it.
Here is another example: itâs Spring here in Wisconsin, and normally that is cause for undiminished rejoicing, after a particularly long and trying Winter. BUT- we had a few days in the high 80âs (not normal, not at all), and then had a snowfall of over 1 and 1/2 FEET!
The tree branches in our woods and yard broke under the weight, by the hundreds! They are lying, even now, in the yard, which is now wet and semi-flooded. The tractor canât help much, since it would make ruts anywhere it travels, and so instead of avidly planning our garden, and cultivating our plants and yard- we are trapped in a strange different sort of Spring. Itâs really hard mentally..
But actually, itâs no big deal, not really. Itâs time to reflect, to lay back and wait. Even though Iâm dying to get going on all things Spring- I need to change my focus. I can read, and write more. Focus on my gymnastic rings training, trying new angles and exercise ideas. Grill more in bulk, to stock up on meats in the fridge, and smoothies in canning jars ready to drink. And slowly build my trap-bar deadlifts to a new peak!
The garden can wait. Tomorrow, even though it will be a high of 40, I can use my newly sharpened chain saw and cut down some broken branches that are hanging over the roadway. I can drag these branches, and others, down the road, even though I canât drag them into the yard itself. Iâll just push them off the road, and wait for when I can drag them to where I can either cut them for firewood, of burn them.
Nothing is really changed,
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Itâs really not that hard to accomplish. The information is all there, unfortunately, much of it is obscured by people âselling thingsâ, such as offering an easy way.
That is indeed the problem: no matter how hard you look, online, on TV or on YouTube commercials- there really is no easy way.
But there is a simple and effective way!
Eat an ancestral, or paleo type of diet. High animal protein, meat, and dairy. Some vegetables, with cruciferous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, and small amounts of lettuce with olive oil and avocado and coconut oil types of dressing. Seafood and eggs are wonderful as well; but the bedrock of your diet should be pastured meats and dairy, in particular ruminant meat, such as beef. Like our ancestors ate long ago, and evolved alongside throughout the long ice age- mammoths, aurochs, and cows. Same types exactly, that turned vegetation, however sparse, into protein-dense meat!
And now we get to lifestyle, and the huge bugaboo of exercise. For be assured that diet is considered the most contentious component of a healthy and fit lifestyle, it is really very simple. Just do as outlined above. Veganism and vegetarianism are bad jokes- just avoid them, as did our ancestors. (Those who survived that is).
And now: exercise. Exercise, real, productive exercise is one thing:
Strength Training!
Iâm not saying you canât run, breaking a sweat as you jog along a forest path, preferably barefoot⊠of course you can! Or walk or hike long distances, in the sunshine, or swim or paddle board or play tennis or paddle/pickleball with your friends- all of these are great! Great adjuncts, like playing Wordle, or doing crossword puzzles, or any number of sports like hockey, or baseball, basketball or football or soccer. All are fine and wonderful games, along with many others.
But- they are not EXERCISE.
Exercise is a practice that you need to do for your entire life. It means to do certain necessary things:
Strengthen your musculature, from head to toe. Progressively and on a near-daily basis, for your entire life. Slowly, and deliberately, on your own. Without competition.
This practice, done regularly, will also strengthen your tendons and ligaments, while also stretching and maintaining your ranges of motion. You just need to figure out the protocol, and then to Do It!
First, start with Virtual Resistance. This is flexing as you move your body throughout various positions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65LRENdKo&t=27s
This will give you the idea. Go thou and do likewise!
Then, add in straight-legged situps for high reps, and stretch out on a mat in front of the TV. (Do this every morning). Add in pushups, on a perfect pushup device if you can, with your feet elevated on a couch or chair. Do them s-l-o-w-l-y for maximum benefitâŠ
Add in Asian squats, where to squat to the floor, with your feet flat on the ground, and hold⊠this is a very important exercise!
A ârebounderâ is an important adjunct here: bounce on it as you do your virtual resistance exercises, and finish by bouncing on your butt, which is an amazing ab exercise!
Letâs say you do this listed above for about 1/2 hour in the morning, in front of the television. Itâs a great way to start the day!
Reward yourself with 3 or 4 scrambled eggs- your body will thank you.
You will no
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ABOUT EVERYTHING!
I know, that sounds a tad extreme⊠but it is true, nevertheless. I started out today thinking about this while listening to a podcast by Shawn Baker, a carnivore doctor who has a podcast, and youtube videos about the subject.
He was interviewing a former vegan, as he often does. This was a man who almost died of his long-term veganism, and saved himself and his wife by becoming carnivorous. The numbers of such misguided people seem legion, and they stick to this vegan notion of health well past the point where you would think that anyone would wake up! They become walking stick insects, with (ironically) bloated bellies, incredibly weak, and with brains that are confused and very unhappy overall.
The almost universal result with such vegans is that, once they try eating meat, sometimes after many years of not doing so, it is as if âThe lights come onâ, and they finally feel alive! Why does this realization take so long for these folks?
I think it is the same shuttered state of mind that affects the liberal elites in many other areas- they are so stubbornly sure that they know everything, and the many ignoramuses all about them- the middle-class non-elites, so inferior that they donât know everything the leftist elites tell them are true!
These non-elite, conservative people, who prize meat above all in their diets, and in those of their children, recommend strength training as opposed to leftist cardio adherence, notice that there definitely are differences between the different races of men, (just as there are in breeds of dogs, for instance), and worst of all noticed that Trump did a really, really good job overall are just stupid!
The genius leftist liberal vegans also know that the Covid lockdown was great, despite having no better results than countries such as Sweden that had no lockdown, and despite that children are retarded in their schooling by those lockdown measures and are irretrievably damaged in their learning, these Big Government top-down supporters refuse to change their minds!
They must be right! After all, Faucii is a genius just as they are, and would be incapable of spewing misinformation for years on end. Except that he did!
These vegan leftists also are so glad they took the vaccines, and then the multiple boosters, along with the flu shot (that doesnât work either), and they will never ever never admit that they are wrong about anything EVER! No matter how often they are proven, over and over, to be wrong about every single thing they believe, in their little democrat, liberal, Big Medicine, Big Pharma cult.
Here is the truth, vegan liberal leftist democrats: The vaccine you mandated not only didnât prevent contracting covid (which turns out to be far milder than you warned us), it seemed to make people more prone to contracting the disease over and over, because the untested MRNA vaccines seem to damage the bodyâs own immune system, rendering it more vulnerable. To ALL diseases!
In addition, it appears that the fake vaccine that doesnât work also makes those who took it far more vulnerable to cardiac forms of death, even at very young ages.
I guess my ultimate point of all this is that the LEFT has brought us down a very damaging, and negative path, where our health is declining swiftly. Crime and homelessness have taken over our cities, and criminals are not punished, and police are vilified. Jobs are now given out as a form of âequityâ, without regard to merit, as are university places and scholarships. White heterosexual males, the type that built our very civilization and virtually all of the achievements of the modern world of western
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Was it really for almost 3 long years that we had to wear useless masks, had our churches and schools largely closed, and we were forced to inject into our bodies toxic MRNA fake vaccines that didnât even work to protect us? And that now are proving to have done irreparable harm to our bodies, making us prone to myocardial diseases of the heart, often fatal?
Yes, that is exactly what weâve lived through- the biggest scam and hoax in history. We are still not supposed to talk about it, as we continue to pretend that Dr. Slouchi is a veritable god, instead of a madman.
But, I am here to tell you now, that it is OVER. Donât ever allow something like this, a toxic Democrat autocratic Big Lie to happen, ever again. Itâs time for all of this to turn around. For big medicine, big pharmaceuticals, big government, and big top-down control are all evil, and actually what the United States was founded to eliminate!
We need to get back to basics: self-autonomy, where each of US decides what is best for our own health, and that of our families. If the government tells us to eat lots of carbs in the form of grains, we should self-educate, and tell them no. No, itâs not healthy. Neither is eating bugs to stop âclimate changeâ. Ruminant animals are the healthiest things we can eat, despite what we are constantly told. Green vegetables like spinach, kale, and beet greens are loaded with oxalates, plant self-defense chemicals that inflame our bodies, joints, gut lining, and other areas leading to kidney stones, inability to sleep, connective tissue disorders, and on and onâŠ
Our great-grandparents knew far more about health and proper living than any MD or government agency does today. They would tell us to get outside in the sunshine, sleep 8 hours per night, eat a good meat-based diet, and get good exercise on a daily basis, outside in nature. They would tell us to avoid doctors as much as possible, unless absolutely necessary for a traumatic event like a bullet or a broken bone. That is what doctors are good at, and that is ALL that they are good at.
The one good thing that came out of the past three years is that we now know that Big Government is the enemy. Their goal has been revealed for all to see- to disarm us (like Hitler), to take all power unto themselves, the evil fake âleadersâ, to stop free speech entirely, and to totally control us as slaves to their horrible system, by taxing us into that state and redistributing wealth to the least deserving from the hardest working.
What can we do? First, recognize the problem! Then, vote with your feet- move out of big âblueâ metropolitan areas- you are easily controlled there. Move to red states, or at least rural areas where traditional American values still hold sway. Raise your families with those values, and attend a small conservative church. Home school if your own school system is hopelessly âwokeâ and worthless. Get involved to change the local political structure if it is Democratic and woke.
Send your kids to Technical schools rather than colleges or universities that only seek to indoctrinate them. Those have lost all credibility nowadays! Employers have figured out that most degrees are now worthlessâŠ
Realize that your health is up to you. Most medical procedures, drugs and surgeries, are far more harmful than good! Avoid them. You are responsible for your own health and wellness. No one else can do it for you- they just pretend that they can, for the huge payoff they get from your health insurance.
Most people will disagree with me, but many are starting to wake up. Medic
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