While taking my dog for a run yesterday, I was pondering how the invention of the automobile changed transportation. Yup, this is the shit I think about when left to myself. Anyway, I was thinking specifically about how a trans-U.S.…
High-Intensity Interval Training for Fat Loss: It’s Okay
Sexy enough title for you? No? Let me put on my “I-need-readers-in-a-saturated-market” hat on for a second and try again. < insert HIIT pun here, for example “HIIT it Hard!” or “It’s a HIIT!” >: Why high-intensity interval training is…
Weight Loss After Menopause: Is it possible?
To give you an idea of where this post is going to go, and if you would like a one-sentence summary, I’ll quote a 2012 paper by Davis et al. titled Understanding Weight Gain at Menopause(1): “In summary, weight gain…
Calories Don’t Count, but CALERIEs Do
Let’s talk about this paper, part of the CALERIE study: Effect of Calorie Restriction with or without Exercise on Body Composition and Fat Distribution I made a promise to myself, and may have mentioned it here, that I would no longer…
An all-natural testosterone booster?
Ahhh, testosterone. It’s the hormone that makes dudes dudes. And if a dude with low testosterone levels can raise the available levels of this important hormone in his body he can expect such benefits as “improvement in libido and sexual…
Weight Loss Supplements That Really Work
We’ve reviewed many popular weight loss supplements and, unfortunately, most of them are complete bullshit. So in order to help you out we put together this (short) list of supplements that really help with weight loss. Most of this is…
Social Support Predicts Weight Loss
Think back to the last five comments you received regarding your health habits. Who were they from? Family? Friends? Were they positive or negative? Support or sabotage? In 2011 Kiernan et al studied how social support predicted weight loss in…
Cold Thermogenesis: As much as I can handle
A while back we got a comment from Robin: “I would appreciate you guys weighing in with your opinions and/or evidence regarding cold thermogenesis. CT as it’s called seems to be all the rage on Sisson’s Primal site these days.…
Beginner Trapeze at Trapeze U
Last Thursday I got an email from my girlfriend telling me she was enrolled in a beginner trapeze class on Saturday morning and that I should join. I’m hesitant to try new things, even though most often I have a…
Eating on SPEED – More time for sex
Jeff and I talk a lot about what NOT to do. The reason for this is that there are so many other plans and programs that have you focusing on insignificant and ineffective details that we’re afraid many of you…