The Best Way to Cure Diabetes, Boost Immunity, and Extend Life Span
There are many routes to a long, healthy life. Regular exercise, optimal sleep, daily socializing, prudent sun exposure… the contributors make up a sizable list. But as I spend my days pitchforking through nutrition and medical articles, I am amazed at how the consensus is clear: One specific lifestyle habit really does appear to be more important than others.
This Vital Protein Is Your Key to Physical and Mental Health in 2016
“Resilience” is the hot wellness term of our time. Psychology Today informs us that “Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever.” But…one can talk about resilience. One can promote psychological tests that measure resilience. One can even come up with psychotherapies that theoretically foster resilience. But in my no-nonsense, results-oriented view, none of this is of much use if we don’t pursue lifestyle changes that create fundamental, biochemical resilience.
Should You Pack Yourself in Bubble Wrap, or Swim in Sewage?
For years, at conferences and conventions, I’ve asked physicians their views on hormesis, the subject of this month’s cover story. I’ve only found one — out of perhaps 50 I’ve questioned — who was familiar with the term. That’s stunning. To recap, hormesis is the concept that a “just right” dose of a toxin or stressor stimulates the body, yielding health benefits such as strength, disease resistance, or longevity.
Dirty Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet
For the last 25 years, mainstream nutrition writers have touted the Mediterranean Diet as the absolute, incontrovertible, ne plus ultra way to eat. Yet… Virtually no one, including its many worshippers, understands certain basic facts about this diet — facts that cast it in a decidedly less favorable light.
The Secret of Lifelong Brain Power… Is in Your Gut
Americans fear Alzheimer’s disease more than any other health condition. A 2012 study found that 44 percent of us cited it as our most feared disease. That’s significantly more than cancer, the second-most feared, at 33 percent. Fortunately, your risk of falling victim to these brain disorders is emphatically not just the luck of the genetic draw. Dr. David Perlmutter has used his formidable brain to unscrew Alzheimer’s and dementia mysteries for nearly 40 years.
Hydrogen-Rich Water... Miracle or Hype?
More than any other substance, we are water. Our bodies consist of about 60 percent water. For some tissues, the proportion is much higher. Our brains are 75 percent water. Our blood, 92 percent. Given these facts, it’s vital to drink water that’s optimized — in other words, that’s as close as possible to the natural, spring-fed water with which human beings evolved. This means that at the very least, it should be free of contaminants. But according to Underground Health Researcher Nate Rifkin, purity is just the start. So what kind of water really is best to drink? Read on…
The Real Secret of Successful Sleep
I’ve read many — likely too many — scholarly papers and popular articles about “optimizing” sleep, “maximizing” sleep, and wringing “efficiency” out of limited sleep hours. It’s the key, these articles contend, to a happy, productive, turbocharged waking life. But consider: How well would this imperative work in a relationship between two people? Do you believe your spouse’s sole purpose should be to optimize, maximize or otherwise turbocharge you? If you do, allow me — as a guy who has been happily married for 30 years — to suggest it doesn’t work that way.
The High-Fat, Real-Food Diet
A funny thing happened on the way to my writing a 500-word article on the advantages of a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. I got a little ramped up. That’s why I’m taking a moment here to explain why I find this issue so urgent and my passion around it so overwhelming. Nutrition misinformation is killing this country.
The Cholesterol Double Take
Way back in 1961, the American Heart Association began warning Americans that some of their favorite foods — including eggs, liver, and shellfish — contained a potentially dangerous compound called “cholesterol” and urged them to limit its consumption. Never mind that these were all foods that had been traditionally associated with robust health and with which humans had a million years of evolutionary history.
Robust, Powerful Americans
I am going to guess, dear reader, that you’re self-directed. Motivated. Disciplined. Immune from the worst temptations modern life offers… and yet… The pounds cling stubbornly. The stamina of your youth is ebbing alarmingly. You are not so terribly old, but you simply don’t feel, or look, as you should! If, despite your best efforts, vibrant health remains elusive, how can you and your family regain it? I’ve devoted a large chunk of my adult life to untangling that question for modern, clothed Americans. While I am loath to brag, I’m confident I’ve got some answers.
