Adaptive Journey - Ancestral Health Coaching

11/26/2024

My Uncle has been diagnosed with Alzhiemerzs. He is being put on a diet of sugar and vitamins, drugs that will cause strokes, and bilked for his savings that he worked for his entire life. Rage is too soft of a word. We can't bring in Bobby Kennedy fast enough.

10/24/2024

One thing that has to go is the negativity associated with eating: deprivation, restriction, guilt, cheating, and the like. Instead, treat eating as one of life's greatest pleasures. Make sure you eat whatever Primal foods you like until you are totally satisfied at each meal, and then feel free to eat again any time you feel hungry. (The operative word being "satisfied" not "stuffed to the brim.") Eating Primally frees you from the insulin roller coaster trap so that you can reconnect with the hunger and satisfaction cycles that have nourished humans optimally for 2.5 million years.

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10/18/2024

We've heard the story spouted by serious athletes, experts, and supplement-makers for years: carbohydrates (converted to glucose) are the preferred fuel for working muscles. After hard workouts, you must replace this fuel right away or suffer negative consequences, namely gluconeogenesis—the conversion of muscle tissue and fatty acids into glucose in the absence of ingested calories.

The truth is that gluconeogenesis is only a bad thing when you catabolize muscle tissue. When gluconeogenesis is triggered, your brain, muscles, and other organs obtain a steady supply of glucose to function normally, but often at the expense of lean muscle.

You can easily prevent this catabolic effect by eating Primally. Ample consumption of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds supplies all of your carbohydrate needs for a busy, active lifestyle. Ample fat calories will promote high satiety levels. Consume an average of 0.5 grams of protein per pound of lean mass, and your lean muscle tissue will be preserved.

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10/17/2024

What To Do When Temptation Hits

It's normal to go through a "detox" phase whenever you radically change your eating habits. Blood sugar lulls and carb cravings are symptoms of carb dependency that have developed over years and decades of eating a high insulin-producing diet.

The following tips may help you ride out the storm successfully:

Satisfy your cravings with liberal servings of Primal foods: If you feel an afternoon lull, take the edge off with a hardboiled egg, some macadamia nuts, a leftover drumstick, or an apple sliced and spread with almond butter.

Change your focus: Usually afternoon lulls correlate with long periods of time sitting still, staring at a computer screen, reading, or doing other mundane tasks. Get up, move around, take a play break, sprint up a flight of stairs, or do a set of pullups to get the blood flowing again.

Take a nap: We're so accustomed to low-octane fueling solutions (sugar, caffeine, ni****ne, etc.) that we forget there are healthy ways to rejuvenate your energy. A twenty-minute nap can help refresh brain chemicals and optimize hormone flow. Likewise, a 30-second plunge into a cold ocean, lake, or swimming pool can refresh and rejuvenate.

Tough it out: One thing you don't want to do is cave into sugar cravings and step right back on the insulin roller coaster. Make sure you always have Primal snacks close at hand and are flexible enough to grab a nap or change your focus any time you need to.

Never lose sight of this important maxim if you are struggling early on: at each Primal meal, insulin production builds more momentum to stay the course in the future. Moderated insulin production facilitates efficient fat metabolism, which helps you not only effortlessly maintain ideal weight, but also naturally sustain high energy levels.

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09/24/2024

09/24/2024

The fact that melanoma risk is inversely reated to sun exposure is met with a lot of resistance so worth clarifying. (Vermont and Minnesota are states with very high rates of melanoma. Texas and Florida are among the lowest.) This does NOT mean:

1) That sun BURNS are ok. They raise your risk of all cancers so please avoid burning, especially during childhood.

2) That sun exposure is a non-factor in ALL skin cancers - basal cell and squamous cell cancers increase with sun exposure, however, these cancers are often benign to slow growing and account for very few skin cancer deaths compared to melanoma.

3) That I advocate for deep tanning, reckless sun booth usage or not using sun block.

More on the benefits from NON-BURNING sun exposure later. :)

09/24/2024

Ancestral is often accused of being bacon and butter centric, and while some off-shoots such as carnivore are much more so, a look at the basic primal food pyramid shows the basis of the paleo diet is vegetables instead of grains. Also, dogma doesn't fit into any healthy lifestyle. We didn't become obese as a nation by eating too many lentils or chickpeas! Dairy and legumes can be a part of a diet that is still ancestrally based. How strict this needs to be for you depends on your insulin sensitivity, personal tolerances and individual preferences.

09/17/2024

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09/17/2024

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