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Mitochondrial Anarchy: A case of BAT attack

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Mitochondrial AnarchyHe’s back.  Well, actually I never went anywhere, but it’s been a few months since I added to the blog.  In the mean time hundreds of pounds were lost by people I worked with directly, an invited commentary was submitted to a journal, and I have performed dozens of calorimetry, blood sugar, and food experiments.

Sometimes it’s necessary to isolate from all the bias and do the boring thinking part.  It’s far easier to hype, but at the root of all innovations is a break from status quo.  Like trucks drafting on the highway, it’s quite easy to get sucked Read Full Article →

Muscling Your Metabolism (Part 3)

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calories burned with kettlebell swings - boost metabolismYou can’t out-exercise your mouth.

It is a fundamental truth and a brilliant evolutionary strategy.  Exercise has many interesting impacts, both positive and negative, but if you’ve been chronically obese, I want to encourage you not to start here. Not only are you putting your heavy, out of shape body into an increased risk of injury, but until you’ve been successful in the one exercise that ALWAYS works, you’ll simply eat your way through any progress.

What is this magical exercise? Isometrically clench your teeth in the presence of fattening foods and excess calories.  It’s necessary to control appetite, not “fuel Read Full Article →

Muscling Your Metabolism (Part 2)

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IMG_0794The curtain is pulled back and the great OZ is exposed.

If you want to run faster, jump higher and swim farther, then there’s nothing that replaces planned biological stress that trains muscle memory and invokes hypertrophy. That being said the idea of calories in – calories out doesn’t fail because a “calorie is not a calorie,” but rather because the output isn’t really exercise.

You can’t out-exercise your mouth.

While this became fundamentally important to me years ago, it is only in the last year that I have had the ability to dive in and actually test it. Read Full Article →

Muscling Your Metabolism (Part 1)

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defiant healthAs I sat on my back porch early one morning in October, 2008, there was no way for me to realize how this one crazy moment would completely change my life.  Over the weekend, I attended a meeting in Philadelphia and on the last night proclaimed to a friend that I was about to do the most odd experiment in my life.  I wanted to get to the bottom of “metabolism” and “burning calories.”  I wanted to understand why it seemed so difficult to lose a couple of pounds and yet I could easily GAIN a couple in a weekend. Read Full Article →

Giving The Finger to Fat

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With just two fingers you can prove how easy it is to adapt to cooler temperatures and lose weightIt’s a simple test to demonstrate that your body doesn’t require a perfect temperature to be comfortable, it has a range of temperatures that are comfortable.  Part of our amazing evolutionary survival is the ability to adapt. Not all adaptation happens genetically, it can be driven intellectually as well.

Changing the temperature of the environment around you is one of great examples. Read Full Article →