Dealing with SAD This time of year, there is a definite change in mood for many when the days get much shorter and the nights get longer. The change in daylight that we experience over the winter months is important to the cycle of the seasons for the earth and is also, believe it or […]
EP33 If you’re bugging out do it right Today I’m flying solo, while trying not to wake the kids and together we’ll discuss why you might benefit from resetting your gut microbiome and also how to do it cost effectively. Be sure to let me know your opinions & questions in the comments section. Be sure to keep posted […]
EP28 Maximize your Brain Function Today we discuss some strategies that you can start using today to maximize your brain function. We focus on the nutrition and exercise strategies you start NOW, but there are also other strategies like sleep, stress management and lifelong learning. Enjoy the show! Talk to you next week! Dan T […]
You probably remember (or maybe you don’t) the hilarious scenes from Arrested Development in which GOB tried to use forget-me-not pills on his brother Michael & of course on himself! You can reminisce here. Interestingly, new research suggests that this scene could have played out with GOB trying to shove some standard american diet (SAD) (foods […]
Hi everyone, Busy times as Dave B and myself (Dan T) are getting ready to launch our PODCAST, not to mention the usual business that goes with working, and fathering 2 kids under the age of 3! Needless to say, it will be a quick post today on an interesting article out of Santa Barbara, […]
Whether you’re aware of them or not, we all have automatic thoughts that we think in response to an EVENT (any occurrence, interaction, etc… that requires interpretation by our brains). These are aptly labelled automatic thoughts (AT). They can be both positive or negative, but it’s often the negative ones (NAT) that we are unaware […]
I was asked to briefly discuss my thoughts on the Ketogenic diet (KD). I wrote a blog post in 2013 on whether or not low carb diets were the devil that they are often made out to be. You can read that post here to get yourself warmed up before we dive in to this […]
The one thing that has been missing from discussions and education about healthy lifestyles is the how critical it is to heal your gut & make sure it stays that way! There is more and more research suggesting that a “leaky gut” could be the underlying cause of many diseases that face modern humans and […]
I was listening to a podcast by Maximusmark and he was interviewing Art De Vany, who I like to call the Godfather of Paleo/Primal! Anyway, they were discussing some of the concepts in Art’s book The New Evolution Diet, and talked about hunger as a motivation for exercise. Art described studies on mice and how […]
Hi everyone! I’m back from some time away and am thrilled to announce the birth of our second daughter Kathryn! Kudos to my beautiful wife who delivered her naturally and has been an amazing trooper plowing through breast feeding challenges! Let’s just say, there’s not a lot of sleep to go around in our home […]
Sugar in the Diet. A friend of mine is currently purging sugar from his diet for the next month. A great gift you can give yourself is to free yourself from the possible addictive nature of high sugar foods. This got me thinking about some of the common questions and issues regarding sugar that arise […]