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Sourcing High Quality Food – Animals

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:00:37 +0000

It’s time for another installment of the ‘Sourcing High Quality Food’ series. The focus of this post: animals. My last post , where I gave my opinion on “Should Humans Eat Animals”, was originally intended to look at sourcing meat but I got sidetracked. At this point, I’m assuming that the majority of readers are consuming animals (and their byproducts) somewhat regularly, don’t want […]

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Should Humans Eat Animals?

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:00:29 +0000

Introduction In a previous post, I presented strategies for sourcing produce in the modern food arena. This post was originally intended to demonstrate the best ways to ethically source the animals in your diet (and that will still come), but during the writing of that post, I kept thinking about and researching reasons why consuming animals properly and ethically is […]

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Sunlight Series – Part 10: Sunburn Resistance Through Diet

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:00:56 +0000

Introduction: Previously in this series, the benefits of sunlight in the form of vitamin D production were discussed along with the ramifications of vitamin D deficiency. Along with vitamin D deficiency, another crucial benefit of sunlight (control of circadian rhythms) has been introduced. To top it all off, here’s another: sunlight on human skin increases nitric oxide […]

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The Essence of Life: Two Potential Models

Thu, 22 May 2014 14:00:29 +0000

Introduction – The Fabric of Life: Everything on Earth, and every other planet, is made up of the same matter. The fabric of life is the particles making up all matter in the universe, including the physical forms of living beings. These particles (simplified) are protons, neutrons, and electrons, with the energy coursing through these particles being […]

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Sleep Series – Part 3: Serotonin, Melatonin, and your Circadian Rhythm

Tue, 13 May 2014 14:00:03 +0000

Introduction – Your Circadian Rhythm: My previous post explained what sleep scientists have measured during sleep using EEG, and scientists’ current state of interpretations. Included in that post was my definition of objective sleep quality: going through the proper sequence of sleep cycles during the night with sufficient amounts of both stage 3 sleep (slow-wave […]

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Microbes Over Medicine?

Tue, 06 May 2014 13:30:19 +0000

You’ve heard it before- “you are what you eat”- but generally in the context of avoiding the McGrets, putting the double cheeseburger down, and choosing to munch on fruits and veggies to be a better, healthier you. Bet your last french fry you’ve never considered what you’re eating today has the ability to change the […]

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