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Cultivating genuine wellness in our age of misinformation and digital clutter is like being stuck in a maze of supplements and snake oil salesmen. Around every corner, a cacophony of options, opinions, protocols, and self-proclaimed experts waits to chime in. It’s enough to make your head spin! So, when it comes to health, most people …
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In This Episode It’s a week post election and Neal and Daena manage to avoid politics. Instead, news of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine’s 90% success rate has spirits lifted, and Neal has decided it’s time to revamp his Vital 5. He and Daena talk about the best way to ingest macronutrients and how to hit those …
Collagen has become my go-to choice for protein supplementation. Protein is one of my Vital Five nutrients. Collagen wins because it is so rarely eaten and I’ve seen real-life benefits beyond helping achieve protein intake goals. Collagen-rich foods are organ meats or bone broth, and they definitely aren’t a part of the typical ‘Merican diet. Organ meats are …
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In This Episode This week in Week-Old News, Covid-19 has torn through the White House. But since we all saw this coming, Neal and Daena are focusing on foods that promote bone health. Neal has curated a list of which foods are good for bone health and which detract from it. He also explains what …
If there is one overwhelming theme in osteoporosis management, it’s that people will do literally anything to avoid taking medications for bone loss. In past, popular conversations on bone health like Calcium Doesn’t Work, I’ve stressed that, for most folks, a bone disease diagnosis normally happens at a point where lifestyle modifications will do little in the way …
I can say confidently that my problem with food and weight is not with the nuts and bolts of executing a nutritional plan, a lack of enjoyment from healthy food, or the discipline to eat it. That’s been VERY easy to do, fortunately for me. My struggle with nutrition and dieting shouldn’t surprise anyone, as it …
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One of the most common questions we get is some variation of “What should an otherwise healthy person use, supplement-wise, to be healthier?” Our advice always starts with a brief word of caution: people take too many of the wrong types of supplements. Our goal should be to only take a few, high-quality supplements that …
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In This Episode Neal is joined by sports nutritionist and Level 3 British Triathlon Federation coach Robert Popper to discuss the difference between everyday nutrition and the nutritional needs of athletes. They dive deep into pre-workout nutrition and the common habit of under fueling, as well as proper hydration, sweating, water weight, and electrolytes. Robert stresses the …
In a recent podcast episode, I spoke about how shakes are the ONLY supplement product that I recommend for weight loss. The reason is simple. First, no product really works. If it did, you better believe I’d be using it while championing the M&M diet. I’d call it the Eat-O diet (in the spirit of Keto), …
One dozen links forwarded – AH AH AHH. Two dozen links forwarded – AH AH AHH. Three!!! That’s me cosplaying as Count from Sesame Street as everyone and their dogs forward me a link to the recent New York Times piece about red meat being OK now. Or not. I don’t know which way is …
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