HRV Data from 7 Days of Intermittent Fasting (n=1) Here is some data from a client that did a medically supervised, water only, fast for 7 days in a row. We had a great baseline before too. You will notice that HRV went down and resting heart rate went up. This is to be expected
My AM conversation with a 5 year old last week when we were at AHS . . . 5 year old: "You are a carb eater." Me: "I am? How can you tell?" 5 year old: "I can just tell." Me: "Is that a bad thing?" 5 year old: "Yes, carbs are bad." Bawhahhaha. I
Anatomy Trains Course "Moving through trauma” with Tom Myers July 2019: Notes from Mike T Nelson Note- These are my ramblings that I wanted to share with you and represent my interpretation of the what I learned. When there was a direct quote, I placed it in quotes. I would highly recommend the course, so
I am back in Minnesota for a couple days as we head out to the Ancestral Health Society conference this coming Wed night since I am presenting there Thurs AM on the use of CBD. Hit me up if you are going to be there. This past few days I was in Maine doing a
Another factor that you may have not considered is your current VO2 max This goes by other names such as "aerobic base" or 'aerobic capacity." I am not going to split a hairy rat's butt hairs about the difference. Typically you can get a VO2 max test done with fancy equipment, but what if you
Travel is great since it provides you perspective via a different environment. For example, when I was in Baja Mexicos this past January, bolted upright in bed the first day with 21 things running through my head. For a kiteboarding trip, this is pretty normal as I fly straight up out bed and look at the window to
If you want to poke the hornet’s nest, just mention ketones and performance. Here is a question I got the other day: “Hey Doc, I read your newsletter yesterday and I have a question. What if I did a keto approach for 5 -8 weeks and then before my performance test day I loaded up
Today I am going off on a bit of a RANT –Reactive Analytical Neurotic Talk – about muscle gainZ and AMPK. AMP-who? Hold on as we go HARD head first down the nerd chute. If your goal is to add as much muscle as you possibly can, you want to stimulate the ever-living piss out
Here is one of the big ones I hear about CBD (cannabidiol) and recovery. “Yo bro, don’t you know that CBD helps increase growth hormone and lowers cortisol?” Something that bumps up GH and lowers cortisol has the potential for helping recovery from lifting and maybe fat-loss too. The claims for the magical power of
CBD week rolls on here on the blog and thank you for all the wonderful emails about the podcast I did on that topic with Jason yesterday. Super stoked that you enjoyed it. Today, I wanted to address a big problem with CBD…..quality. Since CBD has a high price point with lots of hype around
