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As we age, standard medical practice expects us to give up all common sense, and self-determination. They want to “take over” everything, and we are supposed to just acquiesce…
I am here to tell you to vehemently protest, and to take charge of your own health and future, just as you hopefully have for your entire life. Modern Medicine is NOT your friend!
My uncle Bob Manthey, my mother’s older brother, just turned 102 last week. He never saw a medical doctor during his life, except when he enlisted before World War 2. He got mandatory vaccines then, probably for smallpox, tetanus, and cholera. That was the last time he received medical treatment…
Uncle Bob became an eye doctor himself after the war, where he served as a Navy Pilot. He was (and is still!) a very intelligent man, and very concerned with natural health!
He went on to have 12 children, and a wonderful, healthy, rural life. He started in South Dakota, where he was born, and eventually moved to Kansas City to expand his medical practice.
Of course, natural genetics has a lot to do with lifespan. But the way you live, a life in nature on the land, eating a natural ancestral diet while avoiding toxins such as cigarettes, excessive sweets, and participating in natural exercise protocols also has a lot to do with anyone’s health!
Uncle Bob used to come visit us at my parent’s house, and he never failed to give lectures and demonstrations about natural health and its importance! He always posed for pictures with ours and his family, seated cross-legged on the ground, throughout his 90’s! He never ceased to amaze me, and still does.
Now, he lives with his daughter, and still enjoys dancing and playing music on a number of instruments. He is a role model for us all!
Compare this to people today, who go constantly to the doctor and clinic. Whether they have an ailment or not!
Colonoscopies, Cat scans, extensive examinations; the list goes on and on….
Trust me, the list is endless, and once they get you in their clutches, they will test and scan endlessly, until all of your money is gone. Even with good insurance, they will take all of your money- even if nothing, ultimately, is really wrong.
This is the modern scam.
I am here to suggest that you just be like my Uncle Bob! AVOID the doctor. If you break a gone, or are gun-shot- go in. They are Great at such emergency care! But as for granting you health, for making you a vital, healthy, long-lived person?
In this, they are without a clue.
I am 72 now. My wife of the same age and I have both gotten cataract surgery, and that is a true wonder of modern medicine, just like emergency life saving medicine. In fact, going to an eye doctor is probably the best care you can get- non-invasive, no harm involved, and they can tell by observing your eye health the entire cardiovascular health of your whole body! Just by seeing the condition or the vascular makeup of your eyes.
But if you go to a standard medical internal medicine doctor, they just go by charts and generalities. “You are over 50? Take a statin! And blood pressure medications! And see me twice per year, and I’ll give you endless meds, forever and ever. You’re welcome…”
They told my own father that he had high blood pressure his whole life. They said he still did when he died at 98.
I call bullshit.
No doctor will tell you that high blood pressure happens for a reason. Your body needs blood somewhere,
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We all want to live a good life. We NEED to live a good, successful, in harmony with nature and our neighbors type of life! But, what sort of life should this be? Should we live in accordance with modern tradition, by moving to a major metropolitan area, and get a high paying job, and raise our family either in the city itself, or in the nearby suburbs?
NO! What you really want and need, to be healthy and well adjusted, is to live a PALEO LIFE. By this, I mean a life that is in accordance with our evolutionary past. A life that, just like the paleo diet itself, is in the way that we evolved, and and the type of life that we are meant to live. A life that will make us ourselves, our families, and our nearby community all in sync with nature, and will allow us to be the best, most in harmony with our evolution that we can be!
What sort of life would this be? We are going back go Ancient Greek, and early Christian ideals here. I believe # 1 would mean a rural, either country or small town type of life. A place where we know our neighbors well, where everyone is as self-sufficient as they can be!
A place where all have a voice, and big government is as minimal as it can be. A place in the woods, or in the countryside, far from the inevitable corruption that accompanies metro-types of areas, where there are huge concentrations of people in a smallish area.
Look at our big cities of today, everywhere: they have become awful places, in every sense of the word. Out of control crime, de-policing, no punishment for horrible acts, along with horrible schools that teach nothing, and could care less. Big cities are now cesspools of crime, where the most evil and incompetent are put in charge!
I see our modern cities in the U.S. where I live now, as akin to old cities of antiquity, that are abandoned and left in the jungles. The builders have left, or been destroyed, and replaced by degenerates, and even subhumans who have wandered into these cities, and pretended, or ‘aped’ the former residents, with no knowledge or ability of how to actually maintain or step into the roles of these forebears. They only want the power, the ‘prestige’ of the former geniuses, with no responsibilities or anything else.
So, where to go? These cities are utterly lost. Rural America is still unspoiled! Go there, and build a life. It is still available, as long as big government, meaning nowadays big Democratic top-down authoritative government if kept at bay!!
Smaller cities, particularly in the Midwest and the West are still unsullied, and open to honest settlers. They are basically unchanged, and while ‘liberal’ socialist types are everywhere, even here, they are not given free rein! Reason still rules, although liberal/socialistic/communistic nonsense is constantly attacking…
Florida is an antidote to the retarded hellhole of what California has become, and so that is certainly an option. You will need to do your homework, but the thing is: at least in the U.S. there are many places where you can still go to live a successful paleo type of life! A life unencumbered by Big Government, and a purposeful breakdown of Western Civilization itself.
Go to where small towns, small businesses, and small schools still hold sway! Homeschooling is wonderful, and small towns is very similar to what it was in “Little House on the Prairie”, where local families hired a teacher to teach their children directly, and determined the curriculum. No Teacher’s Union was asked for, or wanted!
Remember: This is for your own good as well. Each person and family is such communities wil
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We talk here about what to do to optimize our health and wellness. And rightly so! Eat right, a strongly protein-centric diet. Plenty of micronutrients, from a paleo type of diet. Good sleep, every night, in a dark room, devoid of blue light distractions and screens…
Of course, all of these are essential to a healthy life for us and our family! Along with proper strength training, and adequate flexibility.
But all of this counts for naught- if we lose our country of Western civilization and all that that has given the world at large!
Right now, the Democrat party in the US has proven that they are determined to undermine, and then terminate our country as it has stood since its inception. By erasing our borders through non-enforcement, and allowing unlimited illegal immigration of the uncivilized and unlawful into our country, they have literally turned traitor.
Every advantage built into our country by our forefathers is open now to be trashed! Crime is being redefined, and legitimized throughout our nation, particularly in the large cities. Traffic laws are being ignored and punishments are no longer enforced.
Hiring is now meant to be done by quotas of race and sex, not by merit. Excellence is suffering; soon to be ruined by such quotas and mandates. We are allowing the 3rd world primitives to enter our developed, civilized space of refinement and privilege. No requirements are being asked, no basic levels of literacy, or knowledge of civics and western civilization are being asked for…
Why is this being perpetrated on the American people??
Because the Democrats want the votes of what they see as a permanent underclass. A huge group of basically illegal people that are, and will be, eternally beholden to their ‘Masters’; the politicians in the Democrat party that will give them everything they need and want. Forever!
This is the bottom line. Sad but very, very true. It is also sad that here, in a basically health and fitness podcast, these political matters should of necessity be brought up. But the truth is that, without our free, clean, and very much Western nation and way of life, all else we desire to achieve and enjoy in our lives is gone- impossible!
It would be as if the Persians, long ago, had conquered Greece, and destroyed the freedom and Western way of life they were even then developing for us. It would all just- disappear!
The Democrats of today are as the traitors of the past- those who would offer the Persian invaders a secret way into their homelands, for a bribe of golden coins. They were foiled back then: and they need to be stopped now!
And this invasion is only part of the horror. The Democrats plan not only to swamp us with invaders, but they also plan to deny us the ability to innovate, and enhance our energy resources so as to deal with transportation and heating and cooling. They raise Climate Change as a false god to which we should sacrifice our technology, which is the undeniable fruit of Western civilization and capitalism. In other words: discard the armor that we have developed that protects us from the undeveloped and primitive of the rest of the world.
Even things like allowing biological men to compete with women in women’s sports- the Democrats are overwhelmingly in FAVOR of this, and virtually no one else.
I could go on. But my point if made: if you want you, and your family, to live a free, healthy life, lived as you have determined is the best for you and yours-
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Ever since the paleo diet hit the news and the internet, different iterations and ‘spins’ on that format have appeared endlessly. Even at the supermarket, I see magazines in the checkout lane, screaming KETO in large print! “Eat FAT FAT FAT!” is all around, along with Carbs are death!
On the next magazine, Ozempic the diet drug is touted. “ Get skinny fast!” Really? They neglect to mention that not only do you need to take the drug for LIFE, but also that you lose muscle as well as fat! (What a wonder drug is THAT??!!
Actually, nothing has really changed. The Paleo Diet is still the ancestral human diet, and drugs and ketone inducers should be ignored. The Carnivore diet of all animal products, primarily beef, can be great temporarily, as a kind of reset. But really, an ancestral human diet, a paleo diet, is our long-term sweet spot; a place that humans can live forever. In fact a place where humans have lived forever, and where we can maintain healthy, happy bodies of vigor and resilience for our whole life!
All we have to do is eat real, nutritious foods of natural meats and seafood, with a mix of vegetables and some fruits and nuts. Have full fat dairy in the form of cheeses, yogurt, and kefir, and add in exercise of strength training, small amounts of running, and walking, preferably barefoot on the grass. Sleep a good eight hours per night in a blackened room, without checking the clock during sleeping hours! (Really, don’t look at the clock at night. That only puts you into a ‘doom loop’ where you constantly are checking with mental gymnastics as to ‘how many hours are left til I have to wake up’…. This alone ruins your rest and sleep. Set an alarm if you want or need to- but don’t check that clock every time you awaken for a minute! Changing this one habit alone completely rescued my nightly sleep…
Stretch daily! Morning stretches done daily in front of the TV, along with a dedicated strength session in your yard, deck, garage or basement are completely mandatory for every human. Without such daily attention to your very humanity, and you will start to break down, slowly but surely. Let your muscles atrophy and so too does your brain, bit by bit.
The human body is an intricate balancing act of the proper nutrients, consumed by a body that is stimulated by the proper activity to require those nutrients to fuel and rebuild a sophisticated animal machine. It’s kind of like the ‘Dance of Life’!
As for drugs, as in ‘diet drugs’? They don’t belong in your human body! In fact- NO DRUGS BELONG IN THE HUMAN BODY! That is the ideal, now and forever. If you are taking drugs, either recreational or prescription- get off of them! God made your body as is; he never required man-made drugs for you to thrive. TAKE NO DRUGS!
The same goes for surgeries. Most surgeries are optional, and are a way for clinics and hospitals to MAKE MONEY. For instance, you can reverse the need for knee surgery replacement with exercises shown by Ben Patrick on the kneesovertoesguy.com website. Many drugs and surgeries deal with conditions that can be rectified using natural methods that aren’t so invasive, expensive, and destructive of the body as those from the clinics!
But all of that aside: just lead a natural, ancestral life! Be outside in nature, as much as possible. Garden, play and relax in your yard. Get lots of sunshine, and keep chemicals OFF of your lawn and garden. Be a keen observer of nature- birds, deer, and all the wildlife in your area. Relish it, it is TRUE beauty!
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As you go through life, some things are constant. Working out is one constant: your body needs to work out, consume healthy foods, and get ample sleep every day of your life. These things remain the same!
I have found that working out for strength and flexibility actually become more important as you progress into your 50’s, 60’s and beyond. But the amount of stimulation your muscles need for strength decreases, while the stretching required actually increases somewhat.
Actually doing a strength session can be very intense, and productive, in less than a half hour! It is the intensity that matters most. Also, recovery from an intense session of strength training needs to be longer than when you are younger.
I have also found that really draining movements, like heavy squats and deadlifts need to be far less frequent. In your senior years, you probably have all of the sheer bulk you would want, anyway! To be strong and yet defined is far more desirable as you get older.
I have pretty much eliminated, at age 72, the barbell back squat, the deadlift, and the bench press. Pushups on the gymnastic rings, along with flies and other movements are preferable to bench presses, and can be done at many angles. Single leg or ‘sissy’ squats using the rings for balance are also much better for your knees, and take the emphasis off of your glutes and put it on to the front thigh. Substitute the squats for these..
I also do kettlebell swings instead of deadlifts now, for high reps. Quite exhausting, and targets the lower back without overstraining the nervous system to the point where recovery suffers!
Dips, pull-ups and rows are always good, and are improved by doing them on the rings as well. As we age, it is great to avoid spinal compression by loading the body excessively by means of barbells.
Walk backwards, resisting with a heavy band anchored against your movement, and then walk forward. I do this as my warmup before my strength sessions, for about 10 minutes- this will forestall knee problems very effectively. Credit to the Knees over toes guy Ben Patrick for this! Truly wonderful inspiration from him.
I used to work out for hours at a time. I was young, and I was kind of stupid, well, uninformed at least. Now I know better:
Workouts can be short, but yet intense. Results do NOT suffer; in fact they can be BETTER!
But, be sure to prioritize stretching. Each morning I stretch, and do Virtual Resistance, first thing. In front of the television= a win-win. Wake up your body productively, and stretch it out for the day to come, and you are setting yourself up for a wonderful day.
Then, follow through with your diet: Eat protein, and make that your priority. If you want some carbs, go with sour dough bread, but minimally. Have a paleo smoothie (PLEASE) like I do daily- but now I consume a small one, of veggies, kefir, some berries and citrus, and sour cherrie juice that is spiked with iodine, vitamin D, and cod liver oil. This is your “insurance” nutritionally speaking, and should be adhered to religiously!
These are the basics. After these are fulfilled, just live a good, balanced life, as our founding fathers decreed. Religion, conservative politics, and observing the golden rule along with your neighbors….
Life can be quite simple, and wonderful. Just adhere to the basics of Western Civilization!! All else is dross.
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Most Americans nowadays are severely overmedicated, malnourished, and sick!
This sounds like an extreme statement, but is nevertheless true.
Most adults are on a number of drugs, from anti-depressants, statins, high blood pressure drugs; drugs to help you sleep, and drugs to wake you up. The average number of drugs the average American is on at any one time, are 7. At a cost of $1200 dollars per year, per person.
Of course, this is excluding the cost of going to see the medical doctor, and whatever procedure he decides you should have… Oftentimes, procedures and tests are given that result in huge bills for the patient, and those expensive tests are totally unnecessary.
Also, you can be prescribed drugs for which the doctor receives a ‘kickback’ of commission for prescribing them. All of this is ethically highly dubious, but it goes on regardless.
Is it any wonder that medical bills are the number one reason for bankruptcy? Perhaps this is why anti-depressants are one of the biggest drugs to be prescribed!
How many drugs should a person be on? NONE! But this does not seem to be the goal of the doctor at all anymore. They just keep on prescribing, and never get around to weaning you OFF the drugs, which ALL have side effects, which you get another drug prescribed to to treat THOSE effects. This is a pernicious system, that feeds endlessly on itself, making us sicker, and more dysfunctional as time goes on.
Drugs are just treating our messed up lifestyles! A calorie restricted, low fat diet of processed and fast foods. A lack of good exercise, sunshine, and good sleep. Fulfilling relationships and conversation with the TV OFF are the best “prescriptions” you could ever have in your life. Getting out in nature with your bare feet in the grass and strolling down a woodland path will do more for your health than any stupid cholesterol drug can ever do!
Be a stoic! 1Moderation in All Things: Adopt a balanced lifestyle, incorporating healthy eating, moderate exercise, and ample rest.
Mindful Awareness: Practice mindfulness and self-awareness to understand and control impulses related to diet and exercise.Acceptance of the Uncontrollable: Recognize that certain health factors are beyond our control. Embrace acceptance and focus on how you respond to these circumstances.Mind-Body Symbiosis: Understand the profound link between mental and physical health. Nourish both aspects through positive thoughts and self-care practices.Rely on yourself, in other words. Be your OWN doctor! Drugs are usually NOT the answer.
The only real breakthrough of Western medicine was the discovery of penicillin and the whole class of antibiotics. Alexander Fleming discovered that this type of fungus had an antibacterial property. This led to discovery of the drugs that could treat deadly diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis and many others that wiped out these heretofore untreatable diseases!
This gave western medicine and your medical doctor a halo effect; such that now doctors are regarded as near god-like in their wisdom. No, they just gained access to a form of drug that is amazingly effective!
And what was the treatment of choice for Tuberculosis in the old days?
Doctors could only advise their patients to rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors.
This is still the very best advice you can give to people today. It’s the very best we can do, overall!
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An Easter Story
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Chapter 3
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A Barbarian in Chicago full audiobook by Jay Bowers
This episode, I decided to include the audio readings of my book. I write under the names Jay Bowers, and Jess Thornton.
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I know, you’ve heard it from standard medical advice your whole life:
‘You don’t need supplements! Everything your body and mind needs is in the food you eat!’
Well, this might have been true, even a couple of hundred years ago, to some extent. But nowadays, when the majority of the ‘fake, engineered foods’ most people ingest; things like seed oils instead of real animal fat, and soda pop and fruit juices instead of actual water, and fast food fake meat and white buns instead of real pastured meat- well, most of us don’t really eat real food anymore!
A good first step for most of us at this point is to make a real commitment to health and wellness- commit to eating a carnivore diet! This means that you forget all the junk you’ve been eating, and just eat meat, salt, seafood, and eggs for awhile. Nothing else!
I know, I’ve preached a good paleo type of diet for a long time now: meat, eggs, seafood, along with full fat dairy, fermented yogurt and kefir, and even a bit of sour dough bread from time to time, along with veggies and fruits, mainly berries and citrus…
And I still stand by that, long term. But this is a ‘reboot’ if you are a SAD standard American Diet person. You need to ‘reawaken’ your whole body and mind to reality.
So, you go carnivore for two weeks, say. Suddenly, your body will reawaken to what it really needs; not pizza, and tacos with Mc Donald’s crappy hamburgers and seed oil-drenched fries. Just meat, and salt! And eggs and seafood, that’s all pilgrim.
Two weeks, that’s all, and you’ll be a new man/woman. (Not trans!! That doesn’t really exist anyway…)
I guarantee you will feel great- but you will also be happy that now you can embrace a true diet for the rest of your life- the Paleo Diet! The diet of your ancestors, ALL of them. Not vegan (NO ONE ever followed that diet in the past), not vegetarian (ditto), and definitely NOT the SAD modern American fast food crap and fake food diet of misery!
NOW you can include not only meat, eggs and seafood, but you can include full fat dairy like butter, yogurt and kefir, vegetables in your smoothies along with raw eggs, apple cider vinegar and cod liver oil and fruits. Occasional sour dough bread and nut butter- you are now living large!
Just keep out all the modern crap. And supplement (I use liquid vitamin D and liquid iodine (lugal’s solution) in my smoothie), but you can go with tablets if you’d like. For, in our modern depleted soils, especially here in the goiter belt of the upper midwest, iodine and vitamin D are musts!!
Iodine is an utter must, and in addition to fluoride being dumped into our municipal water supplies, that poison makes iodine even more unavailable to us. Iodine is an utterly necessary supplement!
As is Vitamin D- get your vitamin D checked; I guarantee you are deficient. You need to supplement; you need to go outside without sunscreen when you can, and you need to not wear chemical sunscreen!
You also need to eat lots more butter, and animal fats, fatty fish like sardines and salmon, and things like cod liver oil to replenish your dietary vitamin D, since that vitamin/hormone is stored in FAT.
And so, there you go, my prescription for you: go carnivore, and wake up! Then, commit to paleo for all time, and supplement to regain your natural, God-given health. And, as you enjoy your newfound health and vitality, avoid any government mandates, such as covering your face with cloth, getting horrid injections over and over, and hiding out and avoiding people. Ignore the government edicts, and avoid the medical establishment whe
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New Year New You
Now I don’t mean that each year you should try to become a brand new person! Not at all. What I expect of each of us is to gradually learn about ourselves and our environment, and by self-observation and gradual study, to improve ourselves steadily, both physically and mentally.
I’m not kidding; I know this sounds pretty crazy in a way, but I really do mean it. While we do age and deteriorate in some ways, we should also learn going forward, and progress in any way we can. I mean, it’s not like we forever get stronger and faster- no, we do not! We should just change our focus…
I used to do heavy single lifts to my max- now, I don’t. In my 70’s, I don’t want huge mass, either on my body in the form of muscle, or on the barbell itself. I can achieve what I want nowadays better with repetitions, and usually better on gymnastic rings than with the bar.
I’ve also discovered that shorter, although quite intense workouts, work better than long, marathon types of training. I’ve found that shorter, and less frequent workouts are actually more effective, and less draining as well as less prone to injury! Now, my twice or three times per week heavy basement workouts are 30-40 minutes MAX.
My meal planning has also become far simpler. My daily paleo smoothie has nutrients galore, including kefir, vitamin D and iodine liquid, along with ginger and turmeric, coconut milk and cruciferous veggies and lower sugar fruits like berries and citrus. But now, I no longer feel the need to slam down 8 oz or so at a time- 1/2 that is plenty, along with real food like meats and eggs, yogurt and a few well-chosen vitamin supplements like B1 and C. Mostly, I consume good meat, cheese and dairy.
Also, I do like to hike! In the winter, I hike in boots through the snow, and assist myself with ski poles through my woods. Again, this is so intense that not a lot of time needs to be spent- 15-20 minutes is plenty! I see people walking for an hour and more, and while that’s fine for entertainment, that’s how it should be regarded. Playing games like racket sports, touch football, softball, basketball, and ballroom dancing, for instance, might be fun for you, and that’s fine. But, it’s NOT exercise! It’s similar to watching spectator sports- football, basketball etc. It’s fun for many folks (not me), and more power to them! But, it doesn’t improve your body, not even a little bit, sorry.
Visiting your local library, and choosing really good books to read will definitely improve your mind. This includes fiction books as well as non-fiction: fiction books can transport you into other worlds and times, and from different perspectives. This is probably the most educational and transformative type of activity you can pursue!
Also, watching good YouTube videos can improve many skills that you would find difficult to learn elsewhere, and for free! And hobbies should be pursued avidly- nothing is so satisfying and rewarding as improving your musical skills, or archery or shooting sports. Things like gardening and landscaping, along with animal husbandry and artistic pursuits of all kinds develop both you, and your property as well.
Also, don’t forget your spiritual side! A good church with a like-minded congregation and pastor can enrich your like like nothing else. It’s sad and mistaken that this is so often ignored and overlooked: EVERY culture throughout history had a strong religious side. Every One. Just as they were also all meat eating! It is a part of being a healthy human.
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Your daily workouts are crucial for your body, and mind!
Not only in the gym, or your living room, but outside and in the woods, roads, and park. They don’t need to be written down or chronicled, or obsessed over. Not at all! But they do need to be something that you fit into your daily life, as an important part, forever.
When I was young, 20 or so, I started seriously working out with strength training. As a skinny distance runner in high school running cross country, which was only 2 and 1/2 miles, I was not at all pleased with my progress! I wanted to be like a superhero- strong, fit, and above all powerful. So I started lifting weights, as so many do, 3 times per week. Simple routines, of bench press, dips, military press, squats, bent over rows, chins, military press, and deadlifts.
Let me tell you; if you are young and implement such a strategy, you will very soon no longer be skinny! It will really build you up, both inside and out. Next, you will get into nutrition, and healthy eating. If you learn all about healthy, high protein eating, within a year or so you will appear to be a different, improved person. This is a wonderful way for young people to begin their adult lives!
Men or women, both will reap huge benefits from such a lifestyle. At first I included much running, but I learned to keep the distances at about 2-3 miles maximum. Anything else destroys your musculature, rather than enhancing it. Walking with ski poles as resistance in the woods, or heavy hand walking are vastly superior exercises, as is simply walking barefoot in the woods.
So, for many years I lifted weights, quite heavily, sometimes too heavily, and learned that less can really be more- higher reps, less weight can be wonderful overall. Your body can be sculpted as powerful and aesthetic together.
Now, in my 70’s, I am just as committed as ever. But now, in the early mornings I stretch in the living room, and do ‘virtual resistance’ exercises, along with isometrics and calisthenics in the AM. I do it in front of the television, and let me tell you it is the high point of my day! I pretty much only watch TV while exercising, and so that early morning 1 hour is entertaining, in that I awaken both my body and my mind together! I start the day both refreshed and happy, and my body is tuned and ready. I highly recommend this ‘coupling’ of workouts with the reward of television.
I used to do an afternoon workout later, around 3 or 4 PM, of pure strength training in my dungeon of a basement with weights, a power rack, and benches. I would do that workout as a split- usually lower body one day, and upper the next.
At first I alternated day by day. As I aged, I realized that was too much, and would work my upper body one day, take a day off (but always keep the morning workout), and then do the lower body. Take another day off, and repeat. Worked wonderfully, as did replacing bench presses largely with gymnastic rings pushups, and squats with pistol squats on the rings, and ring rows. Added isometric/aerobic presses and chins and dips in the power rack, for time. (Timed static contractions, where you press constantly against the immovable rack bar for a minute or more).
I also often go for a stroll in my woods, with heavy hand dumbbells or ski poles. Just for 15 minutes or so, which is refreshing! Being retired, I now have the gift of time, and I try to take full advantage of this luxury.
I have largely stopped sprinting in my yard barefoot. I seems to be overly draining now. As do my daily workouts, sometimes…
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You don’t have enough magnesium! Probably, because almost no one does. The levels have been dropping in food sources for decades, and the diseases and illnesses caused by this lack are growing by leaps and bounds: high blood pressure, inability to sleep and relax, migraines and headaches, arthritis, diabetes (studies show magnesium is necessary to properly convert carbs and sugars), and the list goes on.
To even metabolize vitamin D you need adequate magnesium, and many mental phobias such as anxiety are linked to inadequate levels, and it also appears to be a shield of sorts against Parkinson’s and Alzheimers.
Magnesium even is crucial to enable bone mineral density in post-menopausal women, along with relief from constipation (by relieving the smooth muscle in the gut) and also of gut problems and indigestion.
Magnesium oil seems to me to be the best vehicle to bolster your levels! If a food source has to be consumed and pass through your gut, only a fraction will be absorbed. I injured my shoulder, and started spraying magnesium oil onto my left arm to relieve the constant ache. It worked amazingly well!
It absorbs quickly, and seems similar to the coconut oil that I usually put on my skin after a shower. It moisturizes, and then the magnesium absorbs directly through the skin into the body, bypassing the digestive system entirely. So, a few sprays on your skin, and your magnesium levels are upped immediately- it relieves my shoulder and arm pain in a matter of minutes!
Of course, the added total body benefits are also spread throughout your entire body, without interference. To start using this natural supplement in this form seems to me to be a no-brainer!
I am not a big supplement proponent, being instead one that recommends you get all you need from real food instead. But for me, magnesium oil and liquid vitamin D3 are exceptions in this modern world we live in. Oh, and I also supplement with a small amount of liquid iodine in my smoothies, which also contain the liquid D3. Sunlight (and its accompanying vitamin D), and iodine (which is also very depleted in modern diets) are crucial, and easily supplemented.
But Magnesium is best absorbed through the ‘many mouths’ of the skin, and so are completely put to work in the entire body, without either being partially destroyed in the gut, or in causing indigestion as well.
The best part of protecting your health with magnesium oil, liquid vitamin D, and Iodine? Very cheap, very simple, and with incredible benefits with no side effects! Find a Doctor’s prescription like that.
This is a short podcast, but I think the bottom line is priceless. I had to get it out to you! Whenever I find something that is incredibly beneficial, with no downsides; that can literally help millions of people- I can’t help shouting it from the rooftops, or from your iPhone!
Get yourself some Magnesium oil, and spray yourself to health. Anywhere on your skin is OK, but by the lymph glands (under your arms) is the fastest. And strangely, on your feet is recommended by many…
Experiment! There is NO wrong way, and the upside is HUGE!
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Perhaps you’ve heard that our ancient Cro-Magnon ancestors in Europe of perhaps 35,000 years ago and more tend to have near-perfect dentition, despite not having toothbrushes, floss, or dentists…
Why do you suppose this is? And it’s not because they lived such short lives that they didn’t have time to develop cavities and the like. Some did die young; indeed, such active lives in the outdoors, hunting with primitive tools and fighting large animals took their toll. But, as always when comparing mortality in ancient times, we often forget that mortality figures are skewed by infant mortality in those times before hospitals and birthing assistance. Many infants (and young mothers) dying in childbirth just make overall death rates far more likely, and much younger.
Indeed, many Cro-magnon men and women, once they reached adulthood, went on to live quite long lives. After all- they all exercised intensively, perforce, and ate a wonderful, Paleolithic diet of mostly meat, with some fruits and vegetables, when available. No sedentary couch potatoes were possible in those times!
Most skulls of these early humans display wonderful tooth health, lifelong, unless a tooth was literally knocked out by a bad fall, or in a brutal fight. Today, strangely, virtually all of us, with very few exceptions, have many major tooth and gums interventions over our lives, at great pain and expense. Why?
Back to the Future:
Certain things we are encouraged to do today should be gotten rid of! Others should be supplemented by other practices, ones that are more rooted in the biology of our Paleolithic ancestors.
For instance, I believe that dentist ‘interventions’ should be kept at the minimum. Sterilizing your oral cavity by, say going inside your mouth and completely carpet bombing the microbiome of your mouth and teeth, will destroy the bad bacteria, but also killing all of the good bacteria. Here is what recent research, and myself recommend:
Do NOT floss! Almost all dentists will deny it, but flossing pushes the bacteria from between the teeth deep into the gums. Not good!
Use a water pick appliance instead. Water gently flushes the teeth and gums, and does so comparatively gently.
Don’t brush 3X per day, and don’t use a fluoridated toothpaste.
Once at night before bed is plenty. An electric toothbrush is the best, followed by the Water Pick. Use a natural toothpaste like Earth Paste. If you can, avoid fluoridated water- fluoride is actually a toxic chemical, that causes weaker, more brittle teeth that also become mottled and brownish-yellow.
Do buy Xylitol sweetened gums and candies!
Xylitol, which is a natural sweetener made from plants, is indigestible to the bad bacteria in your mouth. BUT, they don’t know it, and eat that xylitol to their fill- and then starve! Then, the good bacteria can multiply therein…
The last, and most transformative to your dental health, is to start oil pulling daily! If you’re not familiar with this ancient Ayurvedic practice, here is how to do it:
Keep a little dish or bowl of coconut oil in your bathroom. Sprinkle it liberally with Xylitol. (It’s inexpensive, and can be used in baked goods as well in lieu of sugar).
Each day, as you prepare to shower, cut a small piece of the hardened oil (in winter), and spoon out a bit into your mouth in summer. Start in to “swishing’ it about in your mouth as you shower, pushing it all around, through your teeth, whatever, as you go.
At the end of your bathroom r
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Let’s say you are young, 18-22 or so, and just starting out in life. You are hopefully well educated, and undoubtedly have some ideas of what you want to do, and how to support yourself, hopefully along with a family before too long.
Along with basic questions of career, and just how to get started, you really should consider as vitally important just where you should live! City and metropolitan area, suburbs of a large city, or small town and country?
Well, since the largest cities, like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Detroit are now all crumbling, crime-infested snake pits- well, I would avoid them at all costs. Especially if considering a family! The school systems in such places are horrible beyond words, as are all public works they control; things like water supplies are largely contaminated, crime is both unpunished and out-of-control, and the very air you breathe there is filthy.
Suburbs around cities tend to be much nicer, but the cost of housing in such places is prohibitive. It depends on the job you can get, but any normal income is almost impossible in such places to be enough, even with husband and wife both working, which is not ideal at all.
In my opinion, I would do exactly in your position as I did, many years ago. Get educated, either in college of in a vocational tech school, and then save all you can for a few years. Don’t live at home and be a freeloader; this is actually immoral, and a coward’s way out. Live cheaply, and work hard. Find a potential spouse who will do the same! This will serve to separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’, and the two of you will build your characters and work ethic along with your bank account!
During this period in your life, work also on your health! After work hours (or before), make sure to work out daily, building your body and your ‘terrain’, by eating as healthily as you can, and fortifying your body and mind with animal protein and some vegetables. Also, teach yourself to cook such healthy foods, which will be both more economical and good for you than eating out. Avoid fast foods, and processed foods completely!
And do not fail to also build your spiritual life! Find a good church (smaller is better), and attend regularly. Pray, and attend to the development of your soul! This may be the most important direction of all, so be attentive to what your deepest self truly desires.
All throughout this period of life, research and think about where you would like to live. Do you love where you already are, and is it a small town or city with rural surroundings? That is just fine, so start to look for a homestead for your family, a place where you can live peacefully forever.
If you don’t live in such a place, then look for what would be your ideal. This could vary, but would be quite rural if you value western civilization a community of shared values. Multicultural places tend to be fractious, unsafe, and eventually anti-civilization!
Exotic locales might sound good, but actually are only good for vacations! People of European descent, such as myself and probably you, are evolved in a cold, harsh climate. We need struggle and hardship, things to solve and conquer. Without real accomplishments, Western man is unfulfilled, and never really happy! Hence our endless upward climb…
Only when other racial groups come to join us, do we begin to unravel. Stay in a homogenous area, above all!
And so, you’ve found a rural area with natural beauty, clean air and water, and folk that are very like yourself. Yo
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Hopefully you’ve heard by now of the Carnivore Diet!
It is very easy to understand; this is part of its charm. You can’t go wrong- you only eat meat. For some, like Jordan Peterson and his daugter, you only eat beef, and salt. (If they don’t, they suffer debilitating autoimmune conditions, and massive depression). And so, they follow this diet of necessity.
It is kind of, in my mind, an extreme paleo diet. Kind of an ice age diet, as if you were living during the last ice age, and only animals were available to eat and so survive. NO plants, or mushrooms… NOTHING.
And so, why should you, a fully modern human, with grocery stores and endless foodstuffs available, follow such a restrictive diet??
Well, if you have just about any health condition,, like diabetes, or psoriasis, or obesity- you are SURE to improve!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAZ238_g4Q
Link to Dr. David Unwin on low carb versus diabetes
And, just to point out- a Carnivore Diet is a NO CARB diet, by definition!! Not just low, but NO.
And so, my little paleo friends: Go Carnivore! (Or at least ‘Carnivor-ish), like me! I also include cheese, kefir, cream, butter and full fat yogurt, along with copious amounts of eggs and some cruciferous veggies and low carb fruits.
But that is the end result. For now, paleo pilgrim: if you are fat, sick and diabetic to any extent? Go Full Carnivore! It’s not even difficult, not really. You will never, ever be hungry, and you will feel satisfied and energized, eating only beef. The only thing hard to deal with is social pressure, but what is that when set against you very health and survival, long term??
I guarantee that all your conditions and the state of your health will improve. Vastly in pretty much every case!
Stick with it, until you are feeling and looking amazing! (I’m not kidding, results are that immediate, and inavoidable). Now, you can, one at a time, add in things: try chicken and fish. Still fine? Try eggs, then dairy. Still doing great? Try a bit of fruit or vegetable…
All of that is just optional. The true freedom is just knowing that, in the final analysis: You really don’t need anything by animal products!
You might ENJOY other foods…but you don’t NEED THEM to have a ‘so called’ BALANCED diet. Not at all. It’s just gilding the lily, really.
So, go carnivore young man! (Or woman). Stick with it as long as you’d like, and as long as you enjoy ever-improving health and wellness!
It is a RESET!!
Just like restarting your computer brings it back to its virginal state, so too does ‘resetting’ your primordial self back to the pre-carb, pristine human state! Then, with your new health and knowledge, you can venture back out into the dangerous modern world, full of its perilous food-like substances, and hyper-processed garbage- but now, you know that true health lies in animal protein foods; not in medications and plant concoctions of oxalates and nightshades galore!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6nfG69c9g
I read and hear all the time about how we all should do certain things when we reach a certain age. If not, we are being irresponsible…
It starts really young: get your baby vaccinations- a LOT of vaccinations, all at once! (NOT a good idea. much better to space them out over years, and even better to pick and choose amongst the many pushed.). For instance: flu vaccine and coronavirus for babies?? Terrible idea!
As for the dozen or so usually pushed for infants, I would explore which ones are really necessary! (Recommendations change, but the number of vaccinesalways goes- UP!). If you or yours has a new baby, research this. All vaccines are definitely NOT your baby’s friend.
Now, I am not at the infant care level anymore, although I am soon to become a grandfather yet again. (Hurray!) My daughter knows all about appropriate, and non-appropriate vaccines… But let me say here- if you give your infant the flu vaccine and the coronavirus vaccine , among others at that early age- you are doing the wrong thing! Don’t.
I am 71 now, and mainly concerned with my own health and fitness. Aside from my overall very healthy, paleo and largely meat and dairy based diet, ample sleep, and daily workout schedule, am sure to NOT take any prescription drugs.
I also have a daily smoothie, prepared in my Vitamix, of kefir, tart black cherry juice, citrus, including an organic unpeeled lemon, cruciferous veggies, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast of B vitamins, cod liver oil, ginger, turmeric, and current garden veggies I am harvesting in season.
My goals have not changed since in my early twenties. I strive to get stronger (not just maintain), and in some ways I still am! Having muscular endurance is crucial as well, but it is the truth that you don’t get continually stronger over the decades, no matter what you do!
But is you look into Ben Patrick’s kneesovertoesguy.com
On YouTube. Endless helpful videos and demonstrations of how top cure your knees, along with feet, back, and most of the rest of your physical body!
Trust me: you can restore injured and even badly deteriorated joints with determined exercise and stretching, always doing such well within your limits and gradually progressing!
Here is how my own journey plays into all of this. I took a bad fall onto concrete pavers a few weeks ago. I broke my fall with my left hand, and my left shoulder was injured pretty badly, along with the tendon on my left knee. Ouch!
So, I have been doing daily therapy over my whole body, using virtual resistance by flexing the muscles and tendons just to the point where it does not hurt badly. A little pain, but more therapeutic than anything.
The worst thing I could have done? Go to the clinic, take pain pills, and do nothing, except schedule surgeries and more prescriptions.
I didn’t do that, and now I am definitely on the mend. The pain is manageable, after I do my morning exercises. About an hour’s worth, just as I always do, but now gentler, and more focussed on the problem areas…
So, the point is this- just keep on striving, to get stronger and more flexible and vital. The rules never change- they just sometimes need alterations given circumstances. Just never give up, and do it all yourself, researching and getting advice where you can. Like from Ben Patrick, who athletes love and medical doctors hate!
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I just fell down, hard!
I went out to the garage, in the rain, and slipped on the mud around our new sidewalk landscaping project. It’s been dry here for so long that I think I forgot how to walk on mud, and my legs shot up in the air and I crashed down on my back. I was fine, and so just got what I came out for, and went back in the house.
But it got me thinking: I’m 71 years old now. Such a fall might have laid up many folks, and severely shaken many others, so that their back, knees, or other body parts would need medical attention.
And that is my point- I am perfectly fine, although a bit dirty. In fact, upon reflection, I realize that physically, I can do anything I could do when I was 35, or 25. In fact, I am actually quite a bit stronger and more flexible than I was at those younger ages, and a m quite resilient overall. Mentally and physically, I can do anything I want to, and never even consider my age in choosing activities to participate in.
I say this not to brag, but to point out that any of us- all of us- should be in this condition for our entire lives! Not that I expect my mother, who is 97, to still be so capable as when she was younger; or her brother, Uncle Bob, at age 101 definitely can’t do everything he’d like…. But, both of them (and my Aunt Janie, at 99) can all still get around and are largely independent in their homes.
I plan to follow in their footsteps, even if I do occasionally fall down, and I suggest that you do likewise.
What is it that they do daily, and that I also do, that keeps us all going along with such resilience, both mentally and physically?
1. Eat a diet of real foods: avoid fast foods and processed foods, relying instead on meats, cheeses, small amounts of vegetables and fruits, and nuts. Wild game and seafood, rather than grains, jellies, and cakes. Cook your food yourself, whether on the stove or the grill. Use a good sea salt for flavor, like Redmond’s Real Salt from the dead seas of Utah. ( I have no affiliation with that company).
2. Work out every day. Stretch, flex virtually, do calisthenics, get on the floor and stretch some more. Massage your feet, and exercise them, along with self-resisted neck exercises as well. Do it first thing daily. Do it in front of the TV- Every Day!
Also, do serious strength training 2 to 3X per week, in the afternoons. Gymnastic rings are a wonderful mainstay for this, as is a Power Rack!
3. Eat a large breakfast. It doesn’t need to be right when you get up, after your stretching workout is better. 3 or 4 eggs is ideal! Coffee with cream is a wonderful addition; you can even have some as you work out in front of the television set.
4. Do your own manual labor. Don’t hire it out, just because you can- provide for yourself as much as you can! Keep your own house, tend your own garden, yard, and woods. Make your home as meticulously as you make yourself, body and mind and soul.
5. Read daily. Walk and meditate every day, walk in the woods and in nature. Walk backwards. Live as rurally as you can, and relish it. This is the birthright of the European race, and we abandon it at our peril.
6. Go to church, and attend to your immortal soul as you do to your mortal self. They both add up to YOU! Don’t emulate someone as shallow as Arnold Schwarzenegger, who says an afterlife is a fantasy. He should know better- and so should you…
And there you have it. How to fall down and not get hurt!
With some digressions…
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