The Athlete's Diet

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An Athlete's Diet

Diet is the sum total of all activities. Diet does not refer simply to the foods we eat but includes activity and exercise as well. This was the way the Ancient... Read more

Vegetarian Diets

Many people follow vegetarian diets believing they are healthier. Vegetarian diets span a spectrum from Vegan, which is no eggs, fowl or fish to one that favors vegetables and plants... Read more

Paleolithic Diet

The Paleolithic or Paleo diet, also known as the caveman, stone age or prehistoric diet, are the diets du jour. The Paleo diet is based on Stone age living. A time... Read more

Exercise and Health

The Athlete’s Diet is a program based on sound nutrition and intense exercise. It was written to educate athletes on the best ways to improve health, avoid injury and delay aging... Read more

Exercise and moderate eating will keep most people healthy. Inactivity and overindulgence will make them ill. Once they are ill, they are patients in need of treatment. And there is no shortage... Read more

High Protein Diets

High-protein diets include Atkins, Zone, South Beach, Park Avenue, Paleo, Ketogenic, Dukan, Perricone and back in thew day, Stillman. These are the predominant diets that celebrities endorse and whose authors become... Read more

Metabolic Type Diet
Metabolic typing is a design based on the premiss that the health conditions of each dieter are unique. Furthermore, because there are differing biochemical patterns underlining disease, the same must be…
High Carbohydrate School
The most popular approach to dieting is the high protein school. They are better described as carbohydrate restriction diets. At the other end of the nutrient spectrum are the high carbohydrate…

Saturated Fat
Saturated fats have been considered major factors in causing heart disease. The debate surrounding the extent of the danger is a smokescreen. Instead of convincing people to exercise and move, they debate…
Drugs & Appetite
Drugs, eating disorders and diets are methods used by overweight people to lose weight. In their desperation to shed pounds, they are willing to do anything. Treating obesity is an…

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Why Single Payer

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new era. Gone are the days of uninsured, preexisting conditions and emergency room crowding. What we still have, maybe even more so, is unhealthy... Read more

Build it and they will buy.

A widespread and diverse group of interests threatens America. They share a common goal; creating or treating unhealthy people. Collectively. they have used their talents, expertise and positions of power to unleash... Read more

Oreo

Oreo is a sandwich cookie consisting of two chocolate disks with a sweet cream filling in between. The version currently sold in the United States is made by the Nabisco... Read more

Drug Coverage
David Walker and the Concord Coalition are traveling the country on a fiscal wake-up tour. Much of what is written below is taken from their warnings on the danger of…
Life of Illness
America cannot continue to treat the unhealthy adults and exploding number of unhealthy children indefinitely. It is clear that changes will be imposed. I don't have a problem with people who insist…
Nasty Infections
MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections. Frome Wiki MRSA is any strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has developed, through the process of natural selection, resistance to…

Generational War
The world has changed. I remember reading It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis when I was in high school. In it a senator, elected on false promises, goes on…
Where do these clowns want to take us?
While I have no doubt we will make it through the present debt situation, our long-term future remains bleak. I fear that one possible scenario centers on a takeover. If a President…
The Food Industry
The chief culprit in the American Epidemic (obesity, diabetes and heart disease) is food and the way it is grown, refined, processed, advertised and marketed. The food industry and its lack…

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Glutathione
Glutathione is a tripeptide compound. It contains a most essential amino acid in the sulfur containing, cysteine. The thiol side chain of cysteine is often involved in many enzymatic reactions. Glutathione is the body's master antioxidant. The…
Sun Mushrooms
Sun mushrooms (Agaricus blazei) are unique in that they are the only medicinal mushroom without a history of use in Asia. It does however have a long history of use…
The Food Pyramid
In response to a growing need, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) established food guidelines over fifty years ago regarding labeling and daily recommendations. Unfortunatley, the USDA’s concern, is for…

Olive Oil
The olive (Olea europea) was first cultivated in Crete over 5000 years ago. Olives and its oil have been a nutritional staple and wondrous fat to to flavor and prepare…
Korea
In Korea, they have meat barbecues emphasizing hot spices and garlic. Inaddition, their eating system provides an assortment of vegetables preparedin an astonishingly diverse way.
Botanical Aspirin
White willow is famous as the original source of salicylic acid (the forerunner of aspirin). More than two thousand years ago, the Greeks used Salix alba and bark from other species…

Aging & Fat

One of the unfortunate changes that accompany aging is an increase in body fat. Increased body fat is the single greatest reason why women diet. Abdominal fat increases the risk for cardiovascular... Read more

Osteoporosis

This program relies on the beneficial effects of exercise to prolong health. It depends on healthy, colorful food to fuel exercise and improve athletic performance. Female athletes as they age, need... Read more

Pre-Menstrual Stress

Premenstrual syndrome or PMS is a phenomenon that results in the cyclic recurrence of stress. The distress experienced interferes with the normal activities and interpersonal relationships of women. PMS occurs from two... Read more

Exercise and Women
The Athlete’s Diet recommends intense exercise and sound nutrition to prevent disease. The nutrients recommended include colorful complex carbohydrates, omega 3 fatty acids, olive oil, a host of minerals, specialized…
Female Athletes
All females need to exercise regularly. At a minimum, a female should participate in aerobic exercise for least 45 minutes, four times per week. In addition, it is a good idea to…
New Female Athletes
Women have been part of the main stream exercise world for some time now. But exercise nutrition, as it pertains to women is sorely lacking. In general, the best way to…

Female Athletes
Women have been part of the main stream exercise world for some time now. Exercise nutrition, as it pertains to women, needs an update. The best way to enhance athletic performance for…
Bone Health
A brief review of bone dynamics is included below to illustrate the relationship between mineral metabolism and hormones. Bone tissue contains cells that are responsible for bone formation and degradation…
Demands of Exercise
A female athlete’s metabolic demands are much higher than those of sedentary women. This is best illustrated by exercise. During exercise, a woman is exposed to a level of stress that has…

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Sermorelin

Human growth hormone is important for growth and repair and contributes to many functions in the body. Human growth hormone delays the onset of aging. HGH supplements are intended to stimulate the... Read more

Designer Doping

The American Epidemic describes a cultural plague caused by sedentary life, inactivity and poor nutrition. These are bad habits that produce the diseases of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, a... Read more

THG and DMT

Balco invented the molecule THG (tetrahydrogestrinone), a steroid that could not be detected during drug tests. Knowledge of the existence of THG came about only after track and field coach, Trevor Graham... Read more

PEDs
The dietary supplement industry has evolved over the years. Early on it was run by medicinal charlatans; entrepreneurs, whose expertise was in business and marketing, not health and science. Garage startup…
Designer Steroids
Professional athletes are driven. They are driven by the love of the sport and motivated by the competitive spirit of winning. There is also the and incentive that rivals winning the lottery. The…
Biosynthesis of Steroids
Steroid hormones include the estrogens (female sex hormones), androgens (male sex hormones), mineralcorticoids (ADH) and glucocorticoids (adrenal cortex hormones). All steroid hormones are biologically derived from the essential precursor, cholesterol, the…

Andropause
Andropause in males is what menopause is to females. When women stop producing the steroid hormone estrogen, menopause begins. When men stop producing testosterone, other more gradual changes take place. These changes…
Steroid Receptors
Steroids are small lipid-soluble molecules that can freely diffuse across plasma membranes. It can pass into a cell, through its cytosol, and then on into the nucleus. Steroid receptors are zinc-finger…
Steroids
Steroids as a group, are a series of hormones built on a scaffold of four, phenolic ringed compounds. It is this structure (four groups) that allows a steroid to do…

Pain

Pain is often the first symptom of dysfunction. When it strikes, it is already late. Pain is managed by drugs, either over-the-counter ones or the more powerful ones prescribed by physicians. The most... Read more

Aspirin

Aspirin is still the most used analgesic (pain relief), antipyretic (fever reducer) and anti-inflammatory drug in the world. Aspirin is most effective in mild or low intensity episodes of pain. Especially... Read more

Metabolic Addiction

Certain drugs cause addictions. They are addictive because they bind to receptors in the brain. Addiction are the result of spatial similarities. Why some natural products are very addictive while others are... Read more

Biosynthesis of Steroids
Steroid hormones include the estrogens (female sex hormones), androgens (male sex hormones), mineralcorticoids (ADH) and glucocorticoids (adrenal cortex hormon All steroid hormones are biologically derived from the essential precursor, cholesterol, the…
Adderall
Adderall is a drug, approved in 1996 as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Adderall is a Schedule II central nervous stimulant and appetite suppressant. Its Schedule II designation…
Amphetamines
Amphetamine stands for (alpha methyl phenyl ethyl amine). Due to its strong stimulant effect on the central nervous system, amphetamine is prescribed to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy, a condition in…

Drug Approval Process
The process by which a pharmaceutical company develops a new drug is both time consuming and very expensive. It begins when a unique molecule, usually a natural one derived from…
Inflammation
The term inflammation is derived from Latin and means to set on fire. The classic signs of redness, swelling, and pain reflect the molecular turbulence of the tissues involved. When inflammation occurs…
Provigil
Steroids for the brain? Modafinil is used to treat excessive sleepiness caused by narcolepsy (a condition that causes excessive daytime sleepiness) or shift work sleep disorder (sleepiness during scheduled waking hours…

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Libraries

The enormity of the plant world’s contribution to human health can never be overstated. Life simply would not exist without plants. Plants convert sunlight into chemical energy and then stores that energy... Read more

Healing by Folk Medicine

Traditional or folk medicine denotes the health practices of Native peoples. This includes American Indians, Arabs, Amazonian and African tribes. The Amish, gypsys and Aborigines have their own "home remedies". Not... Read more

Ancinet Healing

The healing systems that developed in the Ancient world is divided into three major groups. Greek, Chinese and Ayurvedic medical systems makeup what is called Traditonal Medicine. There are other... Read more

Maitake
Maitake mushrooms (Grifola frondosa) have been used over the centuries to treat diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, the triumvirate of nutritonal diseases that is driving an epidemic of chronic…
The Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic oath represents the highest ideals that physicians should aspire to. It is presented here in its translation by Dr. Louis Lasagna. Physicians affirm this oath upon graduation from medical…
Carotenoids
Carotenoids are the primary pigments found in red, yellow and orange colored plants (fruits and vegetables). They are synthesized by plants in the chromoplast, an organelle different from the chloroplast…

The Origins of Medical Thought
The Greco-Romano World The medical ideas and practices of the Ancient Greeks are typically attributed to the father of Greek medicine, Hippocrates. He represented the collective cultural elite of Ancient Greece…
Glucosinates
Glucosinolates are naturally occurring chemicals found in cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, sprouts kale and mustard seeds). The term glucosinolates refer to a library of more than one hundred sulfur-containing compounds (glycosides)…
Natural Pain Relief
This program is based on intense exercise and colorful nutrition and differs from other diets by its inclusion of exercise as a required component. Exercise is the single most important ingredient…

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Self-Care

Sedentary living is a prescription for dying. Exercise on the other hand, is a godsend to the living. The fruit of exercise is the metabolic efficiency that results in long-term, improved health... Read more

Aging

The aging process involves a series of changes that occur over the course of a lifetime. The goal of this program is to reverse that process. There have always been people... Read more

Alpha Lipoic Acid and Skin Care

Anti-aging medicine is based on reversing the body’s decline before it develops visible decay.  Women have long been the beneficiaries of treatments to counter the body's molecular decline. For example, the... Read more

Arthritis Prevention
This is a guide to bettering health through exercise and good nutrition. It’s a strategy that anticipates a huge increase in nutritional and oxidative demands based on the increased need of…
Arthritis Formula
The Athlete’s Solution requires exercise as a regular part of everyday life. It anticipates this workload and provides for it. This program recommended botanical products to improve health and prevent…

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Water-Soluble Vitamins

Thiamin - Vitamin B1 The disease beriberi was recognized in China as early as 2600 BC and is the earliest documented deficiency disorder. Thiamin acts as a coenzyme in the decarboxylation... Read more

B Vitamins

The B Vitamins are a group or as I call them library of eight different vitamins. They are manufactured in plants. Some foods are high in one while other foods are high... Read more

Protein II

Proteins makes up the structural parts of the human body. Protein are made up of twenty (20) amino acids. Some are small and strait and others, convulted geometric miracles. Proteins are... Read more

Protein Metabolism
Digesting dietary proteins is the function of metabolism. Good sources of protein include egg whites, legumes, soy products, milk whey, fish and of course red meat. There is an abundance of protein…
Calcium Controls
Calcium is essential for normal growth and development. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body and bone contains 99% of it. Calcium is generally found in the form of calcium…
Carbohydrate Regulation
Carbohydrates are consumed in the form of sugars and starches and stored as strands of glucose called glycogen. Glycogen is only stored in liver and muscle cells. The carbohydrates eaten are…

Vitamin E
Vitamin E is the antioxidant vitamin. It’s really not a single compound but rather a group of individualized, fat-soluble compounds. I see them as a mini-library of compounds, much as I…
Antioxidant Synergy
Antioxidants often work synergistically by recycling other antioxidant nutrients that have been oxidized or have already been used in the neutralization of free radicals. Vitamins C, E, and the trace mineral…
Nutrition
Good health is not merely the absence of disease. Good health is a physical and emotional state of grace. It is a term that assumes complete physical, mental and social wellness. The…

The Athlete’s Diet

The Whole Plant

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Colorful carbohydrates are found in the fruits and vegetables grown throughout the world. Carbohydrates are creations of plants. Their importance to life can never be overstated. The air we breathe and the...

Athletes are built as upright vertebrates.

Their bodies contain bones, which provide a skeleton or framework upon which soft tissues attach.

The function of the skeleton is to provide stiff, rigid resistance...

Diet Wars

Pandemic

Colorful Food

Female Athletes

PEDs

Drugs and Addiction

Healing

Anti-Aging Strategies

Nutrition

Monographs