Proven Research for Hair Growth, Thickness and Health

Proven Research for Hair Growth, Thickness and Health

Your hair, skin, and nails are a window into what is going on inside your body. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies, overtaxed organs and hormone imbalances often make themselves known in the form of rashes, blemishes, dryness in hair or hair loss and imperfections in nails. For men (and a smaller ...
sourdough einkorn bread

How to Make Ancient Einkorn Sourdough Bread

Einkorn wheat (along with emmer) was our first form of cultivated wheat that looks entirely different than the wheat we have today. Europe's oldest mummy - Otzi the Iceman - had an einkorn bread, ibex meat and unidentified herbs as his last meal in 3,300 BC! Perhaps the Earl of Sandwich ...
The Best Vitamin K2 Sources of MK-4 and MK-7

The Best Vitamin K2 Sources of MK-4 and MK-7

What is Vitamin K2? Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, along with vitamins A, D, and E. Vitamin K's main claim to fame is coagulation homeostasis and calcium homeostasis. The letter “K” is used because it is derived from the K in the Germanic word Koagulation, meaning the ability to ...
How to Increase Testosterone Naturally: Why You Don't Need Steroids

How to Increase Testosterone Naturally: Why You Don’t Need Steroids

The sports world has been riddled with the use of performance enhancing drugs. These can be anabolic steroids, HGH, artificial stimulants, or blood boosters. We have seen steroids rock the baseball world over and over again and blood doping shattered the cycling world. Although more under the radar, it is ...
Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Carbohydrates

Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Carbohydrates

What are the Best Sources of Carbohydrates from Vegetables? The first choice for endurance producing carbohydrates is going to come from starchy root vegetables. You may have been told to avoid potatoes if you were following a strict Paleo diet, but this is a mistake due to its nutritional profile ...
Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Fat

Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Fat

What are the Best Sources of Fat? The best sources of fat are from pastured eggs, bone marrow, pastured lard, avocados, pastured butter, ghee, brie, gouda, nuts, seeds, extra virgin coconut oil, and extra virgin non-filtered, cold-pressed olive oil. From a culinary standpoint, fat is the difference between a meal ...
Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Protein

Sports Nutrition 101: The Best Sources of Protein

Are You Getting Enough Protein? Protein and the branch chain amino acids (BCAA’s) help repair and build muscles, maintain the immune system, manufacture enzyme and hormones, replace old red blood cells to carry oxygen to muscles, and act as fuel as a last resort. Protein converts to glucose more slowly ...
The Best Foods to Prevent Sunburn and Skin Cancer

The Best Foods to Prevent Sunburn and Skin Cancer

The Evolutionary Timeline of the Sunburn Over the past sixty years or so, we have moved more and more towards an indoor, temperature controlled environment with the least amount of movement required. Due to this change as a species, we have become deficient in vitamin D from the sun which ...
How Much Meat, Plants and Dairy Did Farmers Consume?

How Much Meat, Plants and Dairy Did Farmers Consume?

One of the things I noticed while working on family farms is that meat is not as abundant on many farms as it is in our grocery stores. Farms provide us with a surplus of any food you want, but this is not how an isolated farm works. Along with ...
How Much Meat and Plants Did Hunter Gatherers Eat?

How Much Meat and Plants Did Hunter Gatherers Eat?

Have you ever wondered how much meat and plants our hunter-gatherers consumed? Or our farming ancestors? I started researching the diets of many hunters and farmers and wasn't expecting to find so many contradicting books and studies as to how much meat was consumed. It is unfortunate that personal biases ...
The Healthy Way to Barbecue

The Healthy Way to Barbecue

If You're Gonna BBQ, Do it Right I think we can all agree that everything tastes better when it’s cooked on the barbecue. The flavors are more intense, the juices sealed, and that smoky flavor is hard to beat. While spending some time with friends in Colorado, I was blown ...