The Healthbeat
The Health Beat is your unbiased, scientific and clinical source of food, supplementation, and disease prevention research. We strive to help you navigate the complicated diet and supplement world with ease, backed by published research and clinical experience.
Is Gatorade Good for You?
When I wrote the Best and Worst Electrolyte Drinks in 2013, I didn’t know it would cause a major domino effect in companies changing their formulas. High fructose corn syrup, sugar, food dyes, sodium benzoate, aspartame, sucralose and “natural” flavor with a little...
Top 11 Foods High in Electrolytes
What Are Electrolytes? In my best and worst electrolyte drinks article, I analyzed the best and worst electrolyte powders, liquids, tablets and capsules that you can add to your water. In this article, we are going to go over the top foods high in electrolytes. The...
How to Reduce Your Industrial Fluoride Intake
"Fluoride has a protective effect against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions." -Dr. Arvid Carlsson, Swedish Neuropharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner In western Europe,...
How to Interpret Your Cardiovascular Blood Work in 5 Easy Steps
According to the latest 2015 statistics, cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death and claims more lives than all cancers combined. Approximately 80 percent of those deaths take place in low and middle-income countries. In the United States, 1 in 3...
The Best Genetic Testing for Athletes
We are entering an age of science where we are starting to do some pretty incredible things in the health field. Genetics is a field where a scientific renaissance is taking place. We are starting to be able to fine-tune our diet like never before with genetic data...
The Best Alternatives to Coffee
"I can give up anything, but don't ask me to give up coffee." The quote above is one I have heard hundreds of times. Very few things will incite such a passionate objection as to the fact that coffee may be masking causes of current health complaints. The problem is...
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...
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...
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....
Ending Heart Disease in the 21st Century with Nutrition
The information you are about to read was first written and researched for a lecture I gave. I received a lot of requests for notes or the outline to the lecture. I have provided a summary box at the bottom if you are not interested at how I arrived at the dietary...
Mental Health Starts in Your Gut, Not your Brain
What if the way we treat anxiety, depression, learning difficulties and behavioral disorders is completely misunderstood? When you combine published and unpublished studies of antidepressants, the treatments we have today are no better than they were 50 years ago. How...
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...
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 limited meat, you...
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....
Lower Back Twinge: What Should I Do?
I recently had the unfortunate incident of injuring my back during yoga. This class was much more intense than usual, and there was some twists and turns that I should have opted out for. The stretch that was finally too much, was actually sitting with my legs...
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...
The Health Beat Diet
What is the Health Beat Diet? There was a time period during the short Mesolithic bridge between the late Paleolithic period and the beginning of the agricultural Neolithic age. The diet was one of a hunter-gatherer with the beginning of plant and animal...