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Category: Nutrition

  • High Protein ‘Cake’

    High Protein Buffin Cake Slices Get a load of oats, throw them in a bowl Add some coconut oil Chuck in some raisins, a mashed up banana, hemp protein, 3 eggs and some ground almonds Bake for around 30 mins at about 150 degrees C

  • Potential Use of Herbs in Sports Nutrition

    Interestingly, there appears to be lots of evidence regarding different herbs, and their ability to enhance physical performance. I’m surprised nobody has mustered up an organic recovery formula, or pre-workout that’s actually quite ‘good’ for you. And marketed as such.  With lots of beefcakes on the packaging. Ginkgo Biloba Rhodiola combined with Ginkgo, reduced physical markers of overtraining significantly…

  • L Carnitine – What Doesn’t it do?

    Enhanced Energy and Focus I’ve had a few concussions in my time, generally thanks to being rubbish at MMA and other combat sports and martial arts.  After the last one, I had a bad head and felt ‘out of it’ for quite a few weeks. I did some reading up, and all the studies that…

  • Kava Kava Tea for Anxiety

    As someone who has an interest in herbs, and nutrition in general, and is also one of those left-wing anti pharmaceutical types, I was very interested to read about Kava Kava AKA Piper methysticum. There are shed loads of studies showing that it significantly reduces anxiety; and depression.  Safety concerns appear limited to liver toxicity if…

  • Kratom Tea Review

    Apparently it’s really effective for relaxation, and headaches, but you have to be really responsible with it.  It’s supposed to have a similar effect to codeine (I read that codeine is physically addictive after 11 days of continuous use as well, so that’s off the proverbial table).  Kratom can apparently make you constipated, and if you…

  • How to Get Fit & Lose Weight

    So, I’m a little embarrassed by this video, but I’m going to carry on trying to do a weekly one, and see if it gets any uptake/interest.  Had a few thousand views on some other videos, so worth a shot: To summarise the video – Getting fit is all about forming positive and healthy habits.…

  • 99 Problems and Gut Inflammation

    If you suffer from chronic inflammation problems, such as sinusitis, asthma, sore joints, terrible recovery from MMA training sessions; then you may have issues with gut inflammation. I recently increased my calorie intake to 4,000 a day, and wowzers, do I feel bad!  Particularly in terms of sinus headaches. I hate air-con (that’s not me…

  • Therapeutic Treatments / Interventions For Cognitive Decline/Alzheimer’s disease

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/ Really interesting study, looking at non-pharmaceutical interventions and their impact upon cognitive decline: The first 10 patients who have utilized this program include patients with memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning…

  • Sports Nutrition for Soccer / Football pdf

    Today I did the washing and the hoovering, then this ebook: Click link to download —> Sports_Nutrition_for_Football_1-4 available on Kindle here

  • Furniture Free House? Beware the Couch!

    The couch, or the sofa, the lazyboy; whatever you want to call it; is the route of all evil as far as healthy eating and weight loss is concerned. Here are some reasons behind this harsh analysis of mine: 1. We consume junk foods, ‘mindlessly’, without any gratitude or appreciation. If you are watching TV…