Before I left for Germany, I went to the dentist for a check-up and cleaning (I've started to think that "polishing" teeth with an abrasive is a bad idea - my paleohacks question). When I went there I got my teeth cleaned, polished, x-rayed, and then later convinced to get some grooves in my teeth filled in, and some weakened enamel repaired with a filling.
The work done is causing me a little grief, and now I'm wishing that I just did what I wanted to do, and assured my dentist that paleo is fine for my teeth, and just make sure to start eating bone broth, get plenty of vitamin D, and leave it alone. Kind of the whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of deal.
In short, next year when I go to the dentist, I'll just have my teeth cleaned, maybe polished, and not have any work done.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Fasting, meal timing and Jet Lag
So, I've moved to Germany for a year, and way back (ok, sometime last year) I remembered reading about fasting as a way to reset a circadian rhythm from Hunter-Gatherer. The actual article that he links to is here, with the "trick" revolving around not eating for 16 hours.
I didn't read the article before leaving, but I remembered the whole fasting deal, so here's what I did:
Day 1: ate at 7:00am CDT.
Day 1: Slept for maybe an hour (broken hour) during the 7 and a half hour flight, probably around 7pm CDT.
Day 2: ate at 8:15am CEST (1:15am CDT). Drank an espresso
Day 2: napped for 15-30min on plane around 10am CEST, drank a coffee at 10:30am CEST
Day 2: ate at 3:00pm CEST (8am CDT)
Day 2: Fell asleep at 4:15pm CEST
Day 3: Woke up at 2am CEST
From this, I don't know if my clock has really been reset or not, being that I pretty much didn't sleep the night of Day 1, and even if I were back in my own timezone, I would have passed out at 4pm after a night of only getting an hour of sleep.
I'm planning on eating at 7am this morning, even though I woke up at 2am. I'm thinking that the timing of breakfast is what's key to resetting this clock.
I'll keep updating until I've decided that I've adapted to the timezone - hopefully only a day or so more.
Update - all times in CEST:
Day 3: Nap from 6:40am to 7am, ate at 7:30am - drank one green tea, Nap from 11:00am to 11:30am
Day 3: ate at 2pm, green tea at 4:30pm, ate at 7:30pm, went to sleep at 8:30pm
Day 4: woke up at 7am, ate at 7:30am had a cup of green tea, drank three glasses of mead and had one bockwurst, and someslamb leg between 11:30am and 2:30pm.
Day 4: felt tired at hell at 4pm, almost fell asleep on the bus ride home, fought through it and didn't take a nap
Day 4: went to bed at 8:45pm
Day 5: woke up at 8:10am, ate at 8:30am had two cups of green tea because I felt like it.
I didn't read the article before leaving, but I remembered the whole fasting deal, so here's what I did:
Day 1: ate at 7:00am CDT.
Day 1: Slept for maybe an hour (broken hour) during the 7 and a half hour flight, probably around 7pm CDT.
Day 2: ate at 8:15am CEST (1:15am CDT). Drank an espresso
Day 2: napped for 15-30min on plane around 10am CEST, drank a coffee at 10:30am CEST
Day 2: ate at 3:00pm CEST (8am CDT)
Day 2: Fell asleep at 4:15pm CEST
Day 3: Woke up at 2am CEST
From this, I don't know if my clock has really been reset or not, being that I pretty much didn't sleep the night of Day 1, and even if I were back in my own timezone, I would have passed out at 4pm after a night of only getting an hour of sleep.
I'm planning on eating at 7am this morning, even though I woke up at 2am. I'm thinking that the timing of breakfast is what's key to resetting this clock.
I'll keep updating until I've decided that I've adapted to the timezone - hopefully only a day or so more.
Update - all times in CEST:
Day 3: Nap from 6:40am to 7am, ate at 7:30am - drank one green tea, Nap from 11:00am to 11:30am
Day 3: ate at 2pm, green tea at 4:30pm, ate at 7:30pm, went to sleep at 8:30pm
Day 4: woke up at 7am, ate at 7:30am had a cup of green tea, drank three glasses of mead and had one bockwurst, and someslamb leg between 11:30am and 2:30pm.
Day 4: felt tired at hell at 4pm, almost fell asleep on the bus ride home, fought through it and didn't take a nap
Day 4: went to bed at 8:45pm
Day 5: woke up at 8:10am, ate at 8:30am had two cups of green tea because I felt like it.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Vegans meddling in the Dairyland
"Warning: cheese can sack your health."
You can read here about a billboard (picture and caption above) being put up in Green Bay, by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Just skimming the article I found out that the PCRM happen to be from Washington D.C., and happen to be vegan.
Well I guess vegans are starting to spread their anti-sat fat/animal products propaganda in the Midwest now. What a load of cow manure.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Revolutionary Health
When I was looking around for a good "intro to paleo" for one of my friends, I stumbled across the 10 revolutionary truths, which relate to a sort of health revolution.
They definitely jive with my views on how the mainstream market culture is "out to get us," and the fact that "the market" doesn't want healthy people per se, only people who have a healthy appetite for consumption.
The 10 truths are nicely digestible, and in a nice format; great for passing on to others.
They definitely jive with my views on how the mainstream market culture is "out to get us," and the fact that "the market" doesn't want healthy people per se, only people who have a healthy appetite for consumption.
The 10 truths are nicely digestible, and in a nice format; great for passing on to others.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
More about the flux of "Paleo"
What I was talking about in my earlier post on the changing of paleo seems to not have been as well thought out as I would of liked. Or I just didn't think it through enough.
Anyway, for paleo itself, it should be in some constant state of flux, that it's a guiding set of rules, that can/should be manipulated for each person. No "one size fits all" kind of deal. I feel that the need to learn about ancestral nutrition/health and then base one's nutritional ideas off of that is already a little widespread, but the more it's said, the more it gets spread around.
You could say that I've been reminded to say this after I read the PaleolithicDiet's most recent email, which dealt primarily with warning people in the paleosphere not to get emotionally attached to certain gurus, or ideals. I call these overly emotionally attached people paleotards, primarily because I think it's funny, but it's not very PC. Anyway, I try to check myself against emotional attachment, but sometimes I find myself trying to defend something just because I like the way it sounds.
Anyway, for paleo itself, it should be in some constant state of flux, that it's a guiding set of rules, that can/should be manipulated for each person. No "one size fits all" kind of deal. I feel that the need to learn about ancestral nutrition/health and then base one's nutritional ideas off of that is already a little widespread, but the more it's said, the more it gets spread around.
You could say that I've been reminded to say this after I read the PaleolithicDiet's most recent email, which dealt primarily with warning people in the paleosphere not to get emotionally attached to certain gurus, or ideals. I call these overly emotionally attached people paleotards, primarily because I think it's funny, but it's not very PC. Anyway, I try to check myself against emotional attachment, but sometimes I find myself trying to defend something just because I like the way it sounds.
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