Michael Arnstein - athletic performance on a fruit based diet?

Michael Arnstein created the Woodstock Fruit Festival in 2011 to share what he had learned reading "The 80/10/10 Diet" by Dr. Doug Graham: first, that he never felt better, but perhaps more impressively, his athletic performance improved dramatically. (Michael has been an "ultra distance" marathon runner for years). The Festival is held on a gorgeous location on a lake in upstate New York every year in August.

Michael celebrated his 40th birthday in 2017 in an unusual way...by competing in (and winning, again) The Hurt 100, one of the more grueling foot races on the planet, run annually in Hawaii. This video document of that event was created by Symbiotic Solutions.

A condensed education in "Natural Hygiene"

Natural Hygiene is a diet and lifestyle philosophy that was described in (at least) two contemporary books, "Fit for Life" by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond published in 2002, and "The 80/10/10 Diet" by Dr. Doug Graham in 2006. Both books were best sellers, possibly because Natural Hygiene is based (in no small part) on common sense.

What do I mean in this instance by "common sense"? We've heard our entire lives that fruits and vegetables are the original health foods. We've all heard the quote by the original medical doctor Hippocrates to "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food".

Recently "fruit is bad for you" has become a cultural meme. I could give you my ideas about how this (health destructive) state of affairs has come to pass, but that's a topic for another post at a future point. Meanwhile have a look at a short video by natural hygienist Loren Lockman to judge for yourself the long term effect lots of fresh fruit (and vegetables) has caused in his state of health. If this video peaks your interest, it's the first in a brief series of short videos recorded last year at Lockman's Tanglewood Wellness Center in Costa Rica. In total they are a fairly comprehensive but condensed presentation of Natural Hygiene philosophy.

Creative credit: Symbiotic Solutions Youtube Channel

Greens...better than drugs?

The New York Times reported a recent study that shows green leafy vegetables slow cognitive decline by the equivalent of 11 years:

A Salad a Day May Be Good for Brain Health

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/mind/a-salad-a-day-may-be-good-for-brain-health.html#story-continues-1

Common Sense! (looking for intelligent life in the universe)

I think I'll do a series of blogs on common sense, because it is, sadly, not all that common, but oh so necessary for the development of real understanding. Looking back at my own progression it's easy to forget how confused I was about the substances and conditions that induce health vs those that cause disease. Along the way certain voices I found spoke with logic and clarity simply because what they said consistently made sense. The cumulative effect of finding these voices has been the reversal of my own confusion and ill health.

Here's a relatively new voice for me, Dr. Garth Davis, a bariatric bypass surgeon who, with a conventional medical education, had gained weight himself, and developed high cholesterol and early stage cardiovascular disease coming into middle age. At first he accepted this fate as a simple consequence of aging or "bad genes", but then motivated by professional curiosity (he is after all a weight loss doc) began looking into the whys and wherefores, taking a deep and long dive into the scientific literature. He had been recommending to his patients a high protein low carb diet, and consuming one himself, but then did a 180. The change in his own health and that of his patients has been extraordinary. There are many interviews and talks by him out there, but I chose this brief one, an excerpt from a talk, because in it he shows off some of that common sense:

If that got your attention, you may want to check this out too...a talk Dr. Davis gave at a medical conference on diabetes, recorded by an attendee in the audience. You may need to turn up the volume a bit or use headphones to hear it clearly. It's gold.