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Post by robwhite on Oct 14, 2009 11:01:48 GMT -5
Hi Eric,
just been catching up with your videos and thoroughly enjoy them.
Looking forward to the Hair Mineral Analysis one and hopefully you might elaborate what you think about resolving differences between HMA results and the MT questionnaire results.
I thought i might be useful to create a thread for requests on future topics in your videos.
I would kick this one off my asking if you would discuss in the future each of the FHCs and their relative importance in the grand scheme of MT.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 10:52:17 GMT -5
Dave, on the spreadsheet for this new reduced volume program, i noticed in Weeks 9 and 10 in bright font there is SS Bar Good Mornings on Fridays. Does the fact that its in a bright font colour indicate something special about it - e.g. its optional?
If i do not have an SS Bar, i presume i can just swap it out with another posterior chain SPP execise. I'm lucky that i have GHR and reverse hyper benches in my gym, so i'm thinking those weeks i could use those.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 5:04:10 GMT -5
Thanks for your insight Eric.
I think i am like you in this matter, in that i prefer to spend my time absorbing knowledge from books, videos, etc.
I have been listening to 'The Dive' in the Holosync Awakening Prologue for about 2 weeks now, and it certainly made me feel more calm and content, but i cant really say its done much else for me at the moment. I will be moving onto the 'Immersion' track next. My biggest issue is that i find it difficult to sit / lay down for 60 minutes and effectively do nothing but listen to these tracks - as i said before, i would rather spend what precious little time i get to myself absorbing knowledge and discovering new concepts.
However, one beneficial track i have found from Holosync is the Quietude track, which i listen to when reading. I find it helps somewhat retain in my mind what i am reading when the text is particularly dry.
I am considering trying the binural beat CD that Mercola recommends - the Insight CD by Immrama Institute, which i briefly alluded to before. Across the web it has good reviews. Its a fraction of the cost, and you can get benefits in as little as 20 minutes, and all of the sound frequency layers that Centrepoint would have you pay thousands of dollars for over a number of years are on the single Immrama Insight CD via multi-layer encoding. I.e. when you listen to it, your brain just picks up the frequencies its currently capable of recieving, and as it gets better at recieving lower frequencies, it will automatically pick those up during your next listening session. Basically, that one CD could be good enough for years.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 4:36:53 GMT -5
Eric, You have mentioned several times that you can look up specific supplement ingredients to see how they might affect a certain metabolic type. Is that information available to people that have taken the MT Test? For example if there was a particular product I was interesting in I could look up each ingredient instead of asking you. I can try posting some of that information right here, Doug. Here are the genres that we have data for thus far: Some Common Medications Vitamins Minerals Some Amino Acids If you think any of these would be helpful then let me know and I can try to post what I have here. That would be great!
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 4:35:09 GMT -5
In the UK, you can find in the freezer section of supermarkets pre-cooked flash-frozen beans
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 4:32:29 GMT -5
OK Eric i have started to do some more DCR's for these meals, and so far using the anabolic meals pre- AND post-workout are working well, in that i can get through a solid training session, and the meal after leaves me satisfied for hours afterwards. The only exception is the whey hydrosylate, which makes my blood sugar crash within about 10 minutes, so i will def. be removing that.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 13, 2009 4:21:58 GMT -5
OK, so magnesium is ok to use sporadically for FO's during times of extreme stress.
I have found the Adrenal recovery program Eric has got me on to be one of the most beneficial things i have done to date - i feel as good as i was when i was 20!
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Post by robwhite on Oct 12, 2009 6:08:24 GMT -5
I think something to bear in mind is that our genes have not changed that much since we were hunter gatherers, and the mroe removed we are from the hunter-gather lifestyle, environment, and diet, the more stress we place on our bodies because our gene expression doesnt optimally thrive when we are so far removed from our hunter-gatherer origins.
If you add up all the issues like not being any where near as active as our ancestors, eating unnatural foods, being surrounded by EMF, chemical (xenoestrogens, plastics, etc.), air polution, and unnatural chronic stressors (we are designed for short bursts of ACUTE stress, not chronic stress ALL the time) from work, finances (think capitalist 'rat race' mentality), etc. i think it is wise to remove as many lesser 'blocking factors' as possible. Personally, I think the blocking factors given on the MT documentation are relatively easy to deal with, and doing so will give you more physical and mental resources to deal with the bigger, more difficult issues i have described above.
It is true that the human body is designed to deal with a certain amount of stressors, and indeed based upon proven theories of 'hormesis', certain levels of stress are needed to keep the immune system healthy, but the type and amount of underlying stressors we are subjected to today is large and quite unnatural (esp. stuff like chemicals, food processing, and EMF) to what we are designed for and what our ancestors would have been subjected to.
I think we are brainwashed into beleiving we 'need' stuff like fluoride in our toothpaste, and half a dozen cleaning agents in our household and personal hygiene products. This is simply nonsence, and many pre-industrialised groups still use the combination of a totally natural diet and simple, cheap, natural products, such as neem oil to clean their teeth, coconut oil for skin moisturiser and sun block, vinegar to wash hair, etc. to stay very healthy. Udo Erasmus's book has soem good examples.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 12, 2009 5:46:49 GMT -5
PS is more effective for regulating cortisol output than phos choline.
According to Dr Paul Eck's theories of metabolic typing / imbalances, fast oxidation and parasympathetic imbalances are the result of chronic stress, a significant effect of which is chronically elevated cortisol (eventually leading to adrenal fatigue), and PS is better at resolving this than phos choline.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 8:49:20 GMT -5
The bleeping would get irritating to other people if you were in a public gym. If it could be modified so it could do the noice through ear phones you could get around that.
I think it would be a good gizmo for those training alone, because you cant accurately guage squat depth looking straight on in a mirror.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 8:46:47 GMT -5
Look up something called the FABER test, and get someone to do it on you. Its very easy to figure out. If you get pain, go to a physio.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 8:44:21 GMT -5
"Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing" by Foster and Kreitzman is apparently a good laymans intro, and reasonably priced. They did a follow up called "Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive", which discusses circannual rhythms and also got good reviews.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 8:38:53 GMT -5
Ta. Sounds promising.
I was really after something that i can work into my GPP putside of my Sheiko sessions - say, just an extra 15 mins or so of effective mobility work.
I've been using Paul Chek's Zone Exercises out of his book 'Eat, Move, and Be Healthy', which includes stuff like Feldenkrais and Tai Chi exercises, and its been fantastic for stress relief, mobility, and muscle coordination. However, i wouldnt mind bolstering the repertoire with some of ths Z Health stuff if it works and its easy to apply.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 5:22:39 GMT -5
I look on his website sometimes. Overall, i like his style. I think regardless of metabolic type, the paleo concept can be largely incporated into anyones diet. jsut modifiy the foods for your MT and away you go.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 5:20:16 GMT -5
Excellent video Eric. Some good fights there!
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Post by robwhite on Oct 9, 2009 5:12:41 GMT -5
Doug, this is something i have pondered. It would be really useful for MT clients to be able to see a list of supplements that the MT community has researched and found to be better suited for certain metabolic types or not. The MT advisors should be realistic in that clients will dabble with supplements not on their recommedned list, esp. in the case with athletes, so a useful reference list of OK's / avoids would be good. Of course, i understand that: a) The recommendations would be very general, and clients need to understand that their own INDIVIDUAL reactions to supplements need to be monitored, just as they do with food. Just because a supplement might be on the list as 'OK' for your metabolic type, it might not be good for you as a person ; b) Such a list would not be definitive, as there are more and more supplements coming out all the time and it would be impossible to be totally up to date with them, but i get the impression that there has been alot of research in this going back to the early 1900's from pre-metabolic typing pioneers like George Watson and Francis Pottinger right the way through to present day with people like Bill Wolcott, Guy Schenker, Laura Power, and Harold Kristal, with stuff by George Watson, Emanuel Revici, and William Kelley in between. In fact, if you look around you can find quite alot of stuff out there in MT-related texts. There is an article on Watson which lists some stuff recommended for different Oxidative metabolic types www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/MetabolicTyping.htm . Kelley's original book on Metabolic types gives guidelines for supplements for different ANS types. Laura Power's site gives supplement recommenations for different Endocrine types www.biotype.net/types/. Eric has a document about supplements for Anabolic / Catabolic types basd on Revici's work. Schenker's, Kristal's and Wolcott's books give some recommendations of supplements for many different FHC imbalances.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 7, 2009 5:39:39 GMT -5
www.squatprecision.com/ Still, with the ultra high squatting allowed in alot of fed's these days, i suppose it makes this device redundant .... ;D
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Post by robwhite on Oct 6, 2009 5:48:18 GMT -5
BTW, for those looking for di-potassium phosphate in the UK, i have now managed to talk myprotein.co.uk into stocking it.
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Post by robwhite on Oct 6, 2009 5:39:35 GMT -5
Great lifting Eric!
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Post by robwhite on Oct 6, 2009 5:38:12 GMT -5
Anyone got any input on any of this stuff?
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