Friday, January 1, 2021
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16 of the weirdest and wackiest facts on the human body
16 of the weirdest and wackiest facts on the human body
Did you know that 206 bones make up the human skeleton? It’s just one of the many fun facts you’ll find in Operation Ouch!: Join Doctor Chris and Doctor Xand as you find out all about crazy bodily functions and bizarre real-life medical cases. Here are 16 weird, wacky, and sometimes-a-bit-gross facts…
- Your eyes blink around 20 times a minute. That’s over ten million times a year!
- Your ears never stop growing!
- Earwax is actually a type of sweat!
- The tongue is covered in about 8,000 taste-buds, each containing up to 100 cells helping you taste your food!
- You produce about 40,000 liters of spit in your lifetime. Or to put it another way, enough spit to fill around five hundred bathtubs – yuck!
- The average nose produces about a cupful of nasal mucus every day
- You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed.
- If you walked for 12 hours a day, it would take the average person 690 days to walk around the world.
- The only muscle that never tires is the heart.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
China completes track-laying work for a railway line in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh
China completes track-laying work for a railway line in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh
Beijing: China on Thursday completed the track-laying work for a railway line linking the cities of Lhasa and Nyingchi in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh, official media here reported. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway into Tibet after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. It will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the world's most geologically active areas. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway starts from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, and travels through Ya'an and enters Tibet via Qamdo, shortening the journey from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours. Linzhi, also known as Nyingchi, is located close to the Arunachal Pradesh border. Last month, President Xi Jinping instructed officials to expedite the construction of the new railway project connecting Sichuan Province and Linzhi in Tibet, saying it would play a key role in safeguarding the border stability. With a designed speed of 160 km per hour, the 435-km rail line passes through 47 tunnels and 120 bridges, according to its constructor Tibet Railway Construction Co., Ltd.
How to Lose Weight: What Worked for Me to Lose 80+ Pounds
How to Lose Weight: What Worked for Me to Lose 80+ Pounds
The Personalized Way to Lose Weight
1. I Started With Mindset
2. I Asked Better Questions
Personalization is Key
A Note on Hashimoto’s:
Part 1: Tracking to Lose Weight
- Weight, body fat, and BMI
- Fasting blood sugar (every 1-2 weeks) using a glucose monitor
- Ketones in a 24-hour fast monthly
- Heart Rate Variability and sleep using an Oura ring
- Basic labs including CBC and Comprehensive Metabolic plus thyroid and vitamin D using a local ProHealth clinic
- Food intake and macros through My Fitness Pal
- Time-restricted eating and intermittent fasting through the Zero App
- By tracking these, I could see over time what was working and what wasn’t. I also kept a digital journal in Notion that tracked my food and exercise and added notes about these into Oura to correlate patterns.
Helpful resources for tracking:
- Heads Up Health
- Oura Ring
- Zero App
- Glucose Monitor – Regular with strips or Continuous
- Labs from Everly Well or a local lab like ProHealth
- A doc like mine from SteadyMD
- Keto Mojo
- My Fitness Pal for food intake
- Renpho Body Scale
Part 2: Understanding Genes
- Eating less fat, especially less saturated fat, even though these can be vital for many people.
- Consuming MORE protein (more on that below)
- Less red meat to reduce iron intake and insulin levels (noticed a big difference here)
- Optimizing vitamin D levels
Helpful Resources:
- Nutrition Genome (save 10% with the code WELLNESSMAMA)
- Self Decode for more detail
Part 3: Eating MORE to Lose Weight
- 2 cans of sardines (my lunch almost every day along with lots of green veggies)
- 1.5 cups cottage cheese
- 5-6 ounces cooked chicken or turkey
- 6-7 ounces cooked cod
- 6-7 ounces cooked salmon
- 5-6 ounces lean beef
- 7 ounces of shrimp
- 12-18 raw oysters
Part 4: Eat Less Often
Part 5: Supplements That Helped Me Lose Weight
My Supplements:
- Choline- I experimented with Alpha GPC and Choline & Inositol and alternate these now.
- Omega 3s- Mostly from sardines and other fatty fish but also from Omega-3 Phospholipids form.
- Resveratrol- In supplement form since it is harder to get enough from food.
- EGCG- I like this decaf green tea supplement.
- B-Vitamins – I needed more B6 in the form of P5P 50 and a B-complex
- Selenium
- Zinc
- Vitamin C- I take a food-based essential C from Paleo Valley and drink lemon water every morning.
- Magnesium- Most people take this at night for better sleep, but it keeps me awake so I take at lunchtime. I take MagSRT.
- HCL with meals- Especially as I improved my gut health, I found it helpful to take HCL with meals to help aid digestion.
- Vitamins A & D- I tested my levels and used vitamin D drops and vitamin A drops to get my levels in range.
- K2-7 and Probiotics – I found this K2-7 and these spore-based probiotics helpful as well.
Important notes:
Part 6: Staying Parasympathetic and Keeping Stress Low
Here are some of the things that helped me most (but I didn’t do all of them each day):
- Exercising less: I found that early on, I was actually exercising too much and this was causing physical stress for my body. During the first six months of intense weight loss, I didn’t do any intense exercise at all and only walked and swam.
- Sauna use: Among other benefits, regular sauna use served two purposes for me: it worked as an exercise mimetic to give many of the cardio benefits even when I wasn’t exercising as much, and it helps the body get parasympathetic. This study found that: “A session of sauna bathing induces an increase in HR. During the cooling down period from sauna bathing, HRV increased which indicates the dominant role of parasympathetic activity and decreased sympathetic activity of the cardiac autonomic nervous system.”
- Prioritizing sleep: Sleep became an absolute non-negotiable for me. During sleep, the body regenerates, flushes cerebral spinal fluid, and resets a lot of metabolic factors. Even one night of bad sleep would mess with blood sugar levels and HRV for a couple of days. These posts have more info: sleep remedies that work and how to create a perfect sleep environment.
- Tapping: A method called tapping helps calm the nervous system. It was one of the strategies I used to actively deal with stressful situations and I did this before eating to make sure I was in a parasympathetic state to digest. This podcast with Nick Ortner and this one with Brittany Watkins both explain tapping in more detail.
- Hunter Fitness classes: As I focused more on gentle fitness, I still wanted to increase strength and mobility and found CARs and Kinstretch classes from Hunter Fitness to be really helpful. I’m not sure why, but I also notice a big increase in HRV (a good thing) at night after I do these classes during the day.
- Sprinting and strength training: With my COMT genes, I found that extended cardio was almost never beneficial for me and that once I could tolerate exercise without it being too stressful, I did best with short but intense exercises like sprinting and lifting heavyweights. I now almost exclusively train with weights, sprints, and the Car. O.L bike.
- Massage: When possible, massage and foam rolling seemed to help my body stay parasympathetic.
- Breathing: A few simple breath-work exercises made a difference in my HRV. I would do box breathing (breath in for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts, exhale for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts and repeat), and 4-7-8 (inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8) daily.
Part 7: Don’t Do the Same Thing Daily
- Eating in a 6-8 hour window each day, but one day a week, I eat in a 12+ hour window instead.
- Consume 100+ grams of protein most days but eat much lower protein once a week.
- I don’t take supplements on the weekends.
- Some days I eat much more fat (mostly from olive oil and fish).
- A couple of days a week, I consume more carbs from vegetables and tubers.
- I lift weights a few times a week but occasionally take a week off.
- The only thing I rarely vary is my sleep, and this is one of my non-negotiables. I haven’t found any benefit from reducing sleep and optimizing sleep has positive effects in all other areas of my life.
A Sample Daily Health & Weight Loss Routine
- Wakeup without an alarm after getting at least 8 hours of sleep. Drink 1 quart of water with the juice of one lemon and some ginger.
- Within an hour, spend 30 minutes outside (often drinking a cup of green tea or coffee with my husband and kids), do gratitude and breathing, and move around (walking, strength training, or gentle stretching).
- Take any supplements I need to take on an empty stomach.
- Get work done in the morning while the kids work on school.
- If working out, do this late morning just before eating lunch so I can train fasted. Sometimes drink amino before and during a workout.
- Eat first meal between 11-1 most days, making sure to hit 40 grams of protein. Take most supplements with this meal, including the ones listed above.
- Eat another meal every 3-4 hours for a total of 3 meals within 6-8 hours that day.
- Spend time in the afternoon with kids outside and often usually sauna mid-afternoon. Drink LMNT in the sauna for electrolytes.
- Stop eating at least 3 hours before bedtime.
- Drink reishi tea most night before bed (Organifi Gold mixed with Four Sigmatic reishi packet)
- In bed by 10 pm most nights and sleep 9+ hours most days.
Sample Meal Ideas to Lose Weight
- Two cans of sardines over a big salad with pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, and homemade olive oil and lemon dressing (my most common meal).
- One or two chicken breasts chopped with avocado, cilantro, lots of greens, hemp seeds, hot sauce, and homemade ranch.
- Egg roll in a bowl stir fry with ground turkey.
- Sliced turkey wrapped in lettuce leaves with tomato, sprouts, cucumber, and Tzatziki sauce.
- Meatballs over veggie pasta with salad.
- Pan-seared salmon with roasted veggies.
- Stuffed sweet potato with steak and Brussels sprouts. (I limit red meat due to my genes and eat this once a week at most).
- Pan-seared cod with cauliflower rice and stir-fry vegetables.
- Sheet pan tandoori chicken thighs and vegetables.
- Any variation of salad with leftover protein and homemade dressing
Key Takeaways From My Weight Loss Plan
- Knowing my genes and eating/supplementing for them
- Eating more, especially protein, from seafood sources
- TRE and fasting
- Very specific supplements
- Staying parasympathetic through sleep and tracking HRV
- Sauna use and very specific exercise
30 Day Guide to Paleo Cooking Book Review
30 Day Guide to Paleo Cooking Book Review
- An overview of why to eat this way and the basics of paleo eating
- A month-long menu plan and shopping list
- A compilation of 75 recipes that are easy to prepare and (mostly) budget-friendly
- The recipes that we tested were great and although the book seemed relatively basic, I think it would be perfect for someone just starting to eat healthier but overwhelmed by trying to figure out what to actually eat.
Happy New Year 2021 Live Updates: Muted celebrations as world ushers in 2021
Happy New Year 2021 Live Updates: Muted celebrations as world ushers in 2021
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Sherry News | 30 December 2020
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