Conditioning Research

Late back from work on Wednesday night it felt too late to cook but I wanted something so I opened a can of coconut milk.  Lovely.   Within 15 minutes my gut was bubbling.   In the middle of the night  - 3am - I got up and had an explosive liquid shit.  Fantastic.  Final dribble first thing in the morning...... Interesting listening the next day to the superb  Paleo-Nerd-A-Thon! podcast with Robb Wolf, Matt Lalonde and Chris Kresser,  Matt mentioend that some people struggle to tolerate coconut milk, not due to the milk itself but the guar gum ingredient which is a legume. Time to check the labels more closely in future.

once work quietens down after these elections , I am looking forward to getting back to training with Krav Maga Edinburgh

Interesting little abstract here in that the implication is that it is not about exercise per se but about the dangers of inactivity. Lack of regular physical exercise or too much inactivity. PURPOSE To discuss the current data that acute periods of physical inactivity are harmful to health. RECENT FINDINGS: Bed rest prescribed for recovery from clinical conditions causes changes in thousands of mRNAs in leg muscles within days. Humans genetically more susceptible to metabolic disorders (low birth weight babies and type 2 diabetic offspring) are as, or more, susceptible to further metabolic dysfunction by the environmental perturbation of bed rest, as compared with healthy controls without these risk factors. High daily accumulations of sitting are not only associated with enhanced metabolic risk, but current findings report that increased sitting time leads to a reduction in insulin sensitivity. Reductions in walking or in ambulatory activity (lower step numbers taken by healt...

CrossFit Huntington Beach Interview with Coach Tony Blauer from Tony Blauer on Vimeo . via Brian Really good stuff in there about avoiding complex motor skills in self defence

Does anyone have access to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association?  Looks like they have an interesting feature  on Fat this month: The Great Fat Debate: A Closer Look at the Controversy—Questioning the Validity of Age-Old Dietary Guidance

For those of us with an interest in fasting - like the 2 Meal Solution for example -will find this interesting.  I've pointed in the past  ( here and here ) to studies that indicate that fasting might be a good tactic in caner treatment. Fasting vs dietary restriction in cellular protection and cancer treatment: from model organisms to patients. The dietary recommendation for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, as described by the American Cancer Society, is to increase calorie and protein intake. Yet, in simple organisms, mice, and humans, fasting-no calorie intake-induces a wide range of changes associated with cellular protection, which would be difficult to achieve even with a cocktail of potent drugs. In mammals, the protective effect of fasting is mediated, in part, by an over 50% reduction in glucose and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) levels. Because proto-oncogenes function as key negative regulators of the protective changes induced by fasting, cells e...