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1. WHAT WAS I GOING TO SAY ON THE LOW CARB CRUISE?
2. HOW DID A MASTERPIECE OF ARTWORK INSPIRE MY THOUGHTS?
3. HOW DOES LEPTIN AND COLD THERMOGENESIS UNIFY INTO NEOLITHIC DISEASE CAUSED BY INFLAMMATION?
4. HOW DO EXAMPLES IN YOUR LIFE WHO USE COLD REMAIN IN YOUR BLIND SPOT?
5. WHAT IS FACTOR X? HOW DOES IT SPEED UP EPIGENETICS?

Well, it has been a very interesting last few days but I am not the kind of person who looks in the rearview mirror to run my race. What happened happened and it will all come out in the wash eventually. I am a person who runs their own race by looking forward via the windshield as I step on the accelerator pedal to live my life. If we focus on the past we lose sight of where we are headed and the road to Optimal. A reader of mine, Dan K, sent this gem to me, “I heard the Dalai Lama once say in a lecture that our worst enemies are your greatest teachers because they allow you to examine the emotions of anger and revenge and then to transcend them. They give you the exact tools you need to elevate yourself to the spiritual energies that eliminate problems and provide solutions.” So today, I am moving toward the Paleo template and away from the “Paleo Radical Insurgency” who is steering the community into an abyss. There are too many people who need help and not the surrounding drama. The time has come to become, Epi-paleo, a term I mentioned at my Paleo fx speech, and that is what I will be building here on my blog and forum from here on out.

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1. WHAT BOOKS AM I READING NOW AND WHY?
2. WHY AM I WRITING BOOK REVIEWS IN A BLOG?
3. I THINK SOME PEOPLE HAVE IDEAS WE ALL NEED TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD?
4. I RARELY DO BOOK REVIEWS UNLESS THE BOOKS ARE WORTH IT, THESE TWO ARE.

It’s time to begin packing for Jimmy Moore’s low carb cruise so I wanted to launch a post on some of the books I have been reading and spot light two of them that I think are really good reads. I have shared them with my members and my patients and now I want to share my thoughts with my blog readers.

How to make your ‘I can’s” always succeed your “I can’ts”

First up, is Dean Dwyer’s first book called “Make Shift Happen” I met Dean for the first time at Paleo fx and we happened to be a on a panel together and his response’s to audience questions really caught me be surprise. He was one of the most amazing breathes of fresh air in Austin I met really. We spoke and he told me he wrote a book and I told him I’d love to read it and he sent me a copy that came to my office during a clinic day at 9 AM and finished it at 3 PM, while I was seeing patients in my neurosurgery clinic. I could not put it down because it was so thought provoking.

This is the finest paleo book I have read, and I have bought and read them all. As a clinician, getting people to change is my toughest task. But in Dean’s book I found the easy to read recipe for true transformational change. This is the secret sauce of personal success. The … Continue Reading

1. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PALEO FX LEADER DECIDES TO TEST HIS DOGMA AND INTUITION?
2. CAN MAGNESIUM HELP YOU OPTIMIZE HEALTH AND A CT REGIMEN?
3. IS IT POSSIBLE TO REVERSE INFLAMMATION/DISEASE WITHIN 30-45 DAYS?

Today I want to introduce you to someone who is a true ‘Paleo leader’ by stepping up to the the challenge I put to our community at PaleoFx conference recently held in Austin, Tx. Kevin Cottrell is one of the co founders of Paleo Fx. The leaders of Paleo fx have to be commended because the conference they were able to put on in 150 days of prep time was nothing short of remarkable. The conference exceeded all my expectations and the reviews of many attendees have been stellar. The future of this community is tied to clinical application of what the science continues to show in the literature. For assimilation of the Ancestral Lifestyle to become mainstream we need to have more clinical conferences like Paleo fx, and we need to take them globally. Today, I am breaking new ground and presenting to you my first guest blog written by Mr. Kevin Cottrell, who has agreed to share his personal story and personal medical history with all of you so that he may help you in some way. I think what he has agreed to do here is the most noble and worthy things to do to help our community and mankind. I am indebted to him for this chance to publish his story for you to consider. The following post is written by Kevin, in his words, to share with you and yours, to help open your eyes and challenge your “own dogma and current intuition’ to help you reach for optimal health.

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WHY IS BAD LIVING TIED TO MEDIOCRE THINKING?
WHAT DOES A MODERN HUMAN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GALLBLADDERS?

You must become aware of the high cost of low living by cheap thinking. In biology, we often get what we deserve when we forget this. Today’s CPC will illustrate that point for you. Wasting your time doing things that do not get you to Optimal is losing opportunity to improve yourself. Today…….and every day from here become very aware of time. Be wise in the use of time. The question for living an Optimal life is never how much time do I really have……..it is in how you use the time you have. And when you realize that…….you can begin to reverse the errors you made in that time.

There is a great lesson here for those willing to think.

I hope the sharpness of this message strikes you in the correct fashion.

When you think average you get average. Reject mediocre…….demand optimal from me, your loved ones, and most importantly yourself.

When you get this lesson………you will understand why there is much harm in wasting your most valuable asset. TIME

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass
of your life, the clearer we should see through it.

If you continue to think the way you do your life’s hour glass will remain opaque. Think, adapt, learn, become what you can only envision now through the actions those thoughts bring to you.

ON TO THE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Removing a gallbladder is one of the most common surgical operations done in the USA. The reason for this is two fold. If you eat a standard western diet, you are helping cause an ‘epigenetic signal’ to our gut that favors gallstone formation. The second one is that since … Continue Reading

1. WHEN YOU HEAR THE CW MANTRA: EVERYTHING IN MODERATION WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT?
2. DOES MOTHER NATURE SETTLE FOR MODERATION?
3. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DO SETTLE FOR MODERATION IN OUR HEALTH DECISIONS?
4. IF YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN PRESCRIBES MODERATION ARE YOU OK WITH OK?
5. ANOTHER PATIENT VIDEO SHOWING ‘MODERATION’ IS JUST NOT AS GOOD AS OPTIMAL CAN BE.

Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. Make your choices and you create your life.

It has been often said that the best lifestyle is the one based upon moderation. Do you really believe that? How do you define moderation? I think each person has their own idea of what moderation really means. I do not agree with this cliche at all. Why? Too many people use “moderation as an excuse not to do their best for others. Why? Because it is safe for them to do so. Conventional medical advice often advocates the mantra, “everything in moderation” as its safety net. Even as a kid that cliche bothered me deeply inside. Should a 350 pound man that eating 4 dozen chocolates at night believe this is “moderately” better than eating 6 dozen a night? Is OK for a drug addict too be pleased when they only take 5 oxycontin instead of the usual dozen? … Continue Reading

1. WHAT HAS HISTORY TOLD US ABOUT THOSE WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY?
2. ARE THERE MANY EXAMPLES OF SELF EXPERIMENTATION IN MEDICINE?
3. WHO ARE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE?
4. WHAT DID THEY DO AND HOW DID THEY HELP MANKIND?
5. HOW DID MY LAST BIOHACK GO FROM AN IDEA TO A PLAN OF ACTION IN 3 WEEKS?

Many of you may not know this but I was asked to do to a TEDx event in Nashville on 3/31/2012. I have to say with about 6 days to prepare it was rushed, but it was a lot of fun. I want to publically say thank you to Misty Williams and Michael Hart for making this happen. Many of you may not have heard about the event just yet because the video’s are not posted on the TEDx Nashville site. It will be another few weeks before they are ready. In my talk I told 1200 people live on stage about the three thought experiments I came up with after reading, “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”. I actually conceptualized the Ancient Pathway soon after the reading was done but where the thought experiments came to me, was at the foot of Michaelangelo’s David in Florence, when I was looking at him from behind. I realized that the major difference between him and I, was the world we both were living had radically changed in 500 years. From this insight I realized that circadian biology was the the major difference in David’s perfection and my obesity.

From this spark of wisdom I realized that obesity was an inflammatory brain condition. Because it was so, I could then reconstruct a signaling sequence to confuse my hypothalamus using signals from my vagus nerve and from the foods I ate using timing. Learning … Continue Reading

1. CAN WE FUNNEL THE CT SERIES INTO 15 CONCEPTS:
2. WHAT IS THE MAIN PROBLEM MODERN HUMANS FACE?
3. WHAT IS THE EVOLUTIONARY BOTTLENECK THAT DRIVES THIS PROCESS?

RADICAL THEORY #1…….If our brains can rewire, then Einstein’s theories predict our biochemistry should be able to as well. My Leptin Rx and the modern cochlea implant definitively prove this in modern humans.

RADICAL THEORY #2: Considering that 90% of the earth’s current biome lives in extreme conditions on our own planet today still, we might need to consider that what we think is “our normal environment” is not so normal for most of life on our planet or our evolutionary history. Life on Earth evolved in an environment much like we see on Titan today; in a deep ocean frozen solid at its surface with the capability of life buried deep with in it. The only escape was due to ejectants of water vapor from super heated water from underwater volcano’s. All these things are present today on Earth’s crust too. There is one major difference now between the two. We are a lot warmer today than life began. There are others, but when one looks at Titan we see a frozen giant moon with a monstrous ocean beneath it.

All life on our planet came from the oceans first. We know this to be true as well. And because of this , maybe we should consider studying extremophile forms of life here on earth today might explain the complexities of how biochemistry allows for life to exist at all in a thermoplastic environment.
What the bio-astrophysics found on Titan with the Cassini Solstice mission, (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm) may be a huge clue that life first adapted to extreme environments and then was naturally selected and adapted to a … Continue Reading

Nashville, Tenn.–In June of 2011, Dr. Jack Kruse began blogging about his findings as a neurosurgeon and formerly-obese American. After tearing the meniscus in his knee, he wasn’t satisfied with the prognosis from conventional medicine about his obese condition, experiencing the frustration of a debilitated patient firsthand. Determined to find a path back to health, he read over 5,000 articles in 18 months and set up three ground-breaking “thought experiments” to explore key neurological pathways affecting optimal health and longevity. Two were validated first using himself as the experimental subject, when he subsequently lost 77 lbs in three months and 133 lbs in a year, forever changing the way he treated his patients.

Dr. Kruse’s first experiment was the now-popular Leptin Rx Reset, a step-by-step process which leverages circadian biology to reset leptin sensitivity, the key to metabolism, optimal health and longevity. Within three months of the blog’s release, www.JackKruse.com was getting over 10,000 unique visitors a month and a thread was started on a popular forum about his Leptin Rx Reset that to date, has received over a million visitors and 21,000 comments.

In February 2012, Dr. Kruse revealed his second experiment, The Cold Thermogenesis Protocol which opens a metabolic trap door that forces epigenetic changes (key changes in our genes) to our DNA to support optimal health and longevity. Immediately, traffic to his blog surged to over 120,000 unique monthly visitors with more than 6,500 visitors in one day. A single recent post on Cold Thermogenesis garnered over a thousand comments, including numerous success stories worldwide. This enormous internet buzz preceded a huge splash at PaleoFX in Austin, Texas, where he was the opening keynote speaker in March.

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1. WHAT SHAPES US, GENES OR ENVIRONMENT?
2. WHAT IS THE NORMAL CIRCADIAN BIOLOGY IN A 24 HOUR DAY?

CT-7 is about how we are shaped by our environment by the evolutionary erosion of time that our ancestors faced. All life on this planet is shaped by two major variables in our environment: the sun and the seasonal changes. No matter the place present on earth, there are always alterations in these two factors that are cyclic, and always accounted for by all living organisms at some fashion. In some mammals, like man, it is accounted for centrally in the brain and peripherally in our organ ultradian clocks. This is why we have different patterns of aging in certain organs. From an evolutionary perspective, this makes a tremendous amount of sense because life is using the “knowns” of its environment to construct a reality that will ensure its survival. This is the basis of epigenetic signaling that we now know to be the major genetic modifier of the genome of all animals.
The major signal transducer in Epigenetics is found in the cellular signaling in our cell membranes that interact with the environment and our inner hormones that signal our epigenetic switches sitting on our genes inside the nucleus. Since it is clear that our cold adapted pathways use sensory afferents to signal to open the Ancient Pathway, I think it is time we just have a blog in the CT series that discusses what a normal 24 hour day is like in a human circadian biology. We will start our day at 6 AM for the sake of the blog. Non Scientists just read only your parts of this blog the first time. We have lots of GEEKS reading this stuff now so I need to … Continue Reading