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Once I fully made up my mind to quit the Carnivore Diet, I called my friend Bruce. I wasn’t looking for advice. I wasn’t seeking validation. I was losing my mind. I felt like I was abandoning everything I had worked so hard for over the past six years. I was freaked out that I’d…

I like being efficient. I’m attracted to simplicity, well defined processes, speed, and certitude. Reflexively, I’m always considering the time required to do something, steps taken, wasted effort vs. productive effort, duplicative efforts and other measures of efficiency. It is my natural inclination. That doesn’t make it right. Let’s consider the carnivore diet, which I recently…

Something unexpected happened to me the day I after quit the carnivore diet and bought my first batch of Primal groceries. That day, as part of my transition back to a more normal diet, I ate a navel orange with my breakfast. Oh My God was it delicious! It was juicy and sweet and…wonderful. Then,…

As amply evident throughout my life, I have a tendency to go too far down the rabbit hole of specialization. The last example of this that I wrote about in January was my shoulder injury that was the result of overspecialization on a strict and unwavering daily gymnastics, swimming and yoga fitness routine. Although I…

I’ve been listening to Rhonda Patrick’s podcast lately, along with a number of others focused on health, neutrino and fitness backed by scientific research. One core principle that runs across all of the discussions around nutrition is energy balance. It seems every scientist who studies nutrition, regardless of their specialty or dietary recommendations, say something like…

I’ve run out of projects. My new workout routines are settling down a bit as I get stronger, recover from various injuries and get my body & mind reacquainted with functional training. My computer upgrade project is finished. It’s now working great. I’ve got a good physical setup. I’m now good with the software, hardware…

I am about done with winter. Too bad it ain’t done with me. The last weekend in January we were hit with an ice storm that Raleigh down for 3 days due to sleet, ice and frozen rain followed by frigid temperatures. The ice finally melted a few days later making the roads drivable once…

A line that author David McCullough wrote about historical figures struck a cord with me. He said, the past was simply somebody else’s present. The people living during those times had no more ability predict the future than we have living in our present moment today. They didn’t know if the actions they took were…

For what it’s worth, I have an opinion based on a brief review of the most recent Epstein file dump online. I am not the least bit surprised by the so called “revelations“. Let’s review: Nothing about that is unique. Everyone already knows this is how people have acted for centuries long before the sordid…

One of my projects over the past few weeks has been to optimize and customize my new Mac Mini so that I can get everything I want from it. I do love the thing, but there are several areas where I “wish” an application would work differently. Or, where I find myself doing a lot…