I received the following question which is pretty interesting. Check it out: Rob, I would like to start with saying thank you for all of your time and commitment to the crossfit community. I am very frustrated with the zone right now. I am 6?2? 230# with about 19-20% BF. I weigh and measure everything… Continue Reading
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Miltons Paleo Rebuttal
I had a great question that involves Katherine Miltons rebuttal to much of Cordain’s work. Here is the question and my response: Robb, I’d love to talk to you about elite level athletes diets (olympian diets), and their high reliance on carbs and not so healthy food, sometime.. but too long to do here.… Continue Reading
The Zone: Too Many Carbs?
I received this message from Bian of Potomac CrossFit. Many, many people find the carb levels of the base zone to be too many carbs too often. This may be heresy in some circles, but it’s the facts. In Mastering the Zone Sears presents a flow chart for dealing with the too many carbs situation.… Continue Reading
Zone Problems
Nicole Carroll forwarded a great question to me. Here is the question and my subsequent response: Hi Nicole, I attended the CrossFit Charlotte Level 1 Certification and I have to say you all were absolutely brilliant. I have attended many certifications in my career and CrossFit was by far the most educational. I wanted to… Continue Reading
The Paleo Diet vs. Multiple Sclerosis
A key feature that is continuously overlooked by mainstream medicine, especially the clueless vegan docs, is the complete lack of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and autoimmune disease in hunter gatherer cultures. The immediate argument is “hunter gatherers did not live very long…” Oy vey! They need to read the common counter arguments rebuttal. These folks… Continue Reading
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
First time you have heard of this? Me too. One of our clients rolled in and explained she can have only very limited sun exposure without suffering some serious blisters…that apparently can extend all the way to the BONE! You can geek out on the topic by checking out thus Wiki entry. I found that… Continue Reading
Interesting Paradox?
This is a great (interesting) question from Kirez who is dealing with Type 1 diabetes by using a paleo diet and hard training. Here is the original question/statement: I’d like to talk again regarding insulin-dependent diabetes sometime. I’m noticing some surprising, unanticipated effects with strict paleo diet and heavy training — after initial decreases, my… Continue Reading
Weston Price vs. Paleo
I received a great question from Pete that underscores some nuances of paleo/low carb eating. The topic of fat, particularly sat’d fat is an interesting and potentially contraversial one. here is Pete’s question: Pete Kennedy Rob, I am a huge fan. Thanks for the tremendous work. I am a recent convert to the Zone/Paleo/IF and… Continue Reading
What About Caloric Restriction?
I received the following question that is in response to an earlier post of mine: John Robbs “Calorie restriction doesn’t work and just feeds into neurosis.” I don’t get it. I thought you recommended the Zone? If not that, or your own variation of the zone, what are you recommending? I ask because the Zone… Continue Reading
Refined Food Bad! Caveman Diet Good!
Word MIGHT be getting out. Decent little article but full of the typical debris of paleo diet objections. Too bad the author skimped on his homework and missed Loren Cordain’s site and the common misconceptions/lame counter points of the Paleo-clueless Continue Reading