Why is it that some people seem to bounce back and be ready for another day of hiking right away, while others may well be limping around in misery for days afterwards? UNDERSTANDING HEALING: Any strenuous activity like hiking is going to cause some damage to the...
Jack LaLanne said: "If man made it, don't eat it!" Looking at the average state of health in the nation, Jack just might have been right. Your body is designed to absorb nutrients in the form they commonly appear in food: as a network of intertwined...
Ever find it hard to get back on the trail again after a big meal? Or be hiking along and suddenly bonk? When backpacking, when you eat can be as important as what you eat. In order to keep your body in the best shape...
Bulletproof Me! Hey guys! Just a short and sweet update for today. I just got back from biohacker extraordinaire Dave Asprey's inaugural Bulletproof conference. It's basically Paleo combined with many of the key Principles of Weston A. Price nutrient density (minus the grains!) and a strong dash...
On a Wild Rocket Ride Hanging out with other international travelers broadens your world a little bit each time. I've been missing my dear new friends, the very fashionable british blogville babes Frankie @frankiestyling, Akeela @actuallyakeela and Katie @katieantoniou. So I thought I a post on...
Keep it Fresh When I started backpacking over two decades ago, I was convinced that packing fresh food was “verboten”. The colossal weight of several extra ounces of avocado on your back were just not worth the delight of savoring it’s creamy green goodness. The hiking...
"Death begins in the colon". ~Dr Bernard Jensen No, I don't mean to insinuate that your colon is lurking in a dark corner with a butcher knife just waiting for you to get home (although I'm not ruling it out either!) I'm also not referring to...
We humans have a creepy tendency chop things into little bits in order to understand them. We're uncommonly proud of the knowledge we've gained from this scientific method of "chop it up and poke at the remains", seemingly ignoring the fact that systems don't necessarily...
"The Perfect Health Diet is more than a diet. It's a program for perfect health. The result of 5 years of research, the Perfect Health Diet enabled scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet to cure their own chronic diseases. With more than 600 citations to the...