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Send us a textI think this is a sane recommendation for any person: work out sensibly for one hour, every day of your life!  Not too extreme, and not wimpy- you need this hour for strength and flexibility training, not mindless cardio, where you run like a brainless chicken.  Such “training” only drains you, diminishes your muscle, not build it, and ignores strength building (the essence of truly working out!).A true workout is very mindful.  You need to ‘think into’ your muscles, flexing them slowly, and intentionally, throughout each exercise.  This can be using weights, barbells and dumbbells, or bands, calisthenics, or a myriad of machines.  What you use is not really that important at all- sales people will tell you otherwise, but trust me: it’s the intensity that matters.  Time under tension, if you will.I use a combination, gymnastic rings hung up high are actually a near genius exercise device!  Instantly scalable, from very easy, to superhuman level.  All in a rather cheap, portable package that neve

Send us a textAs we age, standard medical practice expects us to give up all common sense, and self-determination.  They want to “take over” everything, and we are supposed to just acquiesce…I am here to tell you to vehemently protest, and to take charge of your own health and future, just as you hopefully have for your entire life.  Modern Medicine is NOT your friend!My uncle Bob Manthey, my mother’s older brother, just turned 102 last week.  He never saw a medical doctor during his life, except when he enlisted before World War 2.  He got mandatory vaccines then, probably for smallpox, tetanus, and cholera.  That was the last time he received medical treatment…Uncle Bob became an eye doctor himself after the war, where he served as a Navy Pilot.  He was (and is still!) a very intelligent man, and very concerned with natural health!  He went on to have 12 children, and a wonderful, healthy, rural life.  He started in South Dakota, where he was born, and eventually moved to Kansas City to expand his medical p

Send us a textWe all want to live a good life.  We NEED to live a good, successful, in harmony with nature and our neighbors type of life!  But, what sort of life should this be?  Should we live in accordance with modern tradition, by moving to a major metropolitan area, and get a high paying job, and raise our family either in the city itself, or in the nearby suburbs?NO!  What you really want and need, to be healthy and well adjusted, is to live a PALEO LIFE.  By this, I mean a life that is in accordance with our evolutionary past.  A life that, just like the paleo diet itself, is in the way that we evolved, and and the type of life that we are meant to live.  A life that will make us ourselves, our families, and our nearby community all in sync with nature, and will allow us to be the best, most in harmony with our evolution that we can be!What sort of life would this be?  We are going back go Ancient Greek, and early Christian ideals here.  I believe # 1 would mean a rural, either country or small town ty

Send us a textWe talk here about what to do to optimize our health and wellness.  And rightly so!  Eat right, a strongly protein-centric diet.  Plenty of micronutrients, from a paleo type of diet.  Good sleep, every night, in a dark room, devoid of blue light distractions and screens…Of course, all of these are essential to a healthy life for us and our family!  Along with proper strength training, and adequate flexibility.  But all of this counts for naught- if we lose our country of Western civilization and all that that has given the world at large!Right now, the Democrat party in the US has proven that they are determined to undermine, and then terminate our country as it has stood since its inception.  By erasing our borders through non-enforcement, and allowing unlimited illegal immigration of the uncivilized and unlawful into our country, they have literally turned traitor.  Every advantage built into our country by our forefathers is open now to be trashed!  Crime is being redefined, and legitimized t

Send us a textEver since the paleo diet hit the news and the internet, different iterations and ‘spins’ on that format have appeared endlessly.  Even at the supermarket, I see magazines in the checkout lane, screaming KETO in large print!  “Eat FAT FAT FAT!” is all around, along with Carbs are death!On the next magazine, Ozempic the diet drug is touted. “ Get skinny fast!”  Really?  They neglect to mention that not only do you need to take the drug for LIFE, but also that you lose muscle as well as fat!  (What a wonder drug is THAT??!!Actually, nothing has really changed.  The Paleo Diet is still the ancestral human diet, and drugs and ketone inducers should be ignored.  The Carnivore diet of all animal products, primarily beef, can be great temporarily, as a kind of reset. But really, an ancestral human diet, a paleo diet, is our long-term sweet spot; a place that humans can live forever.  In  fact a place where humans have lived forever, and where we can maintain healthy, happy bodies of vigor and resilienc

Send us a textAs you go through life, some things are constant.  Working out is one constant: your body needs to work out, consume healthy foods, and get ample sleep every day of your life.  These things remain the same!I have found that working out for strength and flexibility actually become more important as you progress into your 50’s, 60’s and beyond.  But the amount of stimulation your muscles need for strength decreases, while the stretching required actually increases somewhat.  Actually doing a strength session can be very intense, and productive, in less than a half hour!  It is the intensity that matters most.  Also, recovery from an intense session of strength training needs to be longer than when you are younger.  I have also found that really draining movements, like heavy squats and deadlifts need to be far less frequent.  In your senior years, you probably have all of the sheer bulk you would want, anyway!  To be strong and yet defined is far more desirable as you get older.I have pretty much

Send us a textMost Americans nowadays are severely overmedicated, malnourished, and sick!  This sounds like an extreme statement, but is nevertheless true.  Most adults are on a number of drugs, from anti-depressants, statins, high blood pressure drugs; drugs to help you sleep, and drugs to wake you up.  The average number of drugs the average American is on at any one time, are 7.  At a cost of $1200 dollars per year, per person.  Of course, this is excluding the cost of going to see the medical doctor, and whatever procedure he decides you should have… Oftentimes, procedures and tests are given that result in huge bills for the patient, and those expensive tests are totally unnecessary.Also, you can be prescribed drugs for which the doctor receives a ‘kickback’ of commission for prescribing them.  All of this is ethically highly dubious, but it goes on regardless.  Is it any wonder that medical bills are the number one reason for bankruptcy?  Perhaps this is why anti-depressants are one of the biggest drugs

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Send us a textI know, you’ve heard it from standard medical advice your whole life:‘You don’t need supplements!  Everything your body and mind needs is in the food you eat!’Well, this might have been true, even a couple of hundred years ago, to some extent.  But nowadays, when the majority of the ‘fake, engineered foods’ most people ingest; things like seed oils instead of real animal fat, and soda pop and fruit juices instead of actual water, and fast food fake meat and white buns instead of real pastured meat- well, most of us don’t really eat real food anymore!A good first step for most of us at this point is to make a real commitment to health and wellness- commit to eating a carnivore diet!  This means that you forget all the junk you’ve been eating, and just eat meat, salt, seafood, and eggs for awhile.  Nothing else!I know, I’ve preached a good paleo type of diet for a long time now: meat, eggs, seafood, along with full fat dairy, fermented yogurt and kefir, and even a bit of sour dough bread from time

Send us a textNew Year New YouNow I don’t mean that each year you should try to become a brand new person!  Not at all.  What I expect of each of us is to gradually learn about ourselves and our environment, and by self-observation and gradual study, to improve ourselves steadily, both physically and mentally.I’m not kidding; I know this sounds pretty crazy in a way, but I really do mean it.  While we do age and deteriorate in some ways, we should also learn going forward, and progress in any way we can.  I mean, it’s not like we forever get stronger and faster- no, we do not!  We should just change our focus…I used to do heavy single lifts to my max- now, I don’t.  In my 70’s, I don’t want huge mass, either on my body in the form of muscle, or on the barbell itself.  I can achieve what I want nowadays better with repetitions, and usually better on gymnastic rings than with the bar.  I’ve also discovered that shorter, although quite intense workouts, work better than long, marathon types of training.  I’ve fo

Send us a textYour daily workouts are crucial for your body, and mind!  Not only in the gym, or your living room, but outside and in the woods, roads, and park.  They don’t need to be written down or chronicled, or obsessed over.  Not at all! But they do need to be something that you fit into your daily life, as an important part, forever.When I was young, 20 or so, I started seriously working out with strength training.  As a skinny distance runner in high school running cross country, which was only 2 and 1/2 miles, I was not at all pleased with my progress!  I wanted to be like a superhero- strong, fit, and above all powerful.  So I started lifting weights, as so many do, 3 times per week.  Simple routines, of bench press, dips, military press, squats, bent over rows, chins, military press, and deadlifts.Let me tell you; if you are young and implement such a strategy, you will very soon no longer be skinny!  It will really build you up, both inside and out.  Next, you will get into nutrition, and healthy e

Send us a textYou don’t have enough magnesium!  Probably, because almost no one does.  The levels have been dropping in food sources for decades, and the diseases and illnesses caused by this lack are growing by leaps and bounds:  high blood pressure, inability to sleep and relax, migraines and headaches, arthritis, diabetes (studies show magnesium is necessary to properly convert carbs and sugars), and the list goes on.To even metabolize vitamin D you need adequate magnesium, and many mental phobias such as anxiety are linked to inadequate levels, and it also appears to be a shield of sorts against Parkinson’s and Alzheimers.Magnesium even is crucial to enable bone mineral density in post-menopausal women, along with relief from constipation (by relieving the smooth muscle in the gut) and also of gut problems and indigestion.Magnesium oil seems to me to be the best vehicle to bolster your levels!  If a food source has to be consumed and pass through your gut, only a fraction will be absorbed.  I injured my s

Send us a textPerhaps you’ve heard that our ancient Cro-Magnon ancestors in Europe of perhaps 35,000 years ago and more tend to have near-perfect dentition, despite not having toothbrushes, floss, or dentists…Why do you suppose this is?  And it’s not because they lived such short lives that they didn’t have time to develop cavities and the like.  Some did die young; indeed, such active lives in the outdoors, hunting with primitive tools and fighting large animals took their toll.  But, as always when comparing mortality in ancient times, we often forget that mortality figures are skewed by infant mortality in those times before hospitals and birthing assistance.  Many infants (and young mothers) dying in childbirth just make overall death rates far more likely, and much younger.Indeed, many Cro-magnon men and women, once they reached adulthood, went on to live quite long lives.  After all- they all exercised intensively, perforce, and ate a wonderful, Paleolithic diet of mostly meat, with some fruits and vege

Send us a textLet’s say you are young, 18-22 or so, and just starting out in life.  You are hopefully well educated, and undoubtedly have some ideas of what you want to do, and how to support yourself, hopefully along with a family before too long.  Along with basic questions of career, and just how to get started, you really should consider as vitally important just where you should live!  City and metropolitan area, suburbs of a large city, or small town and country?Well, since the largest cities, like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Detroit are now all crumbling, crime-infested snake pits- well, I would avoid them at all costs.  Especially if considering a family!  The school systems in such places are horrible beyond words, as are all public works they control; things like water supplies are largely contaminated, crime is both unpunished and out-of-control, and the very air you breathe there is filthy.  Suburbs around cities tend to be much nicer, but the cost of housing in such places is

Send us a textHopefully you’ve heard by now of the Carnivore Diet!It is very easy to understand; this is part of its charm.  You can’t go wrong- you only eat meat.  For some, like Jordan Peterson and his daugter, you only eat beef, and salt.  (If they don’t, they suffer debilitating autoimmune conditions, and massive depression).  And so, they follow this diet of necessity.  It is kind of, in my mind, an extreme paleo diet.  Kind of an ice age diet, as if you were living during the last ice age, and only animals were available to eat and so survive.  NO plants, or mushrooms… NOTHING.And so, why should you, a fully modern human, with grocery stores and endless foodstuffs available, follow such a restrictive diet??Well, if you have just about any health condition,, like diabetes, or psoriasis, or obesity- you are SURE to improve!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAZ238_g4Q Link to Dr. David Unwin on low carb versus diabetesAnd, just to point out- a Carnivore Diet is a NO CARB diet, by definition!!  Not just lo

Send us a texthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6nfG69c9gI read and hear all the time about how we all should do certain things when we reach a certain age.  If not, we are being irresponsible…It starts really young: get your baby vaccinations- a LOT of vaccinations, all at once!  (NOT a good idea. much better to space them out over years, and even better to pick and choose amongst the many pushed.). For instance: flu vaccine and coronavirus for babies??  Terrible idea!As for the dozen or so usually pushed for infants, I would explore which ones are really necessary!  (Recommendations change, but the number of vaccinesalways goes- UP!). If you or yours has a new baby, research this.  All vaccines are definitely NOT your baby’s friend.Now, I am not at the infant care level anymore, although I am soon to become a grandfather yet again.  (Hurray!) My daughter knows all about appropriate, and non-appropriate vaccines… But let me say here- if you give your infant the flu vaccine and the coronavirus vaccine , among