The interplay of exercise and ketosis – Part II
You’ll recall from last week’s post I did a self-experiment to see if I could learn something about the interplay of exercise and ketosis, at least in myself. To understand this discussion, you’ll want to have read Part I of this post. However, before getting to this, I want to digress and briefly address two…
The interplay of exercise and ketosis – Part I
I embarked on a self-experiment last weekend to see if I could better understand the interplay between the different types of exercise I do and ketone production (beta-hydroxybutyrate, or B-OHB, to be specific). To be clear, nothing I do with a sample size of one “proves” anything, but sometimes self-experiments can help you formulate hypotheses…
Irisin: The magic exercise hormone?
On January 11, 2012, an article was published in the NY Times Health blog section titled, “Exercise hormone may fight obesity and diabetes.” The article reports on a recently published study in the journal Nature, the abstract of which can be found here.
You are not what you eat
You are what you eat, right? How many times have you heard this? I’d need scientific notation to actually enumerate the number of times I’ve heard this statement or one like it. I certainly spent most of my life believing this, too, without ever questioning it. In fact, this you-are-what-you-eat dogma plays a significant role…