This is yet another paleo template type of podcast.  I’ve had lots of other things going on, grasshopper, but never are you and this topic far from my mind!

I look about me, and see that really, little has changed!  The nonsense of mainstream medicine is still ascendant, and everyone is still screaming  “What about my cholesterol????  Why am I fat, and why is there any fat at ALL in my diet?  And why do I feel like utter shit??”

And so, you see, most people have learned nothing.  They run to their doctor and the clinic for any little ache or pain, and are sure that they have the answers!

Despite the fact that mainstream medicine has proven themselves to be incredibly self-interested, and even more incompetent.

After living through the Covid debacle, where mainstream medical recommendations were totally wrong, as we were recommended to quarantine ourselves (something that has never, ever worked, not once!) and to repeatedly inject ourselves with a noxious vaccine and “boosters” that have contaminated much of our bloodline for the foreseeable future- if we still genuflect towards mainstream medicine, and totally ignore real science completely, why then we might as well worship a golden calf and answer the daily Muslim calls to prayer.  THAT is how clueless we are!

Okay then, Jay- how should we live for health and wellness?

I’m glad you asked, young tiny grasshopper!  The key is this:  listen to yourself.  If you are eating a good diet, meat and eggs, some veggies and fruits, and are largely ignoring the governmental “food pyramids” and recommendations, you have your answer.  Keep ignoring the governmental self-serving recommendations to eat “low fat, low or no dairy, meat is bad and so are eggs, so eat highly processed, low or no fat packages that are so easy to heat and eat and take a statin and lots of other prescription drugs, all of which are wonderful!”

What do I say?  It sounds crazy, but here it is:  

Above all, sleep a good 8-9 hours every night.  In a dark room, with no lights or television or other screens blinking away at you.  In fact, largely ignore TV- it is pernicious, and a sick form of entertainment meant to brainwash you above all.  

In the morning, get up and workout first thing!  Stretch out on the floor, and flex and strengthen your body naturally, like a cat or any animal waking up.  Television is fine here, as your mind is fresh, and can easily decide what is real and valuable and what is bullshit.  Just work your limbs, isometrically, and with calisthenics.  True strength, just like health itself, is really simple and self -evident.

HOW After your natural workout, about an hour is perfect is done, shower and prepare to greet your day.  You should feel great: energized from blood flow and a great night of sleep!  I enjoy oil-pulling as I shower, to cleanse my mouth of bacteria, and also dry-brushing before I shower, to cleanse my skin and exfoliate as I encourage skin rejuvenation. 

Your shower will be another ideal of the morning, before a rejuvenating and wonderful breakfast!  Don’t waste it with something like processed cereal or other nonsense- it’s time to rebuild!

Eggs and bacon are ideal!  I also have a paleo smoothie each morning, with kefir, black tart cherry juice, a whole lemon with the peel, and perhaps a peeled grapefruit and a few veggies, all whipped up in the Vitamix!  This is the perfect way to wash down my few supplements, like vitamin D and iodine, and potassium.  It all adds up to a bedrock of fitness!

OK- what have I ignored?  ANY mention of pharmaceutical additions, like statins or

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When should I stop exercising?  Well, I hope this is a trick question, because the obvious answer is never!  Kind of like asking when you should stop walking, or sleeping, or eating for God’s sake!  Moving your limbs and constantly striving to make improvements in your physical abilities is a lifelong project, and just as we should constantly work at getting better and more able physically, we should also try to do so mentally as well.

Just as I am constantly researching about improving my overall health and nutrition,  I am always on the lookout for physical improvements I can gain.  At 73, I should change my goals somewhat - for instance, if I worked at this stage to get as big and bulky as possible, that would be idiotic!  Actually, even when I was in my 20’s this was never my goal, and never would be: I wanted an aesthetic, symmetrical, Frank Zane/Steve Reeves kind of a body.  Still do; and I hope you do too.  Think of Greek statuary of ancient times- that is still the ideal of Western civilization, and should always be the ultimate ideal!

Luckily, this is also the ideal can be carried throughout life- even in old age, a lean, and quite strong and lithe physique can be yours for life.  Flexibility and healthy joints should also be your lifelong goals, along with a certain amount of musculature.  My mother’s brother, my uncle Bob Manthey, just turned 103 recently, and while quite lean, he also still has a pretty functional physique!  He is a lifetime example of what we should all aim for- a healthy mind in a healthy body- and he has been following the principles I recommend here for his entire life.

He avoided vaccines for life, and although he himself was a medical doctor (an eye doctor) he avoided medical doctor appointments and tests that were more harmful than good.  (Like most medical appointments are today at the typical clinic).  Uncle Bob’s only vaccine was for small pox, when he enlisted in the army for WW2.  Other than that, he relied on improving his bodily ’terrain’ through good natural nutrition and exercise.  It certainly worked out very well indeed!

He lived on a small farm in South Dakota, and had 12 children.  Also, he was very active musically, playing multiple instruments, singing, and playing with his family orchestra (with my mother and my aunts) and with other bands of various sizes.  

I am active musically myself, as were my parents (my mother turns 100 this coming March 14), and I believe that music is a wonderful adjunct to life, bringing a type of pure joy to the spirit that never dims!  If music is not your ‘thing’, other art forms are similar in inspiring your health and joy in life!  Just choose your own NON poison form of Art…

The only caution I will give you here is to limit your use of heavy weights as you age.  Preservation of your joints and tendons become paramount as you age, and muscular bulk means very little compared to your circulation and smooth, pain free joint movement.  You can drop the heavy barbell squats and deadlifts, and go for high rep body-weight and one-legged squats balancing while holding gymnastic rings, and get rid of heavy bench presses to save your shoulders.  Use the gymnastic rings for pushups, dips, pull-ups and rows, and if anything your physique will improve!  

So, there is your advice from both me and my and Uncle Bob!  In thirty years, when I am 103, I will update my thoughts- see you then!!

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Workouts are absolutely necessary for health and fitness!  Now, hopefully you know that, and already accept the fact that while a proper, paleo sort of diet without industrial seed oils and processed foods of junk and fast food stuff, and loaded with good meats and full fat dairy is vital as well.  

But what kind of workout is best for you?  The bottom line is this: it changes over time!  When you are a kid, meaning 20 or so and under, I suggest that calisthenics are best.  Running is fine, but forget the long distances, meaning a mile of more.  Sprints are great, but middle distances of varying tempo and terrain give you the best bang for your buck.  Active sports are best, and playing games with your friends are ideal of all purposes.  

I started weight lifting when I was was 20, and I believe this was ideal.  Your body is primed and ready to put on muscle, strengthen tendons and ligaments, and grow at that age.  Through your twenties and 30’s, you should build your physique to its potential.  Sessions of up to an hour, for 2 to 4 hours per week is plenty.  In my opinion, a home gym is ideal, in a basement or a garage.  Simple barbell and dumbbell movements are ideal, and with a power rack of supports you will be perfectly safe!

The main thing to learn is that you need to work HARD.  Strength training is probably, by definition, the hardest you will ever work!  This is a wonderful lesson to learn, and will stand you in good stead in any endeavor you undertake for the rest of your life- in comparison, anything  else seems easy, because you strive to make each test as easy as you can make it.  Only in strength training do you purposely make each movement as hard as possible- for that is the point!

Following such a regimen is the best thing you can do for your total health - both physical and mental!  The idea is to keep at it, over time, for the rest of your life.  Proper paleo diet, good hard exercise and sleep- this will lay the foundation for a strong, healthy life!  The discipline alone of such a life will carry over into anything you set yourself to accomplish.

As you age, though, certain things change.  In your 50’s, the poundages you use should be kept down.  Your base strength levels will tend to be far higher than average untrained fold of your age.  This is great, but you do have greater chance of injury than you did in your 20’s and 30’s.  Start to emphasize repetitions over heavy weights and low reps.   Heavy singles are a mistake as you age; even heavy reps under 5 aren’t appropriate in your 50’s and 60’s…

I am now 73, and I enjoy training at least as much as I did in my youth!    I’m still in my basement, and I do a split of lower body one day, and upper body the next training day.  I prefer to use gymnastic rings over barbells, ring pushups and dips, along with ring pull-ups, accomplish the same thing without joint trauma, since the rings flex naturally throughout your movement, without overload.  Also, now I use much higher reps, with constant tensions throughout the longer sets.  The results are vastly better on the musculature shape.

Also, as you age, you need more rest days!  What I do is, if I feel the need of a rest day, I don’t feel guilty at all.  There is no longer really any pressure- just enjoy your days!  

I no longer do heavy deadlifts or squats- they are unnecessary.  I now do bodyweight squats with raised heels, and kettlebell swings for high reps, along with single legged squats holding the rings for balance.  It’s all about the reps now!

One thing I have added in in my 40’s and 50’s, has been a morning session 

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It seems as though the great ‘Paleo Boom’ has come and gone!  All the books, all the podcasts- where have they gone?

I’ve been writing and podcasting for more than 10 years; I used to listen to Robb Wolf and The Paleo Solution, Jimmy Moore and Livin La Vida Low Carb, Mark Sisson and his Primal Podcast, and many others.  Don’t hear much from Robb Wolf anymore- Jimmy Moore is locked in prison for God’s sake- and Primal goes on, and is just kind of Paleo with a different name…

Now, the cutting edge seems to be focussed on Carnivore, with Sean Baker and others.  But is this carnivore pivot really all that much different than Paleo or Primal?

Not really.  Those are all just words that encapsulate a certain set of ideas- that living in a more ancestral way, more in keeping with that of our forebears, is far healthier and more beneficial than the modern, pharmaceutical and processed foods-based version of the present day.  In other words, simpler is better.

Carnivore could easily be another word for Paleo.  It’s just another, more extreme way to practice the way our ancestors lived.  It is certainly A way, and a very simple way to have a ‘restart’ with your health, that is possibly really messed up in the present day.

I mean, you could call your paleo type of diet ‘The Great Grandparents diet’, or the ‘Post nuclear apocalypse Diet’, and the results would be very similar.  The idea is just to get away from the modern conventions and pronouncements of current ‘experts’ and getting back to timeless sorts of recommendations from the past.  Time-tested and proven methods of health and wellness that have stood the test of time- of millennia- and not just those ideas that are being pushed by Big Medicine and the modern trinity of Pharmaceuticals, Big Food, and the Government .

You know: Moe, Larry and Curly. The EXPERTS!

I’m being a bit facetious, but in light of Fauci and the Covid disaster, along with the Low Fat food recommendations of the past 60 to 70 years, and the endless recommendations of Vegetable Seed Oils in our diets, well, the “experts” aren’t looking too expert really, are they?

And let’s not forget the Exercise recommendations- “run long distances to gain complete fitness and above all, heart health…”.  More nonsense in place of simple strength training, walking, and stretching!  Grounding barefoot by walking on the earth, rather than sprint-running to exhaustion in timed races on tracks with over-cushioned shoes.

I’m sure you get the idea.  The Paleo Diet and Lifestyle hasn’t gone away, not at all.  

Maybe the erstwhile leaders have left the field, moving on to other endeavors.  But the movement is intact, as strong as it was when it was being promoted by figures such as Weston A. Price, the dentist who noticed in the 1920’s and 30’s the wonderful health of pre-industrial people who ate their ancestral diets and moved in the manner in which they had evolved over long periods of time.  

All of the tenets of Paleo are intact, and correct.  Eliminate most of ‘modern medicine’, including most vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs, especially for our children.  Go back to ancient leaders, like Hippocrates, who said in old Greek times to “Let thy medicine be thy food, and thy food be thy medicine”.  This is timeless truth!

Eat good, basic foods like meat and dairy.  Fermented dairy is best, and raw dairy is better than processed!  Likewise with grains- they are optional, but if made in accordance with established traditions, such as sourdough fermentation, they can be

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There seem to be many views on what should be the goal of exercise!  Should you aim, above all, at flexibility, or should it be cardiovascular ability?  Or should you shoot for a balance of strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular (aerobic) fitness!  

Well, obviously it seems to me, that a balanced approach is better- after all, all of these three components are crucial in their own ways.  But together, they are the key to ultimate fitness, right?  Well- kind of…

It used to be axiomatic that running, particularly long distance running, conferred the most health advantages!  A strong, enduring cardiovascular system would keep you from getting a heart attack, and that is the ultimate goal…

However, it turns out that endless distance running also consumes your musculature and strength, while simultaneously rendering you more and more inflexible and lowering your immune response to many diseases, and cancer itself!  It also, over long distances and years, destroys your knee and hip joints.  And the cardio benefits seem to be very temporary: once you stop running (from your self-inflicted destruction), those benefits disappear.

Flexibility as a sole benefit is very slight.  The ability to bend your body and limbs over a wide range of motion might seem impressive and desirable, (especially after you have destroyed most of your flexibility by long-distance running alone), by itself to become a kind of ‘yogi’ like this is more a type of parlor trick, other than the sum of being fit.  It just doesn’t make you capable of much at all!

No, ironically, the number one goal of overall fitness is to build strength and muscle!  This is the last component that has been considered to be important in the last few decades.  But, as you age, it becomes apparent that strength training is by far the most important thing you can do.  

To be self-sufficient and vital, you need strength above all.  Muscle tissue is what will burn calories, even when you are not exercising, thus keeping you from becoming obese.  Of course, strength is also what keeps you mobile and walking, able to lift heavy items and move things as well as yourself.  

The main goal of the elderly, and those of us who will all eventually become elderly, is actually to build strength and muscle tissue.  Strength training is what keeps us out of the nursing home, and in our own homes!  Everything else: sports of all types - running, basketball, racket sports, gymnastics, horseshoes, basketball and other “ball” sports- they might be fun, and improve us in some subtle ways; but they do not give us true, measurable, and long-lasting benefits.

Only strength training does that, and it can be done for our entire lives!  In one study, researchers compared muscle building ability in women in their 90’s to those in their 20’s, and found that the elders built muscle and strength as fast as those much younger!

This shows us how much muscle is valued and needed by the body, providing we induce the stimulus by strength training to show that the muscle is needed.  Muscle that can keep us from falling, helping us to keep our balance, and also building our bone strength along with our musculatures.  

Strength training is indeed crucial!

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One piece of misinformation that has been around for a long time is the idea that strength training workouts need to be…LONG!  And I mean HOURS long…

I fell for this myself in my younger days.  I mean, if 1 hour of intense workout exercises is good, well, 2 hours is even better, right?  And the big one: if 3 workouts per week is enough for Steve Reeves and his ilk, well why not be like Arnold and Zane, and workout 6 days per week, sometimes twice per day!  

This is all sad, and ridiculous, really.  Especially for average people, who don’t want to win bodybuilding contests, but just want to be strong and healthy for a lifetime!  I remember reading about Jean Claude von Damme, and how he worked out 6 hours per DAY!!  What a joke, really…

I’m here to give you a liberating philosophy of strength training:  

You can reach your ultimate potential, and train for your whole life long, by training for 20 to 30 minutes, 2 to three times per week!  Really.  I now train my lower body one day for about that long, and my upper body for the same time frame.  I train, skip a day, and then train again.  My weights and gymnastic rings are all set up in my basement, and I just walk downstairs, and start working…

Very convenient, quickly done, and very productive!  Today, for instance, I took off two days between workouts, since leg training sometimes is more draining than upper body.  No matter; I just try to feel how I am recovering, and judge accordingly.  

It really is surprising to learn that, when you workout really intensely, a short duration is really all you need, and really all your body can stand!  An intense stimulation of the targeted musculature must necessarily be brief, and is all that you really need or want.

Just as you don’t need a ton of food to grow and recover, you don’t need a TON of exercise to stimulate gains!  Just make sure that the food you do eat is mainly protein, meat, eggs, cheese and seafood, and you will be very strong and healthy…Supplements are good too, so take vitamin D, magnesium and potassium, vitamin C and you will have all you need to grow, thrive, and be super healthy and strong!!

That is really all there is to it!  It’s really not that complicated, my friends.

My only qualification is that I also work out every morning, first thing, for about an hour…

But that is my joy and pleasure- working out in front of the television, mainly with stretching and virtual resistance exercises, that feel amazing and make you like a cat, twisting and stretching to make you supple, and feel like you are a free creature of the jungle!  You learn to use the muscles you build strength training like a feline, feeling alive in your body, injury free and vital!

To me, that is the ultimate, lifelong goal of physical culture.

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I have worked out with weights, and then with calisthenics for many, many years.  Starting in my teens, and continuing now, as I prepare to turn 73 in April.  My results have been phenomenal, and as I continue to work out daily, I have turned more and more away from weights and equipment, and more and more rely on calisthenics and virtual resistance.  

I have acquired some injuries over time, and the most nagging is the shoulder.  Everyone who does heavy pressing movements, particularly the bench press, has problems with the rotator cuff of their shoulders.  Me included, even though I stopped bench pressing long ago, in favor of gymnastic ring pushups and dips.  These movements are far superior to bench presses, and are highly recommended to all!  Far more natural in movement; the joints are also brought through a full range of motion.

However, shoulder injuries will haunt you if your exercise in the standard manner when young, or from sports or other injuries.  What then?  Should you use bands and/or dumbbells to do lighter, therapeutic types of rotator cuff exercises?  Well, you can… but I have found a better method.  Far safer, and no equipment is needed.

Virtual resistance is applying force through the limb itself.  For the shoulders, just stand relaxed, legs shoulder width apart.  Move your arms backwards, from down by your hips, applying force simply by flexing as you move.  You can make it as hard, or easy, as you like, simply by applying internal force.  

Move forward in an arc, as if you are doing a fly, followed by a row.  Do one rep, slowly with internal resistance, forward and then back.  Move your arms up a bit, and repeat.  Then, move up some more (higher) and repeat. Then, repeat downwards, for five sets, up and then down. Do maybe five cycles, upwards to the sides of your body.  

Do this daily, or at least a few times per week.  Trust me; this will cure your rotator cuff shoulder problems completely!  Gently, yet inevitably, without risk of further injury.  

You will probably realize that this form of exercise can be done throughout your body, not only on your shoulders.  Try doing a curl, without weights, but only with internally generated resistance.  You can make it as hard, or as easy, as you’d like!  

Try it with flies, and military presses- generate a lot of resistance.  It is just as effective as weights or pulley machines!  You can also replicate squats, and deadlifts- generate the resistance within your own body.  You can also do bent rows, shrugs, and even pressing outwards, imitating the bench press- but without risk of injury, since the ‘weight’, or resistance, can be nullified in an instant by you, yourself, internally!

And there you have it!  Not just a shoulder rehab although that is a perfect place to start, and to show yourself just how well it works.  Virtual Resistance!

Now, I don’t stop there: I also do gymnastic ring exercises, dips, presses, and pull-ups, among others.  But the fact remains that Virtual Resistance, by itself, can replicate any other exercises, and can do so with perfect safety, and is the ideal way to recover from injuries.

Learn it, and incorporate it into your fitness strategy!

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Our country has been failing, for quite some time.  The democrats have become a new party, completely: from the “party of the working man”, which was never really true at all, they have fallen to the level of a totally leftist, socialist/communist totalitarian state, ready to rule over us all!

Donald Trump has changed all that.  Not that he’s a perfect person, no one says that.  But, he is a real, honest-to-God person that represents us all, in particular real, honest-to-God workers: those of us who actually do a real day’s work, and are proud of it!

NO DEI bullshit, or affirmative action, or anything FAKE.  We are back on the track of MERIT to accomplish things, we shall return to honesty and reality.  We were dangerously going down the path of the French Revolution, where all of history, and Western civilization itself, was being questioned and reinvented! An awful nightmare, where the basic tenets of civilization, like the days of the week, were being questioned and reinvented.

Just as our own nightmare democrat leftists, were questioning basic gender rules, and leading us into a nightmare scenario of no men, and no women, but instead into a hellish dreamscape of no rules or reality, but instead a land of lunacy where the state decides what is reality.  It started with Obama, who was awful from the start, and it has continued until now…

I’ll bet you probably wonder why on this fitness and health oriented podcast I am bringing up such things…. Well, I will say that we were literally on the brink of civilization failing, and now we are saved, for the moment!  That is how extreme our situation was, and only now are we starting to see the glimmer of light ahead…

Even in the choice of Robert Kennedy Jr. we are being shown a path to health!  He is a path to sanity and life, and thank GOD!  The Democrats were leading us into the land of endless medication, and processed food- now we have a chance to escape this nightmare scenario.

Rfk jr. plans to lead us into an uncontaminated world, a world where glyphosate is not pumped into our grains and environment without restriction, poisoning us all.  A world where proven carcinogens like various food dyes are banned as well, and a harmful chemical like fluoride, (which does NOT protect dental health!), is banned from our water supplies, as it should be.  

And this is all at Trump’s behest, as he hires the very best and brightest   to run our governmental agencies!  Biden and his traitorous administration is even now selling the fencing we need to protect our borders for pennies on the dollar- just to harm Trump’s administration and keep them from efficiently building the immigration fencing that the American people want and need.  This is blatant criminality!

Our future, my fellow Americans, is firmly in our past- we should expect and relish the chance to reenter the American 1950’s, that halcyon time when women stayed home and raised families, and men supported those families on one salary that was not over-taxed so that both spouses needed to work, and a time when patriotism was a given, because our country was a golden beacon to the rest of the world!  

We WERE a shining beacon to the rest of the world, a bright light in the pantheon of Western Civilization- and now, under Trump’s leadership- we can and will be again!!

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I 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 never wears out, and can target every part of your body.  Pushups, pull ups, rows, one-legged squats, dips- you have it all in the rings!  Plus, it’s silent, and actually kind of fun, in a way…

You can also add in other things, like heavy deadlifts (on occasion!), along with Jefferson curls, also called stiff legged deadlifts for the lower back- very effective, and very SAFE!  As I have aged, I have stopped doing a full routine, and instead do upper body one workout, and the next workout do lower body.  Full body, at least at age 72, is too much; better to split the workout for recovery.

To workout for one hour per day should not seem onerous- it is well worth it to spend one hour out of 24, when by doing so you make the other 23 hours far more enjoyable and productive!  You will make yourself immune from awful joint replacement operations, and bypass endless diseases of disuse that clog our medical clinics!

Each day, what works for me, and has for many years, is to get up, and stretch and do what I call ‘virtual resistance’ in front of the television.  This is simply flexing your limbs, for repetitions, as if you were lifting weights.  You supply the resistance from within as you move.  Try it with curls: just curl you arms, as if you hold weights.  You can make it as hard as you like, simply by flexing!  Do it with curls, military presses, shoulder raises- every exercise there is.  Cover the whole body, and you will be drenched in sweat if you did it intensely enough, and on top of it you will feel energized, rather than drained as if you had used actual weights.

Do this for about 1/2 hour, while you enjoy your TV program.  Then, later that day, go to your rings and weights.  Mine are in the basement, yours could be outside, or anywhere really.  Rings at least!

I also add in, besides ring pushups and pull-ups, etc. : Superslow pull-ups, dips, and military presses!  I watch my big clock on the wall, and do military presses with a dowel, slowly, as I resist my super slow movement up, and then down, for one minute, to a minute and a half.  You need a power rack for this, but you could do the super slow pull-up slowly on the rings, bending your legs on both the upward, and the lowering portion.  Just make it as hard as you can, for both up and down!

Then, the super slow dip needs a dip station: I made mine out of plumbing pipe years ago.  Just go slowly up, and down, for at least a minute.

The beauty is, that there is NO danger of injury, and you are strengthening not only your musculature- but your tendons and ligaments as well!  This whole routine should only be another 1

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As 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 practice.

Of course, natural genetics has a lot to do with lifespan.  But the way you live, a life in nature on the land, eating a natural ancestral diet while avoiding toxins such as cigarettes, excessive sweets, and participating in natural exercise protocols  also has a lot to do with anyone’s health!

Uncle Bob used to come visit us at my parent’s house, and he never failed to give lectures and demonstrations about natural health and its importance!  He always posed for pictures with ours and his family, seated cross-legged on the ground, throughout his 90’s!  He never ceased to amaze me, and still does.  

Now, he lives with his daughter, and still enjoys dancing and playing music on a number of instruments.  He is a role model for us all!

Compare this to people today, who go constantly to the doctor and clinic.  Whether they have an ailment or not!  

Colonoscopies, Cat scans, extensive examinations; the list goes on and on….   

Trust me, the list is endless, and once they get you in their clutches, they will test and scan endlessly, until all of your money is gone.  Even with good insurance, they will take all of your money- even if nothing, ultimately, is really wrong.  

This is the modern scam. 

I am here to suggest that you just be like my Uncle Bob!  AVOID the doctor.  If you break a gone, or are gun-shot- go in.  They are Great at such emergency care!  But as for granting you health, for making you a vital, healthy, long-lived person?

In this, they are without a clue.

I am 72 now.  My wife of the same age and I have both gotten cataract surgery, and that is a true wonder of modern medicine, just like emergency life saving medicine.  In fact, going to an eye doctor is probably the best care you can get- non-invasive, no harm involved, and they can tell by observing your eye health the entire cardiovascular health of your whole body!  Just by seeing the condition or the vascular makeup of your eyes.

But if you go to a standard medical internal medicine doctor, they just go by charts and generalities.  “You are over 50?  Take a statin!  And blood pressure medications!  And see me twice per year, and I’ll give you endless meds, forever and ever.  You’re welcome…”

They told my own father that he had high blood pressure his whole life.  They said he still did when he died at 98.  

I call bullshit.  

No doctor will tell you that high blood pressure happens for a reason.  Your body needs blood somewhere,

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We 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 type of life.  A place where we know our neighbors well, where everyone is as self-sufficient as they can be!  

A place where all have a voice, and big government is as minimal as it can be.  A place in the woods, or in the countryside, far from the inevitable corruption that accompanies metro-types of areas, where there are huge concentrations of people in a smallish area.

Look at our big cities of today, everywhere:  they have become awful places, in every sense of the word.  Out of control crime, de-policing, no punishment for horrible acts, along with horrible schools that teach nothing, and could care less.  Big cities are now cesspools of crime, where the most evil and incompetent are put in charge!

I see our modern cities in the U.S. where I live now, as akin to old cities of antiquity, that are abandoned and left in the jungles.  The builders have left, or been destroyed, and replaced by degenerates, and even subhumans who have wandered into these cities, and pretended, or ‘aped’ the former residents, with no knowledge or ability of how to actually maintain or step into the roles of these forebears.  They only want the power, the ‘prestige’ of the former geniuses, with no responsibilities or anything else.  

So, where to go?  These cities are utterly lost.  Rural America is still unspoiled!  Go there, and build a life.  It is still available, as long as big government, meaning nowadays big Democratic top-down authoritative government if kept at bay!!

Smaller cities, particularly in the Midwest and the West are still unsullied, and open to honest settlers.  They are basically unchanged, and while ‘liberal’ socialist types are everywhere, even here, they are not given free rein!  Reason still rules, although liberal/socialistic/communistic nonsense is constantly attacking…

Florida is an antidote to the retarded hellhole of what California has become, and so that is certainly an option.  You will need to do your homework, but the thing is: at least in the U.S. there are many places where you can still go to live a successful paleo type of life!  A life unencumbered by Big Government, and a purposeful breakdown of Western Civilization itself.

Go to where small towns, small businesses, and small schools still hold sway!  Homeschooling is wonderful, and small towns is very similar to what it was in “Little House on the Prairie”, where local families hired a teacher to teach their children directly,  and determined the curriculum.  No Teacher’s Union was asked for, or wanted!  

Remember: This is for your own good as well.  Each person and family is such communities will n

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We 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 throughout our nation, particularly in the large cities.  Traffic laws are being ignored and punishments are no longer enforced.

Hiring is now meant to be done by quotas of race and sex, not by merit.  Excellence is suffering; soon to be ruined by such quotas and mandates.  We are allowing the 3rd world primitives to enter our developed, civilized space of refinement and privilege.  No requirements are being asked, no basic levels of literacy, or knowledge of civics and western civilization are being asked for…

Why is this being perpetrated on the American people??

Because the Democrats want the votes of what they see as a permanent underclass.  A huge group of basically illegal people that are, and will be, eternally beholden to their ‘Masters’; the politicians in the Democrat party that will give them everything they need and want.  Forever!

This is the bottom line.  Sad but very, very true.  It is also sad that here, in a basically health and fitness podcast, these political matters should of necessity be brought up.  But the truth is that, without our free, clean, and very much Western nation and way of life, all else we desire to achieve and enjoy in our lives is gone- impossible!  

It would be as if the Persians, long ago, had conquered Greece, and destroyed the freedom and Western way of life they were even then developing for us.  It would all just- disappear!

The Democrats of today are as the traitors of the past- those who would offer the Persian invaders a secret way into their homelands, for a bribe of golden coins.  They were foiled back then:  and they need to be stopped now!

And this invasion is only part of the horror.  The Democrats plan not only to swamp us with invaders, but they also plan to deny us the ability to innovate, and enhance our energy resources so as to deal with transportation and heating and cooling.  They raise Climate Change as a false god to which we should sacrifice our technology, which is the undeniable fruit of Western civilization and capitalism.  In other words: discard the armor that we have developed that protects us from the undeveloped and primitive of the rest of the world.

Even things like allowing biological men to compete with women in women’s sports- the Democrats are overwhelmingly in FAVOR of this, and virtually no one else.

I could go on.  But my point if made: if you want you, and your family, to live a free, healthy life, lived as you have determined is the best for you and yours- 

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Ever 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 resilience for our whole life!

All we have to do is eat real, nutritious foods of natural meats and seafood, with a mix of vegetables and some fruits and nuts.  Have full fat dairy in the form of cheeses, yogurt, and kefir, and add in exercise of strength training, small amounts of running, and walking, preferably barefoot on the grass.  Sleep a good eight hours per night in a blackened room, without checking the clock during sleeping hours!  (Really, don’t look at the clock at night.  That only puts you into a ‘doom loop’ where you constantly are checking with mental gymnastics as to ‘how many hours are left til I have to wake up’…. This alone ruins your rest and sleep.  Set an alarm if you want or need to- but don’t check that clock every time you awaken for a minute!  Changing this one habit alone completely rescued my nightly sleep…

Stretch daily!  Morning stretches done daily in front of the TV, along with a dedicated strength session in your yard, deck, garage or basement are completely mandatory for every human.  Without such daily attention to your very humanity, and you will start to break down, slowly but surely.  Let your muscles atrophy and so too does your brain, bit by bit.  

The human body is an intricate balancing act of the proper nutrients, consumed by a body that is stimulated by the proper activity to require those nutrients to fuel and rebuild a sophisticated animal machine.  It’s kind of like the ‘Dance of Life’!

As for drugs, as in ‘diet drugs’?  They don’t belong in your human body!  In fact- NO DRUGS BELONG IN THE HUMAN BODY!  That is the ideal, now and forever.  If you are taking drugs, either recreational or prescription- get off of them!  God made your body as is; he never required man-made drugs for you to thrive.  TAKE NO DRUGS!

The same goes for surgeries.  Most surgeries are optional, and are a way for clinics and hospitals to MAKE MONEY.  For instance, you can reverse the need for knee surgery replacement with exercises shown by Ben Patrick on the kneesovertoesguy.com website.  Many drugs and surgeries deal with conditions that can be rectified using natural methods that aren’t so invasive, expensive, and destructive of the body as those from the clinics!

But all of that aside: just lead a natural, ancestral life!  Be outside in nature, as much as possible.  Garden, play and relax in your yard.  Get lots of sunshine, and keep chemicals OFF of your lawn and garden.  Be a keen observer of nature- birds, deer, and all the wildlife in your area.  Relish it, it is TRUE beauty!

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As 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 eliminated, at age 72, the barbell back squat, the deadlift, and the bench press.  Pushups on the gymnastic rings, along with flies and other movements are preferable to bench presses, and can be done at many angles.  Single leg or ‘sissy’ squats using the rings for balance are also much better for your knees, and take the emphasis off of your glutes and put it on to the front thigh.  Substitute the squats for these..

I also do kettlebell swings instead of deadlifts now, for high reps.  Quite exhausting, and targets the lower back without overstraining the nervous system to the point where recovery suffers!

Dips, pull-ups and rows are always good, and are improved by doing them on the rings as well.  As we age, it is great to avoid spinal compression by loading the body excessively by means of barbells.

Walk backwards, resisting with a heavy band anchored against your movement, and then walk forward.  I do this as my warmup before my strength sessions, for about 10 minutes- this will forestall knee problems very effectively.  Credit to the Knees over toes guy Ben Patrick for this!  Truly wonderful inspiration from him.

I used to work out for hours at a time.  I was young, and I was kind of stupid, well, uninformed at least.  Now I know better:

Workouts can be short, but yet intense.  Results do NOT suffer; in fact they can be BETTER!  

But, be sure to prioritize stretching.  Each morning I stretch, and do Virtual Resistance, first thing.  In front of the television= a win-win.  Wake up your body productively, and stretch it out for the day to come, and you are setting yourself up for a wonderful day.

Then, follow through with your diet: Eat protein, and make that your priority.  If you want some carbs, go with sour dough bread, but minimally.  Have a paleo smoothie (PLEASE) like I do daily- but now I consume a small one, of veggies, kefir, some berries and citrus, and sour cherrie juice that is spiked with iodine, vitamin D, and cod liver oil.  This is your “insurance” nutritionally speaking, and should be adhered to religiously!

These are the basics.  After these are fulfilled, just live a good, balanced life, as our founding fathers decreed.  Religion, conservative politics, and observing the golden rule along with your neighbors….

Life can be quite simple, and wonderful.  Just adhere to the basics of Western Civilization!!  All else is dross.

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Most 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 to be prescribed!  

 How many drugs should  a person be on?  NONE!  But this does not seem to be the goal of the doctor at all anymore.  They just keep on prescribing, and never get around to weaning you OFF the drugs, which ALL have side effects, which you get another drug prescribed to to treat THOSE effects.  This is a pernicious system, that feeds endlessly on itself, making us sicker, and more dysfunctional as time goes on.

Drugs are just treating our messed up lifestyles!  A calorie restricted, low fat diet of processed and fast foods. A lack of good exercise, sunshine, and good sleep. Fulfilling relationships and conversation with the TV OFF are the best “prescriptions” you could ever have in your life.  Getting out in nature with your bare feet in the grass and strolling down a woodland path will do more for your health than any stupid cholesterol drug can ever do!  

Be a stoic!  1Moderation in All Things: Adopt a balanced lifestyle, incorporating healthy eating, moderate exercise, and ample rest.

1. Mindful Awareness: Practice mindfulness and self-awareness to understand and control impulses related to diet and exercise.
2. Acceptance of the Uncontrollable: Recognize that certain health factors are beyond our control. Embrace acceptance and focus on how you respond to these circumstances.
3. Mind-Body Symbiosis: Understand the profound link between mental and physical health. Nourish both aspects through positive thoughts and self-care practices.

Rely on yourself, in other words.  Be your OWN doctor!  Drugs are usually NOT the answer.

The only real breakthrough of Western medicine was the discovery of penicillin and the whole class of antibiotics. Alexander Fleming discovered that this type of  fungus had an antibacterial property.  This led to discovery of the drugs that could treat deadly diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis and many others that wiped out these heretofore untreatable diseases!  

This gave western medicine and your medical doctor a halo effect; such that now doctors are regarded as near god-like in their wisdom.  No, they just gained access to a form of drug that is amazingly effective!

And what was the treatment of choice for Tuberculosis in the old days?  

 Doctors could only advise their patients to rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors.

This is still the very best advice you can give to people today.  It’s the very best we can do, overall!

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An Easter Story

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Chapter 3

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Part 2

Final part 3 published soon...

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Chapter 1

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A Barbarian in Chicago full audiobook by Jay Bowers

This episode, I decided to include the audio readings of my book.  I write under the names Jay Bowers, and Jess Thornton.

I hope you enjoy it!

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I 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 to time, along with veggies and fruits, mainly berries and citrus… 

And I still stand by that, long term.  But this is a ‘reboot’ if you are a SAD standard American Diet person.  You need to ‘reawaken’ your whole body and mind to reality.

So, you go carnivore for two weeks, say.  Suddenly, your body will reawaken to what it really needs; not pizza, and tacos with Mc Donald’s crappy hamburgers and seed oil-drenched fries.  Just meat, and salt!  And eggs and seafood, that’s all pilgrim.

Two weeks, that’s all, and you’ll be a new man/woman.  (Not trans!!  That doesn’t really exist anyway…)

I guarantee you will feel great- but you will also be happy that now you can embrace a true diet for the rest of your life- the Paleo Diet!  The diet of your ancestors, ALL of them.  Not vegan (NO ONE ever followed that diet in the past), not vegetarian (ditto), and definitely NOT the SAD modern American fast food crap and fake food diet of misery!

NOW you can include not only meat, eggs and seafood, but you can include full fat dairy like butter, yogurt and kefir, vegetables in your smoothies along with raw eggs, apple cider vinegar and cod liver oil and fruits.  Occasional sour dough bread and nut butter- you are now living large!

Just keep out all the modern crap.  And supplement (I use liquid vitamin D and liquid iodine  (lugal’s solution) in my smoothie), but you can go with tablets if you’d like.  For, in our modern depleted soils, especially here in the goiter belt of the upper midwest, iodine and vitamin D are musts!!

Iodine is an utter must, and in addition to fluoride being dumped into our municipal water supplies, that poison makes iodine even more unavailable to us.  Iodine is an utterly necessary supplement!

As is Vitamin D- get your vitamin D checked; I guarantee you are deficient.  You need to supplement; you need to go outside without sunscreen when you can, and you need to not wear chemical sunscreen!

You also need to eat lots more butter, and animal fats, fatty fish like sardines and salmon, and things like cod liver oil to replenish your dietary vitamin D, since that vitamin/hormone is stored in FAT.

And so, there you go, my prescription for you: go carnivore, and wake up!  Then, commit to paleo for all time, and supplement to regain your natural, God-given health.  And, as you enjoy your newfound health and vitality, avoid any government mandates, such as covering your face with cloth, getting horrid injections over and over, and hiding out and avoiding people.  Ignore the government edicts, and avoid the medical establishment whenev

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New Year New You

Now 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 found that shorter, and less frequent workouts are actually more effective, and less draining as well as less prone to injury!  Now, my twice or three times per week heavy basement workouts are 30-40 minutes MAX.  

My meal planning has also become far simpler.  My daily paleo smoothie has nutrients galore, including kefir, vitamin D and iodine liquid, along with ginger and turmeric, coconut milk and cruciferous veggies and lower sugar fruits like berries and citrus.  But now, I no longer feel the need to slam down 8 oz or so at a time- 1/2 that is plenty, along with real food like meats and eggs, yogurt and a few well-chosen vitamin supplements like B1 and C.  Mostly, I consume good meat, cheese and dairy.  

Also, I do like to hike!  In the winter, I hike in boots through the snow, and assist myself with ski poles through my woods.  Again, this is so intense that not a lot of time needs to be spent- 15-20 minutes is plenty!  I see people walking for an hour and more, and while that’s fine for entertainment, that’s how it should be regarded.  Playing games like racket sports, touch football, softball, basketball, and ballroom dancing, for instance, might be fun for you, and that’s fine.  But, it’s NOT exercise!  It’s similar to watching spectator sports- football, basketball etc.  It’s fun for many folks (not me), and more power to them!  But, it doesn’t improve your body, not even a little bit, sorry.

Visiting your local library, and choosing really good books to read will definitely improve your mind.  This includes fiction books as well as non-fiction: fiction books can transport you into other worlds and times, and from different perspectives.  This is probably the most educational and transformative type of activity you can pursue!

Also, watching good YouTube videos can improve many skills that you would find difficult to learn elsewhere, and for free!  And hobbies should be pursued avidly- nothing is so satisfying and rewarding as improving your musical skills, or archery or shooting sports.  Things like gardening and landscaping, along with animal husbandry and artistic pursuits of all kinds develop both you, and your property as well.

Also, don’t forget your spiritual side!  A good church with a like-minded congregation and pastor can enrich your like like nothing else.  It’s sad and mistaken that this is so often ignored and overlooked: EVERY culture throughout history had a strong religious side.  Every One.  Just as they were also all meat eating!  It is a part of being a healthy human.  

When religion is lost

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Your 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 eating.  If you learn all about healthy, high protein eating, within a year or so you will appear to be a different, improved person.  This is a wonderful way for young people to begin their adult lives!

Men or women, both will reap huge benefits from such a lifestyle.  At first I included much running, but I learned to keep the distances at about 2-3 miles maximum.  Anything else destroys your musculature, rather than enhancing it.  Walking with ski poles as resistance in the woods, or heavy hand walking are vastly superior exercises, as is simply walking barefoot in the woods.

So, for many years I lifted weights, quite heavily, sometimes too heavily, and learned that less can really be more- higher reps, less weight can be wonderful overall.  Your body can be sculpted as powerful and aesthetic together.

Now, in my 70’s, I am just as committed as ever.  But now, in the early mornings I stretch in the living room, and do ‘virtual resistance’ exercises, along with isometrics and calisthenics in the AM.  I do it in front of the television, and let me tell you it is the high point of my day!  I pretty much only watch TV while exercising, and so that early morning 1 hour is entertaining, in that I awaken both my body and my mind together!  I start the day both refreshed and happy, and my body is tuned and ready.  I highly recommend this ‘coupling’ of workouts with the reward of television.  

I used to do an afternoon workout later, around 3 or 4 PM, of pure strength training in my dungeon of a basement with weights, a power rack, and benches.  I would do that workout as a split- usually lower body one day, and upper the next.  

At first I alternated day by day.  As I aged, I realized that was too much, and would work my upper body one day, take a day off (but always keep the morning workout), and then do the lower body.  Take another day off, and repeat.  Worked wonderfully, as did replacing bench presses largely with gymnastic rings pushups, and squats with pistol squats on the rings, and ring rows.  Added isometric/aerobic presses and chins  and dips in the power rack, for time.  (Timed static contractions, where you press constantly against the immovable rack bar for a minute or more).

I also often go for a stroll in my woods, with heavy hand dumbbells or ski poles.  Just for 15 minutes or so, which is refreshing!  Being retired, I now have the gift of time, and I try to take full advantage of this luxury.

I have largely stopped sprinting in my yard barefoot.  I seems to be overly draining now.  As do my daily workouts, sometimes…

Now,

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You 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 shoulder, and started spraying magnesium oil onto my left arm to relieve the constant ache.  It worked amazingly well!

It absorbs quickly, and seems similar to the coconut oil that I usually put on my skin after a shower.  It moisturizes, and then the magnesium absorbs directly through the skin into the body, bypassing the digestive system entirely.  So, a few sprays on your skin, and your magnesium levels are upped immediately- it relieves my shoulder and arm pain in a matter of minutes!

Of course, the added total body benefits are also spread throughout your entire body, without interference.  To start using this natural supplement in this form seems to me to be a no-brainer!

I am not a big supplement proponent, being instead one that recommends you get all you need from real food instead. But for me, magnesium oil and liquid vitamin D3 are exceptions in this modern world we live in.  Oh, and I also supplement with a small amount of liquid iodine in my smoothies, which also contain the liquid D3.  Sunlight (and its accompanying vitamin D), and iodine (which is also very depleted in modern diets) are crucial, and easily supplemented.  

But Magnesium is best absorbed through the ‘many mouths’ of the skin, and so are completely put to work in the entire body, without either being partially destroyed in the gut, or in causing indigestion as well.

The best part of protecting your health with magnesium oil, liquid vitamin D, and Iodine?  Very cheap, very simple, and with incredible benefits with no side effects!  Find a Doctor’s prescription like that.  

This is a short podcast, but I think the bottom line is priceless.  I had to get it out to you!  Whenever I find something that is incredibly beneficial, with no downsides; that can literally help millions of people- I can’t help shouting it from the rooftops, or from your iPhone!

Get yourself some Magnesium oil, and spray yourself to health.  Anywhere on your skin is OK, but by the lymph glands (under your arms) is the fastest.  And strangely, on your feet is recommended by many…

Experiment!  There is NO wrong way, and the upside is HUGE! 

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Perhaps 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 vegetables, when available.  No sedentary couch potatoes were possible in those times!

Most skulls of these early humans display wonderful tooth health, lifelong, unless a tooth was literally knocked out by a bad fall, or in a brutal fight.  Today, strangely, virtually all of us, with very few exceptions, have many major tooth and gums interventions over our lives, at great pain and expense.  Why?

Back to the Future:

Certain things we are encouraged to do today should be gotten rid of!  Others should be supplemented by other practices, ones that are more rooted in the biology of our Paleolithic ancestors.  

For instance, I believe that dentist ‘interventions’ should be kept at the minimum.  Sterilizing your oral cavity by, say going inside your mouth and completely carpet bombing the microbiome of your mouth and teeth, will destroy the bad bacteria, but also killing all of the good bacteria.  Here is what recent research, and myself recommend:

Do NOT floss!  Almost all dentists will deny it, but flossing pushes the bacteria from between the teeth deep into the gums.  Not good!

Use a water pick appliance instead. Water gently flushes the teeth and gums, and does so comparatively gently.

Don’t brush 3X per day, and don’t use a fluoridated toothpaste.  

Once at night before bed is plenty.  An electric toothbrush is the best, followed by the Water Pick.  Use a natural toothpaste like Earth Paste.  If you can, avoid fluoridated water- fluoride is actually a toxic chemical, that causes weaker, more brittle teeth that also become mottled and brownish-yellow.

Do buy Xylitol sweetened gums and candies!

Xylitol, which is a natural sweetener made from plants, is indigestible to the bad bacteria in your mouth.  BUT, they don’t know it, and eat that xylitol to their fill- and then starve!  Then, the good bacteria can multiply therein…

The last, and most transformative to your dental health, is to start oil pulling daily!  If you’re not familiar with this ancient Ayurvedic practice, here is how to do it:

Keep a little dish or bowl of coconut oil in your bathroom.  Sprinkle it liberally with Xylitol.  (It’s inexpensive, and can be used in baked goods as well in lieu of sugar).  

Each day, as you prepare to shower, cut a small piece of the hardened oil (in winter), and spoon out a bit into your mouth in summer.  Start in to “swishing’ it about in your mouth as you shower, pushing it all around, through your teeth, whatever, as you go.

At the end of your bathroom rout

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Let’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 prohibitive.  It depends on the job you can get, but  any normal income is almost impossible in such places to be enough, even with husband and wife both working, which is not ideal at all.

In my opinion, I would do exactly in your position as I did, many years ago.  Get educated, either in college of in a vocational tech school, and then save all you can for a few years.  Don’t live at home and be a freeloader; this is actually immoral, and a coward’s way out.  Live cheaply, and work hard.  Find a potential spouse who will do the same!  This will serve to separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’, and the two of you will build your characters and work ethic along with your bank account!

During this period in your life, work also on your health!  After work hours (or before), make sure to work out daily, building your body and your ‘terrain’, by eating as healthily as you can, and fortifying your body and mind with animal protein and some vegetables.  Also, teach yourself to cook such healthy foods, which will be both more economical and good for you than eating out.  Avoid fast foods, and processed foods completely!

And do not fail to also build your spiritual life!  Find a good church (smaller is better), and attend regularly.  Pray, and attend to the development of your soul!  This may be the most important direction of all, so be attentive to what your deepest self truly desires.

All throughout this period of life, research and think about where you would like to live.  Do you love where you already are, and is it a small town or city with rural surroundings?  That is just fine, so start to look for a homestead for your family, a place where you can live peacefully forever.

If you don’t live in such a place, then look for what would be your ideal.  This could vary, but would be quite rural if you value western civilization a community of shared values.  Multicultural places tend to be fractious, unsafe, and eventually anti-civilization!

Exotic locales might sound good, but actually are only good for vacations!  People of European descent, such as myself and probably you, are evolved in a cold, harsh climate.  We need struggle and hardship, things to solve and conquer.  Without real accomplishments, Western man is unfulfilled, and never really happy!  Hence our endless upward climb…

Only when other racial groups come to join us, do we begin to unravel.  Stay in a homogenous area, above all!

And so, you’ve found a rural area with natural beauty, clean air and water, and folk that are very like yourself.  You a

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Hopefully 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 diabetes

And, just to point out- a Carnivore Diet is a NO CARB diet, by definition!!  Not just low, but NO.

And so, my little paleo friends: Go Carnivore!  (Or at least ‘Carnivor-ish), like me!  I also include cheese, kefir, cream, butter and full fat yogurt, along with copious amounts of eggs and some cruciferous veggies and low carb fruits.  

But that is the end result.  For now, paleo pilgrim: if you are fat, sick and diabetic to any extent?  Go Full Carnivore!  It’s not even difficult, not really.  You will never, ever be hungry, and you will feel satisfied and energized, eating only beef.  The only thing hard to deal with is social pressure, but what is that when set against you very health and survival, long term??

I guarantee that all your conditions and the state of your health will improve.  Vastly in pretty much every case!

Stick with it, until you are feeling and looking amazing!  (I’m not kidding, results are that immediate, and inavoidable).  Now, you can, one at a time, add in things: try chicken and fish.  Still fine?  Try eggs, then dairy.  Still doing great?  Try a bit of fruit or vegetable…

All of that is just optional.  The true freedom is just knowing that, in the final analysis: You really don’t need anything by animal products!  

You might ENJOY other foods…but you don’t NEED THEM to have a ‘so called’ BALANCED diet.  Not at all.  It’s just gilding the lily, really.  

So, go carnivore young man! (Or woman). Stick with it as long as you’d like, and as long as you enjoy ever-improving health and wellness! 

 It is a RESET!!

Just like restarting your computer brings it back to its virginal state, so too does ‘resetting’ your primordial self back to the pre-carb, pristine human state!  Then, with your new health and knowledge, you can venture back out into the dangerous modern world, full of its perilous food-like substances, and hyper-processed garbage- but now, you know that true health lies in animal protein foods; not in medications and plant concoctions of oxalates and nightshades galore!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6nfG69c9g

I 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 others at that early age- you are doing the wrong thing!  Don’t.

I am 71 now, and mainly concerned with my own health and fitness.  Aside from my overall very healthy, paleo and largely meat and dairy based diet, ample sleep, and daily workout schedule, am sure to NOT take any prescription drugs.  

I also have a daily smoothie, prepared in my Vitamix, of kefir, tart black cherry juice, citrus, including an organic unpeeled lemon, cruciferous veggies, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast of B vitamins, cod liver oil, ginger, turmeric, and current garden veggies I am harvesting in season.  

My goals have not changed since in my early twenties.  I strive to get stronger (not just maintain), and in some ways I still am!  Having muscular endurance is crucial as well, but it is the truth that you don’t get continually stronger over the decades, no matter what you do!

But is you look into Ben Patrick’s kneesovertoesguy.com

On YouTube.  Endless helpful videos and demonstrations of how top cure your knees, along with feet, back, and most of the rest of your physical body!  

Trust me: you can restore injured and even badly deteriorated joints with determined exercise and stretching, always doing such well within your limits and gradually progressing!  

Here is how my own journey plays into all of this.  I took a bad fall onto concrete pavers a few weeks ago.  I broke my fall with my left hand, and my left shoulder was injured pretty badly, along with the tendon on my left knee.  Ouch!

So, I have been doing daily therapy over my whole body, using virtual resistance by flexing the muscles and tendons just to the point where it does not hurt badly.  A little pain, but more therapeutic than anything.

The worst thing I could have done?  Go to the clinic, take pain pills, and do nothing, except schedule surgeries and more prescriptions.  

I didn’t do that, and now I am definitely on the mend. The pain is manageable, after I do my morning exercises.  About an hour’s worth, just as I always do, but now gentler, and more focussed on the problem areas…

So, the point is this- just keep on striving, to get stronger and more flexible and vital.  The rules never change- they just sometimes need alterations given circumstances.  Just never give up, and do it all yourself, researching and getting advice where you can.  Like from Ben Patrick, who athletes love and medical doctors hate!

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I just fell down, hard!

I went out to the garage, in the rain, and slipped on the mud around our new sidewalk landscaping project.  It’s been dry here for so long that I think I forgot how to walk on mud, and my legs shot up in the air and I crashed down on my back.  I was fine, and so just got what I came out for, and went back in the house.

But it got me thinking:  I’m 71 years old now.  Such a fall might have laid up many folks, and severely shaken many others, so that their back, knees, or other body parts would need medical attention.

And that is my point- I am perfectly fine, although a bit dirty.  In fact, upon reflection, I realize that physically, I can do anything I could do when I was 35, or 25.  In fact, I am actually quite a bit stronger and more flexible than I was at those younger ages, and a m quite resilient overall.  Mentally and physically, I can do anything I want to, and never even consider my age in choosing activities to participate in.  

I say this not to brag, but to point out that any of us- all of us- should be in this condition for our entire lives!  Not that I expect my mother, who is 97, to still be so capable as when she was younger; or her brother, Uncle Bob, at age 101 definitely can’t do everything he’d like…. But, both of them (and my Aunt Janie, at 99) can all still get around and are largely independent in their homes.

I plan to follow in their footsteps, even if I do occasionally fall down, and I suggest that you do likewise.

What is it that they do daily, and that I also do, that keeps us all going along with such resilience, both mentally and physically?  

1. Eat a diet of real foods: avoid fast foods and processed foods, relying instead on  meats, cheeses, small amounts of vegetables and fruits, and nuts.  Wild game and seafood, rather than grains, jellies, and cakes.  Cook your food yourself, whether on the stove or the grill.  Use a good sea salt for flavor, like Redmond’s Real Salt from the dead seas of Utah.  ( I have no affiliation with that company).

2. Work out every day.  Stretch, flex virtually, do calisthenics, get on the floor and stretch some more.  Massage your feet, and exercise them, along with self-resisted neck exercises as well.  Do it first thing daily. Do it in front of the TV- Every Day!  

Also, do serious strength training 2 to 3X per week, in the afternoons.  Gymnastic rings are a wonderful mainstay for this, as is a Power Rack!

3.  Eat a large breakfast.  It doesn’t need to be right when you get up, after your stretching workout is better.  3 or 4 eggs is ideal!  Coffee with cream is a wonderful addition; you can even have some as you work out in front of the television set.

4.  Do your own manual labor.  Don’t hire it out, just because you can- provide for yourself as much as you can!  Keep your own house, tend your own garden, yard, and woods.  Make your home as meticulously as you make yourself, body and mind and soul.

5.  Read daily.  Walk and meditate every day, walk in the woods and in nature.  Walk backwards.  Live as rurally as you can, and relish it.  This is the birthright of the European race, and we abandon it at our peril.

6.  Go to church, and attend to your immortal soul as you do to your mortal self.  They both add up to YOU!  Don’t emulate someone as shallow as Arnold Schwarzenegger, who says an afterlife is a fantasy.  He should know better- and so should you…

And there you have it.  How to fall down and not get hurt!  

With some digressions…

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Hello, and welcome to the Smoothie Cafe!   We are here traditionally discussing health and fitness from a Paleo Diet point of view.  A smoothie, made preferably in a Vitamix, is key to maximizing your nutritional density intake, and that is still my belief.  But as in anything looked at honestly for a while, say 10 years or more as it is here, new facts come in, and opinions alter…

As it is in life!  When you are young, say in your teens and twenties, you are rightly concerned with getting started in life.  You want to be strong and healthy, but much of it is to attract and establish a life with a like-minded mate.  This is right and natural.

Much of your youth is fixated on finding the proper path (job), and the right place to live, and raise a family.  Traditionally, this was just on finding a place to live near your job, that was safe and with good schools, etc.  But, with the advance of Democratic socialism/liberalism, this has been perverted.  Now, you need to find a place that is not contaminated by ‘wokeism’ and liberalism, which can transform a city or area into a place where:

1. Crime is not punished, and criminals run free. 

(This includes nowadays all blue, democrat-run liberal cities, which are virtually ALL big cities!)

2.  Schools are teaching nonsense and anti-civilization like ‘Whites are evil’, ‘White Privilege’, and other aspects of Critical Race Theory, which is total poison and a total lie.

3. ‘Trans’ and other Woke garbage.  LGBTQ and all the rest of anti-civilization garbage.  

It’s hard to believe to me, who grew up in the 1950’s, that we are even talking about such disgusting craziness, and that young people have to deal with and process this crap.  But it is there today, sadly!

I am now officially old- 71.  I have grandchildren!  While I still am very concerned with health and wellness, and am very much still a ‘physical culturist’ (NOT a bodybuilder), I realize at this stage that  the health of our country, state, and nation is just as important to the future.  

And, even though myself, wife and family are all fit and healthy, side-stepping most ‘big medicine’ misdirections, such as in covid vaccines and statin prescriptions, much of our population and so-called leaders are still very misinformed and are ‘loose cannons’ of bad information and direction!

Here are my conclusions:  

If you are older, like me- work out daily!  Do stretching and ‘virtual resistance’ training, in front of the TV, every morning first thing.  30 minutes to an hour; you will enjoy it!  

Also, work out with resistance training like pushups, especially on gymnastic rings, and work your whole body. Do rows and pullups, situps and squats and deadlifts.  At least two times per week, forever.  Don’t ever stop.

And this, for every age: 

Work out- same prescription!  From 12- 112.  Walk in your daily life, best is barefoot in the woods, on the grass.  Sleep at least 8 hours per night, in total darkness- banish TV’s and other screens from your bedroom.  Blackout curtains and white noise can help, if you haven’t taken my other advice, and gotten the HELL out of big cities and suburbs with blue light and noise coming from everywhere!

If you are younger, with a young family or planning on one- 

Get out of big cities!  Get our of big suburbs, in metropolitan areas (They are all liberal/blue/socialist/communistic). 

Get Out Now!  It may not be possible in future!

Make sure you are in a red state, or at least purple one.  And go rural; small towns are better than larger, small cities are much bette

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I am at an odd place right now.  It’s now even that crazy, but it does confuse me- I have gotten a new computer!  

I know, that actually sounds good, not bad… but trust me: I was so used to my old computer that, even though it was slow, and sometimes frustrating- at least I always knew where things were, and how things worked in general.  

Nowadays, however, although my computer is really, really fast- my prep work on things is really slow.  I can’t find where my podcasts are, my apps are all updated and different, and so it goes, on and on.  

And I think that life, in general, is often like this.  We work really hard on something, say to change our diet.  We switch from the SAD American diet to paleo, and then we replace most carbs with protein from meat and dairy.  We become much, much healthier, and hey- what could be wrong with that?

Well, our friends might treat us differently.  They might denigrate us, saying that our diet is not healthy at all, since it is high in fat, and we don’t do enough ‘cardio’.  We become confused, since old friends treat us differently, and although everything we’ve done has been really positive for our health, things are just, somehow- different from what we are used to!

Just like my new computer: when things are better, even way better- they still are different.  Different is inherently uncomfortable!  It just is…

This is when we need to realize that different may be uncomfortable at first; but if it is better, then we need to just roll with the punches and embrace it.  Forge ahead with a big smile!

If you can’t find your old files, don’t worry about it for now.  (You can always find them later, they’re still there). What is important is to make new files- or go ahead and make more progress on your carnivor-ish kind of a diet, and savor the positive changes to your health!  Do your daily workout, and push hard when you know it’s right, and taper off if you know you are under too much stress from other things in your life.  Each day is actually new, and completely different, if we only realize it.

Here is another example: it’s Spring here in Wisconsin, and normally that is cause for undiminished rejoicing, after a particularly long and trying Winter.  BUT- we had a few days in the high 80’s (not normal, not at all), and then had a snowfall of over 1 and 1/2 FEET!  

The tree branches in our woods and yard broke under the weight, by the hundreds!  They are lying, even now, in the yard, which is now wet and semi-flooded.  The tractor can’t help much, since it would make ruts anywhere it travels, and so instead of avidly planning our garden, and cultivating our plants and yard- we are trapped in a strange different sort of Spring.  It’s really hard mentally..

But actually, it’s no big deal, not really.  It’s time to reflect, to lay back and wait.  Even though I’m dying to get going on all things Spring- I need to change my focus.  I can read, and write more.  Focus on my gymnastic rings training, trying new angles and exercise ideas.  Grill more in bulk, to stock up on meats in the fridge, and smoothies in canning jars ready to drink.  And slowly build my trap-bar deadlifts to a new peak!

The garden can wait.  Tomorrow, even though it will be a high of 40, I can use my newly sharpened chain saw and cut down some broken branches that are hanging over the roadway.  I can drag these branches, and others, down the road, even though I can’t drag them into the yard itself. I’ll just push them off the road, and wait for when I can drag them to where I can either cut them

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It’s really not that hard to accomplish.  The information is all there, unfortunately, much of it is obscured by people ‘selling things’, such as offering an easy way.  

That is indeed the problem: no matter how hard you look, online, on TV or on YouTube commercials- there really is no easy way.  

But there is a simple and effective way! 

Eat an ancestral, or paleo type of diet.  High animal protein, meat, and dairy.  Some vegetables, with cruciferous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, and small amounts of lettuce with olive oil and avocado and coconut oil types of dressing.  Seafood and eggs are wonderful as well; but the bedrock of your diet should be pastured meats and dairy, in particular ruminant meat, such as beef.  Like our ancestors ate long ago, and evolved alongside throughout the long ice age- mammoths, aurochs, and cows.  Same types exactly, that turned vegetation, however sparse, into protein-dense meat!

And now we get to lifestyle, and the huge bugaboo of exercise.  For be assured that diet is considered the most contentious component of a healthy and fit lifestyle, it is really very simple.  Just do as outlined above.  Veganism and vegetarianism are bad jokes- just avoid them, as did our ancestors.  (Those who survived that is).

And now: exercise.  Exercise, real, productive exercise is one thing: 

Strength Training!  

I’m not saying you can’t run, breaking a sweat as you jog along a forest path, preferably barefoot… of course you can!  Or walk or hike long distances, in the sunshine, or swim or paddle board or play tennis or paddle/pickleball with your friends- all of these are great!  Great adjuncts, like playing Wordle, or doing crossword puzzles, or any number of sports like hockey, or baseball, basketball or football or soccer.  All are fine and wonderful games, along with many others.

But- they are not EXERCISE.  

Exercise is a practice that you need to do for your entire life.  It means to do certain necessary things:

Strengthen your musculature, from head to toe.  Progressively and on a near-daily basis, for your entire life.  Slowly, and deliberately, on your own.  Without competition.

This practice, done regularly, will also strengthen your tendons and ligaments, while also stretching and maintaining your ranges of motion.  You just need to figure out the protocol, and then to Do It!

First, start with Virtual Resistance.  This is flexing as you move your body throughout various positions.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65LRENdKo&t=27s

This will give you the idea.  Go thou and do likewise!

Then, add in straight-legged situps for high reps, and stretch out on a mat in front of the TV.  (Do this every morning).  Add in pushups, on a perfect pushup device if you can, with your feet elevated on a couch or chair.  Do them s-l-o-w-l-y for maximum benefit…

Add in Asian squats, where to squat to the floor, with your feet flat on the ground, and hold…  this is a very important exercise!

A ‘rebounder’ is an important adjunct here: bounce on it as you do your virtual resistance exercises, and finish by bouncing on your butt, which is an amazing ab exercise!

Let’s say you do this listed above for about 1/2 hour in the morning, in front of the television.  It’s a great way to start the day!  

Reward yourself with 3 or 4 scrambled eggs- your body will thank

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I know, that sounds a tad extreme…  but it is true, nevertheless.  I started out today thinking about this while listening to a podcast by Shawn Baker, a carnivore  doctor who has a podcast, and youtube videos about the subject.

He was interviewing a former vegan, as he often does.  This was a man who almost died of his long-term veganism, and saved himself and his wife by becoming carnivorous.  The numbers of such misguided people seem legion, and they stick to this vegan notion of health well past the point where you would think that anyone would wake up!  They become walking stick insects, with (ironically) bloated bellies, incredibly weak, and with brains that are confused and very unhappy overall.  

The almost universal result with such vegans is that, once they try eating meat, sometimes after many years of not doing so, it is as if ‘The lights come on’, and they finally feel alive!  Why does this realization take so long for these folks?

I think it is the same shuttered state of mind that affects the liberal elites in many other areas- they are so stubbornly sure that they know everything, and the many ignoramuses all about them- the middle-class non-elites, so inferior that they don’t know everything the leftist elites tell them are true!

These non-elite, conservative people, who prize meat above all in their diets, and in those of their children, recommend strength training as opposed to leftist cardio adherence, notice that there definitely are differences between the different races of men, (just as there are in breeds of dogs, for instance), and worst of all noticed that Trump did a really, really good job overall are just stupid!

The genius leftist liberal vegans also know that the Covid lockdown was great, despite having no better results than countries such as Sweden that had no lockdown, and despite that children are retarded in their schooling by those lockdown measures and are irretrievably damaged in their learning, these Big Government top-down supporters refuse to change their minds!

They must be right!  After all, Faucii is a genius just as they are, and would be incapable of spewing misinformation for years on end.  Except that he did!

These vegan leftists also are so glad they took the vaccines, and then the multiple boosters, along with the flu shot (that doesn’t work either), and they will never ever never admit that they are wrong about anything EVER!  No matter how often they are proven, over and over, to be wrong about every single thing they believe, in their little democrat, liberal, Big Medicine, Big Pharma cult.

Here is the truth, vegan liberal leftist democrats: The vaccine you mandated not only didn’t prevent contracting covid (which turns out to be far milder than you warned us), it seemed to make people more prone to contracting the disease over and over, because the untested MRNA vaccines seem to damage the body’s own immune system, rendering it more vulnerable.  To ALL diseases!

In addition, it appears that the fake vaccine that doesn’t work also makes those who took it far more vulnerable to cardiac forms of death, even at very young ages.

I guess my ultimate point of all this is that the LEFT has brought us down a very damaging, and negative path, where our health is declining swiftly.  Crime and homelessness have taken over our cities, and criminals are not punished, and police are vilified.  Jobs are now given out as a form of ‘equity’, without regard to merit, as are university places and scholarships.  White heterosexual males,

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Was it really for almost 3 long years that we had to wear useless masks, had our churches and schools largely closed, and we were forced to inject into our bodies toxic MRNA fake vaccines that didn’t even work to protect us?  And that now are proving to have done irreparable harm to our bodies, making us prone to myocardial diseases of the heart, often fatal?

Yes, that is exactly what we’ve lived through- the biggest scam and hoax in history.  We are still not supposed to talk about it, as we continue to pretend that Dr. Slouchi is a veritable god, instead of a madman.  

But, I am here to tell you now, that it is OVER.  Don’t ever allow something like this, a toxic Democrat autocratic Big Lie to happen, ever again.  It’s time for all of this to turn around.  For big medicine, big pharmaceuticals, big government, and big top-down control are all evil, and actually what the United States was founded to eliminate!  

We need to get back to basics: self-autonomy, where each of US decides what is best for our own health, and that of our families.  If the government tells us to eat lots of carbs in the form of grains, we should self-educate, and tell them no.  No, it’s not healthy.  Neither is eating bugs to stop ‘climate change’.  Ruminant animals are the healthiest things we can eat, despite what we are constantly told.  Green vegetables like spinach, kale, and beet greens are loaded with oxalates, plant self-defense chemicals that inflame our bodies, joints, gut lining, and other areas leading to kidney stones, inability to sleep, connective tissue disorders, and on and on…

Our great-grandparents knew far more about health and proper living than any MD or government agency does today.  They would tell us to get outside in the sunshine, sleep 8 hours per night, eat a good meat-based diet, and get good exercise on a daily basis, outside in nature.  They would tell us to avoid doctors as much as possible, unless absolutely necessary for a traumatic event like a bullet or a broken bone.  That is what doctors are good at, and that is ALL that they are good at.

The one good thing that came out of the past three years is that we now know that Big Government is the enemy.  Their goal has been revealed for all to see- to disarm us (like Hitler), to take all power unto themselves, the evil fake ‘leaders’, to stop free speech entirely, and to totally control us as slaves to their horrible system, by taxing us into that state and redistributing wealth to the least deserving from the hardest working.

What can we do?  First, recognize the problem!  Then, vote with your feet- move out of big ‘blue’ metropolitan areas- you are easily controlled there.  Move to red states, or at least rural areas where traditional American values still hold sway.  Raise your families with those values, and attend a small conservative church.  Home school if your own school system is hopelessly ‘woke’ and worthless.  Get involved to change the local political structure if it is Democratic and woke.

Send your kids to Technical schools rather than colleges or universities that only seek to indoctrinate them.  Those have lost all credibility nowadays!  Employers have figured out that most degrees are now worthless…

Realize that your health is up to you.  Most medical procedures, drugs and surgeries, are far more harmful than good!  Avoid them.  You are responsible for your own health and wellness.  No one else can do it for you- they just pretend that they can, for the huge payoff they get from your health insurance.  

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It doesn’t matter where you are now.  Not at all.  This is, as they say, the first day of the rest of your life!  So let’s get started.

It all starts with diet and exercise.  Everything in your future life of fitness and wellness. So, this January 1st of 2023 (or whenever you are reading this, I’m writing on January 1st) clean out your cupboards and refrigerator.  Get rid of anything toxic.  First and most importantly, get rid of any toxic seed or vegetable oils!  Corn oil, soy, canola, peanut and the rest- they are the most damaging fake foods you can consume. They are fake fats, that your body uses to replace natural good fats that your cells and brain is made of.  From now on, you only use beef tallow, lard, olive and coconut oil.  

Not only will you be immeasurably healthier, but your food will taste much better as well.  Throw your old oils out.  Don’t even donate them to a food bank- all those oils are good for is machinery lubrication.  That is ALL.  Very toxic, trust me on this.

And don’t forget- this includes fake fats in solid forms, such as Crisco, margarine, and Cool Whip as well.  True poisons all.

Start to exercise if you don’t already.  Walking doesn’t count, running either!  We are talking strength training.  Resistance training, whether using bodyweight, weights, bands, machines, or self-resistance; they all do the same thing: trigger your body to increase its strength, both in muscle, tendons, ligaments, and bones.  Also, this forces improvements in the cardiovascular system and oxygen utilization.  

  The very best, and by far the most convenient and sustainable method of this is not in a gym.  It’s at home, in your living room in front of the TV!  Just get a good mat that you can unroll, and each morning place it in front of the television set.  To start, you can just lie on the mat, and stretch.  And sit, and stretch, and stand and stretch!  Experiment with your stretching, perhaps using a book such as my own Perfectly Paleo Exercise.

There are so many ways to combine stretching movements with strength ones, and they are so natural and feel so good.  Lots of my podcasts and blog posts at www.paleojay.com describe how to do them.  And remember, you will be kind of ‘at play’, like a cat as it rebuilds its body by self-resisting on a daily basis.  There are no ‘wrong moves’, just do movements that feel right- like squatting down to the floor barefoot, and just holding it while you are watching your TV show.

This is the Hindu, or Asian squat, and it is incredibly beneficial as a stretch for Westerners.  Straight-legged situps, and of course pushups are wonderful adjuncts to your routine.  Self massage of your feet is great, and also good for your hand strength, and is something I do daily.  

Planks are good; I usually ‘pulse’ them up and down rather than just hold, and key for me it what I call ‘Virtual Resistance’, which simply means flexing throughout a range of motion.  I have a brief video explaining this, but it just means you flex throughout a muscle groups full range of motion (like doing a double biceps pose as a bodybuilder would, but slowly, flexing constantly throughout, for reps.  Just imagine you are using resistance, and flex from within, isometrically as you move.  You create your own resistance, and it is every bit as taxing as using real weights, or bands, or a machine.  And it is VERY safe, while being just as effective.

That’s about as far as I want to go for now.  Just get started-

1st thing every morning, work out by the TV.  Every morning!

Eat like a caveman.  Eggs, fermented dairy like yogurt

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OK- my last podcast was about walking backward, and so bulletproofing and building your lower body.  Remember, this is achieved by:

Walking backward, usually against the resistance of an elastic band ideally,

And then doing various ‘Knees over toes guys’ exercises, including deadlifts and stiff-legged deadlifts on a platform, aka Jefferson Curls.  Doing pistol squats while balancing on gymnastic rings is great, and deep lunges with total control to strengthen the entire leg.  Once again, the videos at ‘kneesovertoesguy.com  can illustrate all of this superbly.

But now, I have promised you all the bulletproof ways to build and maintain your upper body as well…  so here we go!

First- walk backward against the resistance of a heavy elastic band, slowly and deliberately, back and forth, to completely work every muscle within your lower body!  Really, this is important enough to do each time you workout, which would include two days of the lower body, and two days of the upper body per week.  Four days per week- Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday for instance.  Ideally take a day off between each day, for a rest day between each workout day.  

Here is your upper body day:  I press a bar into a power rack at arms length, and then slowly lower myself from my legs, doing a military press, up and down, resisting with my arms as my legs lift me slowly up and down.  But the resistance is all in my arms and shoulders.  Continue for one minute- you will be wiped out!

Alternate this with pull-ups on the gymnastic rings which you have suspended above you in the rafters of your basement or garage.  If 8 or more pushups for multiple sets is too hard, leave your feet on the ground, and just lean way back, to the point you can do at least eight reps.  

Then, do pull-ups with your feet on the ground, resisting just enough to allow you to do a full minute of slow pull-ups , and then follow with feet on the ground pull-ups at an angle on the rings.  

Then go to your dip station, and instead of doing regular dips, which are quite hard long term on your shoulders- stand on a box within the dip bars, and lower yourself slowly up and down, using your feet to allow you to push as hard as you can as you slowly move up and down in the dip motion.  Keep it up for at least a minute.  This is called ‘aerobic isometrics’, and it is really effective!  Follow once again with feet on the ground pull-ups on the rings for an 8-10 count.

Finally, lower your gymnastic rings to a low level, and start doing pushups.  Walk forward holding the rings, until you can do a pretty easy pushup, almost standing nearly straight.  Do 20 or more reps, and then do 20 or more flies in the same position.  Next, hold your hands out straight before you, suspending your torso at a straight angle, and move your arms in a circular motion while suspending your body at that angle.  Go to near exhaustion.

Then, walk backward, and repeat, at a near horizontal angle, pushups and all.  And finish even further back, where your body is held horizontally, or even with heels raised on a box, doing the same motions.  

This will exhaust your upper body, very safely and productively, without any injury-provoking movements like the bench press, barbell rows or such standard movements.  These will all ultimately injure you, by forcing your body into unnatural planes of motion.  The gymnastic rings, alternatively, will build the strength of both your tendons, ligaments, and muscles, which will serve to protect the very joints that barbell movements will compromise and grind on.  

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I hope you are aware of the benefits of backward walking!  I first heard about this from Ben Patrick, the ‘knees over toes guy’, and he is really onto something big here.

I am now 70 years of age, and I’ll tell you, this is around the age when many of my contemporaries are getting knee (and hip) replacement surgeries.  Trust me: this is something you would much prefer to avoid if possible; and I’m here to tell you that these knee surgeries are completely preventable!  In fact, most joint replacement surgery is preventable, simply through properly targeted exercises.  Despite what your MD might tell you!

The top exercise you can do to preserve and enhance the strength and well-being of your entire leg and its accompanying joints is walking backward.  Simply by doing this, you are building the strength and conditioning of the parts of your legs that support and protect the joints.

When you walk or run forwards, you are building one set of muscles- those that propel you to the front.  These allow you to jump, sprint, and leap.  This is fine, it is why we also squat, and deadlift to build these muscles.  

But remember: there are muscles that work the opposite direction, and these muscles are usually ignored.  And these muscles (and tendons) allow us to decelerate.  Safely and under control.  Walking backwards is the number one way to work these vital muscles and tendons.

The main way to do this is by pulling a weighted sled backward.  Or by simply walking backwards…  There are other great exercises, like doing reverse squats by attaching weights to your foot, and lifting upwards for reps, and other exercises best learned by watching Ben Patrick’s wonderful videos on YouTube.

Kneesovertoesguy.com

But, I still think the one exercise that everyone should be doing, and this includes your aged parents and siblings, is backward walking.  And I believe now that walking backward pulling an elastic band about your hips is not only the most effective way, but by far the most convenient method.

By pulling against the anchored elastic band as you walk backward, you overload the movement (as with a weighted sled), but you can do it indoors, deliberately and safely, rapidly building up the musculature that controls deceleration and protects your joints.  I do have a sled I rigged up, and use it in my woods on occasion in good weather.  But, living in Wisconsin, good weather is often illusive, so I start every workout in my basement dungeon, pulling backward against the band I have looped about my power rack!

I usually go for time- 8 minutes seems to be the perfect amount, and is also the perfect warmup.  Use a heavy band (legs are strong, even the deconditioned backward part), and watch your knees strengthen as pains and stiffness disappear.

This really is almost magical in its effectiveness!

That takes care of your entire lower body- you will have not only explosive power built into your legs, but they will be protected from the ravages of degeneration that are ravishing our older people today.  Simply by walking backward.

Next time, I will address the many problems that occur in the upper body, which are also completely preventable with simple exercises!  Simple, natural exercises are a panacea, and weirdly enough, almost no one knows about them.

Why?  Sadly, because I believe that such natural methods cannot be sold (like drugs and surgeries), and so make no money for the providers.  I will go into this more next ti

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Conventional wisdom these days is to eat more vegetables and grains, and above all cut fat, saturated fat being regarded as particularly evil.  Butter and any form of animal fat is the devil incarnate- eat vegetable oils instead!

The real truth is petty much the opposite.  

The foundation of your diet should be animal products.  And of those, ironically: butter, eggs, beef tallow, and beef are the very best!  And again, contrary to modern fake ‘wisdom’: chicken and pork are the worst meat products.  They are low in fat generally, true; but the fat in chickens and pigs is generally from what they have eaten, which is usually corn.  This corn breaks down into linoleic acid, which is basically a vegetable oil that you get from these meats.  Grass-fed pork and pastured chickens are fine but much rarer and far more expensive than beef.  And beef, in addition, is far more nutrient dense!

So, conventional wisdom is very wrong in general.  Think of the old food pyramid in the U.S., which had grains as the base of the pyramid, the bulk of the ideal diet, and then vegetables and things like potatoes and seeds, and then fruits, and then low fat dairy and vegetable oils, and at the top, in the smallest amounts, you would finally find butter, high-fat dairy, and meat, beef being the highest in fat and so the worst…

In your diet of today, it should be mostly animal products, primarily beef and beef organs and bone broth, wild-caught seafood is also good, along with eggs, butter or ghee, kefir and yogurt, cheeses (raw is best), cream, and raw milk.  After that, you can have fruits (citrus and berries are the best), and vegetables in moderation.  Don’t lose sight of the fact that many vegetables are loaded with oxalates and other anti-nutrients that are the plant’s defense chemicals, and are meant to hurt those who consume them.

At the top of the pyramid of today, you will find things like grains and sugar.  These are the ‘candy options’ that should be kept at a bare minimum!  If you do include some bread, real sourdough is your best option (much of the gluten and other anti-nutrients are broken down by the sourdough yeast).   

And so, there you have it: my Beef with pork and chicken!  I don’t mean to never include these meats, but they are a ‘second-best’ option to that of ruminants, which are what we mainly evolved eating.  So go ahead: don’t be ‘chicken’ to eat beef!

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I can just hear so many people on this: “HOW to retire??  What a joke- I already know how to do NOTHING!  I’ll sleep late, watch TV, and lay around eating whatever I want!  Perfect retirement.”

Sounds good, but I’m afraid- quite naive and self destructive.  Do you really want your retirement to be the same as the life of a welfare person?  Someone who has never done a thing productive, and lives an unhealthy life of laziness and squalor?  For be assured, a life of ‘doing whatever I want’ and self indulgence is exactly that, and leads to a hell on this earth!  

For to be plain: a life lived in unthoughtful ease and comfort, (with no discipline involved), will result in hell.  Not only for you, yourself, but for all who surround you: in your family, and in your community.  We are all created to be responsible, to serve a purpose, a role in society.  Focus only on yourself, and you will surely devolve into a total piece of shit, and it will be quick and final.  Your own self hatred will be the worst punishment of all, and one you should avoid at all costs!

So- How to Retire?  

These are the iron-clad rules of retirement:

If you are in a city, especially a big one- get out!  Take your equity, and use it to buy a rural, or small town property.  In a Red state is best, but in most states rural areas are all Red.  Just go where all your neighbors are self-sufficient, and don’t rely on Big Government for their livelihood.  This is KEY.

If you are in a suburb of a big city, this is a bit trickier- you may be OK, but you will be in a very pricey area, and your property taxes will be VERY high.  This is because people live in this suburb because they need access to the nearby city, and are willing to pay for being close to, but not within that city, for the safety of their families, and especially the safety of their children in the local schools!  

Big city schools are, by definition, horrible nightmares where no learning takes place at all, and what does is simply indoctrination and lies.  Everyone knows this, but it cannot be mentioned.  I am mentioning it, and telling you to stay away- unless you are willing to sacrifice and destroy your own children.  ESPECIALLY if they are white, or Asian.

So, let’s say you are in a rural, small town area, perhaps around a small city that has kept its values largely intact from 60 years ago.  Good job!  You probably have good libraries, pretty good schools (almost all public schools nowadays are very ‘woke’, and so suspect on multiple levels), but if your kids are grown, you should be OK there.  After all, you are retired!  

Right off the bat, your taxes will be far lower.  And hopefully you have an acreage that you can work, with a nice garden to tend, a big lawn to mow with your tractor, and ideally a woodlot, with trails to walk through on a daily basis- your own private park!  

If you are still in a city or big city suburb when you retire, this is probably the time to relocate.  Country living is preferable in every single way to city living, especially as you age…

OK- you live on a rural acreage, outside of a small city.  Everyone you used to know thinks you are crazy, depriving yourself of all the cultural enrichment and diversity of living amongst people totally unlike yourself, and things like opera and  symphonies that you can’t live without- (although you never went before, and never will now.  And the fact that they are all available online at any time!).

Your small town police department, or sheriff, will be quite dependable, unlike big city, worthless, wo

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Modern life is seen to be practical and a cut-to-the-essentials type of living. Science will lead us now- no more superstition! And let’s be practical, above all!  No more Victorian frills and nonsense- from now on, we will ‘cut to the chase’ and ‘concentrate on the essentials above all’!

Such a viewpoint is very shortsighted, and misses the forest for the trees.  Literally.  Case in point- Forest bathing, the practice of immersing oneself in nature for as much time as you can muster has been proven to be immensely beneficial.  Just by going into a forest, and wandering about (preferably barefoot), rejuvenative effects are huge.  This is a national movement in Japan, and has spread worldwide.  I suspect, given the industrial, crowded nature of modern Japan, that that is why they discovered how cut off they were from the essentials of nature, and why they felt the urgent need to recapture the benefits of nature itself.

In the US, and in Europe, nature used to be known as rejuvenative, and necessary for mental, physical, and spiritual health.  I think in places like Switzerland, this is still known and appreciated.  But in vast swathes of metropolitan areas, such ideas seem silly and out of date.  Why waste time and energy saving inefficient green spaces when it is such a waste of resources, and could be better used as factory or office or parking lot space?

Such ideas are stupid, and have led us into a nightmare landscape of high rises and concrete, ghettos and graffiti.  In other words, and hell-scape of man’s own making.  Not that of God!

Nature is God’s work.  Beauty and symmetry.  The mercilessness of evolution, but also the exactness of its outcome.  What works evolves and improves, endlessly- what does not, becomes extinct.  The beautiful ultimately eclipses the ugly, and inefficient.  This is Nature at work!

And Nature is part of God.  There has never been a culture, much less a civilization, that has not recognized the overarching importance of religion.  Primitive tribes and cultures have debased, horrible ‘religions’ of pain and sacrifice, this is true.  The Aztecs of South America spring to mind: they thought the pain of children and their tears, coupled with the tearing of the hearts out of the living breasts of their enemies, was the desire of their gods.  They took the debased ideas of their twisted civilization to be the will of God and Nature, when it was really the expression of their own awful desires- they had divorced themselves from Nature and God, and descended into savagery.  They had forgotten the true ideals of Nature itself, and attempted to replace it with their own ideas of efficiency, and what they thought ‘really mattered in life’.  

To them, it was all about control- Controlling Nature, by influencing the gods. (By sacrifice)!

To them, religion had devolved into what it has become for modern atheists- a type of State control, in modern times it would be seen as a form of Marxism.  Top down, authoritarian control.  Efficient and modern, to each as he needs, and from each as to his abilities.  

Which actually means: to those in charge, everything, and to everyone else, whatever they choose to dole out.  Those who produce deserve: nothing extra.

The bottom line here is that Nature is beauty incarnate.  It is our evolutionary birthright- anything that seeks to take it away from us is pure evil.  

As is religion.  It is an innate part of our being!  It is embodied by Nature itself, which has formed our evolution.  We are Nature, and Nature is us, and leads us t

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I know that I have written and spoken about this before.  BUT, it’s been awhile, and it needs repeating since it is usually ignored: MOST of what you get from the standard medical clinics and doctors is untrue.  MOST!

The information they give you is self-serving, and mostly misleading.

For instance, I was having a conversation today about kidney stones.  

‘What causes them,’ I was asked.  

‘Oxalates from things like kale, spinach, and beet greens” I answered, since I KNOW.  Especially when concentrated in things such as green smoothies.

So then, I decided to look it up, as if I was someone who did not know.  Someone with confidence in the standard medical paradigm of clinic and MD.  

I read that animal protein and salt create kidney stones.  (WRONG)

Vitamin C causes kidney stones. (WRONG)

Then, I saw online that “global warming causes kidney stones”.  Climate Change and the Kidney

Do I even need to say that this is wrong, and stupid, and actually retarded??

This is the politically correct  nonsense that our standard medical practice has devolved to.  

Here is what you need to know about kidney stones:

They are made up of oxalates, which are a plants defense mechanism against being consumed by mammals.  Chemical warfare, really: ‘eat me, human, and suffer pain!’  

Conclusion?  Don’t eat lots of dark green vegetables; they don’t want to be eaten, and are fighting back!  Occasional spinach or kale, your body can probably defend against adequately.   Green smoothies of such, especially beet greens ( in my case) and you will get kidney stones.  And it has nothing to do with animal protein (which is benign), or global warming (which is a political scam) at all.  

It’s simple biology.  As is all of medical science.  REAL medical science!

Most of clinical medicine today is 1970’s science, pure and simple.  Outdated ideas, reiterated over and over for many decades.  Wrong then, wrong now.

But gospel regardless- because there is a huge financial incentive to keep the charade up and running.

‘Cholesterol is very important to track and medicate’.  (An outdated lie)

‘Blood pressure, whatever the age, should be 120 over 80 or else heavy medication is necessary to prevent death’.  (Another extreme lie to sell blood pressure medications, that don’t extend life for one single day).

‘Kidney stones are caused by global warming’.  (Do I even need to comment again??)

This is what has become of Western medicine.  They are still good at civil war type of triage medicine, which is keeping you alive after a gunshot or an automobile accident with major trauma.  (This is what modern medicine evolved from during the civil war, and which they are still very good at).

But as for keeping you well, and disease free?  

They are now just profit-based witch doctors, overall.

You need to be your own doctor!  You really do.  Most modern doctors will sabotage your health, because profit is the reason for being of their clinic, not health or anything that you desire!

This is the sad truth, and it is a real TRUTH!  It’s all about the money.  This is what has happened to our country while we were not paying attention.  

Covid was all about money.  (Not the real disease- it was political, and manipulated via media to manipulate all of US.)

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I know, working out twice per day sure doesn’t sound like a way to save time…But bear with me.  This scheme has been working wonderfully well for me for months now.

Months ago, I started incorporating Ben Patrick’s ‘Knees Over Toes’ exercises into my routine.  If you haven’t started doing his revolutionary exercises of strengthening throughout the entire range of motion to restore and enhance function, it’s time to start!

I have worked out religiously since about age 20 for my entire life.  I have no back or joint issues, despite working out heavily and having turned 70 recently.  Then, I watched some of Ben’s amazing videos on YouTube, about how he almost destroyed his body playing basketball in his youth.  He could barely hobble around, and after various surgeries he was told he would never play basketball competitively again- not good news for someone in his early 20’s!

But Ben persisted, and with the guidance of mentor Charles Polaquin the strength coach, rebuilt himself from the ground up.  It is inspiring, to say the least to watch what he can do in terms of jumping and flexibility after having rebuilt himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6nfG69c9g

I have already made significant progress in lower body flexibility and functional strength.  For me, as I suspect it is for most, it’s not about increasing jumping ability and sprint speeds so much, as it is about dramatically strengthening my knees, ankles and other joints, along with greatly enhanced flexibility.

And in this I am being very successful.

Using tibialis raises, which I actually discovered long ago, I cured my plantar fascitis completely.  I have always stretched, but now, by stretching under load I am greatly strengthening my weak points- I work my hamstrings with ‘reverse squats’, attaching dumbbells to my feet and lifting upwards for high reps, one leg at a time.  

Sled drags, done backwards, are his preeminent overall lower body exercise, as they work the feet and toes, along with the entire lower body and joints, very protectively.  If you do nothing else of his, do backwards walking!  Sled or not, this is the number one way to avoid knee surgery.

Lately, the idea of walking backwards against the resistance of a band was recommended- this works amazingly well!  Just loop a long resistance band around your power rack support, or a post or other strong point of resistance.  Step inside it, and walk backwards with it about your hips, feeling each step and its resistance.  Walk forward, and repeat for a few minutes- you are done!  Make it your daily workout warmup, and your joints and the many tendons of your lower body will thank you for your entire life.

I slowly worked the ATG (ass to grass) split squat- for now with only body weight, but gradually adding resistance.  This is a very protective and productive movement; one which I needed to progress with assistance within a power rack to fully achieve at first, even though I had squatted my whole life!  This ability is probably the single most protective and powerful thing you can do to transform your entire lower body!

Jefferson curls, done from a platform and slowly lowering a weighted bar as low as you can below your toes, coupled with nordic curls; where you curl your upper body up backwards with your legs held down, work your hamstrings and lower back better than anything.  I suggest you watch the ‘Knees over toes guy’ videos repeatedly- subscribe on YouTube, as he is always refining what h

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Drop Acid is the clever title of a new book by David Perlmutter, neurologist.  This is a ground-breaking book, with new knowledge of the importance of uric acid in your life.  And believe me: even if you’ve never heard of uric acid, or more commonly only see its importance in the relationship it has to gout- after reading this science heavy book, you will realize that uric acid is of utmost importance in relation to your overall health!

If  you keep track of your uric acid levels, which is a waste product of your own body, and also a breakdown of purines in various foods, such as liver, and especially beer.  Uric acid does cause the painful disease of gout, and until recently that is the only causative damaging effect it was thought to have.  If you ask your doctor your uric acid level, and do not have gout, he will ask you why you want to know.  That is the only pertinent fact he knows about uric acid.

Unfortunately, uric acid predicts overall mortality hugely!  If  your uric acid level is above a certain level, it can predict that you will get high blood pressure, heart disease, and alzheimer’s and dementia.  Metabolic syndrome is directly caused by high uric acid, and this leads to most of the modern diseases such as obesity, and eventually diabetes.  Uric acid is a crucial measurement; an insidious poison if you will. 

Liver is, of course, a crucial source of important nutrients!  But, in excess it can be problematic, and it breaks down into uric acid.  I would say to keep liver to once a week or so, and it should be no problem, and actually a plus.  Beer is a different story, a story that here I will tell:

I have always been a beer drinker, as it is something that I really enjoy, and felt was largely harmless in moderation.  My blood pressure has always been somewhat high, which also never concerned me much; my father had high blood pressure, and lived to 97 without problem.  I thought that it was a largely bogus measurement introduced by the medical conglomerates to sell blood pressure pills.  For instance, did you know that although blood pressure medications do lower blood pressure artificially- they do not extend longevity at all??  And so, what is the point of them?

Perlmutter is a convincing writer and speaker who I have followed for years.  I decided to follow his prescriptions.  I stopped drinking beer at all!  The rest of his prescriptions I have followed for decades: ensuring good sleep, exercise daily, spend time in nature, a good paleo sort of diet with good fats (no vegetable oils) and low carbs and very low sugar…

And each week, I would check my blood pressure.  It just dropped steadily, week by week.  The only real change I made was to substitute wine for beer.  Nothing else.

It continues to drop.  I had a few beers for my 70th birthday celebration, and decidedd to stop checking for a few days.  (I’m sure it went up a bit).

I will let you know my end result.  But, I will say this: drinking wine (I use the boxed wines that are readily available and cheap)- I just feel better, overall!  It’s as if I can literally feel I am in a more relaxed state, as my overall blood pressure lowers itself.  Oh, I also drink hard apple cider, which is made with wine yeast, and is in actuality more of a fruit wine than a beer.

Other things that help to drop uric acid are to drink tart cherry juice (I use it as one of the bases of my daily smoothie now, along with kefir, cruciferous veggies, berries and citrus.  Vitamin C, Quercitin, Luteolin, and Magnesium are also said to be helpful in cutting the uric acid.

I will kee

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Ok- the paleo diet was ground breaking in every way!  It was actually started by a man named Walter Voegtlin, who was a gastroenterologist.  He called it the ‘Stone Age Diet’, a diet that eliminated most all foods that came after the agricultural revolution approximately 10,000 years ago.

After him, Loren Cordain is the one who revived it around 2005.  This is when I discovered it, and even wrote to Cordain about a health problem of my wife, and he graciously responded.  We adopted his diet, and her health problem resolved completely, and quickly!  That is when PaleoJay was born…

Other Paleo gurus emerged, all of which had a lot to offer in different ways.  As in most other things, the approach evolved as more was discovered.  Trial and error, along with lots of research, caused the theory to evolve.  The one thing that remained constant was the ever-present knowledge, revealed by archeological records, that health and overall wellness had been far better for ancient humans when they consumed an evolutionarily correct diet: only sourdough and otherwise processed grains allowed, if consumed at all, in minimal amounts.  The same with sweeteners like sugar, which were largely unknown to our ancestors.

My health, and that of my family, improved dramatically from around 2005 to today.  My body fat dropped quickly, which revealed my long-exercising body that was buried beneath it.  My migraine headaches went away quickly and completely,    and I largely stopped cardio or ‘aerobic’ types of training for long periods, going only for sprints or ‘heavy hands’ walking while swinging dumbbells energetically.    I worked way more on flexibility, and began running and walking barefoot- voila- my feet problems also disappeared!

Robb Wolf, Loren Cordain’s student, emerged as a guru, and led lots of folks on the evolving path of paleo.  Chris Kresser was a voice of reason throughout, as were Beverly Meyer and Mark Sisson.  I took ideas from each one, tested them in my own life, and either kept or discarded them as I learned and experienced more.  Jimmy Moore was a voice of cheerful reason, and his many, many guests kept me informed and enlightened over the years, primarily about proper nutrition.

But my ideas about exercise also continually kept evolving, with the lifting of really heavy weights being revealed as problematic, and unnecessary, just as had aerobics and cardio earlier on.  The importance of sleep kept rearing its head, as did ancillary practices like forest bathing and the importance of sunlight  and then true darkness to maintain our circadian rhythm.

A couple of years ago or so, the term Paleo itself kind of disappeared!  Now, magazines at the supermarket checkout and the new bestseller books were all about KETO.  It was very similar to paleo, but instead of being about a totality of lifestyle being reached through diet and other practices- now it was just consume lots and lots of fat!  This, coupled with zero carbs, resulted in fast fat loss; and it appears that, overall: this is basically all the majority of people care about.

Keto is, therefore, very one dimensional; focussing on fat loss almost entirely.  It is really more, to me, of a therapeutic, short term view of how to live.  If you force your body to live off of ketones, of basically FAT, you become, as Mark Sisson puts it: a fat burner.  So, your body is running off of the cleanest fuel it can.  This way, it can avoid seizures in epileptics, for instance, which has been known about for a very long time.

CARNIVORE is the latest form of evolutionary nu

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So you are anticipating retirement?  Great- I did too for a long time, and I have good news for you: it can be wonderful!  Fulfilling, satisfying, and a long sight better than working a 9-5 job endlessly.  I have been retired now for 6 years, and am 69 years old and happier (and healthier) than I have ever been.

But then, I also know a number of people who are very UNhappy in retirement, sadly.  They are like rudderless ships; with all day and all night at their disposal to do with as they will- they just drift.  The default is always television, and unfortunately before they retired, they set the stage for their retirement life by coming home at night and - watching TV!

This has been exacerbated by the Covid lockdown, which has been a total disaster from the start, and basically accomplished nothing positive, in my opinion.    People have become addicted to streaming services, particularly leftist politically correct shows like those of Netflix.  Again, nothing positive accomplished…

What you need to do, wherever you are in your working life, is to start planning your total life, from start to finish.  Nothing dramatic, just determine those activities that you would like to continue forever, not just now while you are working, but also afterwards, when you are not chained to a job for survival itself!

One thing that is the same for everyone is that your main goal, lifelong, but especially starting on the day that you retire it health and fitness!

So, whether you are 20 now or 60- research, equip yourself for, and begin working on a fitness regimen, both of exercise and nutrition!  In my case, this meant adopting the paleo diet years ago, and setting up a complete basement gym complete with gymnastic rings, barbells and dumbbells, and loads of plates.  Enough for a lifetime!  

A power rack is a wonderful investment, and will last you forever.  You can pick and choose what works best for you over time- the bottom line is that you should work out at home.  A yoga mat in your living room and perfect pushup devices along with an ab wheel can work wonders- especially since, as long as you are working out, watching TV is a wonderful distraction to do only in tandem with active workouts!

And if you’ve been with me for any length of time (I’ve been doing my blog and podcast for well over 11 years now), you will know of all of my recommendations of how and where to work out (at home along with in the woods and on your grass in the yard or park), using heavy hands types of dumbbells and ski poles.  And gymnastic rings are probably the best kept secret of fitness there is, whether hung from the rafters in your basement like me, or strung up outside from a tree or other type of structure, like a basketball hoop support.  They are like a gym you can carry in your hands.

So, let’s say you have a regular workout schedule set up, on a daily or almost daily basis.  Good for you- you are half way to a happy and healthy retirement!  Stay healthy and fit, and you avoid the #1 cause of bad retirements: constant medical visits and treatments.  You can take that time and go out to lunch with your spouse: trust me, after a working life of rushed lunches and dinners, the simple pleasure of going out for lunch after a satisfying workout, and then running a few errands is heavenly!  And be sure to pick up something at the grocery for your supper later, which you will have ample time to prepare and enjoy…

But again, since you should NOT watch television in the evenings, you need to have things scheduled for those hours, and other times in the afternoon and mornin

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When I suggest that you find your own homeland, I mean that you should not live in the same area in which you were born and grew up- unless that area is a rural, or small town conservative kind of place. Also, if you live in a solid blue, authoritarian state like Illinois, California, or New York, you should leave!  We are in strange times, and the very constitution of the United States is under attack by the new Jacobins.

By this I mean the current ‘Democrats’, who no longer have any similarity to the former party of that name, and are now simply Jacobins, or in more modern parlance: Marxists.  

If you know of, or remember the French Revolution, you probably know that, although it started because of an extreme inequality between the middle class and the ruling elite, it ended up in an extreme overreaction, and a slaughter of many, many people by the guillotine.  Also, the Jacobins, as these revolutionaries were called, decided to completely revamp French society itself, and were in every way like the modern cancel culture democrats are today!  

They began by killing all of the royal rulers, innocent or guilty, and then they turned on one another.  They decided to rename the names of the months, change history, and even questioned established knowledge (like math) that had been the bedrock of Western civilization.  They divided people into different groups, endlessly, and turned on one another, always with the specter of the guillotine lurking in the background.

Sound familiar?  If not, it should: the Democrats of today are, as I said, the new Jacobins, or French Revolutionaries!  They would up destroying everything worthwhile in their own homeland, accusing one another endlessly for everything wrong in their own lives, and killing anyone who contested their truth.  

Their supreme leader, Robespierre, was extremely bloodthirsty, and ordered the execution of many.  He wanted the disarmament of the public, and wanted only those of the “new fraternity” to have arms.  When the murderous regime was ended with his execution, at last the killing stopped.

To get a good feeling of the times of this leftish revolution, I recommend the Dickens book ‘Tale of Two Cities’.  

But let’s get back to today: today’s Jacobins are busy dividing us into different races and classes, and not only banning books (like ‘Huckleberry Finn’), but introducing noxious, destructive policies like ‘defund the police’ and supporting district attorneys that let criminals out with a signature bond the same day they are arrested!  Absolute madness, and only designed to destroy our conservative, well-working, democratic republic from within.  

And so, let’s get back to my main premise- get out of such Jacobin/liberal/Democrat cities and states!  If you are a paleo, tribal sort of person, you need to get into areas that will leave you alone.  Places that will let you raise your family without awful interference from these authoritarian know-it-alls that actually know less than a baby.  Low IQ leaders are anathema to society, and civilization itself!  Just look at current South Africa, where there are daily riots over bread, where before it was a well-run modern outpost of Western civilization.  

Now, just as in ALL of our major American, blue, leftist cities: they are all virtual HELLS!  Rampant crime and killings, no lasting arrests, and everything just gets worse and worse.  It is undeniable.

So, do it. Move your family, and urge your friends as I am doing right now, to get the hell out!  I think things will ultimately turn around, just as they did in France long ago, but only after a

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If you are one of those people who run to the clinic to see a doctor for any little ailment, or just to get endless check ups to make sure you are all right; well, you are doing it all wrong my friend!  No offense, but medical interventions are usually the cause of more harm than good.

Iatrogenesis is the term that defines this: it means death by doctor.  This means that the treatment or examination you undergo causes harm.  Hippocrates, the founder of Western medicine from 2500 years ago in Greece, had as his fundamental tenet to early healers to first, do no harm!  In modern times, this prime directive has been discarded…

Death by doctor is now the third leading cause of death!  Now, does this make you want to visit your doctor more often?  I certainly hope not: I would advise you to live as people used to live until around the 1970’s in the US at least.  Back in the 50’s and 60’s, when I grew up, we only went to the doctor if we were gravely injured or on our deathbed from a real sickness.  Doctors could do things like set broken bones, or remove a ruptured appendix, or take a bullet out of your body.  They were like human bodywork mechanics, similar to their car repair similar types of workers.  Nothing fancy, they just tried to get the job done.

Now though?  Doctors and hospitals, which throughout time were places to avoid as much as possible, are now depicted as places to go to become and remain healthy.  We are all urged endlessly to go in, get examined (even if we feel great), and to search for ways to be ‘improved’ by medical interventions: drugs and surgeries; endless drugs and surgeries!

It is never mentioned that drugs, and surgeries- all have side effects.  Endless side effects, that are often far worse than the imagined ‘conditions’ we are told we have!  It has reached the point where, if you go in to get ‘checked out’, based upon only your age, say: they will prescribe all kinds of drugs to you!  (With all kinds of side effects that treat your supposed ‘conditions’ that the doctor has found within you.

You have to ask yourself this- do humans need drugs and surgeries to survive?  If this were true, we would have died out long ago- our grandparents never had this stuff done to them, and they lived long and happy lives, generally.  Childbirth was very dangerous in the old days, for both mother and child, and that has been largely solved.  Mainly by early discoveries of sanitation like washing hands between autopsies and deliveries, things like that…

But overall, our health since the 1970’s or so has steadily worsened.  The medical recommendations of low fat, high carb and sugar along with limited red meat has resulted in epidemics of heart disease and cancer, along with a skyrocketing of diabetes!

This is largely because we now have a health care system that is government regulated, and financed as well via employer insurance along with Medicare and Medicaid. Because we the public perceive that now we no longer have to pay for it- why, we will go to the doctor all the time!  It’s free, after all.  

So, the health care costs go up and up and up, far beyond what a normal person could really pay-  but we don’t care.  It’s “free”!  We agree to any shot or procedure, and surgery or bodily mutilation and especially to free drugs.  Drugs that mess with our minds and bodies beyond what anyone could have ever imagined just  a few decades ago…

All of this has even become political- the Leftist Democrat party of Big Government running  everything has d

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I am 69 years old.  I mention this because it explains where I am at, and I want to discuss how priorities change over the years.  Not completely, but what is most important to you at age 20 or so is not the same as what you value most at age 40, 50, 60, or even (gulp) 70!

Some things do stay the same, at least if you have chosen your priorities wisely.  Health and fitness were always important to me, although organized sports never were.  I was into cross country and track in high school, and music was also important.  I was a skinny kid, and so weight lifting, and then body building became important in my college days.  Good nutrition became paramount then, since you can’t build up from bad food.  I loved how good I felt!

I was never motivated by money, for good or ill.  I don’t say it’s good or bad, but for me money just wasn’t ‘it’.  Not my raison detre, or reason for being.  I loved reading and literature, philosophy, music and only desired to earn money by honest physical labor.  Most of my peers back in the 1970’s were into business, and earning as much as possible, and how was far more important than why!

Fast forward to now; I hope you’re not bored.  I’m going to make a point, rest assured pilgrim…

I still train pretty much daily.  But now, my goal is not so much to be bigger and stronger (through the 50’s that was kind of a constant), but to be healthy.  VERY healthy- bulletproof really!  Not just me, but my tribe and family- healthy and fit, mentally and physically- thriving in every way.  Spiritually, mentally, physically: (just like in the Wizard of Oz), when the munchkins are determining whether or not the witch is truly dead!

At 69, I want myself, and all about me, to be immune.  Safe from all disease, all frailties of aging, and above all free from captivity to the medical clinic paradigm of disease treatment!  

I want to remain free of disease, aches and pains, and mainly free from the medications, operations, and many other plagues of modern medicine!  And I am increasingly convinced that medical treatments themselves are some of the most horrific aspects of modern life and aging!

My mother’s brother, Uncle Bob, just celebrated his 99th birthday last week.  He celebrated by playing in his band, and dancing with his daughter and grand daughters.  He only went to the doctor once in his life, when he enlisted in the army during WW2.  No vaccines ever, and he can do anything that I can do today- he posed for his latest family photo (he has 12 children), sitting cross-legged in front of them all!  

This is my role model.  (My mom is 95, and independent at home), while Aunt Janie is 98 in a few weeks, and takes no prescription drugs at all.  I believe Uncle Bob should be the role model for us all.

So Uncle Bob and his siblings are winners in life.  Bulletproof!  And that is where I am heading as well, and I hope you too will follow along.  

My workouts now are brief, yet intense.  I workout in the early mornings in front of the TV (as I often say), and that keeps me completely faithful.  Who would miss a workout when that is the only time I allow myself to watch movies and news?  At least one half of my morning workout is stretching, since as you age that becomes ever more important.  But it also includes sit ups, virtual resistance flexing, rebounding, self-resisted exercises and isometrics, and pushups.

I have a rural property, (by design), and my mornings are usually taken up with yard work, snow plowing, mowing, gardening, cutting wood, and all the oth

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Ben Patrick, the Knees Over Toes Guy http://kneesovertoesguy.com is a force to be reckoned with!  

I have found, lo over these many years of seeking and discovering fitness and health, that certain pivotal figures tend to pop up as you go.  Frank Zane, body builder of the 60’s and 70’s along with Arnold Swarzzenegger inspired me early on.  Loren Cordain of early paleo, then Robb Wolf helped to guide me after that, along with others, into a focus on true health and nutrition.  Chris Kresser  is always a guiding light of health, and Mark Sisson has some points of light he has pointed out over the years.  And John Peterson was a revelation in terms of exercise, although he is now retired from the scene somewhere…

But young Ben Patrick comes along, and appears to have done everything wrong in his youth, trying to play basketball only to ruin his knees and athletic aspirations young, by following conventional medical advice advocating always keeping your knees over your toes when exercising!  This, as has been said for decades upon decades, is the only way to protect your knees, shins, hips, and feet from damage.

Au contraire mon frère!  Sounds like Bart Simpson, doesn’t it?  As young Ben followed this prescription, he progressively destroyed his knees, and got surgery after surgery for his pains.

Finally, since he is the type of young guy who does not give up, he started experimenting on his own body, consciously and deliberately figuring out on his own (with the help of strength coach Charles Polinquin who I remember reading back in the day) how to strengthen all the muscles around the knee, and down through the hips to the feet!  It worked!

Following his own methods, Ben added over 2 feet to his vertical jump (his passion is basketball), but more importantly totally bulletproofed his knees, hips, shins and feet to absorb all the shocks of athletics and the stress of aging as well.

He rebuilt his 66 year old mother’s legs as well, and he documents her on videos too!  And the best part of all is that, watching him on youtube, he reveals all of his exercises and progressions online, showing how you too can duplicate his results.

Given all of his information, I have been inspired to add in his exercises within my own daily workouts.  I have no knee pain, or indeed any pains at all, but I want to make sure that I never do- besides which, his exercises cover areas of the body in ways that are sure to avoid injury as opposed to big compound exercises like squats and deadlifts that, while strengthening overall, do not specialize safely on some muscle groups that are crucial.

You can go to failure on things like weighted leg raises (he uses a monkey foot device that holds a dumbbell to your foot) and curls, and won’t be injured as you would doing exercise to failure on squats or deadlifts.  Completely safe!

Also, his split squat progressions and his very crucial tibialis exercise can totally protect, strengthen, and bullet proof you from foot to hip.  And so, I have revamped my weekly workouts to include them all, in one form or another.

In my early morning, I make coffee (pour over in a simple Miata coffee maker), and then go barefoot in shorts into my living room.  I stretch, and do virtual resistance exercises, manually resisted ones, and isometrics.  I spend about an hour, as I watch a movie or news on television, and wind up pleasantly exhausted and all stretched out!  I often finish then with high volume pushups and straight legged situps.  I have thus stimulated my entire body from feet to n

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I kind of hate to rain on anyone’s parade, particularly those who believe in the benefits of exercise!  But the thing it this: exercise is something that improves one’s body, something that makes you better physically.  Makes you stronger, more flexible, and/or more enduring.  That is the whole point of it!

But we have been misled about this most important point- nowadays, any slightly demanding activity is put down as exercise.  Slowly jogging, or walking.  (Not exercise, not really- too undemanding and short of stimulating a physical improvement of any sort.)  And of course, things like: 

Tennis

Bowling 

Football

Soccer

Dancing

Swimming

Bicycling

Olympic weight lifting

Darts….

I hope you get it by now.  Sports are recreation, not exercise per se.  

Although some activities (I.e. Sports) are physically demanding, some more than others, they do not qualify as true exercise.  Exercise is a means of attaining greater physical health and ability.  Lifting weights, or using body weight resistance to improve muscular strength and function, and doing it in a manner that improves heart and lung cardio function at the same time- this is true exercise!

Playing any sport at all- this is recreation. The point is to have fun, not to improve your health and fitness.  Doing real exercise (Perfectly Paleo Exercise), will make you stronger and more flexible and enduring, and this will definitely help your sports performance!  

But merely to play in your sport, while it will make you better in the skills necessary to that sport- it will probably not make you stronger, or more flexible, or more cardio vascularly fit.  It will probably only make you prone to injuries…

Pro football players, for instance: they train in the weight room, primarily, in the off-season to “get in shape” for the playing season.  Then, as they ‘play’, they get injured, or not, but they get less fit as the season wears on, they become de-condishened while they are playing their little hearts out.  Less fit, as they do their sport!

Again: sports are not exercise.  Exercise is exercise, and it is for one purpose only:  to improve bodily function and performance.  

It is not meant to be fun!  Exercise is a task, to achieve an end; to make you stronger, faster, and more flexible and resilient.  Like brushing your teeth is meant to improve your dental hygiene.  Not fun, but very useful!

Long distance running will not make you ‘healthy’ or fit.  It will wear you out, destroy your joints, and make you markedly less healthy and fit.  Playing tennis will not make you more healthy, strong and fit- it will injure you eventually, and while it may be fun, it is not about health and fitness, not at all!

The same is true of any other sport.  The sport itself, whether water polo, ballroom dancing, power lifting, synchronized swimming, or handball…

They might be fun, and demanding- but they do not qualify as true exercise, meaning something that makes you more fit.  They are just too pleasant, and too easy.

True exercise is hard, uncomfortable, safe, and brief!  

In contrast, most sports are relatively easy (hence enjoyable), comfortable, often unsafe, and long in duration.  This makes sense: sports are for fun.  True exercise is work.  Work for improvement!  Totally different goals…

To improve your body- have a schedule exercises to accomplish.  Concentrate

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So very many people (most probably) look at their periodic vacations as being the  most valued part of their life.  The ONE thing that they focus on, and that is the most valuable part of their lives!

They travel overseas, they go to white sand beaches and stay in fancy hotels and dine in amazing restaurants.  They may even do a little ‘Zumba’ or other hotel-sanctioned quasi-fitness activities to give the illusion of becoming healthy…

Here is what I believe we should do instead:

Strive to build a life that is sustainable, and something that you can do happily for the rest of your life.  “Simplify, simplify…” as Henry Thoreau said.  True contentment and happiness does not mean transitory situations that will impress your vapid friends on Facebook and cost lots of money and time.  Really think it through, and figure out what will really make you content and happy, without being concerned about the opinions of others.

Long term, if we are looking back at our lives, what would pretty much ALL of us want to see as accomplishments?  

A satisfying work life, that includes winding up with a happy spouse and children, and resulting in similar grandchildren.  And hopefully, all would be living nearby, in an area that we all loved, and felt a part of.  A kind of an ethnic homeland, in which we all were valued and were a vital part of.

A modest, yet comfortable home, with surrounding acreage and woodlands, to both sustain and nourish us in work and in play.  A small community, of which we are a vital part, and which we contribute to both in local government and the schools.  A community that relies on local government, not state or federal to sustain it- one in which the ordinary citizen is in control!

We would all want to have interests; hobbies if you will, that are consuming passions.  Writing, music, art, woodworking or gardening- it really doesn’t matter, just so long as you find it absorbing and interesting!  I think most people, after working for long years, have discarded their true interests and just gone with what is practical for making money…

This is why they focus on the Vacation Illusion!

It’s kind of as if you are wandering through an oppressive desert, and you are constantly scanning the horizon for something better- anything really-

And then, a mirage appears: a vision of the Wonderful Vacation; something that is almost too good to be true: you in a paradise of travel agent utopia, lying on a beach, somehow totally fit and healthy, and fulfilled in every way!

But trust me, this mirage vacation is too good to be true. Even if your 2 week or so paradise is fun, it is all too fleeting.  What we all truly desire is a permanent paradise- and it is not that hard to achieve!

A simple job, one that sustains you and your family in a rural, red area of America.  A small town oriented type of place, where the local people control the schools and government.  A place where federal and state governmental mandates are hopefully small and inconsequential.  A small enough place for your voice to be heard!

A place where taxes are not oppressive, and your children can grow and be educated without horrors like busing, quotas, or multi-cultural racist nonsense.  The west and the midwest are the best bets for Americans nowadays.  Far from big blue cities and their Democrat rulers.

A smaller kind of place where medical clinics and hospitals are confined to simple things, like broken bones, infectious diseases, and

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The truth is definitely in: the whole fiasco of Ken Cooper’s Aerobics mania is dead.  Along with the high fat diet is the worst,  and the even earlier notion of  ‘better living through chemistry’ which promoted the noxious idea that drugs could not only prolong our lives, but improve them.

Despite Elvis and all the other following celebrities who were convinced that those ‘god-like’ prescription drugs could only make their lives better- after all, hadn’t science invented all of technology like cars and airplanes and tv- shouldn’t our biology also be improved upon by science and technology?

Well, no.  As the whole Paleo Diet and lifestyle revolution showed us, basically we are unchanged since our paleolithic past, biologically.  Evolution is very, very slow, just as it is unforgiving of bad missteps.  (We are currently devolving intellectually in the Western world, sadly, because of bad ideas about immigration and multiculturalism, that are lowering our average IQ and diluting the obvious strengths of our culture.  But that is for another podcast.)

And so, by switching to a high-grain and vegetable, low fat and less animal based diet, we severely impacted our health and vigor to the negative!  Just as we did when we succumbed (as most do today) to the idea that more drugs and medication are better.  (They most definitely are not better.)

The NORM should be that a human being should be taking no drugs whatsoever, whatever the age.  Drugs, whether prescription or illegal, can only make our overall health worse, not better!  Our bodies are amazing things, and will inevitably thrive if we do certain evolutionary, and common sense time-honored things:

Live in harmony with the natural world.  Get out in the woods and fields, barefoot, and move in nature.  Breathe pollen and fresh air, drink pure water from springs and wells.  (Not chlorinated/fluoridated pool water as most cities provide).  Stretch and move your joints through a full range of motion daily.

And do strength types of training on a regular basis, not cardio/aerobics!

Since the Aerobics boom in the 70’s and beyond, we expected to see a fit, vibrant group of practitioners flourish all about us, inspiring us to emulate their wonderful health achievements!  Yet, despite them training for and running marathons, half-marathons, and many other iterations of long distance running, the results we see no are just destroyed hips, knees, feet, and backs from meaningless pounding and jarring.  

Also, the endless low intensity work just encouraged the body to shed vital muscle tissue, and even impacted the organs as the body interpreted the conditions of evolution to be such that getting rid of tissue at any cost was a necessity, now that the body was being pushed to carry itself for endless miles, day after day, without letup!  Also, calorie consuming was vital, since it took energy to endlessly run, so eating bad processed carbs and grains seemed to make sense to this aerobically abused body.

And so, people were encouraged to push their bodies like this, at a long, tortuous low-level exertion, day after day, forever.  I believe that this forced the body, over time, to succumb to cancer, since the immune system cannot function while being so endlessly insulted and taxed!  

And when these folks stopped running, because of endless injuries and immune diseases that also proliferated in their bodies because of this constant depletion of resources, without necessary rest and recuperation- w

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I try to keep you all updated as to what I learn along this paleo journey.  Sometimes, as in anything increased experience and research results in slight changes on the path.  This doesn’t mean the path itself is invalid; it simply means that constant attention reveals small changes may be desirable.  

For instance, now in the grocery checkout aisles (where at LAST I am no longer required to wear a stupid, ineffective mask!) I see the dumb women’s magazines touting ‘KETO DIET’!  instead of  Paleo, or Atkins, or Low Fat, or Vegan  Run Wild diets.  I think Paleo was rejected as a term, since most women think of themselves as Progressives.  But whatever: the term makes the most descriptive sense for the proper diet of HUMANS!

A ketogenic diet is fine, with NO carbs and LOTS of fat, and ample protein.  But it is so extreme, it is clinical, really.  If I was diabetic, or had epilepsy, I would certainly go that route!  But for most of us?  

Nope.  Paleo, or a total Carnivore diet fills the bill the best.  Including organ meats, which almost no one eats now, although our paleolithic ancestors not only included those meats, but positively prized them.  They ate nose-to-tail, and so should we!

If you do eat grains, you should seek out real sour dough breads and nut-based crackers- and keep them in small amounts only.  Your carbs should be kept quite low, which should be obvious since the deplorable state of modern health is defined by obesity- caused by HUGE consumption (by historical standards) of carbs and sugars!  

But, enough of that- this is meant to address exercise.  

For many years, my exercise life has consisted of long sorts of workouts, and then long rests.  1 and 1/2 hour workouts, two or three times per week, very intense.  Of course, I also had a very active, physical job and life outside of the gym.

Now, though, I have begun a different approach.  One that is not only less exhausting and actually kind of something to dread- but is actually quite pleasant, and more effective!  Hard to believe, but sometimes easier is better.

Every single day, unless it is unavoidable, I get up and do a stretching workout.  I do it in front of the television, and that is the only time I watch TV throughout the day.  So, I really look forward to it!  I watch news, and then switch to a movie via Amazon Prime or some such. (I have dropped Netflix- it has become the standard of progressive politics brain washing and political correctness.)  I suggest you drop it too!

I’ve talked of this before, but doing Virtual Resistance types of exercise, putting your musculature through a full range of motion with each limb.  Here is a demonstration:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65LRENdKo&t=27s

This type of workout, if you do it faithfully, is more than enough to keep you fit for your whole life!  Really.  I always start with that.

Then, I go to the floor, and stretch.  In every way that I can- yoga like, not like yoga, and simply pushing my body and spine to stay supple and flexible!  It’s really not complicated.  Experiment!

Sometimes I end up with straight legged situps and pushups in high numbers, and often with isometrics holds with either a strap or my Exergenie from the 1960’s!  (They still sell the Exergenie, but it is expensive now.  A nylon straps works almost as well…)

Then, having watched about an hour’s worth of a movie and business news, I head to the shower.  I’m not tired- just invigorated and informed and entertained!

My day

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Now, you know I am using a bit of hyperbole here, right?  You won’t necessarily die- but you will definitely regret not doing so, and I mean really, really, really regret it!

Remember prices in the 1950’s or 60’s, when gasoline was 19 cents or so, and candy bars were a nickel?  And prices of everything else were similarly minuscule compared to today?  If you don’t actually remember it, like I do, you can certainly look it up, or talk to someone who does.  Or even remember prices from 10 or 20 years ago.  That is inflation, and it is both insidious, and ruinous.

We have all been forced to invest aggressively our whole adult lives, at least those of us who are paying attention, and have an IQ above 85 or so.  Ironically, most of us in Western civilization are not really all that interested in investing, in studying the stock market constantly and spending our lives in such a manner.  In fact, very few are- most of us have families, and interests apart from growing and maintaining wealth, and wish that we didn’t have to spend so much time monitoring our investments, simply to maintain the purchasing power of whatever little we have!

We shouldn’t have to.  If the money we earned and saved simply stayed the same in purchasing power, if our IRA money would still cover the cost of gasoline at .19 a gallon, and other prices likewise stayed the same- why, there would be no problem.  Our investments would not need to increase endlessly, year after year after year, since inflation would not happen!

The Romans had a fiat currency, just as we do.  Because of big government (think Roman Empire rather than the early Republic), the emperors, the Bidens and other Democrats of that day (the elites) pushed inflation by continually spending more and more money.  Money they did not have, just as today.

They spent this money on Welfare (the dole then), and Circuses and gladiatorial events (the Netflix of today), and of course mainly on enriching themselves, (the elite).  Back then, money could not simply be printed like today, with no gold backing it, since money was actual coins.  So, they put less and less precious gold into the coins, until they were at last less than 1% gold!

Of course, the people were not so stupid as to fall for this, and they would ‘bite’ the coins to ascertain the percentage of gold, and eventually the coins of Rome were almost worthless.  

This is precisely where we are today!  

The stock market is roaring, since the Democrats under Biden, (the new patrician class as opposed to the working middle class or small landholders, just as in Roman times) have been sending endless checks to everyone to not work.  To be bribed into becoming serfs, people supported by the government on the Dole of our times, who take no responsibility for themselves, their families, or their own communities.

“Take this money (little as it is), and you don’t have to work!  Good Democrat in the making!”

Soon, after all of this (worthless) printing of endless, really almost totally fake money, extreme inflation will assert itself, as it always does, and always has done!  

And your money will become ever more worthless, day by day, and then hour by hour!  Investments can no longer save you!  

Bitcoin can save you, pilgrim!  

GBTC is a mutual fund that can hold bitcoin for you, if you don’t want to deal with the real thing.  Get it for your IRA.  You can also just go to

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It’s kind of sad to reach the autumn of your years, only to realize that the civilization you were reared in- Western Civilization- the most vital and successful civilization of all time, is foundering!  

Now, I don’t mean that it is failing, but it is in crisis.  Just as ancient Greece, and then ancient Rome, which picked up the mantle only to founder in its turn; the incredible vitality and liberating truth of this ultimate of all civilizations is in trouble.  And, just like those earlier incarnations, upon which our own civilization is built today, it is being destroyed not from without, not at all.  It is being destroyed from within, by self-deluded traitors who actually see themselves as wonderful liberators of white supremacy, rather than as the manipulated, entitled losers that are being used to destroy everything their ancestors have laboriously built that they truly are!

Now, only entitled losers could be so misled as to believe that to give away, to erase their own culture is a good thing!  It’s not.  What is going on now, in the western world, is a voluntary erasure of all that our ancestors have built- the knowledge, the technology, mathematics, the very refined culture and science that have created modern life- all of this is now evil.  

It’s as if witch doctors have taken over the universities, the halls of congress, and corporate America!  

This shows how low we can sink, when fashion supplants reason, reality, and argument.  For, if you base your ideas on what is fashionable: Hollywood and celebrities, emotion rather than reason and logic- this is the end of civilization.

In such a situation, Biden seems like a great president!  A senescent puppet seems vital and desirable as a leader!  So must have said the Romans when they welcomed Caligula as emperor…

We are now in real crisis.  With a sock puppet emperor in charge, we know we are really being ruled by the worst of the worst- Leftists who desire power for its own sake, because they love to tell others what to do.  Marxists who want control, while hiding under a fake shield of “equity”.  Equality of outcome, which really means the State (them) controls everything!  

And once they control everything- forget rights of any kind!  Look at communist China- that is what they want- total control!  And then: 

No “fashionable” rights at all.  Once they have ultimate control, it is all naked power.  You won’t even have illusions anymore, no more BLM, no “rainbow nation”, no Antifa, no free streets at all:

Just total martial law, from sea to shining sea!  No gangbangers- they will be locked up and executed- no gay rights- reeducation!  No freedom of speech: total lockdown.  Religion?  NO!  None at all, only worship of the STATE!

This is what we are looking at.  Without free and western civilization, the future world will be an awful, restrictive place, where individuals have no rights, none at all, and those left-wingers who see themselves as ‘free and independent’ will be squashed by the same militia of correctness that they saw as their champions!  The ‘Fashionable’ elite…

My message in all of this?  Get out of the cities, the big, blue, Democrat controlled corrupt cities- get out!  Ironically, all of you who desire safety, non- discrimination, and a life free of crime and oppression?

RURAL, MAGA COUNTRY RED STATES ARE THE ONLY PLACE YOU WILL FIND IT!  

This is not even debatable.  Small town America is the last bastion of freedom and safety.  O

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If you’ve been following the paleo diet and lifestyle for any length of time, you know that there are certain things that are taken as irrefutable gospel:

Never eat grains because of gluten and gliaden, also too much (bad- fake) salt and all of the preservatives and glycogen that is sprayed on conventional wheat and other grains.

Never eat beans which are legumes.

Go really really low carb!

Eat more vegetables than anything else, with a little fruit.

Now, I’m here to say that, over time, most folks, with experimentation, determine that some of these caveats can be sidestepped, and a degree of normalcy can enter your diet,  while still maintaining your health.  

Sour dough bread- real sour dough bread, can be a lifesaver here!  Since it is leavened by a real sour dough culture, and is ideally also made up from ancient, non-hybridized and unsprayed heritage grains- it is far, far lower in gluten and gliadin, and so will not make your intestine permeable.

There are a few bakeries around here that make such loaves; my favorite is rye, with sprouted ry sprouts within it- each loaf has over 3/4 pound of fermented rye sprouts within it!  Dark, heavy, and nutrient rich- just my type of bread!  

Bottom line: most real sour dough breads will not irritate your gut, and are quite healthy overall.  Just keep them to the minimum, to keep down the carbs!

So there you go- bread is back on the table paleo child!  Now about beans: 

Beans are really not that bad.  They do have some anti-nutrients: lectins, phytic acid, and saponins; all of which are problematic.  Also, beans are not that nutritious, overall…

But still, if you eat them only occasionally, in small amounts and properly prepared (soaked)- I think they are fine.  

In small amounts.  Beans are small beans, really.

The low carb thing has gotten really huge, mainly because (I think) because KETO has gotten really huge, being featured on those Women’s weight watcher types of fake health magazines & web pages.  ‘Eat lots of fat and lose weight!!’ types of headlines.  

In paleo, it really is not that big of a deal.  The SAD American diet is way too high in carbs (everything is wrapped in bread, with bread on the side, and french fries and more bread and bread pudding for dessert along with potato chips and soda pop and beer and pizza).

But a paleo diet, with a heft portion of meat, a salad, and maybe a baked potato?  No problem.  Eat hearty- eggs, meat, fish, poultry and pork- organ meats and sardines preferred!  VERY nutrient rich.  

And as to eating TONS of veggies- I used to do that.  I would drink a giant smoothie, based on green veggies, citrus and berries, kefir as liquid, and then eat a normal paleo type of diet.  Big salads too, every day-

But then, I got a kidney stone from the oxalates in hefty portions of spinach and beet greens and other ‘greens’.  

Kidney stones are not fun, or good! Very painful.  I also got other aches and pains from oxalates, which are loaded into green veggies like spinach.  These oxalates are anti- nutrients big time, from supposedly beneficial veggies!  Oxalates are chemical warfare against mammals, who eat the veggies who only want to be left alone.

So, like beans, keep green veggies on the menu; definitely- but only occasionally, and on the side.  Spinach and other ‘greens’ in particular can be quite toxic!  Stick with broccoli and other brassicas, and be like me- only drink a small smoothie now, like a cup, not 16 ounces!  

So there you have it. The paleo diet is way less hard

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In these strange times, when so much seems to be falling apart and in endless flux, it is time to focus on the self.  Even when there is little you can accomplish in the realm of politics, including the collapse of the cities and schools, law and order and endless reckless spending- you can work on your own health, wellness, and fitness!

Enter the rings.  Gymnastic rings that is!  Up until a few years ago, the notion of using rings seemed far-fetched:  in my youth, such tools were never available.  No one back then even knew how to use them, but when you saw things like the Olympics, these amazing god-like athletes could be seen (most from European countries) doing incredible feats of crazy strength and control.

They were fun to watch, but like tight rope walking and trapeze acts, nothing that one aspired to.  But, the incredibly lean, defined physiques of those gymnasts were sure to catch you eye - how to look and perform like that?!  It seemed impossible, what they did, and yet there they were, doing it.

I’m here to tell you though- gymnastic rings are the best kept fitness secret in the world!  You can get your own set, these days, quite inexpensively, and hang it in your basement, garage, or from a basketball hoop or playground structure easily.  A sturdy tree branch in the summer months is also perfect, and can be set up and taken down in a couple of minutes or so.

Lots of gyms now are closed, or at least restricted (with masks and social distancing- needlessly I am convinced), but still, it is the case.  And it is also the case that you can replace a whole gym with a set of rings!  And actually, it turns out- most exercises are better and more result producing than the standard, rigid bar of machine versions.

Take the pushup, for instance: done on the rings, the pushup is far harder than standard pushups, and far more versatile and safer on the joints, while also building strength in the ligaments and tendons along with the muscles involved.  In addition, the balance required also helps with balance and strengthening the vital core stabilizers of the body, including the abs and the smaller muscles of the trunk and shoulders.

For instance, I am convinced that the ring pushups are far superior to the barbell bench press, in every conceivable way.  Your arms on both sides go through a complete range of motion, in a very controlled fashion- unlike a bb bench press, that is an unnaturally shortened motion, where the shoulders do not completely retract, and the barbell encourages a ballistic upward thrust to achieve an illusion of strength.  

The rings pushup forces you to use a slow, controlled rep speed, and a complete retraction and controlled return using your own body weight and a safe plane of motion with no momentum to ‘impress yourself and others’ as to a heavier weight that you are not really using to maximum advantage.

And, in fact, the further beauty of the rings is that you can make the pushup not only harder, but easier as well.  Let’s say your rings are mounted up high, as they should be- you can walk forward away from the mounting point, and then the pushup is much easier- you can be standing almost upright, at a slight decline on the rings rather than parallel to the ground.  This will make the pushup as easy as you want to make it!  You can easily make it as easy as doing pushups standing against a wall, or slightly more difficult, simply by walking back to be more directly underneath where the strap is hung.

In fact, this is what I do each ring workout:  I start out almost standing erect, and do a set of pushups that is easy, followed right away

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In returning to an approximation of the paleolithic world in modern times, of course the first thing is to eat and otherwise conduct ourselves in accordance with our evolutionary heritage.  Move naturally, and often to build our bodies as did our ancestors for millennia, sleep according to our circadian rhythms, and live in a rural, natural environment, as unaffected by big cities and big government as possible.  

But now, there is another step you can take, my paleo fellow tribesperson: buy crypto currencies!  These are currencies that run counter to fiat, or national currencies, like the U.S. Dollar.  You probably only have heard of one- Bitcoin.

There are many others, but they all are similar, and you only need to know a few things.  (They are complex, but just because you don’t understand computers doesn’t mean you can’t use one!)

Crypto refers to all modern private currencies, of which Bitcoin was the first and is the most prominent.  It is mathematically engineered to be impossible to manipulate, like government currencies are, by nowadays simply printing more and more, devaluating all of the existing dollars already printed (and saved!), and thus diluting their actual value due to inflation.  

In other words, when the government decides to have yet another huge giveaway program, (like these upcoming checks going out to each and every family, and then child in the U.S.), they don’t have the money for it- not at all!  They just print billions and trillions more!!

And so, any money you have saved in the bank, or in your IRA, or in your pension, or buried in a can in your back yard- is automatically worth way less, right away.  It’s basically a huge tax that you can’t see, but confiscates more and more of your dollar’s worth over time.  It’s why if you look at home prices from say, 10 years ago, every house seems so cheap compared to today.  Or, prices of cars, or groceries, or anything.  Inflation, the invisible tax.  

Ever since ancient Rome, devaluing the currency has been the way to steal wealth from the people so the government can spend more and more.  For instance, by the end of the Roman republic, a gold coin only contained 1/100th percentage of gold!  Originally, it was all gold.  Of course, eventually everyone knew it, and the scheme collapsed, and money became worthless.  

Just like in Weimar Germany- it took wheelbarrow loads of inflated money to buy a loaf of bread! And, as it is in present South Africa today, along with Zimbabwe- the government money is perceived to be worthless, and it is.

But now, we actually have an alternative to government manipulated money.

Bitcoin.  It is a private money, set up to be impossible to inflate.  Governments cannot manipulate it; it is a currency of the people, controlled by no individual or group- it is set up to be totally honest- Bitcoin is worth what people who own it and the market overall decide it is worth.  The actual value never changes from any outside forces.

But there is more.  Once you own it, you don’t have to plan for its value to decline over time, as with every single other currency on the planet!  It may go up, and then down; but rest assured that, long term, it will inevitably go up.

Think what a game changer this is!  Forever, all throughout civilized history, money has gone down in value, over time.  Always.  My parent’s first house in 1953, where they raised 5 children, cost $10,000.  Their next house, which was in 1962, was much bigger, but only $42,000.  They raised all eight of their children from then on there.

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We are living in strange times, where someone who is for free speech, and for the enhancement of their own tribe and group, and for things like truth and justice is painted as evil!  A white supremacist if you desire crime enforcement, a hater if you support property rights, and a liar if you support the objective truth.  This is what we have come to in the United States, and really in the western world.

Trump, whether you liked him or not, was an unwavering force for good, and for righteousness for all.  A good tribal leader!  Not perfect (no one is), but a tireless protector of timeless Western values.  And remember: western values are civilization nowadays, since civilization itself is now Western Civilization!

So, it is important, now that we have the opposite of Trump in power, that we all come together as a Western Tribe to restore the values and foundations of our own civilization that we have inherited- that was built for us, their descendants, by our ancestors.  

Our president, who is obviously mentally deficient, is really just a tool for the globalist socialist/communists, who are bent on redistributing all wealth from us, who have worked and saved to build it, and transfer it (supposedly) to those who have basically done and achieved nothing. Because, as they would put it: it’s only fair.   

It’s not at all fair, obviously, but there is far more to their plan:  The wealth transfer, along with all power, is actually to the socialist/communist leaders, not to the useful idiots who support their lies enthusiastically.  They will be put into the gulags, or forced labor/starvation camps right along with everyone else who opposed these ‘leaders’.  

So there it is:  is you support Biden, Bernie, Merkel, Macron, and all the other so-called ‘compassionate leaders’ who support things like importing endless amounts of primitive, low IQ people from the 3rd World, you are a traitor.  To your people, your tribe, your children, and all of our descendants - along with our ancestors, who built the civilization we enjoyed!  We do not have the right to throw it away.  Even if it is our of stupidity, ignorance, and most of all- indoctrination.  Our infiltrated, awful public school systems are in the vanguard of this traitorous destruction.

Ironically, LIBERALS are on the wrong side of every single issue there is:

Climate Change- a total lie, a blatant power grab, that will kill fossil fuels, nuclear power, and every other form of real, actual power generation!  Leaving us with raptor killing,  near useless, hideous wind turbines that will eventually leave us freezing in the dark of WINTER.  There is no global warming; the true danger that is ultimately inevitable it the next Ice Age.  Ask the dinosaurs about the last one…

Proper diet and lifestyle- the liberal, fake scientism view (scientism is phony science belief, not the actual science of now, not 50 years ago) that ‘fat is bad, red meat causes all ills, including fake climate warming, and that all vegetables are wonderful, and a grain based diet is perfect.’  ‘Calories are all that matter in diet- just eat less calories and you will lose fat and be healthy.’  

Also, that long sessions of cardio are ideal, and strength training is absolutely worthless for health and wellness.  

I could go on and on, but as a paleo person, in a healthy tribe that gets out into nature regularly, lives in a rural environment, sleeps a good 8 hours nightly, and has close relationships with a family and tribe that all share similar beliefs that are based in the W

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I’ve kind of racked my paleolithic brain to come up with a theme for the new decade, and have decided that if I, and you all live up to our potential- fully, not kind of just sluffing along half-heartedly- we will save not only ourselves and our families, but all of western civilization!

So here is what you do:  

You start exercising, every single day!  Every MORNING- this is important! The form of exercise should be done at home, where you have complete control, and can be outside or in, depending on the weather.  It should be mainly strength training focussed, but with a large portion devoted to stretching, on the floor.  

Perfectly paleo exercise, the name of my book and ebook are ideal in utilizing self resistance, isometrics, and calisthenics.  Get some perfect pushup devices to use, but also be sure to get some gymnastic rings!  A set of these rings will do more for your fitness than anything else, ever- and will literally transform your physique and your entire physical presence.  Nothing else comes close!

This exercise is life-changing in every single way; physically of course, but also mentally and spiritually.  It changes the way you view the world (as you- the endless productive and happy self-improver!), and also in the way the world perceives you.  An admirable person who is fit, happy, and very useful and productive.  The very opposite of what most folks have slid unglamorously into- a state of slovenly self indulgence and flabbiness both of physique and resolve!  Now- you are a man (or woman) of action!

You only eat a paleo, or ancient sort of diet of real foods! 

You drop processed fake food crap- completely.  No bread, buns, pasta, cakes, cookies, low fat anything, and make your diet mostly reliant on animal products, along with a fair amount of vegetables with low oxalates and other toxins.  You will eat mostly carnivorously.   

This, along with the exercise, will change you completely from what you are (however far along the path of excellence you may be) to what you were meant to be by the ideal expression of your DNA.  

And, strangely enough, I believe it is easier to radically change your whole life for the good, than to try to gradually change, a bit at a time, half-heartedly…

That really is agonizing, gives no motivation, and just doesn’t work!  Go whole- heartedly into the GOOD, the pursuit of excellence.  It is contagious, and makes you feel great right away, and continues to expand to consume your entire being.

So now, you start to look and feel terrific.  It’s time to do more!  After your early morning workout, (after you’ve slept a good 8 hours), you eat a great paleo breakfast of a green smoothie, eggs and meat.  Time for work!  Go and do the best you can, with serving your fellow man as best you can in your job foremost in your mind.  If you have a physical job, listen to podcasts like PaleoJays Smoothie Cafe as you work, and also to well-chosen audiobooks.  Endless improvement should be your goal, and your sincerest pleasure!

If you are fortunate enough to be in my situation, and retired from active work- why then, you should do exactly the same- but even more.  Do work on your land; cut wood, stack and move it, and do any improvements you can in your spare time.  Help your neighbors (your tribe), and revel in your health, wellness and fitness that allows you to do so.  

All right- simple as those above prescriptions might seem- they really do change your life.  Be on the lookout for further improvements: swish coconut oil through your teeth as your shower. (Unsurpassed for o

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We live in a world where we all aspire to be #1!  The best in our category: our line of work, best looking, most successful, the most wonderful person that ever lived.  Popular and sought after!  That’s what matters!

I’m here to tell you that no, that is not a worthy goal.  None of it is, not at all.  We are here to support and provide for our tribe, meaning our family, neighborhood, friends and church.  We, personally, are just a cog, a part of what makes us what and who we are.  Small potatoes…

In traditional societies, that is hunter gatherer, paleolithic or early neolithic agricultural tribes and villages, there are only a few things that really matter.  That we are an asset to our communities is the most important, by far.  Think of humans as being like a pack animal, since we really are that- a tribal animal!  We are not ‘solo animals’, in fact very few animals are!  

Even sharks hunt in packs, or ‘schools’.  The individual is not that important; cooperation in hunting is key.  Cats are an exception, as are bears especially.  They are loners, as are skunks and moles.  Humans are very, very different, and evolution has made us so for good reason.

A solitary human is basically worthless.  Not a hero, by any means, if he is motivated by self aggrandizement and selfish goals of any sort, all for him or herself: that individual is banished.  In the ancient world, this means simply death.  No human animal is able to survive by him or herself; and, if they did manage to do so for awhile- it meant nothing, it was meaningless.  

Because we are the pack.  No more, and no less; without our tribe, or pack, we are inconsequential, not really relevant at all!  If our actions and motivations are not approved of by the tribe, we are nothing.  We are here to reproduce, to have a family, and benefit our extended family and tribe.  Individually, we are recognized- but only insofar as we benefit the tribe about us!

Amongst traditional societies, an individual universally identifies their happiest moment as similar to: “When I killed a large animal, and fed the whole tribe!”  Or “I found a spot loaded with tubers and nutritious greens that helped our tribe survive a hard winter.”  

No one cares about how many followers you have on Facebook, or how much money you made last year and kept all to yourself.  No one in your tribe.  That is absolutely meaningless, and actually bad if you kept it all to yourself: that is the same as if you killed a caribou, hid it, and then kept it all to yourself, deep in a hole in the ground, while your tribespeople starved.  You think they wouldn’t notice your fat belly, while their children cried for want of food?

You would be banished, and rightfully so.  You are not an asset to the tribe, no matter how great of a hunter or gatherer you are- you are a curse.  You are self-centered, and nothing can be worse in a creature of the pack, or the tribe.  I would go so far as to call you evil.

This also works in reverse: let’s say you are a lazy tribal member, someone who “does not pull their weight.”   You hang back when the fighting starts with a rival tribe,  and only charges when the battle is already won.  Or you continually do not find and kill game, but are foremost in front when the communal feast begins about the cook fire.  

Maybe you have black fur in the wolf pack, and you accuse the lighter wolves of having “light privilege” in fur color, and demand special privileges based on your black fur…  

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It’s really rather simple, becoming or staying fit and healthy: consistency!  Not herculean efforts that leave you drained done sporadically, or plugging away, jogging and walking for endless distances.  Neither is natural, or desirable.

The best strategy to life, as well as strength, health, and fitness is to just do things daily, or nearly so.  A simple list will do, really.

Go to bed early.  Sleep 8 hours, or more

Exercise first thing!  In front of the TV is best, stimulating your mind along with your body.  Virtual exercise, generating resistance within your own muscles as you move each limb is the foundation (see Perfectly Paleo Exercise).  These are also called Tiger Moves, since it is similar to how cats exercise themselves.  Then stretch a lot, on the floor- come up with a routine than covers your whole body- it should feel great, not painful at all, and energize rather than deplete you.  

Do targeted strength work two times per week.  Pushups, pull-ups, dips, ring work, squats, kettlebell swings, etc.  Total time should be about 30 minutes or less.  You should be tired, but not exhausted.  Listen to podcasts or music here!  I like it in the early afternoon.

Eat breakfast.  A big one is best, with eggs, sausage, a smoothie and coffee with cream.  (I have my first cup during my workout).  

That is the bulk of your fitness work, every day.  It is all lumped into the morning, so you really do need to get your sleep, and be ready to get up early!  Once you have gotten up and worked out, showered, fueled your body properly, and then made a lunch to eat at work that is paleo/carnivorish approved, with meat and veggies, a little fruit- usually leftovers from supper the night before, why your work is all done!  

Now, you go to work, and work seems easy, because all that you really needed to do for your health and wellness is accomplished.  You go serenely about your day, knowing your health and wellness are all taken care of.  You should feel relaxed and happy, because you are fulfilling your own needs first, and freeing yourself for the needs and wants of others!

And this is key, because helping others, either through our work, or through our church activities, or our hobbies such as music, art, or outdoor projects is really the purpose of our lives.  Reading is huge, and best done in the when fresh, and nighttime binge watching of Netflix or Amazon Prime is a horrible time-suck.  

Only watch movies and such-like in the mornings, as you exercise!

This will keep you addicted to exercise better than anything!  The evenings are for reading, making and eating supper, preparing next days lunch, conversing with family, and relaxing by taking a walk in the woods.

After that, I find playing and singing music is best for me, along with YouTubes about ‘how to do’ certain things, along with history and politics.

The best part about this prescription?  It’s daily, it’s sustainable, and it is FUN.  You are living like a real human, attending to your own needs yourself, and not flailing about seeking fake pleasures, eating awful fast foods and wasting your life on reality TV and situation comedy shows, and ultimately feeling empty and going to medical clinics to find out why you are so sick, and falling into the pit of drugs and despair that most Americans today are in.

Each day, you will awaken with at strong sense of purpose; driven by your own quest of health to also seek the health of your family, community, and ultimately our state and nation!  If we are healthy within ourselves, only then can we actively and effectively help oth

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Lately in the United States, and throughout the western world, the primary problem being focussed on is white racism.  This malady we supposedly possess en masse, even if we deny it or don’t know it, explains everything!  It tells us that all of the massive dysfunction, wildly out-of-proportion crime and violence, substandard performance in school, careers, and simply the inability to care for both themselves and their families and neighborhoods is explainable by one factor and one factor only- White Racism!  

Name your flavor: systemic, unconscious, universal; whatever you call it, it is all the fault of white people (Asians are also often implicated in this grand scheme nowadays), and none of it at all is the fault of black people of African descent at all.

But what if there is another, obvious, and far simpler explanation?  One that is well documented for over a century?  The one that says the IQ, or the average intelligence of blacks is lower than that of either whites, or especially Asians?  And quite a bit lower, on average, at that?  

Wouldn’t this simple fact explain perfectly the underperformance of blacks academically,  and explain their poor performance in all other aspect of civilized, western living?  And isn’t the simplest, most obvious answer to a problem usually the preferred solution?  

Of course, we are talking average, or mean IQ here, which explains the overall group performance.  There are still individual blacks who are quite intelligent; but the overall average of blacks is far lower than that of either whites or Asians.  

An average black African IQ averages out to be 70.  A white Westerner averages about 100, and the Asian is 105.  An African American is about 85 or so on average, depending upon their white DNA admixture.    Given these figures, is it really necessary to implicate racism as the cause for black underachievement?  Or to explain the dismal state of black dominated countries or even cities, wherever they are located?  The numbers tell the tale.

An IQ score of less than 70 is considered borderline mental retardation in the Western world.  It is the intellectual average ability of an 8-10 year old child, who has the ability to function on his own, but who requires guidance.  This explains very well why Africa under colonialism was so very much more successful than it is now, with black rule.

Now, I know that many of you, if not most, will find these facts (and yes, they are indeed facts) unpalatable.  Perhaps you are one of those blacks whose IQ is quite high- if so, you should be able to discern the obvious logic of this position.  But, more likely, you are one of the many liberal, elite whites who have been indoctrinated for your entire life on the importance of altruism, which has reached the point of being pathological altruism.   This is where you agitate for things that are not only untrue because they make you feel as if you are being a ‘good person’, but actually push for things that destroy your own civilization and well-being of yourself and others because you have been convinced that somehow it is the right thing to do.

Things like opening your borders to unskilled and uneducated 3rd worlders, ultimately displacing your own people.  Things like ‘defunding the police’ because the vast majority of crimes committed are done by blacks, and usually (but not always- you are not immune just because you are ‘down with the cause’), and quotas for everything, just because blacks underperform across the board…

It’s not racism- they just plain

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As illegal, unwanted migrants swarm across our borders, we can compare what happens to our country and civilization with what happens within our own bodies by bad interlopers.  Just as our country has been being invaded for decades by demographically dissimilar to us peoples, destroying and overcrowding our systems of schooling, policing, health care, housing, and every other facet of our political system- so too has your body been invaded for many years by a bad chemical chiefly produced by plants- oxalates!  

We have been brainwashed into thinking that, like Popeye- “We’re strong to the finish if we eats our spinach!”  Unfortunately, this is not true, not true at all!  Spinach has been pointed out of ages as being loaded with iron, numerous vitamins like vitamin A and K, and is low carb and loaded with fiber and Vitamin C!  What’s not to like?

Well, plenty!  Almost all of the nutrients found in spinach (and in all vegetation, actually) are not bioavailable to us.  They are ‘frozen’ as it were, unassimilable by animals such as us.  And they come packaged with a huge amount of oxalates, which are a compound that steals the very nutrients we are hoping to get from the vegetable (like spinach) that we are consuming, and actually takes these same nutrients from out body and other foods, giving us a net loss of nutrients.  

But the oxalates are even worse than that, in that they build up in the body, in joints, organs (like the kidneys that try to neutralize them) and can wind up causing incredible damage over time- stiff joints, leaky gut, all kinds of nutrient deficiencies, and a marked inability to heal in soft tissue injuries, causing seemingly lifelong aches and pains.  In fact, I have come to believe that most of the aches and pains, poor digestion and many other problems that are normally attributed to simple old age and wear-and-tear are actually caused in actuality by this long-term build up of oxalates!  They are that harmful.

Ironically, we get these harmful compounds by eating foods (like spinach) that we have been told are ‘healthy and virtuous’, and so inadvertently slowly poison ourselves with the best of intentions!  But really: should we be surprised?  These recommendations from organizations like the US government, that advocates eating mostly whole grains (which are also loaded with oxalates), and to eat sparingly of things like red meat and eggs. (Both of which are probably the very healthiest foods we can consume).

And, of course, they also tell us to eat plenty of vegetables, most of which are also loaded with oxalates, and other plant chemicals that are in actuality anti-nutrients.  Meaning compounds that harm us, not help us.  The various government agencies, you should know by now, are not in place to help the average citizen any longer- they have become a part of the Government Swamp as Trump so accurately puts it.  They function to help big agriculture to sell more subsidized grains, and to mislead us into thinking certain things are bad for us that aren’t, and also to help continue the profits of big Pharmaceuticals (who only benefit when we get sick by selling us more drugs), and big Medicine, which is their middleman by way of expensive health care for largely preventable diseases and maladies.  

Once again, we are back to the metaphor of endless migrants coming to our shores, and making all of our systems less efficient until finally the point of total failure.  Islamic migrants?  A people that is sworn to our destruction, and our government has been welcoming them within our cities and states?  And to what benefit

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I just finished reading Paul Saladino’s well researched book The Carnivore Code.  This is not an ‘easy read’ type of book, and that is just as well, since he goes into great detail on all of the why’s and wherefores of following the ultimate no carb diet.   The reading is not easy or simple, since it is so deeply researched and explained, which is a strong plus for serious students of diet and nutrition.

The author is very convincing in his arguments, and is also well spoken, as I have also watched many of his YouTube videos and am a (permanent) subscriber to his podcast.  Even his podcasts and videos are long, and go into great depths.  Luckily, he is an entertaining and engaging character, and quite likeable.  Look him up- I’m sure you will be both entertained and instructed, as I was.

What I find both the most compelling and also the most difficult part of his book to incorporate is not his recommendation to cut out most vegetables, especially those with high oxalates (like spinach, kelp, and other leafy greens) and most nightshades (like tomatoes and peppers); no, it is his praising the merits of organ meats, like liver, heart, brains, and testicles…

I have experienced the downside of high oxalates in the somewhat recent past, where I got a kidney stone from ignorantly including beets and beet greens in my daily smoothies for several weeks!  I was like most people, thinking ‘greens are all good for us’, and knowing nothing of oxalates.  Let me conclude by saying that kidney stones are very painful, and something to be avoided at all costs!

There is a simple cure though- chanca piedra- which is an herb extract you can buy online, from a South American herb.  It dissolves the stone, quickly in my case- but only after several days of pure agony!  Just avoid the problem by avoiding oxalates- my smoothies are much less veggie laden these days.

But back to the organ meats- it is hard to make ourselves eat some of this stuff.    I think that liver is the most important and nutrient loaded organ, and I just eat liverwurst and braunschweiger with a few gluten free crackers frequently.   I actually like it in that form!

Sardines are another great way to include ‘head to tail’ carnivore eating, and not painful at all to consume.  Various pate’s are good as well, but it is also good to know that beef is king!  So good, and so very nutrient rich- people who avoid beef are the most misled people on the planet.  Only wealthy, spoiled first-world people can convince themselves to avoid wonderful foods like beef and instead eat ‘survival fall back foods’ like plants and grains on purpose.  Hunter gatherers always go right for the protein and fat- real food powerhouses!

So, like most things, I realize that Dr Paul Saladino and other members of the Carnivore club have lots of good information to offer.  As in the book by paleo guru Robb Wolf called Sacred Cow,  a big portion is devoted to showing how raising beef is anything but bad for sustainability and the environment, and is, in fact the only way to save our soil and return fertility to our earth.

So, what is my verdict?  Well, like the Keto Diet that has been the bee’s knees for quite a while now, I think that the Carnivore diet is a wonderful diet for a reset.  To address and autoimmune disease, either Keto of Carnivore is a wonderful option.  In fact, if I had an autoimmune disease or condition, I would immediately go carnivore until it resolved.  Then, I would add in food items, one at a time, and see which ones caused problems.  

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We now live in a time when all of our major cities are failing. We panic, wondering what is now different: why, oh why are New York city, Chicago, Detroit of course all failing, all such abhorrent places of crime, violence and mayhem? All bankrupt, and all being run by horrible governments that are hastening their decline??But we forget, all of us forget our own Western history- it has ever been thus. Indeed, part of our decline is caused by us no longer teaching and learning our own history…And so it is that our youth no longer have any inkling of what has come before, and instead are directed to study the minutia of alien cultures, inconsequential inferior cultures, that have nothing to do with us at all. For, after all, it is the case that Western Culture and Civilization is now the Civilization and Culture of the world. All of our history has culminated in that single fact.And so- let’s focus our attention on the so-called Eternal City- ROME. For over 1,000 years Rome lasted, starting as a small city of landholders that banded together for defense. Since they fought to defend their own small holdings of farmland, they were motivated to fight very hard. They were determined to save their own land, and the land that made up their small city-state! This made them very effective against attackers, who were usually either bandits who only fought for plunder, or hired soldiers who fought for pay, and thus ready to give up if the fighting became too hard and costly.You cannot overestimate the intensity with which those who fight freely, who fight to protect their own family and property, will fight! Against such those who fight for booty and pay are no match at all- they will cut and run whenever things get too difficult. Also, the Romans were free men in those days. They fought for their own liberty, their own families, and their neighbors and kin. And they developed ever-increasingly efficient ways of doing so, much as early militias did in the Colonial era of US history. They worked at it, knowing how important it was!Fast forward to now:We started as 13 small city states, similar in values and culture to ancient Greece and the inheritor of that culture, Rome. We basically formed a citizen militia to rebel against the English monarchy, and succeeded! We were known then as the Protestant Experiment. And we succeeded wildly, beyond what anyone, including our Founding Fathers, could have expected.Like Rome, we set off to explore and conquer the continent on which we were living, North America. We settled the land in record time, and so we had our own empire! Many liberal sorts would say we conquered the native peoples, but that is what has been done since the beginning of time- a more virile people with superior technology conquers another. Land is only acquired through force of arms…We did very well for over 200 years, better really than any culture before us, in every way, shape, and form. And then, like Rome, our ‘elites’, meaning those who acquired obscene amounts of wealth like corrupt politicians and celebrities of various sorts rather than through productive work, began to idolize those from other, more primitive cultures. The elite Romans used to color their skin pale white and dye their hair blonde, and even to wear trousers to look like the barbarians from Germania- they were idolizing their enemies! These same Germans were hired into their armies, since the native Romans were now given either to decadent luxuries (the elite), or else welfare (the dole) for the displaced rural poor, who now crowded into bigger and bigger cities.Slaves did work for the vast estates of the elites, displacing any native workers and contractors. J

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It’s strange: as paleo people, we believe that our diet evolved along with us, making us what we are.  For instance, there has never, ever, been a vegetarian or vegan tribe or culture. Humans have always eaten animal products, some more than others, but ALL rely on the amazing nutrition in animal derived foods.  Eating animals and products taken from animals made us what we are- you can’t take animals out of our evolution and arrive at modern humans.

This is widely accepted amongst those who believe in an ancestral diet and lifestyle.  But, though most of us see ourselves as grounded in science in our beliefs, many of us at the same time deny the truth, or meaning of religion in our lives!  We denigrate the idea of a god, or of any universal laws outside of man’s own laws.  Many believe that science has displaced the idea of God, gods, or even religion itself.

But just because there has never been a culture that didn’t eat animals- there has never been a culture without religion.  Never.  Even the Neanderthals had burials of their dead, with flowers heaped on the departed.  There is something deep within us that requires us to believe in a spiritual world, a place beyond the mortal sphere in which we reside today.  And so it has always been!

To live without a notion of a spiritual realm, a place of higher goodness and ultimate laws and reason, is akin to eating processed foods developed in the past 50 years or so, and thinking that we now know better than nature itself, and can replace wild game, vegetables, fruits and nuts with chemically made ‘Beyond Burgers’ and do just as well, health wise.  

This is completely delusional!  To live on fast food, processed grains and vegetable seed oils is disastrous for our physical health and well-being, and is a fast track to auto-immune diseases and even mental health.  We all know this as followers of various renditions of the Paleo Diet, and we all experience first hand the amazing benefits of red meat, seafood, pastured dairy and fermented vegetables.  The Paleo Diet is nothing short of life changing!

But what about religion?  Aren’t we beyond that now, since after all we know there are no supernatural beings on Mt. Olympus, and doesn’t Heaven seem, well, unscientific?  

Well, only if you also believe that eating natural animal products and seafood is ‘unscientific’, and that a low fat, soy based diet of lab grown food-like substances slathered in chemically extracted seed oils is the epitome of true science and all-knowing enlightenment…  

We evolved eating and living a certain way- in Nature, in a circadian cycle with the sun of light and darkness, sleep and waking.  Ancestral types of foodstuffs,  cooked by fire and thus made bio-available with maximum nutrients.  In tribes of similar humans, working together for survival, and with good health as pretty much a birthright.  

The tribe had a center though, it always did, and that center was religion.  It is as much a part of us as our need for protein and fat- we need a higher plane to relate to, something above and beyond our daily lives.  

This was true all over the world- whether one god or many, whether Socrates’ daemon (literally a ‘divine something’) that warned him of right and wrong, or the many Hindu gods or those of the Egyptians or Babylonians.   It’s true, there are always some who do not believe in a particular god or gods, but there is always something that is worshipped.  Always.  

Just because, right now, certain groups (Communists spring

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With all the scare tactics circulated by the mainstream media, you would think that the coronavirus from China was the new Black Death!  

It’s not, not even close.  Young children can catch it, but they barely get sick.  It can kill older people, but here is a secret:  unless you are already sick, sick as most Americans are with diabesity and all the attendant ills that come along with it- it is a very small threat to you as well!  

In other words, if you are someone who is a paleo person, someone with a good diet (no processed foods, no grains, limited carbs and sugars, regular exercise and good sleep)- you are really at very little risk, despite your age.

I am 68.   I am very healthy, and exercise with Perfectly Paleo Exercise methods daily.  My diet is excellent, and I have a vital family and tribe that I connect and deal with daily, both in my rural neighborhood and via my family through telephone, text, and frequent visits.  

I did have my church community, but the liberal government of my state and the country as well has banned church services!  (The Pilgrims must be spinning in their brown and black graves).  This one point should be enough to clue in anyone that the Leftists are out to ban anything that is positive (church), and encourage the extremely damaging and awful negatives (rioting, burning, and looting).  This is a sad, sad time in the US.

I have been trying to keep going with my spiritual life, by posting on my YouTube site www.stayathomehymns.com  Rather than singing and playing in my small country church that I attend, I instead posted hymns and Christian songs on line.  This was good, but there is nothing like actually having real fellowship as we are meant to do in church!

My Methodist church is closed by the church bureaucracy, which gives our own pastor no say in the matter!  We even have a large, grassy field adjoining our church, where we could easily meet and praise the Lord without fear of contamination, but even this is forbade us.  I guess even the Church superstructure can be bad, as so many of those individuals are, unfortunately, infected with the liberal mentality and indoctrination of so much of our country.

But- back to my topic.  If you live well, and are healthy, as you can easily be by following the dictates of living a natural life, eating real foods and living an ancestral sort of life- why then, you are at very little danger from the corona virus, or any other virus for that matter.  Even the Black Death!  

Actually no- not the black death. Now, that was a real scourge, kind of what they are trying to make this Chinese flu out to be.  A plague where you died hours after you were infected, hideously and painfully.  Now THAT is a virus to fear!

The coronavirus is kind of government mandated joke, nowadays.  The Democrats need to feed the fear- they need the chaos- their goal is simply, just like the fake Russian collusion lie, to unseat Trump!  That’s it, really.  They want to secure their swamp like privileged life, paid for by our taxes.

They have lied, for so long and so often, that they really don’t realize their own duplicity any more- “The end justifies the means” is all they know.  Relativism.  “All is equal”.  The utter bankruptcy of an empty philosophy, where power is all, and might makes right.  Communism.

Don’t be fooled.  Following the tradition of ancient Greece, and echoed by ancient Rome, the USA is the greatest, most inspired country and governmental ideals in all of history.  The Founding Fathers, who are currently being graffitied and despoiled in the form of their words and their statue

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I’d like to have a blog and podcast devoted strictly to paleo health.  But, nowadays, our health is so tied to the politics all about us, that another part of my name, PaleoJay, is being brought to the fore- Paleo Politics, meaning an old fashioned type of political opinion.  The idea that Western civilization is the highest form of life, and is indeed what is meant by ‘civilization’ itself.  And that isolationism and strong border control, strict law and order, and the notion of a true meritocracy and absolute fairness to all under the law are necessary and desirable in every way.

With that in mind, and in order to preserve my freedom to choose both a paleo way of living, exercising and eating, I need to address those glaring items that are threatening my political ideas.  Big Government, Leftist/Communist/Socialist ideas, Globalism, and the race industry are all terrible things threatening us now.  The coronavirus, while real, is simply being used as a tool of control by many in government (at least the embedded Swamp portion).  Fear and misplaced, self-hating suicidal altruism are being used to destroy our very civilization, especially among the young.

Our young, meaning those 35 and under especially, but this also includes much older, sheltered people, in particular college educated/indoctrinated women, are especially susceptible to being controlled by evil forces.  I used to think the Democrat party in the US was a viable alternative, back in the 1960’s, and it kind of was.  They really hid their toxic agenda well back then, and did so indeed up until the past 10 years or so.  

And now, in 2020, the Democrats have revealed that they are, indeed, simply EVIL.  They want to to: 

Placate BLM by giving “reparations” to people based simply on race, for crimes they never suffered under in their lives

Give advantages in schooling test scores, welfare payments, hiring- and to make crime the new black entitlement.  Blacks are to be given free reign to burn, loot, and destroy, with no consequences!

The constant mantra is that blacks (or POCs, or whatever else is the term of the moment) are under constant threat of racism, even if unconscious, and that explains everything about their extreme dysfunction as a people, their extreme violence, and their hatred of everything about our wonderful civilization!  No other explanation is possible, is it??

Well, yes, there is one obvious, glaring explanation for the incredible, unvarying failure to thrive of black people as a whole, both in the advantageous environment of the US, where every other group does very well indeed.  

Differences in average IQ explain everything, very simply and demonstrably.

In Africa, the average IQ is 67, with a range of up to 89.  This explains African cities and way of life.  An IQ of 70 or less is mentally retarded. 85, the average score for an American black, is considered ‘low average’.  It is also the sweet spot for criminal activity- just smart enough to get into real trouble!

Whites of European descent average 100.  So, the spread being 90 to 109 being average, we come up with Western civilization as we know it, or at least as we knew it.  East Asians average is somewhat higher, with av average of 105.  

The higher the IQ, the less propensity towards committing

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In this time of coronavirus alarm, lawless rioting, looting, and rampant mindless destruction, sometimes we have to be- well, more grounded.  Hopefully you, like me, have found a safe, rural tribal homeland within your own country that is safe and civilized.  

If so, you are necessary in a rural area, far from large, modern, lawless and Democrat run cities!  Congratulations, paleo friend.  This is job #1 for you and your family.  Safety and wellness always come first, and that means caring for your own health and wellness.  Good, ancestral types of food, fresh air, uncontaminated non-chlorine soaked city drinking water, and a daily paleo smoothie are essential.  So too is good, natural exercise done daily, including stretching, self-resisted exercise, virtual resistance, and isometrics.  But what else is absolutely essential?

Foot health!  Every time you put on a pair of shoes or boots, you are putting your feet into a cast.  We tend to think of our feet as simple bases, as kind of inert blocks that just shuffle over the earth, grass and concrete alike.  Nothing could be farther from the truth!

Your feet are very like your hands- covered with subtle feelings and receptors that govern how you react as your body covers various terrain.  Your bare foot guides how you stand and move, enabling you to react to signals from them as to how you should lean, and your posture, to be both maximally efficient, and keeping you from injury as you travel across the landscape.  

Most modern people have very weak, stunted feet; from being stuffed into shoe/casts daily, day after day.  If your arm or leg goes into a cast, why everyone knows that that limb withers and shrinks dramatically after even a few weeks so confined.  

The same is true of your feet.  And not just your feet: the feet are what determines your entire chain, from foot, to ankle, to knee, to hip, to lower back- even up to the neck and head!  Bad quality, out-of-shape feet can cause pain in not only the feet, but in the knees, hips, and back.  They can even cause neck pain and headaches!  Really, healthy feet are that important.

This is the perfect time of year to regain and build great foot health and strength!  The very best thing you can do is to walk around barefoot.  I walk my grass, and my dirt paths in the forest daily.  In early spring, my feet are very tender to things like twigs and roots; but after a month or so, they become quite tough.  And I really love how the ever variegated ground beneath my feet feels- it is like a blind person who “sees” by touching things- a very important part of experiencing nature is by ‘feeling’ with our hands, and especially our feet!  

The more we use our feet thusly, the more strong and able they become, helping us in our overall health.  I liken it to going outside into nature itself: if we lock ourselves indoors, confined to easy chairs, television sets and computers, and artificial light- why, soon we are like slugs, soft and white, unable to do much more than peer about myopically with withered useless limbs and body.  Really- most suburban and city dwellers are really in a predicament much like this.

So get outside!  Walk (and run) on  your land, or in a park or other grassy setting.  Barefoot is best, but there are also ‘barefoot shoes’, meaning shoes without support, and thin soles without raised heels.  I wear moccasins when the weather cools, and when the terrain is too rocky or tough for barefoot, I wear my Xero shoes- they are shoes with minimal covering, say a thin slab of rubber, with only thin straps to hold it onto your foot.  Or, in more inclement conditions

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Oh, so PaleoJay is racist?

No.  A race realist, perhaps.  Races do differ, just as do different breeds of dogs.  But, that is just common sense, or at least it used to be.

Currently, we are embroiled in an endless war of ethnicities warring endlessly, sparring for dominance.  It is so stupid really, overall.  

We should all be treated equally, totally and completely, under the law!!

We live in the USA after all, a complete meritocracy, where excellence is rewarded, and crime is punished.  Does anyone argue this??

Unfortunately, this is yes, this is the disgusting case: crime is now unpunished, and merit is not rewarded.  The rule of law has been displaced: NOW- only race matters.  

But let’s look at statistics- the real numbers that reveal the truth: 

Blacks commit the vast majority of crimes, particularly violent crimes!  This is indisputable, and supported by vast amounts of data.  

Blacks commit the vast majority of crimes, particularly violent crimes!!

Victims Matter!

Well, given that fact, is there any wonder where “prejudice” comes from??  Is it not the obvious fact that if you see a black person, there is a huge amount of data that supports the fact that they will commit violence and crime?

It’s not prejudice.  It’s simple fact:  A black person is just more likely to commit a violent crime against you than any other type of human!  

It it a sad thing to report, but it is simply that: sad.  Nonetheless true.

There is no need for any white, or Asian person to feel even faintly guilty.  There are only facts here that we need to confront.  Here is information from Aaron Bandler of Daily Wire.com

1. Data shows that 93 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks.

The left’s rebuttal is that that 84 percent of white homicide victims are killed by other whites, but The Wall Street Journal‘s Jason Riley points out that the white crime rate is “much lower than the black rate.”

2. According to Riley, “Blacks commit violent crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate that whites do.”

Blacks committed 52 percent of homicides between 1980 and 2008, despite composing just 13 percent of the population. Across the same timeframe, whites committed 45 percent of homicides while composing 77% of the population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Here are some more statistics from the FBI:

In 2013, the FBI has black criminals carrying out 38 per cent of murders, compared to 31.1 per cent for whites. The offender’s race was “unknown” in 29.1 per cent of cases.

What about violent crime more generally? FBI arrest rates are one way into this. Over the last three years of data – 2011 to 2013 – 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black.

3. Black crime is even more prevalent in the country’s largest cities and counties.

Heather Mac Donald writes in her book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe that in Chicago, IL, blacks committed 7

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 Let’s talk today about the notion of home.  I notice that nowadays, when people talk about where they live, the inevitably talk about resale value, and even decorate and landscape and add improvements mainly with this in mind- RESALE value, as if what they sell their place for someday is far more important than actually making it more and more into their home- the place where they intend to stay, and where their family and friends, and indeed all the things that make them themselves is nothing more than future dollars!

This mercenary outlook is mainly prevalent in the cities and suburbs of the United States, and is a wrong-headed, perverse way of looking at things.  You should strive to make your true home your ancestral home- the axis of your being and that of your children.  If you don’t live in such a place, the first order of being is to find one.  Don’t live somewhere when you are young just because you find a job there, and then repeatedly move around chasing jobs, until you wind up finally cashing out, and moving to some retirement hot spot where it is hot and lots of other old people live without real roots.  This, my friend, is ‘drinking the Kool Aid’, and you are spinning your wheels, accomplishing nothing that is real.

Your forever home is hopefully a place you researched about and found yourself!  Possibly you were born there, or near to there, but probably not.  I moved when I was in my late 20’s to a place I knew about, but to which I had no ties at all.  I had researched, chosen this place as ideal, and then moved there from a large city hundreds of miles distant.  I knew what I wanted, I found the ideal location to raise my future family and plant our roots deeply, and then I moved.  

The idea of ‘resale value’ never, ever, once crossed my mind- and it still doesn’t!  Who really cares?  Really, I want a wonderful area that fits me and my genotype, and that is rural and stable, crime free and is a virtual ethnostate of people who are like myself.  Sorry it that offends some people, but it is what the human species has sought and fought for all throughout our evolution and history.

Where and in what manner you live determines more than just your economic well being!  Your someplace should be where you live your entire life, not just your working years.  It should be an ideal home from your youth to your old age!  A place with a fair amount of land, with room for a garden or two, animals if you want, lots of birds and other wildlife, and tons of privacy!  

You shouldn’t even really want a different climate or landscape when you are older and retired.  If you do, why then you chose a forever home that was wrong for you.  Think about it: what do you really, really desire for your home place?  If it is dry and warm year round, why then you should choose one now, not in 30 years or so!

If you live a paleo type of ancestral lifestyle, eating, living, exercising and moving in accordance to our genetic type over the years, why then you should not have the physical debilities so prevalent in our urban types of existence.  Autoimmune diseases will pass you by, leaving you hale and hearty to enjoy your later years as much, or more than those of your younger years.

I know in my own case this is quite true.  I am now 68, and moved to my small acreage over 40 years ago.  Nothing has changed over the years, except I have gradually improved my house and grounds, and even added to my acreage when it became available!  (Land is key).  My child and grandchildren are in the area, an

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When we think of important virtues in life, we think of things like goodness and honesty.  Very general concepts indeed- helpful as far as they go, but so general as to be largely meaning almost anything at all if you think of it.

I think what most of us struggle to understand is simply that life, overall, is about maintenance.

If you make a promise, or resolve to do something, that is one thing.  But it is the maintaining of that resolve, or promise, that really makes it happen, and solidifies it into reality.  The ongoing effort is all important, not just the spur of the moment feeling and idea that launched it.  Ongoing maintenance, whether in relationships, keeping up familial obligations, caring for youngsters for many years as they mature, of in caring for our elders- this is where the ‘rubber meets the road’, where we actually achieve what we set out originally to do.  

Build a house, or a road- well, even to do such things takes a certain amount of resolve, or maintenance, since it takes a long period of time to do either.  If one lives solely in the moment, with no real thought for tomorrow- why then, you have thrown maintenance out the window!  

But let’s say you have a house, a road; perhaps a vehicle and a tractor- maintenance is now what is key.  Not general ideas like ‘goodness’ or ‘the right thing’- simple maintenance- the daily, ongoing resolve to keep things running well, to lubricate, to protect and keep viable what is built- this is all important!  

The maintenance of the family, the town, and the government itself- all of these need endless maintenance, effort, and attention.  Our jobs, our relationships with neighbors and family- all are subjects of endless maintenance.  It is the bedrock of Western Civilization itself.

Back when our ancestors left warm the warm climes of Africa to go northwards into the harsh lands, they had to learn to plan, to accumulate foodstuffs to carry them through the hard days of winter.  This took the development of abstract thinking, or future-thinking.  The plenty of today’s summer day would not continue endlessly, as it did back in Africa, where one day was like the next, forever.  To live in the moment there was usually enough.  Planning, or maintenance of any sort of future provisioning was unnecessary, and so never happened.  

Europeans developed the skills of abstract, or future oriented thinking, and relied on those skills to survive in harsh winter lands.  Eventually, since these Europeans adapted to their hard environments very well, their endless planning and maintenance of what they built served them very well indeed!

What they built is now what is Western Civilization- actually- Civilization itself!  It is all about building, and then endlessly maintaining that civilization.

Interestingly, in African Zulu- there is no word for maintenance.  Or for ‘precision’, or for ‘the future’!  ‘Now’ is the same as any other time, or space.  This is a land of no maintenance, or really by definition, of any sort of technology at all.

And we can easily see the state of Africa today, what results from such a lack!

So, incorporate maintenance into your life!  It’s a very paleolithic, ancestral concept, once you understand it well.  Each and every day is not just new and different- no, it is a time to rediscover, to reawaken and renew what you have been working on for your whole life.

A new day- well, do your daily exercises!  Strengthen and rei

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We live in stressful times!  But, you don’t need me to tell you that. Truth is: all times have their own variety of stress. Fighting wars is stressful, but even in times such as this, with our relative prosperity, stress is built into our daily lives.

I had planned today purposely to be a ‘fun day’.  I was going to plan and plant my garden! I gave the plot a final tilling, and then raked it all smooth.  It was the first day that was warm enough, sunny enough, and above all dry enough to set all of my plants in the ground, dividing the rectangular plot into four quadrants with a flowered decoration in the center.  A few areas were already rife with kale, raspberries, strawberries, and a big horseradish plant.  Those guys are pretty much indestructible, and anyway I love horseradish!

So, I got it all tilled and ready, had the seeds at the ready, and was raring to go- the sunshine was blazing down, it was a brisk but pleasant 60 degrees, and then:

Interruption followed interruption.  Endlessly!  It was all very frustrating; and then, at last, I went out- and it is now already getting dark, and cold…

For a minute, I felt angry- after all, I had planned to take care of this.  It was supposed to be FUN!  And there was a time when I would have gone ahead, planted my garden in the cold and dark, getting it done perhaps- but it would not be fun, not at all.  

And really- isn’t that supposed to be the point, after all? I do have a large garden, and the vegetables and fruits I gain from it are a substantial part of my produce.  Also, I give a lot away.  But, will I starve if I have no garden, none at all?

No.  I won’t even be deprived!  

And, since it is only May 12 in Wisconsin, I am early anyway- if I don’t get the garden in until June, it pretty much catches up to where it would be if I planted now by mid-July anyway.  I sat down, and just contemplated what will be my garden, picturing where everything will be, and how it will look.  I started smiling a bit, and then took walk in my woods in the early evening instead of rushing to slap seeds and plants into the earth.  The small bright gleams of sun were a pleasure to behold, rather than all too brief flashes to illuminate my feverish work.

Then, totally relaxed, I went inside and meditated on how much I have to be grateful for.  It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, but it really doesn’t matter whether I plant tomorrow, or 3 weeks from then.  I have learned to wait- just wait for the perfect day!  For in gardens, as in all the rest of life- the journey is the point, not to get quickly from seeds to harvest.

Just as in battling this crazy coronavirus- for me, it really doesn’t matter if everything opens up right away, or at least soon.  The fact that it no longer seems to be about the virus at all anymore, but has become a political bone of contention; this is the true problem.

And people really do need to be able

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It turns out that actual knowledge is now Politically Incorrect!  Sad but true.  

I remember back in the 1960’s (yes, I am old enough- 68- to remember those days well), when to be liberal, a college student say, wearing flowers and patched jeans, meant that protests were about free speech!  

While no hippy, I recognized the intellectual honesty and freedom of that notion of freedom of speech, and I concurred completely.  They talked about the Vietnam war at the time, which Lyndon Johnson had escalated greatly, and which was politically unwinnable.  The leftist hippies were right- get us out of Vietnam.

Equal rights for minorities was another cause of the left, and also for very many on the right.  Those on the right were the same ones (Republicans) that had freed the slaves- they just wanted total equality, or justice.

The Democrats wanted them free so they could buy their votes- Johnson famously did this by starting his “Great Society”, which just means Welfare.  And so, for this reason and this reason alone, blacks started voting for Democrats, which were the very party of the Klu Klux Clan, and the party of the south carpetbaggers that pushed segregation and Jim Crow for so many years.  

And so it started: the Leftist Democrats moved further and further leftwards, until they started to call for banning free speech, since to tell the truth was now called ‘Hate Speech’.  And equality for all now started to mean equality of outcome, which simply meant that everyone should have equal money and possessions, irregardless of ability, IQ, or work ethic.  

And, in 1965, Democrat Ted Kennedy introduced the Hart Cellar act, which reversed the immigration standards of the US which had been in place since 1920 to keep our country predominantly white European, as had been envisioned from the start by our Founding Fathers.  

Once again, this was not done out of a sense of justice; no, not at all, it was signed by President Johnson with the intent, once again to buy votes.  This time, by importing low IQ, non -European people of low skills, who would be dependent on the government dole, and so would once again vote overwhelmingly Democrat, to insure the endless flow of Welfare benefits.

And so, gradually the Democrats have simply become Socialists/Communists, since despite their protests- the terms are largely synonymous!  Lenin himself used them interchangeably, although Hitler, who was a bit more to the right since he didn’t want to completely nationalize all industries, always pointed out the slight difference.  

Despite what you might have learned or not been taught about history, Hitler was a monster, certainly- but Lenin and his protege, Stalin, were far worse in sheer number of murders!

Fast forward to today, and the Left, the Democrats in the US, and their like parties in Western Europe, are all about:

Banning Free Speech, if it doesn’t follow the politically correct party line

Importing as many low IQ voters as possible, to ensure staying in power, and also to follow the Leftist/Communist agenda to destroy national cohesiveness

It is not hard to see where all of this has led:  

Our large city public schools are largely destroyed, inundated with low IQ ‘diversity’ and endless violence.  

The big cities themselves are now bastions of corruption and graft.  Whites have been forced, for the safety of their children, to leave the cities their forebears built for them.

Democrats run virtually eve

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Pure truth- and a song!

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Never Let a Good Crisis go to Waste!  That is the quote that has been used by so many on the Left for bad ideas and policies, but we can also use it positively, in our favor as ancestral living people.  Most of us in what are called ‘non-essential’ jobs (as if any real work is ‘non-essential’, really) are now staying at home, only venturing forth for necessities.  

Although this is really painful for most of us (we are social beings after all), we can use this time in our favor!  Instead of just watching stupid binges of Netflix bad series, we can set ourselves real, life changing challenges.  Master cooking- it really is an essential life skill, especially in regards to your health.  

It’s just the right time of year to master grilling on a charcoal grill, and if you are like me, simply cooking outdoors will add a whole new realm of enjoyment in your life.  A Weber grill is wonderful, and all you really need in my opinion.  Fancier grills and smokers might impress your city and suburbanite status conscious sorts, but you can do anything you might want to do, simpler and easier, on the tried and tested Weber!

The one upgrade I would recommend would be getting your hands on a propane torch- not a little tiny baby one- but a big one that runs on a 20 pound propane tank.  If you live in the country, you probably already have one to burn stumps, start campfires, melt ice, and a thousand other things.  But if you don’t- get one!  They are cheap, Harbor Freight and Tool has a couple for really cheap, but the more expensive one, which is still under $30 I believe, is self lighting and that is a wonderful feature.  I use a welder’s sparker, which works fine; but if buying now get the self-lighting feature.

With this torch, you can start your charcoal in a matter of perhaps 1 minute or so, resulting in red hot coals!  Also, you can clean your grill with the flame- never brush then gunk off of your grate again.  

So, you start your fire in record time, so you can grill easily all year round, as I do in Wisconsin.  But in warmer weather, it becomes a pure pleasure- you sit outside in a lawn chair, next to your grill, monitoring the progress of your succulent meal leisurely as you enjoy the outdoors.  I often have my dutch oven going as well, roasting something on the side, putting coals beneath and on top of the oven.  You will be amazed at all the recipes that are out there for stews and such using a dutch oven.  And afterwards, you can burn off the residue with your torch- no scrubbing cast iron pots for you, my paleo friend!

Another thing you can master is cooking indoors, but that is not as much fun.  And next year, you can tap any maple trees you might have, and cook down some syrup- now, I just finished my sap boiling, and built a kind of cinder block rocket stove that really made the process a pleasure.  Another great outdoor hobby. (And maple syrup has more nutrients overall than any other sweetener, even honey)!

And don’t forget your exercise regimen!  If you exercise with body weight, virtual resistance, and isometrics along with calisthenics as I recommend in Perfectly Paleo Exercise, you know that I recommend doing these exercises in front of your TV, each morning early, along with extensive stretching on the floor.  But, usually twice per week, I also go into my dungeon- er, basement, and do heavier sorts of stuff.  Twice per week is perfect, any more is too much, and you only need about 30 minutes or so.  

I do pushups on my gymnastic rings for high reps, along with flies, pistol squats leaning back on the rings, along with pull-ups, dips, and isometric holds of those movements.  Also, I like really slow squats, perhaps thirty seconds for

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A plague had entered the land.  Thousands were dying, and thousands upon thousands more would follow, unless it could be stopped.  

The wise doctors struggled to find a cure, but for now the only thing that would slow the wild spreading of the disease was for people to stay apart, to not allow the spreading of the virulent virus that rushed from person to person, spreading quick and sure death!

But by staying at home, and apart, commerce perforce ended within the country, and the specter of hunger and privation haunted the previously prosperous nation.  But the determined leader of the land, a man with swirling hair of red-gold, put together a decree that would give money, and therefore bread and safety to every resident that were forbidden to work for the overall good of the land.  The wise men and women of the Senate concurred, putting their stamp of approval on the wonderful idea.

But there was another group of people, a group that tried to govern the people not by supporting their president, but by attempting to steal as much power as they could and then obstructing anything positive that they could that the leader decreed.  

It was not that this other group, called the House, had anything constructive to offer; no, their only aim was destruction, and the halting of positive efforts to save their own nation.  They were led by a woman of a greenish skin tone, who only wanted power above all.  Power and money were her gods, chiefly power, since money follows power when used without wisdom and to help others.

She gained the power, and used it to insist that to help the people of the land, the president had to sign away his own soul onto useless and evil plans- plans that would not only bankrupt the entire nation and give it into the hands of the evil green woman and her tools.  Only if the president agreed to pay people who would not work, and to pay endless amounts of money to use to (supposedly) change the entire world’s temperature in 100 years would the green one allow the leader to help save the land from the Plague!

In addition, he had to agree to pay many, many people large salaries only because their skin color had more melanin than others, and also to give them many, many free things forever at the cost of the rest.  The evil list went on and on, and each provision was at least as bad as the one before!

Finally, the green woman took the president’s bill to save the land, and tore it to bits with her taloned, sharp fingers in front of all!

What should the president do, oh people?

I wrote that this morning, when I first woke up.  It was 5:30 AM, and in my dreams it had all taken shape.  I was quite upset with Nancy Pelosi and her flying monkey Democrat supporters, and was afraid that now the bailout of the entire US would not happen!

I guess that, as of now, there was somewhat of a compromise, but there is still plenty of Leftist bull shoved in that one bill- completely and counterproductively unneeded and unwanted by the American public.

I think this Chinese virus is making us all think more clear headed and perceptively about what is truly important, sans the Leftist marxist bullshit.  It is now obvious that:

Open borders are a horrible idea

Nationalist countries are the natural state of civilization

Peoples and Races are very different

Like People should live Together in Ethnostates

Diversity is NOT a Strength!

Among many other obvious truisms!  

Let’s hope that we all come to our senses, and try to return the Western world and Civilization back t

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I spent today enjoying my social distancing!  I got up early (as usual), and watched the morning news.  Stock market way down, but stabilizing.  I enjoy watching Maria Bartiroma (anyone else notice that she looks exactly like the young Sophia Loren?), and getting the gist of the events facing our nation.  

As I watched, I was exercising as I always do.  My thoughts clarify if I am flexing and sculpting my body methodically as I watch.  Disciplined thoughts flow from a disciplined body, I have found.  I did pushups today for high reps, feet up on the couch, which is always my intensest workout, done twice per week, along with my usual stretching and isometrics.  No rebounding today, as I had a busy day planned.

It is maple syrup time, where I tap a number of maple trees here, and cook down the syrup.  There is labor involved, as I haul numerous 5 gallon buckets full of sap to the cooker, but it is pleasant to me, as it is all outdoors, and today was a beautiful sunny, 40 degree or so day!  

It was a day to finish my syrup, and so it was all done on a propane cooker, rather than wood, which is fine for long boils, but not for fine-tuning the sap.  I sat down next to the cooker, in the sunshine, and just thought.  Sap cooking is ideal thinking time…

I thought about how the tough times we are going through worldwide, not just in the U.S., reveal what is truly important.  In my small community, there are no battles over toilet paper, no empty shelves, nothing crazy.  This is a small ethnostate of German and Norwegian descent, and cordiality reigns supreme overall.  We have our leftist liberals at the University here, but they are outnumbered, thank God!  Common sense prevails, overall, with farmers and others who do real work.

I thought about how, when reality strikes, threatening people with actual survival, priorities are starkly revealed.  All of a sudden, national borders look pretty good- it appears there are really good reasons to separate nations and peoples!  Spread of Disease is one.  

But also, low IQ people coming from their own failed nations to take part in the Welfare State of advanced European countries (like the United States, which is derived from European white people, or “People of Light” as I like to term us, is shown to be very much not in our own self interest!  We were designed to be a high IQ nation state of People of Light, and we dilute ourselves with dire consequences, like soaring crime rates, a huge dependent class, and a degradation of cultural standards and norms.  

Sometimes, it takes a slap in the face to make us wake up- this virus is that slap!  Do we really want to one day wake up in a world run by Leftists, where the conditions are 3rd world, ala San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, New York and Seattle, where only the uber wealthy live decent, crime free, safe and clean lives?  Do ALL of our major cities, built by our ancestors and bequeathed to us, need to be sacrificed and left to interlopers in the name of pathological altruism??

Here, in this little white ethnostate, the grocery stores are well-stocked, and life is well ordered and safe.  Even with this awful virus confronting us (although there is not yet a single case in my county), we are optimistic and self quarantining as is necessary.  

It is apparent that welfare magnet immigrants are a very, very bad thing indeed!  Not only for us (U.S.), but for their lousy home countries, who need the very lopsided number of young men that overwhelmingly make up the immigrants to rebuild their own failed countries!!  We are getting the most irresponsible and criminal element o

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In health and wellness, much is made of building the muscles, and even ligaments and tendons of the body stronger and more healthy.  This can be done by exercising correctly, ala Perfectly Paleo Exercise, where the body is briefly taxed near to its limits using isometrics, virtual resistance where the musculature is taxed by generating its own resistance. Isometrics, and calisthenics such as high rep or slow cadence pushups, pull-ups, sit-ups, etc.

All of this is wonderful stuff, and goes along perfectly with a paleo type of diet- a diet that is in harmony with our evolutionary past, which is the case with our exercise regimen, which also duplicates how our body was meant to be used to stay functional and vital!

But the missing part of our evolutionary health that is often ignored is that of our face- tongue, oral cavity, and teeth! What determines not only our health, but what we look like.

There is a Dr. Mews, Michael Mews to be exact from England, who along with his father has tackled this in detail.  They have developed a system in which not only are the teeth straightened and the jaw aligned properly, but the very face itself is changed for the better along evolutionary lines for healthier, and more aesthetically pleasing contours!

You can find numerous videos on YouTube about this system, which is known as Orthotropics - International Association of Facial Growth ...

‘Mewing’ is another term for this practice, where you learn to place your tongue just behind your front teeth as a natural resting place, which aligns both your teeth, tongue and jaw.  

We have been ‘devolving’ as it were lately, as a bunch of ‘mouth breathers’, hunched over looking at our phones with a slack jaw, peering myopically at tiny printing with sagging shoulders… The remedy is to stand up straight, ( or sit straight at least), with our shoulders back, our tongue resting on the roof of our mouth, and our lips together.  Breathe through your nose, not your mouth!  

Do this continuously, especially at a young age, and you will literally change the shape of your face, jaw, teeth and oral cavity!  Really, it is just that simple.  It is our evolution, carried over into modern life, and it is quite powerful.

There are various facial exercises you can do to help, but the very best one is also the most simple- chew multiple sticks of gum as exercise for your jaw and mouth!  REALLY.  I will take from 4-10 sticks of gum and chew them vigorously, even using my tongue to squish the gum around, and it is a great exercise for the entire oral cavity- teeth, tongue, and jaw muscles, which altogether determine your entire facial shape.

The most obvious benefit for someone of my age is to develop the tongue, in particular, to be toned and strong, so it does not fall down to cause sleep apnea.  I am almost 68 now (next month) and let me tell you that among my peers of this age, almost all males have severe sleep apnea!  Of course, most are also weak, diabetic, and weak visioned as well… but, I’m here to tell you that all of these conditions have nothing to do with age, per se, but with DISUSE.

And also, of course, with a lack of true knowledge: face exercise exists, is easily doable, and will benefit your health greatly!  As does natural, Perfectly Paleo Exercise, which will utterly rejuvenate your body along with a natural, human paleo diet.  

And the last things you need to know?  Exercise your eyes, by standing straight outdoors, shoulders ba

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Most people work out all wrong!  They get in their car, and drive to a gym to exercise.  Or, if they have wised up over time- they skip all of that, and have a home gym setup at home, in their garage or basement.  That is fine, and what I have done for many years; the idea of driving to a gym and working out is fine in high school or college, and is how I exercised throughout my early 20’s.  It’s a good way to learn…

Then, you work out on a regular schedule in your home gym.  Weights in the basement, with a sturdy power rack are great.  You can get big and strong in this manner, which is great in your youth!  But as you age, what is the best way to stay fit?

Well, I maintain that working out in your living room or TV room if you have one is ideal!  Not only for you, but for your 4 year old grandson as well, and he can show you how:

Approach your workout like pure play, for that is what it ideally is.  All you really need is a space in front of the television, a yoga mat (to protect your carpet and cushion you a bit), a rebounder, and an Exergenie (ideally)  for isometrics.  I also recommend the Perfect Pushup, but get the pro or heavy duty model- high volume pushups will wear out a standard model quickly, while my heavy duty model has lasted more than a decade with no signs of wearing out!  The other thing I like to have is an ab roller, which is a wonderful exercise, but this is optional- straight-legged setups are just as good- I just like to do both.

When my 4 year old grandson is over, as he has been lately a lot, and we can’t go outside because it is so cold, I turn on the TV for him, and just observe.  He sets down my rebounder, and starts- jumping!  

If the TV is on for an hour, he jumps the whole time!  Sometimes, he may run into an adjacent room to get a toy to hold while jumping (Batman is a favorite), or to crouch down by his giant Batman cave toy, but he quickly resumes his jumping again.  I notice that when the action is exciting- (fast cartoon chase scenes and the like)- he jumps much higher and faster!  He gauges his intensity by how he feels at the moment in time, and this is the essence of intuitional training.  His endurance is off the charts!  I feel he should avoid strength training until he is at least 40 pounds or so…

He doesn’t do it for health, or because he should. He just does it naturally, out of joyful movement that is part of our humanness.  It feels good, and so he does it with gusto!  

We should do the same.  Now that I am in my 60’s, I have no desire to be big.  Strong is something else, something we should all aspire to improve, always!  Maintenance of musculature is one of the most important aspects of health, lifelong- but especially as we age.  So, isometrics are ideal, as they vastly increase strength, without huge additions of bulk!  No, just lean, corded muscle (and tendon improvements as well), that shapes and is the engine of your body.

I have a book I wrote a few years back that outlines my workouts, called Perfectly Paleo Exercise.  The ebook version is better, and cheaper, but the gist is here- I do virtual resistance exercise first, (after turning on the TV of course), and flex my muscles throughout their entire range of motion. Here is my basic outline right here, on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65LRENdKo

This is the perfect core series of exercises for anyone, for all time!  Years ago they were called Tiger Moves, which I think is king of hokey- I like Virtual Exercise better.

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