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How to Drop the Weight, Look Better, and Feel Better … Made Easier

12.31.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

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Mount Shasta, CA, December 31, 2025: In a recent move, researchers at Beth Israel Medical, Harvard, and Yale University have recommended adding the obvious waist circumference to the definition of “obese,” with good reason. But that also means that three-quarters of all U.S. adults are obese.

Here’s what happened: Over time, in this culture the food-sources have changed, and if you eat “normally,” your health goes downhill fast. But it’s actually not complicated to fix that.

It’s not *fun* to fix it, because you can’t continue eating corporate-engineered addictive fake-foods and fake-food snacks. That’s what has cost you your youthful body and energy. Those “normal” foods are engineered to keep you fat and addicted, so you gotta tell them no. However, it’s not actually difficult … if you know how.

The Magic Trick

When it comes to re-training your body, here’s the trick that makes it much easier. It’s a sequence …
  • Do each step then go to the next, and you’ll first remove the addiction.
  • When you remove the addiction, you’ll stop creating the obesity.
  • When you stop creating the obesity, your body will revert to a more functional, stronger, healthier, better-feeling state.

Here’s the magic sequence. It can take some weeks or months, so be prepared for a slow marathon and not a wild sprint. Calm your mind to be patient and simply continue day after day. Weighing yourself every single day will aid your motivation. Yep, it will go up and down a bit, but there is learning to be found in that. 🙂 Here’s what to do …

1) Get off addictive foods

These are fast-converting carbs (all grains, all sugars, all seed-oils, all salty “snacks), and they keep your body craving more, just like a junkie wants heroin, and a smoker wants cigarettes. The best way to do this is: for a period of time, eat *only* single-ingredient foods that you prep yourself.
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Think about your great-grandparents. If they could get the food–anywhere in the world–it’s actual food.
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But anything “invented” after 1950, anything that requires an advertisement, anything prepped or packaged is probably not actual food. All soups, sauces, chips, prepped-meals, frozen meals, snacks, all fast food, restaurant food is no longer actual food.
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The best approach: Eat things like eggs and bacon (no toast), huge salads without croutons or sweet things like sugared nuts or cranberries, make veggie and meat soups without potatoes (other than japanese or purple potatoes, which are a different species). Eat meat/fish/fowl with low-carb veggies. Have a very few fruits from: berries, citrus, pears, peaches, apples, kiwi. Absolutely *stuff* yourself with these things, to stay away from the newer, invented, damaging “normal” foods. Those are the problem, and they are killing us.

2) “Intermittent Fasting” — Eating Only in a Window of Time

Once you’re free of addictive foods, your addiction will fade away over a number of days. You’ll still have bad habits, but if you focus and continue, those bad habits will weaken after three weeks. If you cave in, your three weeks starts over. But now, once free of addictive foods … stop eating all day long.
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Set a window of time, for example, 8 hours and eat ONLY within this window. This allows your body 16 hours to rest, take a break, and focus on stuff other than digestion. Your body will function better, and you will sleep better, feel stronger, and have better energy.
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And since you’ve weakened the addiction, you’ll find that now … it’s reasonably easy to only eat within this window. Especially if you really, really tank up, especially in the beginning. Got the impulse to eat some more? Tank up like crazy, if necessary, with these non-poisonous, non-addictive foods before the end of your “eating window.” 🙂

3) Learn to do a One-Day Fast … It is now Easy!

Once you can do this “intermittent” fasting and are no longer gobbling food all day long, then learn to take a one-day fast. Nothing other than water, coffee, or tea. That’s it. No carbs of any kind. No protein of any kind. No fats of any kind. (So no milk or cream or fake sweetener in your coffee; take it black.) Now here’s the surprising part.
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Since you’ve already turned off the compulsive “gobbles,” and you’ve regained the ability to say no to eating, you will find that a one-day fast is actually rather easy. You may still have some habits, or thoughts, but your body and addictions will not actually stop you.
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And now, finally, your body can begin to function as it was designed, because it uses this time to clear out the “trash” in the body, removing damaged cells, and restoring even better response to insulin. Again, your sleep, energy, and mood improves. It’s like taking the trash out of the kitchen. Before, it just piled up forever, and that’s lousy.

4) Find some Easy Exercise

Begin some kind of exercise, whatever you can do every day is best. Doesn’t have to be difficult or painful, just something you can do *regularly* like walking or gardening or yoga or lifting tiny weights at home or calisthenics or taichi. What matters, at first, isn’t what or how hard. What’s important is regularity.

5) Remove Poisons

Remove all poisons from your house, they keep you off-balance. They’ve become “normal” during the same time we became near-universally sick and fat, but these things are totally damaging your body. So these poisons include all kitchen tools, pots, food-containers, plates, glasses made plastic, silicone, teflon. This includes plastic air-fryers. Remove all scented cleansers or air-fresheners or laundry-sheets or pods. All are toxic. Swap out your undergarments that use synthetics, then pants and shirts and dresses and skirts and outer clothing built of plastic. All these damage the hormones that keep you healthy and feeling good.

And If You Want to Go a Bit Further …

  • You’ll feel even better if you add some daily sunlight, and if possible, give your body doses of too-cold (cold shower) or too-hot (sauna), and add some form of higher-intensity exercise.
  • There are other things like mold, EMF exposure from electrical devices or powerlines, and light-pollution disturbing your sleep. But by now you’re already in way better shape.

Congratulations!

At this point, you’re no longer obese. Wow! It happened along the way, just by changing “normal” poisons all around us into actual food, actual movement, actual sleep. Cool!

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Most-efficient Exercise for Strength, Longevity, Blood-Pressure, and Balance

11.01.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

Mount Shasta, November 1, 2025. When it comes to living long, it comes down to eating actual food (usually single ingredients), avoiding poison (unclean air and water and household “cleaners,” additives, fast carbs), and staying “active.” But not all “activities” are equal. For example:

  • Muscle strength seems to be the best predictor for long life
  • The body-systems needing maintenance are strength, balance, blood-pressure, and heart health

So I fired up the Perplexity AI research tool, and with some questions, learned a lot, real quick, about which *TYPES* of exercise provide this benefit or that benefit. Now as you might expect, there’s certainly some overlap, but here’s a simplified summary of what I learned:

  1. The research shows Resistance Bands most efficient to build strength *and* avoid injuries
  2. The research shows whole-body isometric (holding still) exercises help blood-pressure the most
  3. The research shows aerobic (walk, run, bike) is next best for blood-pressure
  4. The research shows balance best aided by specific balance exercises (i.e., practicing balance)

I’ve been using heavy-duty resistance bands–brand name is “X3 Bands”–for several years, and walking up the hill behind my house. Recently I’ve added some “taichi” exercises to improve my balance, and now I’m going to add just a couple of these isometrics. That should have pretty much the whole thing covered.

And if your work is largely sedentary like mine is, these are *excellent* things to do, to take a break by standing up and moving around. None require going to the gym; all are very quick. (They work as well done quickly as do some things that take a long time, and there’s no time-burden of going to a gym, where the machines there would provide LESS benefit than whole-body exercises at home.)

Please note that NONE of these are bogus tiny-weights, “chair” workouts, calisthenics, mickey-mouse gym-style bicycles or treadmills, or the make-believe exercises promoted in popular magazines. These are the real thing. You *will* start off kind of easy, but they’ll actually take you to becoming strong. The real thing.

You can download a copy of the research studies and the conclusions, with all details and references, using the button further down. Hope you find this useful!

Your Time-Efficient Routine

Done in and around the home, increases strength, longevity, blood-pressure, cardiovascular health, and balance. Takes little time. Only 9 simple exercises. 🙂

Strength Training (Whole Body) …
  • Resistance Band Squats – Lower-body strength, improves mobility and metabolic health.
  • Resistance Band Chest Press – Chest and arm strength, increases longevity.
  • Resistance Band Rows – Upper back strength, improves posture.
  • Resistance Band Overhead Press – Shoulder and upper body strength, enhance functional movement.
Isometric (Core and BP) …
  • Plank Hold – Core strengthening, spinal stability, reduces resting blood pressure.
  • Wall Sit – Lower body endurance exercise, reduces blood pressure.
Aerobic (Longevity & Cardiovascular Health) …
  • Brisk Walking or Light Jogging – supports heart health, metabolic function, and longevity.
    .. OR ..
  • Cycling (Outdoors) – Low-impact, promotes balance, endurance, and health.
Balance (Fall Prevention and Stability) …
  • Single-Leg Stand – Improves balance, proprioception, and leg strength.
  • Heel-to-Toe Walk – Improves balance and coordination, fall-risk reduction.

Want to live longer? Want to be able to get around better? Have more strength? Sleep better? Feel better? Get the full details below, and give it a shot. It’s not difficult. The only key is being regular about it. I’ve done the research to uncover the scientific facts about what works best, and how to implement quick and easy. I’m happy to share. Click to download. You’re welcome! 🙂

CLICK to download the Caffeine- Nicotine, and Creatine ReportCLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf
detailing how to get the best BANG for the BUCK,
the MOST RESULTS for LEAST TIME & MONEY:
“Quick Exercise for Strength, Longevity,
Blood-Pressure, & Balance”

Categories // All, amazement, exercise and nutrition, health, how to tune a human, longevity, Projects, Wisdom Log

Creatine – for Fixin’ Up Your Brain!

10.29.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

October 29, 2025, Mount Shasta, CA. When your brain runs low on energy, how can you charge it up again?

Well, turns out there is something you can do. Well-tested, non-toxic, inexpensive, and easy. This was explained by nutrition researchers presenting at the 2025 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. They say there’s one nutrient many of us could use: creatine.

[… this is an extract from MSN news article, 10/28/2025:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-take-creatine/ar-AA1PnGXS …]

Quick Summary

  • Creatine fuels your brain, helping it recover from stress and stay sharp under pressure.
  • It may boost mood, memory and focus, especially when you’re tired or sleep deprived.
  • Experts suggest 10 to 20 grams daily for brain energy—check with a provider before starting.
Creatine isn’t a steroid or drug, and it won’t make you gain weight, says Diana Nguyen M.S., RDN, LDN, CSSD, CSCS. It’s a nutrient and energy source that is naturally produced in our bodies, found in certain foods and available as a supplement. While it gained notoriety for helping athletes build muscle and strength, emerging research shows creatine may also help the brain. “It helps provide the brain the fuel that it needs to work in its most functional way,” says Nguyen.

Co-presenter Eric S. Rawson, Ph.D., FACSM, CSCS, adds, “We now have evidence that you can ingest creatine and increase the amount of creatine in your brain—just like you can with muscles—and it can provide more energy to your brain, especially during times when you need more energy.”

For decades now, we’ve mostly heard about creatine from muscle-building magazines, because bodybuilders take it to help build bigger muscles. But turns out, the way it works is super-effective for powering up your brain.

“Creatine helps to support the brain when the brain is under stress,” says Nguyen. “It helps to maintain that brain energy supply when the demand is elevated.”

For example, when a person experiences a traumatic brain injury, physicians have long known that brain-creatine levels often decrease, and that means that replacing it through food and supplementation becomes important. And research shows supplementing with creatine can support recovery after injury, and it may even have protective effects if taken before an injury occurs. In studies of people with such injuries, creatine supplementation reduced hospital duration, improved overall recovery, and reduced symptoms like headaches, dizziness and fatigue.

You Don’t Need a Head Trauma to Benefit

  • By providing better energy, it appears to help with depression
  • Helps your brain to function, even when tired or sleep-deprived
  • Appears to help memory and recall for older folks

What Dosage is Recommended?

There’s no official guideline, but we know that a somewhat higher dosage is required to cross the blood-brain barrier so as to get in there and get to work. As little as 10mg a day *may* help, but more likely the best results will come from 20-30mg each day. I take this each day, split into two doses. It’s about 1.5 to 2 level teaspoons if you bought creatine monohydrate. (I get this on Amazon, from the Now supplement line. It’s tasteless, and I add my first dose to the morning coffee, and the second to a hot herbal/green-tea/cacao drink in the afternoon.)

SUMMARY: Creatine is a nutrient that offers more than just building muscle—it can provide significant benefits for the brain. Creatine may help the brain recover from traumatic brain injury, reduce risk of depression, support brain function even when sleep deprived and may improve memory. There’s no official dosage for brain benefits, experts and studies indicate something between 10 to 30 grams per day often works.

PS: And be sure to check out my triple-threat article, a surprising, longevity boost from three ingredients (caffeine, nicotine, & carnitine). Note that this article includes a link so you can download my research document showing what I uncovered about studies of these three.)

 

Categories // All, exercise and nutrition, health, how to tune a human, making changes

How to Research to Replace Anti-Depressants (and more!)

10.24.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

Antidepressants often have “side-effects.” (This is BigPharma-talk for “poisoning.)

But the side-effect/poisoning/bullcrap varies hugely with the different pills. Details …

https://theconversation.com/antidepressants-physical-side-effects-vary-depending-on-the-drug-type-new-research-268010

How to FREE YOURSELF from BigPharma Poisoning

Realize that there are several things that often work as well, or better, than BigPharma pills. These include:

  • simple, daily doses of exercise; and
  • fresh, single-ingredient, non-poisoned foods; and
  • a number of inexpensive supplements

Of course, you gotta *learn* about these. Don’t just read adverts, because those are not to be trusted and will send you all over the place.

How to CREATE your Personal, Accurate RESEARCH to Find What’s True …

Here’s a simple way to find out, from actual studies, what’s true: Get a copy of Perplexity, an AI-research panel, and it comes with Comet, a clean and fast browser that’s very smart about finding things, because it uses Perplexity.

You can get it here: https://www.perplexity.ai/

Then ask it questions like, for example: What are the health benefits of exercise. (Get a list, then look at the list for the benefits most of interest to you.) Then ask “What kinds of exercise most provide [plug in benefits here]? Then, keep asking more-detailed questions from its answers until you now know exactly what kind of exercise, how long, how often, and what it will get you. This works amazingly well, you stop being a farm-animal belonging to BigPharma, and you can fix your problem, inexpensively. Try it and you’ll like it. 🙂

Then, do the same thing to find out what’s true about single-ingredient, non-poisoned foods for your body. Then do the same thing to find out what’s true about herbs and supplements. You can ask questions about what’s best for a male/female of your age and your weight. You can find out optimum dosages. You can find out which supplements on Amazon give the best result for the least money. You begin to be the boss of you. Finally. 🙂

Lastly, you can create a folder on your desktop. It might have sub-folders for exercise, food, and supplements.) And the Perplexity research tool will allow you to save each “thread” as a pdf, so you begin to have your very own, personalized, research on hand. Neatoid, Lloyd! 🙂

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An Unusual, Strange Way to Live Longer: Caffeine, Nicotine, Creatine

10.19.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

As kids, we’ve all been told that coffee would stunt our growth, and you’ve noticed it can give you the jitters. We’ve learned that cigarettes are bad, bad, bad for you (and they are). And we’ve seen creatine being promoted and sold for muscle-building in bodybuilder and men’s health magazines.

But come to find out:

  1. Caffeine in coffee–if the coffee is mold-free, which most coffee IS NOT–actually extends lifespan in well-tested studies.
  2. Nicotine, if it is pharmaceutical grade–and NOT cigarettes, which contain 200-300 other ingredients designed to increase addiction and worse–has been shown in well-constructed studies to extend lifespan. What? !!! Yup. Go figure.
  3. Creatine–in studies done decades before the body-builders got hold of it–has been well-proven to protect your brain!

So the truth is that, done right, microdosing caffeine, nicotine, and creatine makes you live longer! That’s what the science says. I’ve attached a fast overview researching each of these and the studies are identified. You can download it below.

And when you try it … you will feel it! 🙂

Here are the brands and doses that I am using:

  • Mold free coffee: Lifeboost, or Danger brands. Regularly tested and contain no mold. I do one cup per day.
  • Nicotine: Sefudun quit smoking nicotine patches “step 3” (weakest dose, 7mg) cut into 8 pieces for daily use. Stick it on your skin, and cover with a strip of bandage tape. It’s time release.
  • Creatine: most any brand. I got Now brand creatine monohydrate. Dose is 1-1.5 level teaspoons, which is 3-5 grams.

I was dubious when I ran across this information, but it checks out. I’ve made a quick-read summary of what the studies say, complete with the citations, as a pdf document you can save if you wish. You try this unexpected approach, and you will like it!

CLICK to download the Caffeine- Nicotine, and Creatine ReportCLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf
detailing longevity & health benefits of these three:
“Longevity benefits of Caffeine, Nicotine, and Creatine”

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Derley Davis and the Dew Drop Inn

03.12.2011 by bloggard // 21 Comments

Henrietta, Texas, 1955. Before Marty Robbins, before Elvis, before Bill Haley and the Comets. I was 11.

Sometimes my classmates walked to lunch at the Dew Drop Inn. A holdover from the 30’s, a rundown shack painted white with lots of small windows, on the main road, built when that main road sported wagons, and horses.

Dew Drop Inn. The name was painted vertically in black letters on the white posts holding a roof over …

The porch high above the elevated sidewalk. Proprietor: Derley Davis, also dressed in white (apron, pants, and shirt). Famous for his chili. Derley Davis had a secret recipe.

The famous chili …

Served steaming in thick white bowls with a blue stripe. Rich reddish-brown chili, thick and spicy. No tables, just red-topped stools on a u-shaped counter on three sides opposite the front door. Tobasco on the counter for the very, very brave. Saltine crackers, of course, to be crumbled properly. Beans? Yeah, but not many. Now that was some chili.

Eating a lunch there one day, “There’s a leaf in my chili!” I told Mr. Davis. He peered into my bowl.

“That’s a bay leaf,” he said, “Just seasoning.” Nodding my head wisely, 11 years old. Hmmm, I thought. A bay leaf.

And then, some years later …

Real Texas Chili… Nine years, two automobiles, and several girls later, for the first time cooking for myself, in college. No dorm for me, wild free spirit and all. And so, cooking for myself. Pity I never paid any attention to what my mother actually did in the kitchen.

But the first time I decided to make chili, I knew just what to do. I went shopping for chili powder, and a secret ingredient.

Six or eight large bay leaves, I think it was.

That was when I learned that a little bay leaf goes a long way.

 

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