Quotes About Wellness

humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats and vegetable oils.

Humans typically require 1-3 nutritional events per day. More frequent consumptive events are for the mind not the body.

data reveals that the average Type 2 diabetic consumes between 75%-90% of all their daily calories as carbohydrates.

According to glycemic index principles, it would be fine for an alcoholic to drink beer, but not whisky since beer raises your blood alcohol level more slowly, making beer healthy, but whisky not. If abstinence is curative, what value is there in the science of less? Asking a diabetic to count their carbohydrates is no different than asking an alcoholic to count their drinks.

As a society, we are spending billions of dollars on medications that ineffectively clear sugar from the bloodstream when the simplest, most effective way to prevent the disease or put it into remission is by preventing sugar from ever getting into the bloodstream by not putting it into our faces in the first place!

when it comes to exactly how many grams of carbs, protein and fat you should eat. LCHF has a wide spectrum, and your specifics will depend on your own unique set of circumstances and goals.

In going about the thing that has struck me the most is the untidiness and uncleanliness that comes from bad mattresses... This is of great importance from the health point of view.

Feed Your Mind Good Stuff, Exercise Your Gratitude Muscle, Prepare Yourself.

We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

In the end, winning is sleeping better." —Jodie Foster

the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.

More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.

Love yourself . . . You've got to love yourself before you can love others. Without it, nothing productive is going to happen, and we can all bang our heads on the wall.

Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I change my physiology. If I am near waves, I go surf them. If not, a short, intense kettlebell workout, a bike ride, a swim, a cold shower or ice plunge, Wim Hof or heart rate variability breathing [see Adam Robinson, for a description]. It's remarkable how the mind follows the body.

My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." People constantly ask me, "What would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?" Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.

Some patients who suffer from significant LDL particle number increases on keto can reverse the trend by limiting saturated fat to fewer than 25 g and replacing the required fat calories with monounsaturated fats (e.g., macadamia nut oil, olive oil, limited avocado oil).

The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.

I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pectoral muscles when I do my bench press. I'm really inside, and it's like I gain a form of meditation, because you have no chance of thinking or concentrating on anything else at that time.

Jack used to say it's okay to take a day off from working out. But on that day, you're not allowed to eat.