“How can you have a decent chinwag about art or poetry when all your nervous system really wants is to activate either the Fight response (squaring up to your fellow diners and threatening to clobber them over the head with a stick) or the Flight response (getting down from the table in a hurry and … Continue reading “Please May I Get Down Now?” Are our post-Victorian postprandial posture rules actually barbaric?
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After the Fasting, Curry : Can some aromatic herbs and spices block autophagy and should we therefore leave them for the rebuilding phase?
Drinking herbal tea has become a mainstay of my fasting strategies. It’s great to have an alternative way to satisfy the mouth without taking in calories, and I’ve found that certain herbs and spices are great for relieving that slight sense of gum irritation you can get when fasting, that need for freshening up once … Continue reading After the Fasting, Curry : Can some aromatic herbs and spices block autophagy and should we therefore leave them for the rebuilding phase?
A 5:2 In-Between-Day Meal for Increased Tryptophan Uptake : Beetroot, Pumpkin Seed, Pistachio and Sesame Seed Halwa
"It's as if halwa was designed for serotonin substrate topping up, and perhaps on an intuitive level...it was." Today I’m sharing a food recipe for topping up serotonin levels, post-HDR. I leave a day after HDR before I do such topping up, concentrating first on adrenal repletion and then serotonin. The reasons for doing it … Continue reading A 5:2 In-Between-Day Meal for Increased Tryptophan Uptake : Beetroot, Pumpkin Seed, Pistachio and Sesame Seed Halwa
An intriguing intervention with a non-catchy name: cyclical fat-wise ketogenic resvero-Sirt alternating with hi-fi
If you've judged that calorie restriction isn't right for you right now, but you want to be able to experience the highs of HDR, or if you're having a break from fasting but you don't want to let your mitochondria slip back too far, in other words you still want some kind of metabolic intervention to … Continue reading An intriguing intervention with a non-catchy name: cyclical fat-wise ketogenic resvero-Sirt alternating with hi-fi
CURRY DAY
The HDR Plus weekly programme is filling out nicely, but Day 7 has been a bit of an empty gap. What's required here is something non-exercise-based but which never-the-less bridges the gap by adding some kind of endorphin rush to the day, otherwise it might seem rather bland compared to the rest of the week. What … Continue reading CURRY DAY
The confessions of a hungry dawn raver 