Ar-Turmerone: The Turmeric Compound That Stimulates Neural Stem Cells

At this point, the list of health benefits attributed to turmeric is getting pretty ridiculous. This is not to say that the benefits are overhype...

A Synchro Guide To Fixing Your Posture

Generally when people want to improve the way they look, feel or perform, they look to changing things like their diet or lifestyle habits or, in...

The Perfect Green Smoothie

Historically, I've always been more of a salad guy. There's something great about the time it takes to both prepare and eat a huge salad, like th...

Is There A Connection Between Gut Bacteria And Depression?

It seems like every month we see a new study come out that describes yet another way in which we are deeply connected to and dependent on the bac...

How Worried Should You Actually Be About Eating GMOs?

No issue in the food world produce more intense polemics than the GMO issue. But when we look at the data around the impacts of GM foods on human ...

[Hyperhydration] Why 'Water Weight' Is Sexy (and Healthy!)

Most of the articles of mine you'll find on this site are highly data driven. They're researched obsessively, sometimes for weeks, generally with...

How Turmeric Improves Mental And Physical Performance

When I'm working with a client to improve their physical or mental performance, there's two factors that we always address first. These factors a...

Triclosan: The Thyroid-Disrupting Ingredient In Your Soap

During the 1990’s, antibacterial soaps went from a being a small-scale medical industry product to a billion dollar consumer industry. Soap manuf...

4 Reasons Why Modern Milk Can No Longer Be Considered Healthy

If you're lactose intolerant or have an allergy to milk proteins - you're well aware of how milk wrecks your digestion and generally makes you fe...

Four Natural Supplements That Reduce The Damage Of Stress And Heal The Adrenals

Stress is crippling. It impairs creativity and cognitive performance, decreases athletic performance, increases inflammation and (obviously) just...

The Truth About Coffee And Caffeine

Caffeine is a drug.  Because it is so astonishingly ubiquitous (somewhere around 90% of people in North America consume caffeine on a daily basis...

Why You Should NEVER Eat Farm-Raised Fish

 Eating fish these days is a complicated proposition.  One the one hand, certain fish have the potential to be quite nutritionally valuable. High...

ACTIVATED CHARCOAL: The Strange Black Powder You Should Always Have With You

  What Is Activated Charcoal? Activated charcoal is made by processing organic materials (usually nutshells or coconut husks) at high temperatur...

5 Most Effective Ways To Reduce Your Inflammation (Inflammation Series: Part Three)

(This is part three of a three-part series on inflammation. You can find part one here and part two here) In the two previous articles in this s...

How Inflammation Makes You Fat And Slows Your Brain (Part One: The Body)

(This article is part one of a three-part series on inflammation. Find part two here and part three here) You're probably familiar with the...

How Inflammation Makes You Fat And Slows Your Brain (Part Two: The Brain)

(This article is part two of a three-part series on inflammation. Find part one here) The Brain And The Immune System  Until about 10 years...

How Fructose Makes Us Fat (and Accelerates Aging)

Fruit is part of a healthy diet, right?   Recently, research into metabolic products called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGE’s) casts that as...

How To Shop For Groceries Like A Nutrition Expert

The articles on this site (like most other health/nutrition sites) spend a lot of time focusing on what NOT to eat, and for good reason - there's...

Is Your Shower Exposing You To Dangerous Toxins?

I've written previously about how important it is to be drinking high-quality water that is free of the chlorine, chloramine and fluoride - which...

Oxalates, Phytates and Saponins: The Secret Anti-Nutrients (Antinutrients) In "Healthy" Foods

It's happened many times that a certain food rose to popularity as a "health food" only to later fall from that status when we learned more about...

Can Sitting In A Sauna Raise Human Growth Hormone (hGH) Levels?

Saunas have long been valued in societies around the world for their ability to detoxify the body and promote vitality.  Recently, however, resea...

5 Reasons High-Fat Diets Are More Than Just A Fad

We were all indoctrinated early.  Living anywhere in the civilized world (but especially in the grain-obsessed US) it was ingrained in us:  Carbs...

Xenoestrogens: Plastic's Dirty Secret

Remember the BPA scare of a few years ago?   Nalgene was pressured into doing a recall of all of their bottles and the rest of the industry was l...

5 *NEW* Ways Wheat Slows Our Brains And Makes Us Fat

Listen - I know, a TON has been written about wheat and gluten over the last few years and how terrible they are.  Given this huge volume and poo...

An Owners Manual For Your 100 Trillion Gut Bacteria

The first thing to know about your gut bacteria is how little we (meaning "science") actually know about what's going on down there.  We know tha...

10 Biggest Problems With Vegan Diets

First, a bit of a disclaimer:  I'm someone who eats an almost completely plant-based diet (key word, "almost"). I founded a company that offers e...

Synchro Salad Recipe 3.0 - Kale-Sweet Potato With Ginger Cashew-Tahini Dressing

This is the third iteration of the Synchro Salad recipe (find version two here).  Like the previous versions, this salad is designed to be fillin...

Intermittent Fasting: Improve Energy, Mental Performance And Burn Fat Like Crazy

Unquestionably, the coolest diet hack to come across my radar in the past few years is a technique known as Intermittent Fasting (IF). IF has a s...

The Wild World Of Legal Brain Enhancement

If you've seen the movie Limitless, you know it's based on the widely-held fantasy that there may exist an as-yet-undiscovered drug that unlocks ...

How To Stay Healthy (and Synchro) When Traveling

As I'm starting this article, I'm currently on the first leg of a multiple-flight business trip - which serves as a nice prompt to share some of ...

Your Chair Is Killing You...Time To Start Squatting.

Sitting Is Killing You Slowly You'll probably be surprised at how much evidence there is out there that sitting is terrible for our bodies, and n...

5 Tips To Avoid Regretting Your Holiday Eating

The Case For Barefoot Shoes

Your Screwed Up Joints For most of us, our bodies don't move the way they should.  Our joints are chronically tight and misaligned.  As a resu...

Improving Your Life One Ritual At A Time

Beautiful shrine by the incomparable @shrineon. This may seem counterintuitive coming from someone who's written 10's of thousands of words on di...

Fixing Your Nutrient Deficiencies (Supplementation Series - Part 3 of 3)

Eating fruits and vegetables alone isn't going to get the job done... (This is the 3rd installment of a 3-part series on optimal vitamin and min...

Why Chocolate Is The World's Greatest Food

In the world of nutrition, where seemingly everyone has radical opinions and divisive polemics are as common as dirt, it's impossible to find any...

Why Detoxing Matters + The Best Simple Detox Strategies

Raw cacao in the pod.  A rarely seen side of one of the world's most powerful detoxifiers. "Detox" has become quite the buzzword over the past fe...

Seven Secrets To Naturally Amazing Skin

You can tell a LOT about a person by looking at their skin.  I'm of the belief that our skin is first and foremost a reflection of whatever is go...

Protecting Yourself From Electromagnetic Pollution (EMF's)

EMF's are a tricky issue to talk about.  There is increasingly a ton of research coming out of academia confirming negative health effects associ...

The Secret Dark Side Of Kale

I've written a lot about kale and my fanaticism for it.  I know of few foods more nutrient-rich, detoxifying and generally promoting of vibrant h...

Top 3 Critical Vitamin + Mineral Supplements (Supplementation Series - Part 2 of 3)

Magnesium is unquestionably on the list. In the recent article, "Debunking The Multivitamin Myth + Why Supplements Are Still Critical" I explaine...

Time To Get Fluoride Out Of Your Water

I'll spare you any of the hyperboles about the importance of water to the body.  I'm sure we all know well how critical proper hydration is to v...

Debunking The Multivitamin Myth (Supplementation Series - Part 1 of 3)

  In the past few months I've noticed a particular uptick in national news articles criticizing the supplement industry - and in the process, stro...

Synchro Salad V.2 - Sweet Potato and Kale + Avocado Dressing

I can say (with all seriousness) that I believe there is a linear relationship between how much kale you eat and how good you feel.  Of course, t...

Ranking The Best (And Worst) Protein Sources...and The Inevitable "Meat Question"

   Athletes know, if you want to get stronger and faster and perform better, you'll need to support your muscles by giving them the proteins they...

High Intensity Interval Training: Explained (Why Your Cardio Workout Might Be A Waste Of Time)

Get stronger, fitter and leaner in less time... Let me start by clarifying the title a bit...cardiovascular fitness is far from a waste of time -...

Solving The "Alcohol Dilemma"

 One of the most common questions I consistently get from people is "what my thoughts are on alcohol?" and "where and how alcohol can fit into a ...

Optimize Your Nutrition And Get More Out Of Your Workouts

 Here's what we'll cover in this article: Why You Need Recovery Nutrition (running, strength training, yoga, dancing...all are activities you'll...

Why Fruit Might Not Be Healthy After All

Carbs will make you fat.  Carbs create an unsustainable crash-and-bust energy cycle.  Carbs will burn out your metabolism. I've written at length...

Hack Your Body To Crave Kale (with this recipe...)

When I posted the Synchro Salad recipe last year, it was primarily just a convenient place to point friends to when they asked me for the recipe a...

Why Fats (And Not Carbs) Are The Body's Preferred Fuel Source

Insulin.  Not only does it look cool...it's also the key to understanding how your body stores fat. If you keep up with the Synchro Life Design S...

5 Tips To Hack Your Way To Better Sleep

          Sleep quality is a cornerstone of optimized, vibrant well-being and high performance.  Perhaps this is a case of stating the obvious, ...

Mycotoxins: Why You Should Think Twice Before Eating Wheat and Corn

This image really says it all.  (Giberella mold on corn, a common source of mycotoxins) (Again...) Toxins Are Your Enemy It feels a bit like stat...

4 Reasons You Need More Coconut Oil In Your Life

Get (More) Coconut Oil In Your Life! This is likely not the first time you've encountered someone enthusiastically recommending coconut oil ...

Oxidized Oils: Is Your Cooking Oil Toxic?

Back To The Basics: Detoxing There's a hundred ways to say it: You can't performance tune a broken engine.  You can only run so fast with an inj...

Get Rid Of Chronic Inflammation (and pain) With Turmeric

Inflammation Is Holding You Back Everyone suffers from some degree of inflammation.  Everyone.  As we covered in the previous article on the i...

Your Omega 3 and 6 Are Out Of Balance (and it's making you fat and less awesome)

A Misunderstood Topic Unchallenged at the top of the list "nutritional elements people are aware of but really know absolutely nothing about" is...

Power Your Brain with Creatine Supplementation

A Polarizing Subject This latest in the series of Synchro Life Design practices is unquestionably the one that I have had the most conflict with ...

Heal Your Adrenals With Himalayan Salt

  There is no single factor limiting the average person's energy level more than adrenal dysfunction. Environmental toxins, lack of dietary nutri...

The Power of Water (part 2) - The First 10 Days

                     our water jugs and wall shrine      Part two of this series requires a sort of prerequisite disclaimer: what became most cle...

The Power of Water - An experiment with natural spring water.

  The importance of water quality has been written about more times than necessary and doesn't need re-hashing here.  Still, there are many differ...