Author Archives: Joe Garma
I help people live with more vitality and strength. I'm a big believer in sustainability, and am a bit nutty about optimizing my diet, supplements, hormones and exercise. To get exclusive Updates, tips and be on your way to a stronger, more youthful body, join my weekly Newsletter. You can also find me on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
Drink one soda and within 60 minutes you can look forward to sugar spikes, insulin bursts, rising blood pressure and calcium excretion, among other unsavory things.
Have soda the habit? Do some substituting with cold or hot green tea!
Religion often separates us because it’s read literally rather than metaphorically. Thus the religious stories are not interpreted as mythology, but fact. The results penetrate us: the Catholic world was made by a anthropomorphic deity only several thousand years ago; the Muslim world where woman are often viewed inferior and treated like objects; a Jewish world where ancestral land rights promised in ancient texts are the pretext for dominating another people.
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Deconstruct fear with action. Worry and fear overwhelm us in the fertile ground of inaction. Your brain’s task is to look into the fear and deconstruct the fear with action. It is almost always the case that when you are not getting what you want, that your brain is receiving fear messages that you are unaware of.
Continue readingTony Robbins, the self-help guru, consults with the power elite. They told him about the 2008 crash and are telling him again that an “economic detox” is coming. In this video Robbins warns us and suggests how we should prepare.
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Hard to believe but the evidence says that Aspartame and its brand names Equal, NutraSweet and Sugar Twin are derived from neurotoxins. Dump them in the trash and use Stevia or Xylitol instead.
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The “Homestead Workout” is a no-excuse, full body, aerobics and resistance training session that utilizes whatever exercise aids can be found on a rural property — stairs, rocks, rebounder, pails of water.
Continue readingNon-exercisers can begin an exercise routine by starting slowly. Demonstrated by Megan Hoffman, this video shows how to exercise the whole body in 5 minutes. As you get better, keep repeating this routine.
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Doctors Hyman and Teitelbaum have extensively written of the dangers of artificial sweeteners. Teitelbaum has characterized four types of “sugar addicts” based on behavior and makes recommendations about how to get well.
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Rick Sinclair is an ordinary man on a mission to rid the world of cancer through ingesting hemp oil. In this video, he tells his story and presents people cured by using hemp oil, not from the grocer, but with the THC intact.
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Here are ten important weight loss tips: 1. Don’t skip meals.
2. Use smaller plates. 3. Count your calories. 4. Your metabolism is not the problem.
5. Protein staves off hunger. 6. Soup keeps you fuller for longer. 7. The wider your choice, the more you eat. 8. Low-fat diary helps excrete more fat (must be calorie neutral). 9. Exercise burns fat long after you stop, even while you sleep.
10. Keep moving to lose weight.
Read about these 40 age-erasing superfoods that have specific health benefits, such as lowering cholesterol, blood sugar and increasing antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids.
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In this video, Annick Robinson demonstrates 5 tips for healthy eating, which involve frequent eating of small portions, lean protein selection, low gylcemic carbs and healthy fats.
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Barbara Brody reports on 10 ways to soothe your sunburn, a handy thing to know on this sunny Independence Day when many of us are out in the in the sun. Aloe vera, vitamins, water and fish oil are all part of the healing.
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When unhappy with your “now”, the tendency is to live in the past. Some of us are addicted to it, meaning, that we miss today because our focus is in the past. There are six signs that you’re doing this, which result in disrupting your full potential from flowering.
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A funny parody on pharmaceutical drugs pushed on TV, this “Health Advice of Women” is actually good advice. A glass of red wine at night does reduce stress and can be beneficial to your cardiovascular system.
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