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Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry

Posted on June 14, 2012 by edwards87

Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry In the previous article I eluded to the fact that high-carb diets can disrupt our brain chemistry. This will be the subject of this article. In the practical guide … Continue reading →

Posted in Nutrition | Tagged acetylcholine, addiction, addictive, anxiety, avena, binge, brain chemistry, carb addiction, carbohydrate, carbohydrate addiction, challenge, control, cost, cost benefit, cross-sensitization, dopamine, eating style, edward spruit, endogenous reward system, energy, fat, food addiction, glucose, health, high carb food, high-carb, hoebel, hypofrontality, metabolism, norden, norepinephrine, numbing taste, Nutrition, opioid, paleo, primal, proteins, reward, reward system, serotonin, stable energy levels, sugar addiction, taste bud, withdrawal | 2 Comments

Getting my Needs met in a Quality manner & Suggestions for Practice

Posted on February 17, 2012 by edwards87

Principle: Getting my needs met Human beings have a variety of needs, the most basic of which concern those that directly concern our survival. Oxygen (air), sleep and water are the most important and immediate, whereas light, food (energy and nutrition) … Continue reading →

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Obedience, Social Hierarchy & Blaming the Externals

Posted on February 3, 2012 by edwards87

Obedience to the system There is another payoff for having my self-schema filled out by external suggestion (other people): It alleviates me of personal responsibility. If I just live my Life according to the ‘basic/generic ways to live Life according … Continue reading →

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Fear, the Autonomic Nervous System & the narrowing of our Range of Behaviour

Posted on January 18, 2012 by edwards87

Fear versus anxiety Aside from the negative impact of unprocessed hurt from abuse I already mentioned, there is another detrimental factor to uncompleted past pain that I want to write about. That is, the underlying sense of threat a person … Continue reading →

Posted in IiD Online Book Series, News & Updates | Tagged action repertoire, adrenaline, ANS, anxiety, aspects of self, attention, autonomic nervous system, bradshaw, completion, consolidation, cutting of parts, emotionally absent, epineprhine, fear, fight, flight, fredrickson, getting needs met, glucocorticoids, health, high-carb, human needs, identity, identity is dynamic, john bradshaw, monkeys, narrow minded, paleo, parasympathetic, part of self, part psychology, presence, processing emotions, psycholohy, recovery, repressing emotion, rest, robert sapolsky, safety, sapolsky, self-change, shame, shaming, social acceptance, social hierarchy, social science, stress, stress response, stressor, sympathetic, trapped hurt, ulcer, uncompleted past | 1 Comment

The Native Human Eating Style: a Practical Guide to Paleo

Posted on December 2, 2011 by edwards87

The Native Human Eating Style: A Practical Guide to Paleo In the previous articles on Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates, I established the following main points: Eating food is for gaining energy, as well as providing the body with the essential … Continue reading →

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Sugar: a Teaspoon, not a Bucket

Posted on November 28, 2011 by edwards87

Sugar: One teaspoon, not a bucket In this article I will share what place carbohydrates have in the native human diet, based upon how our bodies digest and process them. The title of this article starts with sugar and that’s … Continue reading →

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Fat: The Central Macronutrient

Posted on November 23, 2011 by edwards87

In this article I will describe some basics of the bodies metabolization (how it gains energy) and will point out why fats are the cornerstone of a healthy, efficient diet (why fats are the central macronutrient). Gaining energy from food … Continue reading →

The Value of Complete Protein in Muscle Development

Posted on October 19, 2011 by edwards87

In this article I’ll share a harsh lesson I learned in my practices of strength training and muscle gain. Backstory Back in 2009, I joined a gym in order to build some muscle. I did so without looking into nutrition … Continue reading →

Posted in Nutrition | Tagged complete protein, eating style, fitness, food, gym work-out, health, injury, muscle gain, Nutrition, paleo, primal, progress, protein, proteolysis, strength training | 5 Comments

Tag Archives: paleo

Carbohydrate Addiction: How Birdseeds and refined sugars may alter Brain Chemistry

The Native Human Eating Style: a Practical Guide to Paleo

Sugar: a Teaspoon, not a Bucket

Fat: The Central Macronutrient

The Value of Complete Protein in Muscle Development

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