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As PaleoJay, I am used to being a healthy person, and so when I occasionally feel a bit “under the weather”, as I do today, I have a real problem dealing with it! I think “Oh no! What about my workout? And then, the next one as well?? “ I tend to think of this little setback as ‘the end of the world’!

Although this is ridiculous, I do tend to feel this way…I feel this way because, if I get a little fever, and am all ‘stuffed up’, my brain tells me to stop working, lay around, and do very little so my body can rebuild and recuperate. For whatever reason, if you’re built like me, just stopping and accomplishing nothing is very, very hard! So, that is why I am putting together my podcast today, as it rains and blows outside, and I just sit here feeling bad…

So, at least I can work a little on putting my thoughts down on paper, rather than just coughing and sneezing and feeling bad and sorry for myself. I honestly believe that, when you get sick, it is a sign from your poor body to slow down. If I wasn’t requiring rest, I don’t think my body would have gotten sick in the first place! For instance, I have a few aches in my back and legs from my last lower body workout; now I will take a couple of extra days off.

I have acquired a pair of ‘ab straps’ from DMoose company, and those straps which I have been inserting under my arms on the power rack enable me to really intensely work my lats and abs- maybe a bit too intensely for a few days or so. Perhaps a case of “too much too fast”. But regardless, I do concede that these ab straps are a great tool, overall.

Also, I have replaced my squats and deadlifts with kettlebell swings for higher reps, which I feel more intensely in my legs and back than with the other two exercises. Now that I reflect upon it, I probably overdid it in terms of volume, in my enthusiasm for the new movements! After all- slow and steady wins the race… but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us.

And quite honestly, if you are an ‘exercise nut’ like me, we fall into this more is better trap, which really is not true. It’s not like that, it’s more like Goldilocks- it needs to be just right! Not too little, and not too much. Only self experimentation can determine exactly how much is enough, not too much, or too little- Just Right is Golden!

And so, as I sit here reflecting and typing away, I realize that last Saturday I overworked myself in my workout, and then stayed up later than usual, basking in the feel of endorphins from the exercise, and watching an action movie. And the next day, the sickness began consuming me, bit by bit.

I took a couple of zinc lozenges and drink some tea along with my vitamin C gummies. At church that next day, Sunday, we had a hymn sing, everyone volunteering their favorite hymns, and we all sang the first verses together. Fun, but tiring to the voice…

Then, I remembered how that past Friday, we sang with a small group at an assisted living facility near here. That may be where I picked up the germs, or maybe at Church- these things are inevitable. Hopefully, we will never to back to that mass delusion foisted on us by Fauci and his ilk of quarantines, and a bad fake ‘vaccine’ to cure us of a minor, flu-like malady of tiny proportions…

And so, I will take today off of exercise, and perhaps a small dose tomorrow, before getting back to it ‘full blast’! The bottom line is: now, when I resume my exercise, it will rejuvenate, not replete me!

I really can hardly wait, and that’s great feeling in itself!

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Right now, my machine is waiting for some words, because what is a podcast without WORDS!!?? Right- it's nothing. And as of this moment, Nothing is on this podcast. And this is because here, in La Crosse Wisconsin, everything is now frozen- because of the weather.

Now, just this past weekend, I traveled to Illinois, the benighted state of darkness, to celebrate my mother's 100th birthday! My mother is wonderful indeed, and in fact her little home town is also wonderful. But the trip DOWN there is awful, and those horrible tollways are a trip on the path of hell itself! Illinois has been taken over the the spawn of hell, and has become one of, if not the WORST part of hell that I know of.

A trip to hell, down long ago streets that I remember so well from my ancient youth, that now has been transmogrified from innocence, to small town perfection- but now upgraded to mulit-million dollar perfection, that no real person can ever afford, but can only visit...

It was a wonderful party, and all of my little siblings, all eight of them along with my wonderful mother, all had a wonderful time. It was like a dream, a dream that we all had escaped from, and now could escape from once again- Back to an affordable, natural place- much as Illinois of the early 1950's had been. An innocent, halcyon land, where Abe Lincoln and Leave it to Beaver had dwelt happily alongside Andy Griffith. Where the dreams of young boys and girls were nurtured, and not stifled by Socialist mayors like Brendan Johnson, and oppressive taxes were not the rule in Cook County!

I escaped back to rural Wisconsin, with my wife and daughter, son in law and their four children in tow. Oh my God what a sight of relief I felt! My sister and family, all escaped to Texas, and a brother back to Tennessee. All have escaped...

But at what a cost! Illinois is GONE. The Illinois of my youth, the downstate Illinois of my college youth is GONE. Each part of my past, precious as it all was to me, is NO MORE. Put in your own youth, your memories, and what you'd hoped would be there for the future...

It won't be! Not unless you look outside of how you grew up, and realize that it never more will be, unless you go BACK to the way you grew up, and INSIST that it be this way again, and TAKE BACK YOUR WAYS AND DO IT ALL AGAIN!

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Nowadays, we hear terms like ‘Carnivore’ and ‘Plant Based’, and ‘Keto’- rarely Paleo or ‘Ancestral’ about diets and nutrition. I get it: we are constantly challenged in our thinking, and so it should be. Health and fitness are journeys, we never really reach the end of that journey! So let’s examine the current ‘Journey’ of health…

Carnivore diets, eschewing all but beef and salt, are the big choice now. And carnivore is a good choice for many, especially those who have long term conditions and diseases. A carnivore diet is kind of a “hard reset”; like restarting your computer to get rid of all the junk that has accumulated.

You can give yourself a hard restart by going carnivore for a few months, and reverse things like diabetes, arthritis, and many other bad health conditions. And it is so simple really- just eliminate every foodstuff other than meat! Simple, but difficult, and for most folks- impossible! But, for a period of time, say a number of months until you recover your health- it is a great idea!

But then again- we all live in the real world. Eventually most of us would love to reemerge into the real, human, and social world where we all get together with family, have dinners together with a wide variety of foodstuffs, and pick and choose what we know we can tolerate without harm to ourselves. To drink wine and beer with dinner, enjoy fellowship with others, and to bond over cigars and cognac…

Yes, even health obsessed nutcases like myself enjoy such things- as I think we all ought to! Life is a full gamet of pleasures and pitfalls, and we need to be careful what we discard and embrace! We don’t want to be obsessed with health alone, and ignore the beauties and varieties of life choices.

Look at the grocery carts of your fellow shoppers. (I do). Most of their food choices are so bad that it’s awe inspiring, really! So, for you, a compromise is in order: for the most part, choose ancestral foods, like your forebears would consume. Be very sparing of foods that are manufactured- seed oils, snack foods, and commercial breads and pastries- most are horrid, but occasionally they are fine. Just get the best versions you can, from small from scratch bakeries, with sour dough offerings and such.

Eat some vegetables, but only when in a good salad, or in a meal where they are a small side dish. Oxalate laden kale and beet green dishes are best left- uneaten! Eat carrots and such prepared in a manner your great grandmother would have done it. Enjoy it all, but minimize desserts entirely, and perhaps eliminate them. Have one piece of a fine chocolate like Dove, or Lindt, (I love their Orange Chocolate Bar!) and be done with it.

Paleo or Ancestral is kind of Common Sense Diet. Eat what you really know, after doing your research and testing on your own body, works for you. Stick with it, and work out regularly for strength, and flexibility. Spend time outdoors, in nature, and walk barefoot. Don’t do endless cardio marathon running, and eat with common sense- NOT Doctor mandated nonsense from profit obsessed hospitals and clinics!

In fact, just as you avoid seed oils like margarine and Cool Whip and corn oil; also avoid doctors as much as possible. They are not working in your interest- they have the clinic’s agenda (the bottom line) and that is what they are required to follow.

Your health is not part of their agenda at all.

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