CST Free Weight Exercises By Scott Sonnon

A couple of things to think about in terms of making sure your diet has sufficient selenium - especially if it is a low carb / ketogenic diet.

Sudden cardiac death in association with the ketogenic diet.

Selenium May Slow March Of AIDS

These things actually reminded me of something I read on Barry Groves’ site years ago:

A Cheap Way to Prevent AIDS and Bird Flu

Selenium

Selenium is present in a wide variety of foods and it can also be obtained in supplements. The best source of natural selenium is liver and other organ meats, particularly from grass-fed animals, although it does depend on how much selenium is in the soil. Next come fish and shellfish, followed by muscle meats. The soil most likely to have a high selenium content is one that is rich in organic matter, and no pesticides. Organic meats are most likely to be the best.

Tuna and eggs are also very good suppliers of selenium and they also contain sulphur, which helps the absorption and utilisation of selenium.

Selenium is also available in plants, but in much smaller quantities and it is much less available than that from animal sources. However, depending again on the levels of selenium in the soil where plants are grown, grains, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, onions and tomatoes do contain some selenium.

If selenium is taken in supplements, you should avoid taking more than 200 mcg per day as this mineral can be toxic in overdose.

Amino acids

The best source of the three amino acids mentioned has to be meat, although grains may help to boost tryptophan levels.

The reason cysteine is included may be because it contains sulphur which, as was mentioned above, increases the effectiveness of the selenium. The reason for other two is unclear.

Anti-viral fatty acids

Lastly, short-chain fatty acids having four to six carbon atoms are also antiviral. These fats are always saturated. Four-carbon butyric acid is found mostly in butterfat from cows, and six-carbon capric acid is found mostly in butterfat from goats. Butter, cream and full-fat cheeses are the best sources.

Liver, meat, eggs, butter….sounds good

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We are currently working on the new site. Please mind the dust.
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1. This is my first post on the new blog, so apologies in advance if:

a) the font style or color is out-of-whack
b) it comes up in Portuguese (meaning that you’d have no idea what I am saying, anyway)
c) your computer freezes up on account of the complete and utter awesomeness that you’re beholding with [...]
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I recently posted about Esther Gokhale’s excellent book - 8 Steps to a pain free back.

One of the commenters pointed to a similar book - Ageless Spine - by Kathleen Porter. This is another excellent book, which has a very similar argument to that of Esther’s book. The idea is to regain a natural posture, with your spine properly supporting your body. In some ways it is a little more easy to read and understand but both books are excellent.

Here is a video of Kathleen explaining more:

and……here is this knowledge in practice (thanks Davie)

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Free to Move with the Intu-Flow Longevity System
“Celebrity Flow Coach Scott Sonnon’s Hottest New Best Seller!”
“Free to Move with the Intu-Flow Longevity System is a book that moves from personal experience. Scott Sonnon started writing it after being trapped into a chronic joint disease for some time. What makes it such a special text is [...]
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I’m writing this blog on Tuesday night, as I’m pretty sure that my mind will be a bit hazy after the insulin-induced coma that follows my Thanksgiving feast.
1. While I’ve had a week-long argument with my new website set-up, I have to say that one of the cool features I now have is a really [...]
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Thanks for the comments on the last post.

Todd - Z Health - I bought the basic DVD and thought it was OK but a bit over priced. Cobb is another one who makes almost mystical pronouncements about joint mobility. Seems like a good guy in general though. I think there is probably enough free material out there on mobility as I pointed to in the last post. It is the peer reviewed research that I’m interested in.

Brian - thanks for pointing me towards those videos. They’re great. I don’t agree with all the CrossFit stuff, but the free resources they’ve made available are fantastic. Here is the warm up video - joint mobility stuff and then some basic exercises to cover the whole body.

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If you’d like to know two of the best exercises for muscle building, then you’ll want to read every word of this important article.
If you’ve read any of my other articles, you probably know what I’m going to tell you next, about two of the best exercises that stimulate the most muscle growth…
First though, I [...]

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