Bodily Resources vs Demands

Aug 2, 2016 // by Team FPS // aging, blood sugar, circulation, demands, disease, energy, exercise, General, health, hormones, metabolism, nutrition, protective nutrition, resources, sickness, stress // Comments Off

Also see: Stress — A Shifting of Resources Collection of FPS Charts Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response Low Blood Sugar Basics Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Bowel Toxins Accelerate Aging Exercise Induced Stress Carbohydrate Lowers Exercise Induced Stress Low Carb Diet – Death to Metabolism Can Endurance Sports Really […]

Bodily Resources vs Demands

Aug 2, 2016 // by Team FPS // aging, blood sugar, circulation, demands, disease, energy, exercise, General, health, hormones, metabolism, nutrition, protective nutrition, resources, sickness, stress // Comments Off

Also see: Stress — A Shifting of Resources Collection of FPS Charts Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response Low Blood Sugar Basics Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Bowel Toxins Accelerate Aging Exercise Induced Stress Carbohydrate Lowers Exercise Induced Stress Low Carb Diet – Death to Metabolism Can Endurance Sports Really […]

Joseph Dumit: Maximum Prescriptions: Growing Health and Happiness through Facts and Pharmaceuticals

Jan 7, 2015 // by Team FPS // disease, drugs, General, health, Joe Dumit, marketing, medicine, money, pharma, prescriptions, profits, sickness // Comments Off

Joe Dumit provides insight into the minds of pharmaceutical companies. Economics, marketing, and medicine are intimately linked. Diseases that offer the highest potential return on investment are researched the most. Props to Martin Brown for the find.

Common features of stress response

Oct 25, 2014 // by Team FPS // acth, adaptation, adrenal gland, adrenaline, catatoxic, cortisol, defense, disease, fight or flight, gas, General, general adaptation syndrome, health, homeostasis, pituitary, Ray Peat, resistance, Selye, stereotyped response, stereotypical response, stress, sugar, syntoxic, ulcer // Comments Off

Also see: Low Blood Sugar Basics Stress — A Shifting of Resources Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Belly Fat, Cortisol, and Stress Stress, Portrait of a Killer – Full Documentary (2008) Stress and Aging: The Glucocorticoid Cascade Hypothesis Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response W.D. Denckla, A.V. Everitt, Hypophysectomy, & […]

Universal Principle of Cellular Energy

Jun 22, 2014 // by Team FPS // aging, carbon dioxide, co2, cytochrome oxidase, disease, energy, estrogen, General, glycolysis, lactic acid, living state, oxidative metabolism, polyunsaturated fats, progesterone, PUFA, Ray Peat, regeneration, renewal, Respiration, resting state, streaming, stress, thyroid, Universal Principle of Cellular Energy, UPCE // Comments Off

Also see: Mitochondrial Medicine Protect the Mitochondria Collection of Ray Peat Quote Blogs by FPS Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant Carbon Dioxide Basics Comparison: Carbon Dioxide v. Lactic Acid Comparison: Oxidative Metabolism v. Glycolytic Metabolic Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism ATP Regulates Cell Water Cardiolipin, Cytochrome Oxidase, Metabolism, & Aging High Cholesterol and Metabolism […]

Finding Balance – Yin & Yang Videos – Paul Chek

Sep 9, 2013 // by Team FPS // balance, diet, digestion, disease, General, health, libido, lifestyle, parasympathetic, Paul Chek, rest, Selye, stress, sympathetic, yang, yin // Comments Off

I don’t agree fully with his nutritional insight but the general yin/yang concept is something more westerners need to know and embrace. As a group, we experience too much yang in modern life; Chek’s concept suggests we need more yin (Dr. Diet & Dr. Quiet) to balance.

Serotonin Activates Glycolysis

Dec 2, 2012 // by Team FPS // cancer, disease, estrogen, General, glycolysis, lactate, lactic acid, serotonin, stress // Comments Off

Also see: Tryptophan Metabolism: Effects of Progesterone, Estrogen, and PUFA Estrogen Increases Serotonin Hypothyroidism and Serotonin Omega -3 “Deficiency” Decreases Serotonin Producing Enzyme Enzyme to Know: Tryptophan Hydroxylase Tryptophan, Sleep, and Depression Carbohydrate Lowers Free Tryptophan Gelatin > Whey Serotonin, Fatigue, Training, and Performance Gelatin, Glycine, and Metabolism Whey, Tryptophan, & Serotonin Serotonin and Melatonin [...]

Hypothyroidism and Gallbladder Disease

Jan 20, 2012 // by Team FPS // bile, broda barnes, disease, gallbladderd, General, hypothyroid, odi, progesterone, Ray Peat, sphincter, thyroid // Comments Off

World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Sep 21;11(35):5530-4. Association between thyroid function and gallstone disease. Völzke H, Robinson DM, John U. AIM: To investigate those associations using data of the population-based Study of Health in Pomerania. METHODS: A study population of 3 749 residents aged 20-79 years without previously diagnosed thyroid disease was available for analyses. Serum [...]

Hypothyroidism and A Shift in Death Patterns

Dec 17, 2011 // by Team FPS // antibiotics, atherosclerosis, Austria, broda barnes, cancer, diabetes, disease, General, Graz, heart attack, heart disease, hypothyroidism, Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness, Mark Starr, metabolism, Ratzenhofer, Ray Peat, stroke, T3, T4, The role of natural consequences in the changing death patterns, thyroid, TSH, Tuberculosis // Comments Off

Broda Barnes, more than 60 years ago, summed up the major effects of hypothyroidism on health very neatly when he pointed out that if hypothyroid people don’t die young from infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, they die a little later from cancer or heart disease. -Ray Peat, PhD A low metabolism affects ALL bodily systems. [...]

Dietary Fiber and Cancer

Nov 5, 2011 // by Team FPS // beans, bowel transit, bran, cancer, carcinogensis, corn, dietary, disease, endotoxin, fiber, Fitness, flax, flax oil, flax seed, FPS, Functional Performance Systems, functionalps, General, grain, grains, gut health, insoluble fiber, leaky gut, lignin, lipopolysaccharides, LPS, nutrition, oatmeal, polyunsaturated fats, private gym, PUFA, ripe fruits, seeds, Simi Valley, soy, vegetables, weight loss, wheat // Comments Off

Nutrition and cancer. 1998. v. 31 (1) Dietary lignin, an insoluble fiber, enhanced uterine cancer but did not influence mammary cancer induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea in rats. Previous investigations suggested potential breast cancer-preventive properties of dietary fiber from cabbage. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether lignin, a component of cabbage fiber, would [...]