Fatloss Power Strategy from Isabel de Los Rios....Today's post:  Thursday, 5-31-2018

Last week we posted that SSRI antidepressants reduce healthy bone growth and replacement and new research shows this causes them to have a fattening effect.

Then, since SSRI antidepressants don’t work anyway according to the research I’ve seen, I list the far better news that the lifestyle upgrades that cause you to lose fat you keep off ALL tend to make you feel better and turn off depression.

The fattening actions have been shown to CAUSE depression.  And the actions that keep you lean turn it off! That has been proven too!

But that still leaves a gap for many of us.

How do you feel better about making the effort to do those things?

Fatloss & recipe expert Isabel de Los Rios found a great answer to this!

I’ll add my comments after hers; but I liked much of what she had to say so I’ll quote her directly.

Most of her own advice I think is good -- although I haven’t thought as well of some of the things from others she has promoted at times.  This is a good sample of some of her better ideas.

“a few months ago I gained a completely new perspective on goals and how we should set them.

I was watching a video where Marie Forleo was interviewing Danielle Laporte. Marie is a business coach and specializes in helping entrepreneurs build online businesses, and Danielle is a best-selling author and speaker who also specializes in helping entrepreneurs.

When Marie asked Danielle how she sets goals for herself, Danielle's answer completely floored me.

Danielle went on to explain the many times in the past (especially around the New Year) she set goals for herself and then never followed through on them. Ever do that? I know I have.

The problem, Danielle said, was that she would read the goals she had written down and never really felt inspired by them.

She would set goals for herself like…

Lose the baby weight.

De-clutter the house.

Pay off credit card debt.

And on and on...

Danielle said it was no wonder she would quickly lose motivation on her goals. They really didn't do much to spark inspiration in her. 

So Danielle took a completely different approach to her goals... she started focusing on the feelings she wanted to experience on a daily basis instead of on the actual goal itself.

BAM! Isabel light bulb moment!

Maybe all the times I set a goal and didn't follow through was because I never took the time to think about the feeling I wanted to experience when I accomplished that goal.

Maybe I also needed to focus on the feeling during the process of accomplishing that goal.

Let's take an example of a goal that I know is near and dear to all of us.

Let’s say you set a goal of losing 20 pounds. You give yourself 10 weeks to accomplish that goal-- (averaging 2 pounds per week, which is a pretty aggressive goal, but let’s go with it).

Instead of immediately creating a long list of to-dos to accomplish that goal, which can make the entire process feel overwhelming, you start with a list of ways you want to feel while you are working on that goal and when you accomplish it.

I want to feel...

• Satisfied
• In control
• Energized
• Sexy (come on, you know you wanted to say it)
• Peaceful

WOW. What if you could feel all those feelings I just listed above and lose 20 pounds in 10 weeks? IS that something you'd be interested in? I think I hear a yes coming through the computer!

Now ask yourself...

"What are the things I must do to combine my goal of weight loss with the feelings above?" That is a very different question than what the original question was, without considering your feelings.

It may have previously been "What do I have to do to lose weight?" (Blah. Boring and uninspiring.) But now it has more meaning and emotion to it.

Let's answer the question now...

What must you do to lose 20 pounds in 10 weeks, while feeling satisfied, in control, energized, sexy and peaceful? (I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited to answer this question now.)

Here are a few ways I would answer. These do not have to be the ones you choose. They are not perfect in any way, but they would be the ways I would personally answer this question for myself.

*I will pick 2 breakfast options that I know make me feel full and are quick and easy to make. This covers the feeling of being satisfied (nobody wants to be hungry, right?), and it covers the feelings of being peaceful and in control. If I already know what I’m going to have for breakfast and I can do it fairly quickly, this eliminates any anxiety I may have around making sure my first meal of the day is healthy.

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*I will dance as my form of exercise 5 days a week, in the morning, at home, in front of a mirror (just being honest here!!!). There's nothing that makes me feel more energized than dancing. Five minutes into my favorite pop song and I feel like I can take over the world. Dancing also has the added benefit of making me feel like I'm young and sexy (move over Beyonce!!!). If I were to pick a workout like CrossFit or grunting at the gym, that would make me feel so NOT sexy and really not energized at all.

But that's just me. You may walk into your CrossFit workout and feel like you're on top of the world. The idea here is to pick a form of movement that makes YOU feel great.

*I will pack my lunch every night while I'm cleaning up after dinner. This always makes me feel in control. Knowing that my lunch will always be healthy no matter how my day goes, not only gives me a sense of control, it also gives me the same level of peace I felt about my breakfast. It also has the added benefit of helping me feel satisfied since I know the foods I'll have packed are foods that make me feel full and avoid any afternoon cravings.

Now it's your turn.

What is your #1 goal right now?

What are the exact feelings you want to feel while you're in the process of accomplishing that goal? Don't be vague here. Be specific and don't be afraid to be 100% honest.

What are the things you will do to combine your goal with the feelings you want to feel?"

My comments:

1.  It’s been shown that focusing only on your most important goals makes it more likely you’ll take action.

Notice that Isabel focuses here on just eating right and exercise.

2.  It’s been shown that writing down specific actions to take to achieve your goals helps.  She does that but adds the extra good feelings she gets!

3.  You are more likely to do things that follow a predictable and repeatable weekly pattern instead of having to think up what to do each day.

Note that Isabel does this well!  She does use creativity to vary within her weekly pattern and adds this focus on feeling good about it.

I’ve used this for quite some time for both my exercises each week and what I eat.

It really works!

Conclusion:

Setting things up to feel good about taking the actions that remove fat and keep it off enables you to do it and keep doing it!

Take Isabel’s advice and decide what works for you to help you feel good about taking action.

You’ll be glad you did! 

Deliberate lies about supplements for heart health....Today's post:  Wednesday, 5-30-2018

It’s easy to lie to the public about health issues.

You do a study that leaves out anything that proves your lie wrong.

You put a headline on your study results that says the lie you want to say.

Of course, your study was of something else instead. But your headline is what people read!

Question:

Are there supplements that effectively prevent heart attacks and strokes.

There are indeed.

Of course it also helps if you stop eating and drinking heart attack starters and stop taking drugs or using tobacco products that harm your heart or trigger heart attacks.

And, research shows that eating a lot of organic vegetables and fruit and doing the right kind of exercise each week helps too.

But there are a set of supplements that can cut your heart attack risk by more than two to one in just weeks that you can add to that! 

(See our post:  Fast Heart Protection without drugs…. Tuesday, 1-9-2018.  It’s one of several that we’ve done on those supplements.)

So, how can you fool the public into NOT believing that is possible?

We know exactly how because it’s just now being done:

It’s in today’s Google Health News and was released recently in Medical News Today as: 

"Heart health: Supplements don't work, with one exception:"

Did they study the supplements that do work or compare people who take those to people who do not?

Of course not!

But that is how they deliberately worded their headline.

What did they study?

The real study was:

“Possibly accurate meta-analysis of varying studies found that just taking modest amounts of standard vitamins did not have significant heart protective effects. Folic acid did show some such effect though.”

How can a truthful headline be made of that?

Preliminary survey of mixed studies found that just taking a multivitamin by itself was not enough for heart protection.

THAT is true since that is what they did.

Does the actual study support the headline used:

“Heart health: Supplements don't work…”

No.

Worse, since there ARE supplements that are quite protective it’s totally false.

What to do when this kind of fake information is passed on in headlines?

Unfortunately, assume the headline is a lie since that seems usually to be the case.

Then, check out what was actually studied and find what research has been done on things that do work.

Most people don’t have time to do that.

But this shows that if you don’t have the time to do that, it’s likely that a headline like this that slams supplements is a deliberate lie of this kind.

MSG also boosts metastasis and causes migraines....Today's post:  Tuesday, 5-29-2018

A.  As you may have seen, the makers of MSG have funded a disinformation campaign on Facebook that has at least a dozen people saying that the furor over MSG is based on iffy or incorrect information.

The actual research on MSG finds it is so harmful it should be illegal to add to foods –

 or at the very least illegal to put MSG in foods without informing the person eating or buying it that it’s there and abundant research shows it’s quite harmful and fattening!

In the emails I get from HSI, they disclose this kind of information about food ingredients and drugs that are much more harmful than most people know.

They sent an email recently saying that MSG also boosts metastasis and causes migraines!

1.  Many people who get migraines from eating hidden MSG already know about this of course.

But my interest has been how fattening it is and how it speeds aging and causes heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease and helps cause many cancers. So I’ve not focused on migraines caused by MSG

But unlike these things that happen gradually over time, migraines are a right now nasty!

They often hurt enough to ruin your quality of life and social life.

Not only that, they can be bad enough to prevent you from driving or going to work.

So, this is one reason MSG should be illegal to add to foods or do so without full disclosure to the people buying it or eating it that it often does have this effect.

2.  The book Anti-cancer shows that eating and drinking proinflammatory foods and drinks and ingredients tends to cause cancer and how to eat instead and supplements to take to prevent this.

Other research has found this kind of high chronic inflammation also causes heart disease and arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr Dale Bredesen has shown that this kind of inflammation is one of the most potent causes of Alzheimer’s disease.

And Dr Russell Blaylock found that MSG, what he calls an excitoxin, specifically is a cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

3.  Eating MSG with its excitoxin effects also causes AFIB, very rapid heart rate that can cause strokes and heart attacks. 

Worse, the drugs to turn that off are risky and often don’t work; and the drugs now given as blood thinners and heart failure drugs cause severe reductions in your quality of life and force eventual death from heart failure.

This happened to my Dad.  Trust me.  You do NOT want to pay lots of money to go through this.

Avoiding MSG can help avoid this entirely! This alone is worth avoiding ALL MSG to avoid!

4.  It’s not widely known; but your immune system repairs the kind of DNA damage that can cause cancers and even kills small cancers and removes them.

What can kill you is if a cancer escapes this and begins to set up shop all over your body growing large enough to cause harm where it lands.

This process is called metastasis.

So this quote from their email is important and a bit frightening:

“MSG is known to promote the growth of cancer cells by causing them to become more "mobile" and enhancing their ability to metastasize.”

This means that if you get a cancer your immune system will likely kill off or one that will stay localized that you can survive – but you eat MSG regularly, it’s more likely to kill you and cause you severe pain.

B.  So is the disinformation correct?

Is the bad reputation of MSG nothing to worry about?

No!  MSG is not only something to worry about, it’s a very dangerous food additive.

I make a special effort to avoid it!

For your sake, I hope you do the same!  

Alternatives to antidepressants that fatten....Today's post:  Thursday, 5-24-2018

1.  The news came out sometime ago that SSRI antidepressants reduce healthy bone growth and replacement.

SSRI antidepressants can help cause or worsen osteoporosis in other words -- AND reducing healthy bone mass and its metabolism tends to fatten or make fatloss or keeping off lost fat harder.

2. For many years it has been known that SSRI antidepressants only work marginally well -- so little in fact that reports they do so may be a placebo effect only if all the research done on them is included.

The reason seems to be that serotonin in the brain is soothing and a boost but increasing serotonin in the blood stream tends to cause problems instead.  SSRI antidepressants boost serotonin in your blood and do NOT boost it in your brain!

Thinking warm thoughts towards someone or nonthreatening good news tends to boost serotonin in the brain; and so does taking at least 10,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 along with the vitamin K2 that also helps build healthy bone with the calcium in your system while keeping it out of your blood vessel walls.

This suggests that people who take SSRI antidepressants might tend to get fatter and not feel better for the money they spend.

3.  Now it’s in the news that a study found that SSRI antidepressants do tend to cause fat gain!  We already know why.  But to have it confirmed directly too is important.

4.  The actions that help people lose excess fat and keep it off take some extra effort.

So feeling de-energized or depressed makes that harder.

Besides taking vitamin D3 & K2, are there other things you can do to feel better?

Here’s great news!

Three of the things that work well to lose excess fat and keep it off make you feel better and have tested to turn off depression even before you lose much fat!

Several studies have shown that people who begin to drink soft drinks and diet soft drinks and eat foods with hybrid wheat and grain oils and sugars and artificial sweeteners become depressed.

And, if they were depressed when they began doing these things, this has tested to make them more depressed besides making them fatter.

a) Stopping these fattening and drinks, particularly avoiding regular and diet soft drinks and artificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup and excessive real sugar and hybrid wheat --  100% stops both the fat gain and the mood depressing effects of blood sugar swings!

b)  Stopping pro-inflammatory foods and ingredients such as all hybrid wheat and grain oils and MSG and eating organic fruits and vegetables and wild caught fish and extra virgin olive oil instead plus eating or taking ginger or turmeric or the curcumin it contains AT THE SAME TIME has extremely high health benefits.

And making that switch tends to help people go from adding excess fat to removing it AND feel better too!

c)  Regular vigorous exercise helps remove excess fat and keep it off.  But it also turns off depression both by boosting your blood flow and releasing BDNF to grow or repair new nerves and brain cells.

This exercise-caused improvement in your brain and nerve cells has been found to stop depression AND shows up in direct scans of your brain.

And, you feel more able and capable as you get better at exercise.

So if you want to feel better AND be less fat and stay that way, never take SSRI antidepressants or step down until you are off them entirely and do these other things instead!

The anti-inflammatory things in particular reduce the side-effects of withdrawal from SSRI antidepressants.

5.  Bad things still happen if I do all these things.  How do I feel better anyway?

a) Do more things that make things better. 

List some possible solutions for problems and do some of the most promising and some of the easiest that are likely to work.

b) Notice when good things happen.  Surprisingly, even on mostly bad days some good things happen.

c) Do some things you enjoy on most days other than food treats.

d) Do something nice for someone else or at least think warm thoughts about them

People who usually feel OK or even better have bad things happen every day.  They just make sure to have or notice more good things each day.

If you follow that strategy AND do the things that help you feel better physically AND help you lose fat you keep off and avoid things that harm your brain and nerves you’ll feel better!

Conclusion:

SSRI antidepressants not only do not work, they are contraindicated in people who would rather not be fat. 

So, if you want to feel better and free of excess fat, use these effective alternatives instead. 

Exercise is a gateway to health....Today's post:  Tuesday, 5-22-2018

A.  Already known ways exercise gives you good health:

1.  Consistently, studies have found that doing effective strength training as few as two times a week with an intervening day to recover and doing some form of brief but vigorous cardio as few as three or four days a week and doing it every week or very close to it, has almost magical powers to benefit good health.

2.  Eating enough protein and organic vegetables and fruit and taking antioxidant supplements as well increases the health effects of this kind of exercise and avoids problems.

3.  Following a low inflammation lifestyle and avoiding things that boost it also increases the health effects this kind of exercise and avoids problems.

4.  To gain the best health benefits without exercise, studies show you’ll get best results by eating 6 to 9 servings a day of organic vegetables of different kinds -- IF you don’t exercise too.

But a study found people who exercise in this way only need to eat two to four servings a day of organic vegetables of different kinds to get those effects!  That makes it much more doable!

5.  People who exercise in this way live up to decades longer and have less chance of getting heart disease, Alzheimer’s and strokes an impressive study from Stanford found. 

It was impressive precisely because the study was of Stanford professors and staff. Both the ones who exercised in this way and those who did not had an above average income and lifestyle and access to medical care.  Yet the exercisers remained healthy and active and alive many years longer!

(We now know that exercise plus good nutrition tends to keep your telomeres long and your mitochondria healthy and to release the brain and nerve growth hormone BDNF.  Every one of those effects slows aging.)

6.  Another study found that people who exercised in this way every year tended to get better and better readings on HDL and LDL cholesterol each year until they were at unusually low risk of heart disease and strokes.

B.  More studies just released show even more health benefits of exercise:

1.  If your blood vessels become stiff and coated with calcium deposits, your blood pressure goes up; and your risk of fatal heart disease and strokes goes up as well.  This is also a cause of moving stiffly and slowly in older people.

A recent study found that even two or three days a week of exercise tended to prevent this to some degree. 

And at least four or five days a week of exercise was even more effective AND included preventing this in the blood vessels that serve your heart and other internal organs!

(This helps explain the anti-aging effects and the continuous reducing of heart attack risks of regular exercise!)

Note that you can increase this protection by taking vitamin K2 along with vitamin D3.   Vitamin K2 acts like a traffic cop by causing calcium in your blood to leave your blood vessel walls and strengthen your bones instead!  Besides exercise, beginning vitamin K2 reduces calcium deposits in your blood vessels in just a few weeks after you begin to take it.

AND, note that it’s been found that taking statins worsens this by depleting vitamin K2.  That’s why studies show taking statins worsens this and is another reason why taking statins is a mostly ineffective way to protect against heart attacks.

2.  Another new study also found that people who do regular exercise tend to prevent heart disease and dementia. 

But this study also added that regular exercise prevented the kind of frailty in older people that limits their lives and puts them into some kind of assisted living!

They found this even for people who do a mix of exercises.  But as readers of this blog know, effective strength training, particularly for your legs and hips and lower back does this even more!

3.  The third benefit of exercise that was in the news just day before yesterday in the Style section of the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Shari Shyrock, a personal trainer who uses strength training well and has many years of experience said in her experience only her clients who exercise tend to eat right.

Studies over 50 years ago found this effect! 

If people began even a little bit of exercise and kept doing it, a miraculous effect happened.

Without any apparent effort, they found they were able to eat better and some even quit smoking.

Since then the social scientists have found why this occurs.  Once someone begins to exercise regularly they explain this to themselves as “That means I am the kind of person who acts to protect my health.”

Then, once that happens, taking other health benefitting actions fits their new self image.  Those actions become “normal” and easy to do.

C. We just did a couple of posts on a way women, and men too*, can begin effective strength training at home with no equipment needed.

“Begin a trial to learn to do “women’s” pushups. 

Do this once a day for about one minute three days this week and next.

Do this for the next two weeks.  Sure you can get surprisingly strong after that if you like following the descriptions listed last in this post.

Since it only takes one minute two or three days a week and there’s nothing to buy or wait to get,

this is quite doable.

But for today, just make a commitment to do this for just two weeks. Start this week!

To begin, do two or three of what the yoga people call the “Lion’s pose.”

Lie face down with your hands just a bit wider than your shoulders as if you were doing a regular pushup.

Then, using the muscles in the back of your neck and lower back pull your head up until you are looking towards the wall in front of you.  Then without lifting your hips at all push down until your arms are fully extended.

Hold it for just a bit and then do two or three more.

At first stop there if you like.  It takes less than one minute to do and one minute to get into position do that and stand back up.

For today, just make a commitment to do this for just two weeks.

I put this last for two reasons. 

It’s so easy to do –

and has such profound effects on your self- image,

if you only keep doing only one of these actions after the first two weeks, keep doing the pushups!

If you keep doing a few more each time, you’ll get to where you can do 25 of these each time.

Then, when that happens, use your back to lift your hips and knees an inch or two off the floor.  Let yourself down until just your knees touch and push back up with your arms. Keep the arch and your head up looking at the wall in front of you.

Next time start this by pushing up with your arms for that few inches.

Unlike regular pushups this does not tend to injure your shoulders or take great arm strength.

Yet it does build the pectoral muscles that do the push down movement quite well.

Keep adding a few each time until you can do 25.  Then add one or two each week.

(You can actually get stronger doing these than many men who don’t exercise without ever doing regular pushups!)

This is surprisingly easy to do AND research shows doing this kind of brief exercise is a keystone habit that makes doing more of the other things easy!

Instead of thinking of eating better as hard or something you don’t do, you begin to think of yourself as someone who can take control of your health and does so. 

At that point you’ll find eating better and dropping the harmful things is easy because it fits your new self image.” 

*I’m a man and am 74 years old according to the calendar and used this method of doing pushups for the past few months.

I went from a bit over 50 to 187 this past Monday.  And I added an inch of muscle on my chest in that time.

So, I can say confidently that this exercise works for men too! 

My Monthly Fatloss Report May 2018.....

Today's post:  Monday, 5-21-2018

A.  Here's the key news:

1.  Fat Loss Report, measured on Saturday, 5-19-2018

Gained exactly 2.2 pounds to 165.5 from 163.3 last month

Without the extra session of intense variable cardio I had last month, I gained most of the fat it removed back.  But not all of the fat & weight I lost last time came back. I kept the other pound or so of fatloss off!

The difference is likely muscle gain from my continued progress on my pectoral building style pushups.

My chest measured 38 & three quarters to 39 inches, another quarter of an inch bigger than last month and an inch bigger than two months ago.  This is about two inches bigger than several months ago when I was 37 & a half inches.

(This very likely is from muscle growth from my progress in pushups in the style that uses my pectoral muscles better than standard pushups.  I just posted on this style recently and I’ll quote that description and the reasons for it a bit later in this post.)

The progress has been profound.  Last month, I did 126 and 33 more after the brief rest for a total of 159!

Not only was that another new record it felt like I might have enough fitness at this to do 133 & 36 for a 169 total.

(Jack LaLanne once did pushups for half an hour on TV just to show he could do so.  He was fond of doing this kind of fitness stunt for publicity and the thrill of beating the challenge.  When I read about this I thought it was a bit excessive. 

Much to my surprise I’m beginning to think I could do this too.  I won’t because I don’t want to overdo AND I only have two minutes in that part of my exercise set on Mondays.  But 214 as 205 plus 9 might be doable!)

This morning, I did 143 and 44 more after a brief rest for a total of 187!

My waist measurement remained about the same at 41 and a three quarter inches to about 42 and a three quarter inches.  (These are the normally slightly tight and the totally relaxed measures.)

My hips measured about 37 and three quarters.   That’s three quarters of an inch more than 37 not long ago. (This also shows I’ve kept the muscle gains in my hips and legs I think.)

When I get able to do barbell strength training with a good bit heavier weights and add more muscle to the rest of me, this may finally begin to reduce my waist.

My too high heart rate and diastolic blood pressure I developed after Thanksgiving is GONE.  My readings are back to the good side of what was normal for me!

My heart rate and mean blood pressure have dropped as I stopped taking green tea extract and Guarana extract and extra coffee on arriving at work.  I also cut my wine intake in half – 3 days a week instead of 6. 

(Excessive and repeated stress and a handful of binge drinking episodes when I was younger and taking the synephrine and the other stimulants on top of that are the likely causes.  Both fixes for these things have now been in place a month longer than last time.)

It looks as if cutting my wine intake days by over half and continuing the milk thistle and other liver healing supplements may have fixed having my heart beat irregularly and dropped my angiotensin back to normal according to an article I read recently in a Resparate email!

I might have become magnesium deficient from taking a diuretic and the Zantac acid reducer.  So, I used a topical magnesium supplement besides the 800 mg of magnesium a day that I take. 

It was an extra chore to put on and then wash off before it irritated my skin.  And, though it may have helped initially, cutting my wine intake about in half and slashing my stimulant intake to zero have clearly done the most good.  So for now I’ve stopped the topical magnesium.

When I saw the doctor and got an EKG and then an Echocardiogram, they found I had something called atrial flutter and occasionally AV block and slightly thickened and stretched -- and now also slightly leaky heart valves.

The doctors wanted to put me on the dangerous and harmful drug blood thinners. 

Mercifully, I know better because that guarantees I’ll get worse over time and die younger and become unable to exercise decently.

*Since I wrote that two months ago, I saw the cardiologist.  When I told her that some days my blood pressure and heart rate suggested periods when my heart beat normally, she said if a new 14 day high tech, easy to use monitor called the Zio by iRhythm Technologies verified that this would mean that she would not then urge the dangerous blood thinning drugs on me. 

She still suggested a daily aspirin which I declined.  She did enter “informed refusal” on my records.  

Given the readings suggesting the problems were gone the last 7 days in a row before that, if the monitor verified those as happening the rest of my days over the 14 days -- that will please me and reassure her!

I got the device installed in late March or so. And April’s report had the results.

I already take several supplements that do clot prevention better and more safely in combination than the drugs can do.  This is so much the case that taking even one dose of the drug blood thinners could cause me to bleed to death internally.

Given that I am reducing or stopping several causes and do have the excess clotting protection, it would be desirable to stop the atrial flutter and heal the valves too; but I do not need to be in a crashing rush to do so.

To the extent these problems result from injuries or injury to my endothelium in the blood vessels new research has found that the vitamin D3 and K2 I take will heal that over time.

(These plus the milk thistle I take and the wine cut back may have done the job by restoring my liver’s proper processing of angiotensin which is now low normal instead of too high apparently!)

Had the device found that I still need more healing, I can always go to these added supplements  I listed last month:

When I saw the cardiologist who wrote the Rx to get the Zio monitor done, she said that if my high heart rate continued or I had a lot of PVCs or PACs she would again recommend the blood thinning drugs. 

But if there were no more high heart rate every day and few of the PACs and PVCs, we could just keep doing as I have been

So the test came back showing that I only had a high heart rate when I did things like my pushups that caused me to get out of breath after them.  

My near race walk speed exercise walks also do this once or twice a week.  (At a 159 heart rate that is about what you need to get a fitness training effect.)  And that was my high.  I had 37 when I was at rest and sleeping in bed.  And the average was 52!

So the high heart rate above what it should be was completely gone!

Also instead of possibly having continuous PACs and almost that many PVCs as my original electrocardiogram found, the Zio test -- after my two effective fixes were in place -- found PACs 7% of the time and PVCs less than a quarter that often.

So I was shocked to find the cardiologist wanted me to get a stress echocardiogram.

I declined and will continue to do so.  The Zio test data show no need for one. 

And, I’m not any more likely than I was before to agree to use the harmful and dangerous blood thinning drugs when I’m already using something more effective and far safer.

After my fixes have had a bit longer to heal my liver and my heart a normal echo while stationary will make sense to see if the leaky valve effect and stretched valves causing it is better, the same, or worse.

…. platelet rich plasma might well heal my valves and heart rhythm controls entirely when I can afford to add that.

Then, if I still need to fix the valves or they get worse, Stanford Medical School and their attached hospital now can fix them using material from my heart and resulting in better pumping than what the standard procedure has been.  And, best of all, it works so well, there is zero need to take drug blood thinners after the procedure.

It’s also encouraging that my heart is able to power me to new records for pushups while this is going on!  To me this shows the things I’ve done to strengthen it have worked.

[Also, since last month I saw my regular doctor who I showed my continuing heart rate and blood pressure readings to and she now said, I’ll be fine doing as I am with no need for extra drug blood thinners.]

(Not long ago I was pleased if I could do 40 to 44 pushups the one day a week I test that each week each Monday.  

You saw above that today, I did 143 and another 44 after a short pause for a total of 187!

(I’ll cover why the style I use makes that doable and safe for my shoulders later in this post.  It was in a recent post also so you might have read it before.

Even so you might find it worth re-reading because it clearly works so very well!)

2. I’ve long ago discontinued the 20 mg of Synephrine completely because it did not change my results that much and it did cause an elevated heart rate and may have caused the atrial flutter and valve damage.

(Combined with the tea and coffee and green tea extracts I was using, the higher pressure in my heart apparently stretched it enough to make the match wrong for electrical impulses for heart rate. 

Now I’ve stopped those as well as the Synephrine, and lowered my diastolic BP this stretching may have gone down.  My cardiologist said that is unlikely enough a story on it would make the NY Times.  That I doubt very much!  But the reduction of the stretching may well show up!)

So, for me the Synephrine definitely a bad idea – or taking it while extra stressed was. 

I did seem to gain muscle without gaining fat when I was taking the Synephrine.

So, for a younger person with far less stress and stress driven slightly high blood pressure, they might be OK with it.

However, given the damage it is known to cause and apparently did cause in me, I no longer think Synephrine safe enough for even younger people to use and that other methods should be used instead.

The bioflavonoid supplement with 100 mg of rutin, I’ve discontinued when I ran out since it seemed not to add any extra effect to the parsley and oregano dried spices I have also been taking.

The apigenin in these herbs and their other phytonutrients do help you recover from exercise and build bone and muscle and heal your gut.  So I have continued those.

I did cut back on my wine intake and at first I used the topical magnesium.

But the continuing stop on the high level of stimulant supplements seems to do most of it.

I’ve also done a bit better on managing finances which cuts stress and have the prospect of getting much more leverage on finances by next month’s report or the one after that.

3.  My food intake recently has been quite consistent and my overall results of about the same with a bit of up and down reflects this.  

I set a new record for my short daily exercise walk/run combo recently

4. *For me, as for many people, having enough money for at least a minimum OK lifestyle with zero chances of severe money problems reduces stress. 

This has gotten slightly but significantly better lately. So it is less stressful too.

It looks like some long delayed funds will arrive in a month or two which will help

*For me, even more than other people who also have it but at a lower level, having an ally who is unusually supportive and of some help sharply lowers my stress level.

 This part is going well as one ally has become more supportive recently and one good ally who I’d lost touch with is back and supportive.

*Worry about my recent heart rhythm and valve problems has caused me some increase in stress.

But that news is better now!

5.  I'm currently making an extra effort to overcome this recent stress. Emulating the Seal way of using my training and keeping on no matter what IS helping.  

The new nose breathing I posted on Tuesday, 10-5-2017 also DOES seem to be helping.  It DOES help to avoid the brain freeze I tended to get when I mouth breathed when under high stress.

6.  I believe my continued persistence and continuing to both follow up on successful efforts and finding new and promising things to check on AND doing so, 

WILL enable me to lose my excess fat remaining and keep it off.

7.  I’m continuing to find new ways to boost my metabolism and add bone and muscle that I’m beginning to use.

As my new strength training method helps me get stronger; I get better at it; and I can get to the heavier weights to use it on, it DOES begin to look like I’ll add enough muscle that by eating about the same and continuing to get better at the lower carb effort, I’ll finally get back to weighing 161 pounds with far less fat than I have had.

Conclusion:

 I’ll achieve the financial leverage I need.

I’ll get the active allies I need.

 AND I’ll begin to use all of the metabolism boosters I’ve found to add to the ones I’ve been using.

  

(That includes adding a weekly workout at a gym with heavy barbells and adding these new techniques and trying the BulletProof Vibe.

I HAVE added a special set of exercises once a week that I'm already doing standing in the space the BulletProof Vibe allows.  That way, I'll be ready to go when I get one to try!

The last bit of good news this month is that I’m still getting stronger in the two key exercises in this special set of exercises.

The other two pieces of good news is that besides the metabolism boost and removing excess lymph and fluid to cause some loss in weight and inches and increasing muscle mass --

combining platelet rich plasma treatment with using the Vibe may heal my left foot and even my heart valves perhaps.

Since last month I found that both plasma and platelets boost clotting.  So when I try that, I should likely boost the things I do to keep that to a desirable level!)    

I.  Using the Bullet Proof Vibe the way I plan will likely help me lose fat and gain muscle and the new money I expect in a month or two will buy me one to try!

Using the Vibe as I plan to do, I expect will help me add 5 or 6 pounds of muscle and lose 1o to 12 pounds of fat.  My weight will only drop to about 160 to 161 pounds which is my goal weight.  But if the vibe has these effects and also removes locked-in lymph from my belly and my internal or visceral fat I may lose from two to seven inches on my waist measurement.  Now in inches, I’m about 39 chest, 42 waist, and 37 & three quarter inch hips.

This may finally get me the 4o inch chest and 34 or 36 inch waist and the 38 and muscular hip readings I’ve wanted.

It may take more time to get to a gym two or three times a month; but in a month or two it looks likely I’ll be able to try the VIBE.

II. You can use pushups as I’ve been doing to add strength and size to your pectoral muscles with almost no shoulder damage or injuries.

Here’s what I posted about doing pushups in that style recently:

“a) Pushups and bench presses are important to do because the pectorals and latissimus dorsi – called pecs and lats by body builders, are large muscles and provide the base for anything you need to do with your upper body that requires strength.

The unfortunate news is that the way untutored people do pushups, they tend to injure your shoulders.  This common style tends to put more strain on your frontal deltoid muscle than it is well designed to take and in a position that strains this muscle.

The key change is to a form where the pectoral muscle does 90% of the work instead and uses the frontal deltoid far less and in a high leverage position.

When doing pushups when you come down, if you touch your chin or chest and then go back up, you’ll tend to injure your shoulders. Using that same style doing bench presses is even worse for producing shoulder injuries because you rapidly become able to use more weight.

The cure is surprisingly simple! 

When you do pushups, lift your head so you are looking at the wall in front of you and, NOT, repeat NOT, at the floor.

Then increase the arch in your back this causes as much as you can so your shoulders are already well up from the floor.

Then using your pectoral muscles almost by themselves to a strong “push down” motion with them.  

Then you only need to push a bit with the triceps in your arms at the top.

(Note that you do NOT use the front of your shoulders much at all to do either part!)

Lastly, only go down until your KNEES touch before you go back up.

To do the bench press safely with weights heavy enough to be effective, you will get strong enough to need one or two skilled spotters in case you try to lift too much or cannot do the last rep you had hoped to do.

But if you are only using lighter weights where you almost certainly can lift more and more times than you are doing, that may not be necessary.  Just do pushups as a second set and do as many as you can.

But in BOTH cases, you use the same method as in the pushups, which is why to learn the method doing pushups first.

Leaving your buttocks firmly touching the bench, get as much arch in your back as you can and look as far back as you can rather than at the bar.

Then, in that position, let the bar down under control until it just touches your chest.  Then use your pectoral muscles in a push DOWN method for the first two thirds of the lift; and then at that point finish the lift pushing with the triceps on your arms.  With the weight already moving and lifted that far your arms can then finish with a weight you could not lift with your arms and shoulders!

Best of all, because you use your pectorals so much and your shoulders so little you can become able to lift a good bit of weight without the nagging shoulder injuries the more common style causes!”