Solving the Paleo Equation: Stress Nutrition Exercise Sleep

by Garrett Smith

Overview

Solving the Paleo Equation: Stress, Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep is the ultimate guide to customizing your diet and lifestyle practices to your unique physical and metabolic needs. You’ll learn how to maximize your health practices and minimize your time and effort—no more driving yourself to exhaustion in hardcore fitness classes. No more strict, unsustainable, and impractical approaches to nutrition, either. Solving the Paleo Equation will help you not only avoid the ravages of adrenal fatigue, low metabolism, dwindling sex drive, and sleep problems—all-too-common consequences of overzealous workout regimes—it will help you rehabilitate from the unhealthful “health” protocols you’ve pursued in the past.

Throughout this book, naturopathic physician Dr. Garrett Smith and independent health researcher and best-selling author Matt Stone address the main areas that the “health seeker” often dangerously ignores, like:
• Sleep: One simple change in your bedroom could restore a normal cortisol rhythm!
• Stress: Practices to keep your home and workspaces from raising your adrenaline and sapping your testosterone!
• Exercise: Simple, free, reliable ways to self-monitor to avoid burnout and overtraining, regardless of the type of exercise!
• Nutrition: Learn about the four “Anti-Stress S’s” and their powerful affects in the body!

Instead of regurgitating the old-school saw to “eat clean and exercise more,” Smith and Stone focus on the basic pillars of true health and outstanding physical and mental function: sleep, stress, exercise, and nutrition. By analyzing and improving the fundamental areas of physical function—sleep quality, sexual performance, digestion, blood sugar regulation, body temperature, etc.—virtually every system of the body dramatically improves as well.

In Solving the Paleo Equation, Smith and Stone go beyond simple Paleo theory and take readers on a journey toward a practical and useful understanding of how their bodies work. Using the simple tools of a thermometer and basic biofeedback markers (urine concentration, temperature of hands and feet, mood stability, bowel transit time, etc.), you will learn how to eat and live the most healthfully for YOU. Solving the Paleo Equation is not a health formula, philosophy, cult, fad, or movement, but an education. It’s the manual on do-it-yourself health enhancement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936608270
Publisher:	Victory Belt Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2014
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Garrett L. Smith is a licensed naturopathic physician in three states (AZ, WA, OR) who practices primarily clinical nutrition and functional medicine in Tucson, Arizona. He has written online for 180 Degree Health, The Performance Menu, and the Weston A. Price Foundation. He earned his naturopathic medical degree from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and his B.S. in Physiology from the University of Arizona. Also a certified strength coach, he has trained and competed in many sports, ranging from baseball to triathons to Olympic weightlifting. He can be found online at www.DrGarrettSmith.com. His main goal is to teach people that good health can be obtained without the typical neurotic and fear-driven approaches that have become so trendy in these times.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Part 1 Stress

1 Defining Stress 10

2 Types of Stressors 13

3 Stress Indicators 19

4 De-Stressing Tools 23

5 The Metabolism-Stress Connection 29

Part 2 Nutrition

6 Function First 33

7 The Paleo Diet 41

8 Metabolism: The Foundation 48

9 Metabolism Report Card 55

10 Eat for Heat 57

11 Give a Hoot, Don't Dilute! 60

12 Balancing the Equation 66

13 Fats, Protein, and Carbohydrates 77

14 What a Healthy Diet Looks Like 94

15 Body Fat 96

Part 3 Exercise

16 Health versus Fitness 105

17 The Trouble with Too Much Exercise 108

18 Exercise Addiction 111

19 General Guidelines for Sustainable Exercise 117

20 Your New Training Rules 134

Part 4 Sleep and Recovery

21 Introduction 147

22 Grounding (Earthing) 149

23 Forest Bathing ("Get Your Butt Outside") 154

24 Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and Radio frequency Radiation (RFR) 157

25 Take Action! 171

Conclusion 184

References 187

Editorial Reviews

"After three years of declining performances and difficulty recovering from workouts (things I had attributed to age and constant overtraining), I decided to contact 'Dr. G.' because I knew he had firsthand experience with what I put my body through doing CrossFit and Olympic lifting. The way I felt turned around in less than a month, and my athletic performance followed suit within three months. ...I was restored to my previous abilities."—Josh Everett, second- and third-place CrossFit Games finisher

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