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PETA has a campaign promoting the lie that consuming animal protein will hurt your sex life. I’m not going to manufacture words to make this more interesting. Its not only a lie but it’s the exact opposite of the facts. The vegan diet has long been associated with lowered libido and erectile dysfunction in men and amenorrhea in young menstruating women. This fact was exploited by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who invented Kellogg’s Corn Flakes as a remedy to help young children avoid the self-polluting actions of masturbation. Dr. Kellogg knew full well that vegan diets and diets low in animal protein & fats reduced sexual desire, libido and ejaculation in young adults. There are also numerous scientific studies out there that show long-term vegan diets leading to lowered sex hormone production that can affect libido and fertility in otherwise healthy young adults in childbearing years. This one in particular is...

The Early Years

The third Saturday in November 2005 was the maiden broadcast of the Super Human Radio show on WKJK 1080AM in Louisville Kentucky. I was nervous as hell. I planned the entire week for my first show. I had broadcast veteran LG Dupree (Neal Highfill) in the studio with me for support. Kevin O’Neal was in the control room producing my show and Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale was my very first guest. The topic was the role of a high fat ketogenic diet in strength and performance. That was 13 years ago. Wow, looking back time has just flown by. After the show LG told me I was the most prepared host he’s ever seen. I had copious notes and questions. I was nervous as hell. The show has taken me places I could have never dreamed on that day in 2005. I never thought it would last this long. But I...

Despite a rapidly increasing world population and ever more hyper-connected, globalized world where people, technologies, and ideas move more fluidly than ever before, nearly 20 million children under five years of age are severely malnourished. Standard treatment of these individuals includes the use of calorie-dense ready-to-use therapeutic foods to ensure rapid weight gain. These foods have been so successful in their goal, that ready-to-use supplementary foods (RUSFs) have been developed for use in moderately malnourished children as well. For safety, shelf-life, and financial reasons, RUSFs are based upon a vitamin and mineral fortified peanut butter paste combined with soy protein. However, preliminary evidence in severely malnourished children suggests that a whey-based RUSF is more effective than one using soy. Yet evidence for the use of whey protein in moderately malnourished children is conflicting, with one of the largest barriers to inclusion being the additional cost. As such, Stobaugh et al conducted...

When we pay attention to our evolutionary edicts we are rewarded with greater life span and heath span. 3 that have shaped our 1.8-million-year journey are what I like to call the 3 S's. Sun, Sex and Sleep. Sun exposure has endowed us with many health and longevity benefits that we are just now truly starting to discover. And it's much more than just Vitamin D production. Activation of the melanocortin system reduces whole body inflammation, shift the body to being more lean and muscular, improves mood, increases libido, makes arteries re-absorb atherosclerotic plaque and stops the accumulation of arterial plaque, and improves sleep. The act of having sex is our primary evolutionary directive. Long before Maslow's Hierarchy of Need, there were drivers of reproduction that made us do the things we did. These are not affected by cultural or social constructs, but instead woven right into our DNA. The continuation...

It’s widely reported that Mark Twain knew and predicted the day of his own death throughout his life. He was born on November 30th, 1835 the day Hailey’s Comet circled the Earth. He died 75 years later upon its next coming on April 21st, 1910. How did this affect him? Knowing and believing that he knew the exact day of his death well in advance? His life was filled with achievement. He was an “American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". It's funny how one thought leads to a more obscure but interesting one. With my birthday coming up I thought to myself "it would make a cool bookend to a life if I died the same day I was born. Just many years...

As I near my 60th birthday I take time to reflect over my life. It’s been a great life so far. Really. I don’t feel 60 and when I compare myself to others I know I don’t perform like a 60 year old man in the USA. Now that’s not to say I don’t have any challenges. Health-wise I’ve been chasing this neurological disorder that appears to be exactly what my sister had when she as misdiagnosed as having Parkinson’s Disease. The way I’ve chosen to handle it is vastly different. That brings me to an aspect of my life I want to focus upon in this blog. I was texting one day with Shannan Yorton Penna. I texted her that I wanted to impress my mortician. I said, “when I’m on that slab I want him/her to say ‘wow… this guy squeezed every bit out of this body that he...

If you check the label of any “energy” product today you will find fairly high to overly excessive doses of vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine).  Companies like 5 Hour Energy and even the new Starbucks Energy drinks not only carry high caffeine but also a couple B vitamins always including B6. Most of these Energy product carry anywhere from 200% to 2000% of the RDA of B6. B6 is thought to contribute to energy production through three distinct pathways. It is required for protein metabolism, it helps to regulate the oxygen-carrying effects of hemoglobin and it helps to convert various nutrients into blood sugar thus playing a role in metabolic flexibility. In nature B6 doesn’t occur alone but along with 7 other B vitamins that are called the B Complex. B6 is found in a wide variety of foods including vegetable, meats, fish, nuts and fruits. And while its ubiquitous in our food...

I lost my sister Valerie to PD several years ago. I still maintain that she was misdiagnosed and thus mistreated. I do acknowledge that she had a neuro-muscular disorder, but being treated with dopamine agonists burned out her brain. She did not have any tremor at the onset of the disease. Only symptoms she had was weakness in her right leg and depression. Yet she was diagnosed with PD and drugs to treat PD were prescribed. Over the next 4 years she developed tremor as a result of the drugs. Self-fulfilling diagnosis. This study links changes in the gut and links it to the vegus nerve. The vegus nerve is the main wiring harness of the human body. It connects and innervates every organ system. It also runs along the outer wall of the stomach. It effects digestion directly. It’s also susceptible to the contents of the gut that may leak...

On a recent show you heard Coach Wade Johnson tell us that he has made the cut to be an alternate at the upcoming IPF Classic World Championship in Olympic Lifting. This is a huge opportunity for one of our Super Humans. But is costs money to do this. So what Coach has decided to do, instead of a GoFundMe page or similar, he has designed a one-off T-shirt with the signature Ogre Wear theme. T-shirts are $25 each and come in red or yellow (Ogre Compound Team colors) and available from Small to 5X. Lets support one of our own and we can all be part of this once-in-a-lifetime occasion. ColorRedYellowTypeWomen'sMenSizeSmallMediumLargeXLXXLXXXL4X5x    

I’ve had a hard time getting back into leg training. Since August I’ve trained legs an average of twice a month. It’s not from fear of tearing anything or complications from previous injuries. It’s my left foot which I suffered a crush injury in April of 2016 which has gotten progressively worse over time. The crush injury caused the nerves in my foot to become aggravated which put in motion muscle imbalances that pulled two middle toes out of their sockets and caused the metatarsal of the big toe to spread away from the foot causing the first joint of the big toe to separate. As the foot has gotten worse over the past year the pain of walking has increased. But I never let that stop me from training legs as heavy as I always have in the past. But that all changed after doing heavy farmer walks one day....