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2020-12-30 Give the Gift of Life to Yourself and Others: Vitamin D + Vitamin K2 + Magnesium + Vitamin C + Zinc

2020-12-29 US Government Issues New Nutritional Guidelines Pandering to BigAg and BigFood — “Gimme the Sugar”

2020-12-13 Study finds over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency

2020-12-13 Long-Haul COVID 19: WSJ: “For Covid Long-Haulers, a Little-Known Diagnosis Offers Possible Treatments—and New Challenges”

2020-12-13 COVID 19: Questioning the Propoganda in Many Way (Bill Sardi: “NOT COVID”)

2020-12-13 COVID 19: Family Kicked Off Airplane Flight Because 2-Year-Old Would Not Keep Mask On

2020-12-02 Long Haul COVID-19: “JAMA: Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Athletic Heart Emerging Perspectives on Pathology, Risks, and Return to Play”

2020-12-02 Intravenous Vitamin C: “COVID patient with sepsis makes 'remarkable' recovery following megadose of vitamin C”

2020-11-08 Long-Haul COVID aka Chronic Viral Sequelae— the Single Thing that Works Best for (slow) Recovery

2020-10-21 Fatigue and Low Energy? Chronic Fatigue? Long-Haul COVID? Mitochondria Energy Production Might be the Core Issue — Boost Mitochondrial Function with CoQ10, Acetyl L-Carnite, Magnesium

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2020-03-26 COVID-19: Should Doctors and Their Families Get Priority Access to the “Trump Pills”?

Concussion / Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Recovering from a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) AKA concussion, a personal experience report..

1. Concussion: Nutrition, What to Eat and What to Avoid

Mercedes Sprinter Maintenance

Getting long life and good performance..

1. Mercedes Sprinter Maintenance: Engine Oil

Everest Challenge 2-Day Stage Race 2012 / 2013

The most challenging cycling road race in the USA?.

1. Race Hydration and Hyponatremia
2. Race Energy — Calories

Double Centuries, Centuries and Similar

Some great and not so great miles..

1. Death Valley Double Century

Nutrition and Food

Tips on how to eat and recover when training and racing..

1. Nutrition When Training and Racing
2. On-The-Bike Nutrition
3. Nutrition for a Double Century
4. Muscle Fueling: GU Energy Gel
5. On The Bike Fueling: Hammer Gel
6. On The Bike Endurance Fueling: Hammer Perpetuem
7. Electrolyte Replacement for Endurance Events
8. Post-Workout Recovery
9. High Quality Protein Source — Whey Protein Isolate
10. Nutrition FAQ: Fructose in Sports Gels and Drinks
11. Nutrition FAQ: Caffeine in Sports Gels, Caution on Diuretic Effect
12. Nutrition FAQ: Endurance Fueling for 2+ Hour Events
13. Gluten-free Oats / Oatmeal for a Glucose Source

Guest Professor Dr. Clyde Wilson

Nutrition and training tips (used with permission)..

1. Sports and Performance - Overfueling is Underfueling
2. Complete Sports Nutrition: WHAT, WHEN and WATER
3. Energy versus weight loss: The Partitioning Principle

Training and Recovery and Illness

Tips on avoiding problems..

1. How I Approach Training
2. Training Weight Loss: 2012 Case Study

Workouts

Analysis of various workouts..

1. Lose a Pound of Fat in ONE Day: Century Fat Burner

Various Gear

Biking related items for fun or safety or performance..

1. HydraPak SoftFlask for 5 Servings of Energy Gel

Blog posts

2020

2020-12-30 Give the Gift of Life to Yourself and Others: Vitamin D + Vitamin K2 + Magnesium + Vitamin C + Zinc

2020-12-29 US Government Issues New Nutritional Guidelines Pandering to BigAg and BigFood — “Gimme the Sugar”

2020-12-13 Study finds over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency

2020-12-13 Long-Haul COVID 19: WSJ: “For Covid Long-Haulers, a Little-Known Diagnosis Offers Possible Treatments—and New Challenges”

2020-12-13 COVID 19: Questioning the Propoganda in Many Way (Bill Sardi: “NOT COVID”)

2020-12-13 COVID 19: Family Kicked Off Airplane Flight Because 2-Year-Old Would Not Keep Mask On

2020-12-02 Long Haul COVID-19: “JAMA: Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Athletic Heart Emerging Perspectives on Pathology, Risks, and Return to Play”

2020-12-02 Intravenous Vitamin C: “COVID patient with sepsis makes 'remarkable' recovery following megadose of vitamin C”

2020-11-08 Long-Haul COVID aka Chronic Viral Sequelae— the Single Thing that Works Best for (slow) Recovery

2020-10-21 Fatigue and Low Energy? Chronic Fatigue? Long-Haul COVID? Mitochondria Energy Production Might be the Core Issue — Boost Mitochondrial Function with CoQ10, Acetyl L-Carnite, Magnesium

2020-10-11 Reader Comment on Magnesium: “hayfever subsided, asthma much better, cramps subsided”

2020-09-07 RED PILL Yourself on Sun Exposure vs Skin Cancer Melanoma, Sunlight and Ultraviolet and Vitamin D

2020-09-07 RAY of HOPE: The First Clinical Trial to Support Vitamin D Therapy For Covid-19/CCP Virus finds a Vitamin D Metabolite Calcifediol Works Miracles (needs confirmation)

2020-09-06 Low Vitamin D Strongly Associated with Risk of COVID-19 Death / More Severe Outcomes

2020-09-06 CCP Virus: Is COVID-19 killing people because of Vitamin D Deficiency? Is the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for Vitamin D off by a factor of 10X?

2020-08-04 Statins might not slash the risk of dying from heart disease: study claims the cheap cholesterol-busting pills offer 'no consistent benefit'

2020-07-10 SARS CoV2 aka COVID-19: Low Vitamin D Puts You at Risk; get it Via Sunlight

2020-07-10 Recommended Books for Health and Wellness

2020-07-10 Bone Health with Vitamin K2: Delicious Grass-Fed Ghee

2020-07-06 PubMed: Short-term Magnesium Deficiency Downregulates Telomerase, Upregulates Neutral Sphingomyelinase and Induces Oxidative DNA Damage in Cardiovascular Tissues: Relevance to Atherogenesis, Cardiovascular Diseases and Aging

2020-07-02 Science Daily: “Declining Eyesight Improved by Looking at Deep Red Light” — Retinal Mitochondrial Health

2020-06-20 Testing for Magnesium Deficiency: the Magnesium RBC Test

2020-06-20 Don’t Treat Asthma, CURE It! Magnesium Supplementation has Banished My Small Airway Pulmonary Issues; ZERO need for prescription inhaler for 18 weeks running

2020-06-12 Physicians Weekly: “High-Dose IV Vitamin C on ARDS by COVID-19: A Possible Low-Cost Ally With a Wide Margin of Safety”

2020-06-10 Vitamin C: one of the Dietary Factors in preventing Macular Degeneration

2020-06-07 Magnesium Supplementation Personal Findings: Brain, Lungs and Asthma, Sleep, Urinary Flow, Muscle Spasms

2020-06-07 Just Say 'Yes' to Powerful Drugs: The Great Majority of Medical Doctors Wallow in Nutritional Ignorance

2020-06-02 Magnesium Deficiency — “BMJ: just 6–12 weeks of strenuous physical activity can lead to magnesium deficiency”

2020-06-02 BMJ: “Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis”

2020-06-01 Magnesium Supplementation: Brain, Lungs, Sleep, Urination — No Doubt It Works

2020-05-30 Reader Comment: “I went off statins. Feel much better”

2020-05-28 Ultra Endurance Exercise: Nutrient Deficiency in Magnesium, Iodine, Iron, Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Chromium? (Tailwind Endurance Fuel Boosts Me)

2020-05-28 Magnesium Intake Is Inversely Associated With Coronary Artery Calcification

2020-05-27 Science Daily: “Vitamin D determines severity in COVID-19 so government advice needs to change”

2020-05-26 Loserthink in Modern Medicine: Goal-Oriented instead of Systems-Oriented eg ‘One Symptom, One Diagnosis, One Drug'

2020-05-26 Health and Vitality Start with getting Key Nutrients: Best Sources for Magnesium, Vitamin K2, Vitamin D3, Vitamin A, Vitamin C

2020-05-25 A Challenge to Medical Doctors (MDs): if you are not thoroughly investigating patient nutrition BEFORE Prescribing, and also constantly educating yourself on nutrition, you are failing your patients

2020-05-08 SARS CoV2 aka COVID-19: What Role Does Vitamin D Play?

2020-05-08 SARS CoV2 aka COVID-19: Recommendations for Healthy Body and Immune System

2020-03-30 Your Doctor is NOT Responsible for Your Health—YOU Are! Recommended Reading to Open Your Mind and Ask the Right Questions, Because Your Life Depends On It

2020-03-26 COVID-19: Should Doctors and Their Families Get Priority Access to the “Trump Pills”?

2020-03-01 Statins: Systemic Poison that Damages Virtually Every System in the Body

2020-02-28 The Dynamic Influence of a High Fat Diet on Cholesterol Variability: Dave Feldman’s Nerd Research on Diet vs Cholesterol

2020-02-23 How important is Dietary Management in Hypercholesterolemia?

2020-02-15 Can an Extreme Endurance Athlete Have an Early Heart Attack? CT Coronary Calcium Scan, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, Statins, Atherosclerosis, etc (UPDATE with a cardiologist viewpoint)

2019

2019-03-18 Sodium and Electrolyte Losses During Prolonged Exertion — an Experiment

2019-03-18 Commentary on Sodium Supplementation during Prolonged Exercise

2019-03-14 Sodium and Electrolyte Losses During Prolonged Exertion

2019-02-12 Nutritional Science Studies Start to Look very Non-Sciency

2018

2018-11-06 Grass-Fed Cow Milk

2018-01-22 Vitamin D: Many Health Benefits Accrue from it, Acts as Much as a Hormone as a Vitamin

2015

2015-12-17 Keeping the Pounds Off + Fat Loss, Muscle Mass, Bone Density, Training, BMI, DEXA

2015-06-06 Typical American Diet Can Damage Immune System, Microbiome

2015-02-25 Fresh Food is Best: Additives to Keep Food Fresh May Disrupt the Gut Microbiome

2015-02-25 Anti-Oxidants Might be Counterproductive for Athletes

2015-01-28 BMI (Body Mass Index): Junk Science

2015-01-26 Damage Your Gut Microbiome with Artificial Sweeteners? (make yourself more prone to diabetes)

2014

2014-04-01 Panda Licorice Powers Me Through the Solvang Double Century

2013

2013-07-26 More Fat in Diet?

2013-02-17 Omega 3 in a Tablet

2012

2012-10-09 Panda Licorice

2012-06-23 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 20,300' Ascent on June 30

2012-06-15 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 20,300' Ascent on June 30

2012-05-07 HDL Cholesterol and Body Fat

2012-03-06 Death Valley Double Century As a Self-Supported Ride — DONE!

2012-02-23 Nutrition for a Double Century

2012-02-23 Death Valley Double Century As a Self-Supported Ride

2012-02-17 Endurance Energy Source with Protein

2012-01-31 Recovery and Training Nutrition Products I Use Every Day

2011

2011-12-31 Riding Statistics for 2011: 1.04 Million Vertical Feet and 10,434 Miles

2011-11-28 Cycling Tips: How I Train (in brief)

2011-09-12 Backing Off Training Can Bump Up Performance by Allowing Recovery

2011-09-05 Cross-training For Improved Strength and Fitness, and to Avoid Boredom: Road and MTB

2011-08-28 Reader Suggests Cross Training for Breaking Through Weight Loss Resistance

2011-08-22 Power, Heart Rate, Fueling, Recovery For a 5-Hour Training Ride

2011-06-27 Training Using Repeated Climbs In One Workout Session

2011-05-29 Just About Over an Unpleasant Respiratory Infection— Thoughts on Training

2011-05-13 Training Weight Loss Tips

2011-05-01 Mt Hamilton Challenge — Followup

2011-04-26 Thoughts on Power to Weight, and Cycling Comfort, Perceived Effort

2011-04-01 Training Progress For Everest Challenge 2-Day Stage Race

2011-03-25 Gauging Training Levels Years Later from Prior Year Training Records

2011-02-10 Training progress for the Everest Challenge

2010

2010-03-13 Vitamin D, but what about Vitamin C and heart disease?