On thresholds and discrimination.

It’s not that you just found Paleo, it’s that you’re not sure what to do next. Maybe you’ve been doing Paleo for longer than a month, maybe you just celebrated your first year (mostly) off of gluten, grain, and dairy. You feel good, but you still want to feel better. What do you do now?

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On grinding coffee.

If you’re anything like me, you want the best of everything you can buy, touch, taste, smell, and experience.  That means in this case, you’ll want to grind your own coffee fresh for every single cup.  Before you go out and buy a cheap grinder that flogs coffee beans into multivariate oblivion, let’s talk about what your coffee grind objective is. View full article →

Systems, lists, and play

There's a list of folks who I pull inspiration from, and in that very listing lies the essence of this idea.  Did those people have systems and lists?  What did those look like, where did they draw the line and stop using linear processes in order to effect their goal, and how did they cultivate that?

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Lessons from 2015

Know what I've learned over the past year?  Don't force anything except a hill run.  Not ideas, not friendships, not writing, not commitments. Allow yourself to sync up with your own rhythm.  Push when you're strong, back off when you're not.  If you feel the creative flow coming, block your ears and pay attention.  If you're angry, or more accurately, irritated...

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Rico's Rules

Rico's eating habits are very public, quite odd, and amongst those of us lucky enough to know him, legendary. His appetite for chicken waffles, for Mustang Bars (and generally any desserts), and for unending boxes of Chinese takeout is without parallel.

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What it takes

I can't tell you with a straight description what it's like to run Paleo Treats. It's not easy, I'll say that. We're a tiny little niche company in a massive market. We sell expensive and very high quality products in an arena flooded with very cheap and very low quality but highly addictive competing products. There are nights we cry and mornings we sing. Perhaps the best way to explain it is to tell you a story.

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What advice would you give?

What advice would you give your 20 year old self? If you're in your late 30s (like me), your initial reaction might be, "Hey bub, look for the following companies and when they come along, buy their stock: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Uber. Oh, and Bitcoin. Buy as much Bitcoin as you can afford."

Of course, that would just make you rich by the time you hit the point you are now, but the problem would be you didn't know how you got there, and you couldn't do it again if you had to.

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7 Pillars: Exercise

In this, the third installment of the Seven Pillars of Paleo, we’re going to talk about Exercise. It is at the same time a simple and extraordinarily complex topic, and one that will absorb all of the attention you care to throw at it.

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Paleo & Food Preservation

 

Guest author Alexis Goertz teaches us about the ancestral art of food fermentation as a means of preserving seasonal produce. Fermentation not only preserves your food nearly indefinitely, but it also has the added benefit of loading your diet with probiotic bacteria, increasing the bioavailability of the nutrients in your food, while simultaneously enriching your palate with delicious new flavors.

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Blood sugar levels and Paleo

 

Are you worried about your blood sugar levels? Heck, do you even know what they are, or what they can signal? Being in the Paleo world, and especially in the paleo dessert world, we hear an awful lot about blood sugar so we wanted to share some of what we’ve learned with you.

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Episode 43: Going deep with Peter Defty

 

Peter Defty from Vespa Power rejoins us and shares the life that brought him to be on the leading edge of fat burning performance.  From his early days hunting and butchering animals on the farm to flying a biplane all over Guatemala as a young man to his current day job working to bring Vespa & OFM to performance driven athletes, this is a deep dive into a fascinating life.  Enjoy!

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7 Pillars: Sleep

 

Sleep is usually looked upon as a given, as something you don’t need to learn how to do.  Because it is innate to each of us and the immediate effects of lack of sleep are not apparent, we often don’t value enough this important Pillar.  Let’s see if looking at Sleep from another angle can convince you of the value of 8 dark and quiet hours.

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