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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Perfect Paleo Day on PaleoJay's Smoothie Cafe podcast





Today I had the perfect paleo day- in fact, I’m still having it, since now I am communicating with my tribe of ancestral people on this very podcast!  

Like most of my perfect and near-perfect days, the vast majority of the day was spent outdoors, in nature.  The sun shone brightly pretty much the whole day, and wonder-of-wonders: here in mid-April the snow is finally melting!  Still big clumps of white persist, but primarily in the deep woods on my property, so I pretty much stayed in the open areas.  

I started my perfect day as I recommend you start your own- by exercising in front of your television.  Actually, the TV is optional, but since I had a movie queued up and also wanted to watch Fox business first, I set myself on my yoga mat in front of the TV.  I started into my preliminary stretching, followed by my visualized resistance exercises, and then more stretching on the mat. 

Then, I did isometrics holds for all of my muscle groups, pushing and pulling against an old Exer-Genie.  This tool, developed in 1961 for training astronauts in deep space to maintain their muscle and bone mass, is an amazing piece of equipment that has stood the test of time.  I think it is a testament to its wondeful utility that it has never become a big fad, like jogging, aerobics, or heavy weight training.  It’s just a common sense tool that works, and that just isn’t exciting and sexy to most folks.  

It works amazingly well for isometric holds- I do sets of three holds for each muscle group, in three positions each withing the muscle’s movement plane.  To cover my whole body, shoulders down to lower back, takes me about 10 minutes total- truly my ‘most bang for the buck’ part of my routine. 
I got mine off of Ebay, back when Ebay was pretty new, and the Exer-Genie from in the 1960’s came really cheap!  They still make them, and you can probably find one on Ebay, and that would be cost effective.  New ones cost well over $200 though, and my 1960’s model works like a champ!  In addition, you can use a simple long nylon strap just as effectively, standing on the strap for resistance.  That’s what I did for years, and it’s almost as good.  

 I finish up this basic workout of mine with rebounding while doing two more cycles of visualized resistance exercise covering every muscle group in my body.

I started this workout by getting up quite early in the morning, since for me that is the very best time of the day.  I make my dark roast coffee in my French press, and love padding into the living room with my steaming cup, and sipping it between exercises.  

Next, after showering, I drank my green Paleo smoothie from my refrigerated canning jar, and taking my next cup of coffee with me, I drove off towards our wonderful meat locker here, or which we have several.  I had decided that this was going to be a ’steak day’.  
One of my favorite things is to declare a day a ‘steak day’, which means probably just one big meal that day- a steak along with a baked potato and some kind of salad.  Of course, I had already had my smoothie, so I was covered on all of my nutritional bases already…
There is something incredibly satisfying about driving leisurely along through the rural countryside, anticipating the sights and smells of the market, early on  a weekday.  Admittedly, I do have the wondrous privilege now of being retired, and I will tell you truly- when you look back over your life (this was done numerous times in surveys of the elderly, meaning folks in their 90’s), every single person surveyed said that the happiest days of their lives were from when they retired, until they lost their health.  Every single one.
Not when they were children, playing with friends. (Although that was highly rated as well). Not their teens, or twenties, or thirties, or- any other age!  It was when they were done with their responsibilities, and were then free to do what they wanted: to enjoy their grandchildren, indulge their hobbies, to read those classic books they never had time for, to take leisurely daytrips and to go to early lunches at nice restaurants and then go home to sit on their decks- those were the best years of all!  

Anyway, back to my perfectly Paleo day: 
I drove back home and grilled my giant, Cowboy steak!!

I had never grilled one of these before, but today they were on sale, and looked great!  What they are is a giant,  2” thick ribeye, with the bone still attached, so it looks like a Flintstone steak.
I started my Weber grill (I always use hardwood charcoal, which burns hotter and cleaner) which I started with my propane torch in about 2 minutes to red hot coals.  Seared both sides of that monster steak, and added on some Redmond Real Salt, which believe me is the very best salt, both nutritionally and taste-wise that you can find.  I kept flipping the steak, every 30 seconds to a minute, and getting both sides seared well.  
Then, moving the steak back away from the coals, I put on the lid and waited.  I waited while watching all the birds returning, I know I saw three bluebirds which are my favorites, and I thought deep thoughts while a smoked a large cigar.  I know, smoking is not really paleo, but heck, neither are the baked potatoes I had bought, and I love them both, and consider both a cigar and a potato to be safe starches.
About 45 minutes from grill to table, my wife and I were eating with great relish!  We both knew that we would not need to eat again that day- here it is 6 PM, and I am not even faintly hungry.  We split that monster steak, and saved the other half.

So, after our Paleo Feed (I felt as if I had returned with a wooly mammoth), we parted as I went to tap my maple trees!  The sap was running, and my buckets were all set to catch every drop.  
I filled my 5 gallon bucket, fired up my sap cooker, and sat back on a chair to watch it boil.  I am not a fisherman, but if you are, this must be kind of what it’s like: sitting out in the sun, soaking it up after a long, long winter, and just keeping an eye on the sap, making sure it doesn’t burn up while you run off to attend to something else.  
It is possible to ruin those whole 5 gallons, turning them to burnt sugar crystals, it you aren’t attentive enough to take them off when they are down to about a quart or so.  
But, at the start of the boil, you are safe to wander off, and I did.  I needed to pick up and prepare to burn about 2 cords of fallen branches, logs, twigs, and detritus that defaced my property!  Actually, moving along outside, squatting over and over, bending over and throwing these branches into the big garden cart I pulled, was at least as much of a workout as what I had done early in the morning.  But, it was incredibly satisfying, and now my yard is clean- I think I’ll have a big burn tomorrow, which is almost as satisfying as steak day.

Finally, late afternoon, and I came in and did a pushup and other gymnastic ring workout in the basement for about 20 minutes, while I started the reduced sap to boiling in the kitchen.  I was very pleasantly tired when I mounted the stairs, and my wife had been monitoring the boiling sap.  The thermometer said 212 degrees, where she told me it had been for awhile.
I took over, and opened a beer as I settled in to watch that sap slowly turn to syrup.  I set my digital thermometer alarm to go off when it hits 219 degrees, and I watch that pot like a hawk!  You don’t want a boilover, not at this stage, wrecking it all…
But with the thermometer, it’s really rather easy- the alarm goes off, and you turn off the heat- syrup done!  Thick, dark, and not runny at all, just the perfect consistency.  It is a very satisfying project, with tangible results, unlike many things in this modern, Neolithic world!  
I jar it up, feeling great about my day.  I don’t eat that much of the syrup, but I enjoy giving it away, quality product that it is.  
Now, I think I’ll sing and play for awhile, since that is another thing that I love to do.  Kind of like cave painting for a non-visual artist!  Then, I have a free book I downloaded from the internet, called The Fall of Western Man by Mark Collett.  I’ve read the first two chapters, and it looks amazing.  Sad news, but true for all of that.

Either look it up, or contact me: I’ll send you a copy.

And hey: thanks for listening!  Where would we be without our tribe?














Friday, April 12, 2019

Paleo People Own Weapons! on PaleoJay's Smoothie Cafe



I am dismayed by how misled the people of modern Western civilization have become!  Not only do they eat fake, food-like substances (as recommended by ‘science’) like low fat dairy, rancid industrial seed oils (ala vegetable oils and margarine), and grain fed meat:  

They also hate ‘evil firearms’, since the Big Government has told them that they are- completely evil!  

They’re not.  Guns are simply tools, like electric drills, my tractor, and chainsaw- things that woud have been highly prized throughout all times and places, because they represent and embody power.  The power to stop crime, injustice, attack and real evil.  To protect our families and neighbors, to stop invaders from hostile tribes.  

And, most importantly- to thwart the deprecations of our OWN governments, when they have become too dominant and evil to be stopped by negotiations and reason!  

Trust me, if a tribal leader back in paleolithic times decided to attack his own tribespeople, he would have met a spear versus the spear of his own!  A real Man of any era, who renders himself weaponless- has also rendered himself castrated.

A Non-Man who is unwilling to defend his own!

And so-called man, or woman too, who acquieces in being utterly defenseless against any attackers, whether from within the government or without- is no longer an individual at all!  They are a form of slave.  Voluntary or not, they have effectively made themselves a slave.  

If the Master makes an unreasonable demand of them or their family or friends: they have no recourse.  They have made themselves into voluntary eunachs.   Powerless, and utterly dependent and at the whim of their rulers, whether real political rulers, or lawless bandits, rapists, and murderers.  

This it the bottom line.  Dispossessed of weapons, when all about you (like your own government) possess them, makes you a complete, helpless, cringing victim.  You have now no recourse, no ability to even protect yourself; you are pathetic.  

And make no mistake: those about you will take advantage!  It is human nature, just as it is to hunt and gather for our tribe- those who deny true human nature will suffer the ultimate price.  And the consequences shall be the:

Utter demolishment and elimination of their people and their tribe!  

This is nature’s law- survival of the fittest.  If you feel guilty because of your people’s success, or suicidally compassionate about our rivals on the globe’s failures- they will destroy you.  

That is just the way Nature works!  You don’t want to fight, you don’t want to ensure your own survival, because that ‘just isn’t right’- well, welcome to the dustbin of history.

Look at modern Europe, welcoming in migrants who are their hereditary enemies, or just low IQ invaders- and then paying them to stay!

These are people of decadence, who have been civilized for so long that they have forgotten the very rules of life and survival- rules known instinctively by every lower species on the face of the earth- 

Eat or be Eaten!

So now you know- Get a Gun.  Stop Immigration. 
 And be a Paleo Tribesperson, not a cringing, decadent Roman in the last days of their failing empire!!











Thursday, April 4, 2019

Supplement Racket is Destroying the Paleo Movement on Paleo Quick Tip of the Day


Paleo Boy!

I kind of hate to even bring this up… But only Kind Of!

It is a story that needs to be told, despite the implications:  most of the supplements endlessly recommended and actually shilled by those in the ancestral lifestyle are unnecessary.  

There, I said it.  When good health becomes dependent on people being hooked on artificial supplements, why then it becomes just another marketing gimmick!  

Just as conventional, AMA big pharma recommended modern medicine, which is largely based on ‘science’ that is 50 years out of date (low fat- high carb nonsense)-

Paleo, and increasingly the primary buzzword of KETO are being dominated by the necessity of marketing.  That is: selling endless amounts of expensive supplements!  

If you are seeking lifelong health and fitness, this is not the goal you should be seeking.  We need to get back to basics here, to what drew me (and everyone else) to the pristine essense of the ancestral, Paleo Lifestyle in the beginning:

EATING REAL FOOD!

That, my friends, is the paleo diet in a nutshell- eat real, God made foods, as they come in nature, and ignore the boxed, prepared junk, and fast foods in general.  Simple.  Easy Peasey.

But now- all you hear about is “take this supplement, and this- I sell them both on my website- be sure to order NOW or you are doomed!”  While this may be preferrable to taking all of the big Pharma statins, and blood pressure fake medicines, and undergoing every medical test they come up with to separate you from your money- it still is not ideal, and mainly in existence to, again: separate you from your money.

But I know, you are concerned about your nutrition, how the depleted soil is making our vegetables less nutritious, and we ‘need’ supplements to keep us healthy…

Make your own supplements!

That is the simple solution.  Get yourself a Vitamix blender, which is the best.  This is a one time expense that will ensure your health for a long, long time!  

Then, start in by making yourself and your family a smoothie to drink each morning.  Make a canister full, and put the portions into canning jars that you can refrigerate.  Use real veggies and fruits in your smoothies, along with kefir, spices, cod liver oil, apple cider vinegar, raw pastured eggs, yogurt, and everything else I recommend in my eBook Perfectly Paleo Exercise and at my website at paleojay.com

It’s all there, for free!  

Along with cinnamon, vitamin D liquid, turmeric powder and ginger root and/or ginger powder- this will be everything that you need for perfect and maximum health!  

EVERYTHING!!

It’s really not that hard.  (As Michael Scott would say in ‘the Office’).  

Just take these real, organic (hopefully you are on board with using foods uncontaminated with herbicide poisons), and blend them up to an assimilable state, and drink them 

I kind of hate to even bring this up… But only Kind Of!

It is a story that needs to be told, despite the implications:  most of the supplements endlessly recommended and actually shilled by those in the ancestral lifestyle are unnecessary.  

There, I said it.  When good health becomes dependent on people being hooked on artificial supplements, why then it becomes just another marketing gimmick!  

Just as conventional, AMA big pharma recommended modern medicine, which is largely based on ‘science’ that is 50 years out of date (low fat- high carb nonsense)-

Paleo, and increasingly the primary buzzword of KETO are being dominated by the necessity of marketing.  That is: selling endless amounts of expensive supplements!  

If you are seeking lifelong health and fitness, this is not the goal you should be seeking.  We need to get back to basics here, to what drew me (and everyone else) to the pristine essense of the ancestral, Paleo Lifestyle in the beginning:

EATING REAL FOOD!

That, my friends, is the paleo diet in a nutshell- eat real, God made foods, as they come in nature, and ignore the boxed, prepared junk, and fast foods in general.  Simple.  Easy Peasey.

But now- all you hear about is “take this supplement, and this- I sell them both on my website- be sure to order NOW or you are doomed!”  While this may be preferrable to taking all of the big Pharma statins, and blood pressure fake medicines, and undergoing every medical test they come up with to separate you from your money- it still is not ideal, and mainly in existence to, again: separate you from your money.

But I know, you are concerned about your nutrition, how the depleted soil is making our vegetables less nutritious, and we ‘need’ supplements to keep us healthy…

Make your own supplements!

That is the simple solution.  Get yourself a Vitamix blender, which is the best.  This is a one time expense that will ensure your health for a long, long time!  

Then, start in by making yourself and your family a smoothie to drink each morning.  Make a canister full, and put the portions into canning jars that you can refrigerate.  Use real veggies and fruits in your smoothies, along with kefir, spices, cod liver oil, apple cider vinegar, raw pastured eggs, yogurt, and everything else I recommend in my eBook Perfectly Paleo Exercise and at my website at paleojay.com

It’s all there, for free!  

Along with cinnamon, vitamin D liquid, turmeric powder and ginger root and/or ginger powder- this will be everything that you need for perfect and maximum health!  

EVERYTHING!!

It’s really not that hard.  (As Michael Scott would say in ‘the Office’).  

Just take these real, organic (hopefully you are on board with using foods uncontaminated with herbicide poisons), and blend them up to an assimilable state, and drink them down! 

Keep the rest of your diet clean, meaning good meats, pastured eggs and dairy, and without grains…  It’s really that simple.  Eat your meat and veggies, occasionally some fruit or sweetener (I am boiling my maple sap into syrup right now), and confine your carbs to sweet or white potatoes, and those that come along with vegetables.  

That is IT!  Along with ample sleep, good, natural (Perfectly Paleo Exercise), clean non-urban air and ample sunshine and time in Nature:   why then you will be As Healthy as You Can Be!!  

Really- a properly made smoothie is that powerful.  It will fill all of the ‘holes’ of modern dietary insufficiencies, cheaply and effectively.  

And then, you can ignore all of the supplement hysteria, where you need endless pills and potions!  

Really, just tune all of this out.  I am here to tell you what I have discovered, and I have NOTHING to sell you!  Oh, I have my ebook and my blog, but you can get everything from my blog, which is on its 9th year- paleojay.com

All that I want is for you and your family to get healthy.  That’s it, and I hope you take me up on my offer!  Because remember: I have nothing to sell, or gain.  All that I sell is the TRUTH. 














down! 

Keep the rest of your diet clean, meaning good meats, pastured eggs and dairy, and without grains…  It’s really that simple.  Eat your meat and veggies, occasionally some fruit or sweetener (I am boiling my maple sap into syrup right now), and confine your carbs to sweet or white potatoes, and those that come along with vegetables.  

That is IT!  Along with ample sleep, good, natural (Perfectly Paleo Exercise), clean non-urban air and ample sunshine and time in Nature:   why then you will be As Healthy as You Can Be!!  

Really- a properly made smoothie is that powerful.  It will fill all of the ‘holes’ of modern dietary insufficiencies, cheaply and effectively.  

And then, you can ignore all of the supplement hysteria, where you need endless pills and potions!  

Really, just tune all of this out.  I am here to tell you what I have discovered, and I have NOTHING to sell you!  Oh, I have my ebook and my blog, but you can get everything from my blog, which is on its 9th year- paleojay.com

All that I want is for you and your family to get healthy.  That’s it, and I hope you take me up on my offer!  Because remember: I have nothing to sell, or gain.  All that I sell is the TRUTH.