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When exercise becomes socially accepted self-harm

December 29, 2020

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The fitness world has an extreme segment. One we tend to either give intense praise, or be dismissive of. CrossFit: it tends to either bring about exuberant cheers or cavalier jeers. This is in large part because the fitness and exercise world tends to draw extreme personalities, I’d argue to a greater extent than most […]

Why you’re still having issues with your weight

April 13, 2018

Note: Understand this is written with a certain persona in mind. It’s not meant to be for anyone who ever had issues with weight-loss. With that said, I bet a lot the people who read this and think it doesn’t apply to them are actually the people it applies to most. So you’ve been […]

Emptying out the mailbag & clearing the history #23

February 23, 2018

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Other mailbags can be found here. Keep in mind a lot of this is email conversations, comment replies, or some random interesting things I’ve found. By their nature they are not as thorough or complete as a post on one topic. Here’s what’s covered in this installment: Falcon Heavy Thought I was watching a movie: Speaking of rockets, […]

Relationship between Michael Phelps depression and his training

January 29, 2018

In January 2018 Michael Phelps was in the news a fair amount, due to this: “I am extremely thankful that I did not take my life.” From this interview (one hour, thirty one minute mark). Bolding mine: “Really, after every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression,” said Phelps when asked to pinpoint […]

Emptying out the mailbag and clearing the history #11

January 1, 2016

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Other mailbags can be found here. Keep in mind a lot of this is email conversations, comment replies, or some random interesting things I’ve found. By their nature they are not as thorough or complete as a post on one topic. Here’s what’s covered in this installment: That time we started to detect 14 times more thyroid cancers and […]

Gaining empathy for those with personality disorders

September 30, 2013

I wrote a post called Antidepressants and weight-loss, and how to make dieting and exercise work better for you if you have issues with depression, which started off: From the lecture I reference below: “Depression is the most damaging disease you can experience.” Notice the word DISEASE. If you are one of those people who hears “depression” […]

An update on Montana aka how to stand with swagger

October 20, 2012

6 months ago I wrote an extensive piece on depression, antidepressants, and weight-loss, along with others things, found here: Antidepressants and weight-loss, and how to make dieting and exercise work better for you if you have issues with depression. In that piece I wrote a good amount about a client of mine, Montana. I wanted […]

Antidepressants and weight-loss: how to make dieting and exercise work better for you if you have issues with depression

April 9, 2012

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From the lecture I reference below: “Depression is the most damaging disease you can experience.” Notice the word DISEASE. If you are one of those people who hears “depression” and thinks “wuss” you are woefully misinformed. This is going to be three parts. 1) I’m going to talk about whether or not antidepressants affect […]