Primal Potential Blog
When It Clicks: This Is What It Looks Like
I don't do many guest posts here in this space. I'm uber protective of you guys - my readers, my friends - and I don't like the idea of letting other people push their agenda over here. Go do that someplace else. No time for it. I'm trying to help people change their...
Q&A 7: Cholesterol Is Not the Culprit – What is Really to Blame for Vascular Disease?
Today we're answering a question from a listener concerned that eating more fat will raise her cholesterol levels. We talk about the MAJOR myths about cholesterol including how cholesterol is actually a healing substance and the fact that high cholesterol is a sign of...
Episode 015: Primal Principles for Fat Loss
In this episode we talk about what Primal is, why I chose the Primal approach and define my top 10 Primal Principles for Fat Loss and how they'll help you reach your goals and maintain them for life. I talk in depth about why diets don't work and some of the short...
Episode 14: Hormones & Fat Loss Part 4 – Estrogen, PCOS & More
This episode is all about estrogen. Estrogen dominance accelerates weight gain and makes weight loss an uphill battle. We unknowingly feed our estrogen dominance with our diet and lifestyle choices. In this episode we talk about how estrogen becomes a weight loss...
What You Need to Know About Fruit and Fat Loss
Fruit is one of those "slippery slope" cases within the Primal way of eating. More than that, for weight loss in general there are tons of different opinions on fruit. I want to address both. I want to take a look at the Primal perspective on fruit but also the...
Q&A 6: How To Make Breakfast a Fat Loss Meal – Healthy Breakfast Recipes
We've talked a lot on the podcast about what NOT to have for breakfast when your goal is fat loss and hormone balance. By now, you know that to stay in fat burning mode and take advantage of the morning's peak fat-burning potential, you'll want to avoid carbohydrates...
Episode 013: Hormones & Fat Loss Part 3: Optimizing Your Thyroid
The thyroid hormones tend to take a lot of the blame when it comes to an ability to burn fat or chronic low energy levels. The thyroid hormones are incredibly sensitive to our diet, lifestyle and environment and then can totally derail our fat loss efforts if they are...
Q&A 5: What is Bulletproof Coffee & Why Do You Drink It?
There's a lot of talk these days about bulletproof coffee. I'm one of the people doing a lot of that talking! I'm a huge fan of bulletproof coffee and over the past several months it has been a major staple in my diet. Yup, bulletproof coffee is my breakfast just...
Why Weight Loss Is So Hard – Physiologically
Did you know that your stored body fat is actually an active, endocrine organ? Your body fat is actively producing and secreting hormones 24 hours a day. That’s why hormonal imbalance problems become so extreme for overweight and obese people – they’re producing more...
Episode 12: Hormones & Fat Loss – How To Balance Your Hormones Naturally
Your hormones control your ability to burn fat. They can put you in fat storing mode or fat burning mode. But most people don't know whether or not their hormones are balanced! It's easier than you think! Our hormones are CONSTANTLY signaling us and letting us know...