THE SYNCHRO LIFE

[THE SEVEN] 1. Identify + Remove Dietary Allergens and Toxins

Most dietary approaches out there naturally focus on the foods you DO want to be eating and. It’s our opinion that there’s a lot more to be gained in eliminating from your diet the foods you definitely DON’T want to be eating.

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[THE SEVEN] 2. Low-Carbohydrate, Metabolic-Flexibility Diet

One of the most powerful nutritional “levers” we have to pull to improve the way our body feels and performs is the ratio of macronutrients - i.e. proteins, fats and carbohydrates - we put into it each day.

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[THE SEVEN] 3. How to Drink Water... Intelligently

Everyone knows that proper hydration is important, but what exactly does that mean? Hydration seems so simple on the surface as to be not worth talking about, but the reality is most of us leave a huge amount of potential benefit on the table by not hydrating intelligently.

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[THE SEVEN] 4. Reducing The Cognitive Overhead Of Eating Well (i.e. Staple Meals)

Using foods to legitimately transform the way your body feels and your brain performs is 100% possible, but for this to happen, eating according to these principles has to be an all-day, every day (or nearly every day) practice.

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[THE SEVEN] 5. Take Care of Your (100 Trillion) Gut Bacteria

Microbiologists admit that they're only at the beginning of understanding the relationship between our body/brain and our microbiome, Still, this much is clear: The health of our gut flora is really important to the health of our bodies and brains.

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[THE SEVEN] 6. Eating Nothing (i.e. Time-Restricted Eating)

In previous installments of THE SEVEN, we spent a few thousand words discussing what to eat and what not to eat, but there’s another variable to consider here. Perhaps just as important is the consideration of when to (and when not to) eat.

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[THE SEVEN] 7. The Truly Essential Supplements

Even if you perfectly adhere to every other practice in this series you'll inevitably still be left with some nutritional gaps that leave you shy of what would be considered "optimal" nutritional status. This vitamin and mineral supplementation protocol aims to fill those gaps.

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Lifestyle

A Critique of Wim Hof Breathwork

If you’re not familiar with Wim, he’s the eccentric dutch man who’s become hugely popular in recent years for his genuinely groundbreaking practices using extreme cold exposure and breathwork to manipulate his metabolism, nervous system and immune system (and teaching thousands of others to do the same).

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Solving The Sunscreen Dilemma: Non-Toxic Sunscreens And Summer Skin Care

Beautiful, healthy skin is the culmination of a lifetime of decisions about the foods you eat, your lifestyle and your skin care practices. Yes, there’s a genetic component to great skin, but genetic factors are vastly outweighed by your nutrition and lifestyle decisions.Beautiful, healthy skin is the culmination of a lifetime of decisions about the foods you eat, your lifestyle and your skin care practices. Yes, there’s a genetic component to great skin, but genetic factors are vastly outweighed by your nutrition and lifestyle decisions.

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Can Sitting In A Sauna Raise Human Growth Hormone (hGH) Levels?

Saunas have long been valued in societies around the world for their ability to detoxify the body and promote vitality.  Recently, however, research seems to indicate that the benefits of time spent in a sauna might go even deeper.

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Why I Stopped Using Apple’s Airpods (Testing EMFs in Bluetooth Headphones)

Like seemingly everyone else I knew earlier this year, I was seduced into buying a pair of Apple’s Airpods bluetooth earbuds.  The UX (i.e. user experience) is pretty close to as amazing as advertised, but after a few weeks of using them, I started to notice a concerning pattern...

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Your Chair Is Killing You...Time To Start Squatting.

You'll probably be surprised at how much evidence there is out there that sitting is terrible for our bodies, and not just for our lower backs.  Studies have shown over and over that sitting long periods of the day (as we almost all do) has disastrous effects our cellular and metabolic health.

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A Synchro Guide To Fixing Your Posture

Generally when people want to improve the way they look, feel or perform, they look to changing things like their diet or lifestyle habits or, in the case of athletes, their training regimens. Certainly, all of these things are important parts of the equation.

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The Seven

[THE SEVEN] 1. Identify + Remove Dietary Allergens and Toxins

Most dietary approaches out there naturally focus on the foods you DO want to be eating and. It’s our opinion that there’s a lot more to be gained in eliminating from your diet the foods you definitely DON’T want to be eating.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 2. Low-Carbohydrate, Metabolic-Flexibility Diet

One of the most powerful nutritional “levers” we have to pull to improve the way our body feels and performs is the ratio of macronutrients - i.e. proteins, fats and carbohydrates - we put into it each day.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 3. How to Drink Water... Intelligently

Everyone knows that proper hydration is important, but what exactly does that mean? Hydration seems so simple on the surface as to be not worth talking about, but the reality is most of us leave a huge amount of potential benefit on the table by not hydrating intelligently.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 4. Reducing The Cognitive Overhead Of Eating Well (i.e. Staple Meals)

Using foods to legitimately transform the way your body feels and your brain performs is 100% possible, but for this to happen, eating according to these principles has to be an all-day, every day (or nearly every day) practice.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 5. Take Care of Your (100 Trillion) Gut Bacteria

Microbiologists admit that they're only at the beginning of understanding the relationship between our body/brain and our microbiome, Still, this much is clear: The health of our gut flora is really important to the health of our bodies and brains.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 6. Eating Nothing (i.e. Time-Restricted Eating)

In previous installments of THE SEVEN, we spent a few thousand words discussing what to eat and what not to eat, but there’s another variable to consider here. Perhaps just as important is the consideration of when to (and when not to) eat.

Read article

[THE SEVEN] 7. The Truly Essential Supplements

Even if you perfectly adhere to every other practice in this series you'll inevitably still be left with some nutritional gaps that leave you shy of what would be considered "optimal" nutritional status. This vitamin and mineral supplementation protocol aims to fill those gaps.

Read article