The effect of anti inflamatory meassures on strength training
When you do strenght training you get inflamation in the muscles. If your diet and lifestyle attributes to low levels of inflamtion levels in the body in general. Could that affect the bodys abbility to recover from strength training?
Suggestion to REVISIT: VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION (risk with higher doses?)
I did a search in the "Medications, Supplements & Other Treatments" section but I could not find any podcast that would address my concerns: 1. Where does the "optimal vitamin D dose" come from? I mean the data backing it up 2. Is calcium supplementation needed to maximize bone health for those not eating the suggested calcium daily intake? If calcium suppl is warranted, what dose? what compound (anyone better than the other: citrate vs carbonate etc)? 3. Any risk in taking these higher doses of vitamin D (i.e. 5.000UI to 10.000UI daily)?
SODIUM INTAKE: fructose metabolism negative impact vs hydration with added salt
I would love to hear some comments on how Peter sees the apparently conflicting ideas that hydration with added salt seems a good idea vs the notion (coming from Richard Jonhson's podcast) that osmolality (sodium increase concentration in the blood) induces fructose to be generated from glucose
Rheumatoid Arthritis
My partner suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and has done since she was 16. She also has some gut/stomach problems, she thinks she has lBS although I’m unsure if that’s actually been diagnosed. Currently her diet is shocking, mostly calorie dense food, never eats enough protein and is stubbornly fussy with food. She also does no exercise atall, I myself had a terrible lifestyle prior to the start of this year and suffer from hyper tension. Discovering your podcast has opened my eyes massively on health overall and the benefits I feel personally from getting fitter and healthier are huge. But I’m struggling to get her interested in doing some exercise. She has very low amount of lean mass but she’s not overweight. Is there any studies or anything I can refer to that could persuade her to change her approach to diet and exercise? She’s worried that if she does strength training she will be in too much pain due to the RA. Hope this wasn’t too long winded Thanks for the work you and your team do
Most valid sleep assessment and tracking tool for a shift worker
My typical daytime, 10 hour, 4 workday-per-week, shifts to 12 hour night shifts from 18:00 to 06:00 for a period of 3 to 6 weeks. It is, with a few exceptions of how I spend my free time, a clean transition of a 12 hour day-to-night switch but most sleep questionnaires are not a good fit for my personal circadian U-turn. My experience is that I can easily (because I am normally an early riser) shift from day to night but when coming back, it’s an ugly mess of feeling dull & almost sick. I do employ some aggressive sleep hygiene strategies, especially when traveling, the most effective being room darkening & lower room temp (that I can’t get away with at home). I do snore but the Apple Watch never reports any low pulse-Ox readings. Before getting smarter about my pillow, I would get nightmares sleeping on my back that I suspected were from going hypoxic but I never tracked my pulse-Ox back then. I used to get ballistic about sleep in order to reduce the “wasted” time in bed but after crossing the 7 hour line, I was totally in on at least 7.5 hours as being non-negotiable and “making up” (although that’s probably not a real thing) with another sleep period of at least 2 hours if I miss that mark due to some disturbance.