Last week, I made the case for the inclusion of chill-out, relaxing, and otherwise anti-stress teas and herbs, particularly for the stress-wracked among us (and who doesn’t deal with significant amounts of stress?). Several readers on the last post made the comment that, while effective, these tea ingredients don’t necessarily please the palate. I believe one even used “feet” to describe the flavor and aroma of valerian tea. That may be true, but I’d argue that when your sanity, your testosterone:cortisol ratio, and your mental well-being are on the line, pharmacological efficacy of a particular herb supersedes any concerns regarding its flavor. Stress kills, and, well, we want to live – and live well.
With that said, let’s look at a few more options. With any luck, you’ll find at least a couple that you can stomach and perhaps even enjoy.
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Rich Food, Poor Food has hit select Costcos! To commemorate it – and to let Costco know it would behoove them to carry it everywhere - we’re putting on a raffle. Buy a copy from Costco (or any other online or brick-and-mortar store), send in your receipt, and be entered to win some cool prizes.
The connection between obesity and altitude.
Want the blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and blood lipid-related benefits of “cardio” without, well, the tedium and downsides of running? Walking works just as well.
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A popular product class is the “sleepy time” tea. These are the teas which purport to help you unwind from a rough day, relax in the midst of exterior (or interior) chaos, and chill out in a state of relatively peaceful bliss. Many of us live in a state of constant stress punctuated by bouts of acute but transient ease of mind, when it should be the other way around (constant ease of mind punctuated by bouts of acute but transient stress), and these teas and their ingredients claim to help you correct the imbalance. But supplement manufacturers say a lot of things, not all of them true.
What works? What actually helps you ease troubled thoughts? What’s actually worth your money and the time it takes to brew a cup of hot water?
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The Primal Life Kit is still available. If you enjoy obtaining reams of valuable ($485 worth) knowledge (including a month’s subscription to my own Primal Blueprint Meal Plan service) for cut-rate prices (just $39), you will like the Kit. Buy it.
Got brain drain? Go for a walk in the park.
Is “salt-sensitive” hypertension just glucose intolerance in disguise?
Three whole eggs a day is just what the cardiologist ordered.
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Last-minute tickets for PrimalCon Oxnard 2013 (April 11-14) are now available due to some cancellations. Space is limited. Order your tickets today before spots run out!
Tickets for PrimalCon Austin 2013 are also available. Join us June 6-9 for an event you’ll never forget.
Thank you for sharing your excitement for upcoming Primal Blueprint books and your ideas for new titles last week. The randomly selected winner of the prize package giveaway is Susy Fry.
Transfer of “lean” gut flora into the sterile guts of obese mice triggered rapid fat loss in a recent study.
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