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Counting Carbohydrates
You can look at labels on food to check exact grams of carbohydrate and if you want to try and estimate grams of carbohydrate you can use...
Eric Pifer
Mar 12
The Food Experiment: Safety Assessment
The Food Experiment involves changing the content of your food and adopting an intermittent fasting plan to try and get your body into a...
Eric Pifer
Feb 25
The Sleep Experiment: Measuring Motivation for Fitness/Exercise
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire measures intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for exercise. We use it during the...
Eric Pifer
Feb 19
The Sleep Experiment: Positive Thinking
We feel like one of the most powerful ways to demonstrate the value of a good nights sleep is to see how positive your thoughts are. Use...
Eric Pifer
Feb 18
The Food Experiment: Anti-Inflammatory Diet
The food pyramid is a good way to think about which foods to focus on and in the food experiment we will use it to develop a daily food...
Eric Pifer
Feb 17
The Sugar Experiment: Overview
The first experiment you will perform in the lifestyle experiment is designed to get quick results and demonstrate how ever present the...
Eric Pifer
Feb 17
Fitness and Strength: Safety Assessment
The safety assessment for the Fitness and Strength experiment involves making sure that you are safe to exercise primarily from a...
Eric Pifer
Feb 13
The Food Experiment: Primary and Secondary Outcomes
The individual experiments in the Lifestyle Experiment (Sugar, Fitness, Sleep and Food) will all have shorter term, more responsive...
Eric Pifer
Feb 10
The Sleep Experiment: Primary and Secondary Outcomes
The individual experiments in the Lifestyle Experiment (Sugar, Fitness, Sleep and Food) will all have shorter term, more responsive...
Eric Pifer
Feb 10
The Fitness and Strength Experiment: Primary and Secondary Outcomes
The individual experiments in the Lifestyle Experiment (Sugar, Fitness, Sleep and Food) will all have shorter term, more responsive...
Eric Pifer
Feb 10
The Food Experiment: Hypothesis Statements
The Food Experiment is the last one to perform and in many ways it is the most complicated of the experiments. It is once again, a...
Eric Pifer
Feb 6
The Sleep Experiment: Hypothesis Statement
Like the Fitness and Strength experiment, you will want to set a "compound" hypothesis statement for the sleep experiment. In other...
Eric Pifer
Feb 6
Statement of Achievement: Fitness and Strength
Once you have completed 3 months of the Fitness and Strength Experiment, you can reassess your metrics from your hypothesis statement or...
Eric Pifer
Feb 5
The Fitness and Strength Hypothesis Statements
The Fitness and Strength experiment is about making measurable improvements in fitness level, strength and muscle mass and then measuring...
Eric Pifer
Feb 4
The Sugar Experiment: Statement of Achievement
To close out the Sugar Experiment, you will need to return to your hypothesis statement to see if you have achieved your goals. Don’t...
Eric Pifer
Feb 3
Low Glycemic Index Foods
Low Glycemic Index Foods Your main guide to foods that you want to replace is your notes from the natural observation period in week 1...
Eric Pifer
Feb 3
The Sugar Hypothesis
A reasonable hypothesis for the sugar experiment is as follows: Knowing that I am male and have prediabetes with a baseline HbA1c of 5.7...
Eric Pifer
Feb 3
The Food Experiment: Fasting and Measuring Ketones
The main goal of intermittent fasting is to switch your body over from primarily burning glucose to primarily burning fat as the primary...
Eric Pifer
Jan 21
Fitness (Aerobic) vs. Strength (Anaerobic)Training: Which is more important?
Patients often ask us which type of training is most important in combatting the insulin resistance that has made things so difficult for...
Eric Pifer
Jan 21
Measuring Strength: 1-Rep Maximum Strength
When lifting heavy weights, you should be very careful. You can injure yourself doing this and we generally recommend that you get a...
Eric Pifer
Jan 20
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