There are 2 readily available ways to measure muscle mass and numerous ways to estimate it. To measure muscle mass directly, the 2...

If you performed the sugar experiment, start with the diet that you developed from that experiment. Hopefully this is a diet with very...

Complete the pre-experiment screening activities to rule out sleep apnea, depression, anxiety, substance use disorder and dependence on...

Weight lifting is a process whereby you are deliberately creating a stress on your muscles in order to try and get the adaptive benefits...

We have developed a 7 step program that is very likely to improve your sleep quality and duration. The program is simple to do but for...

Begin by repeating your measurements of body composition including muscle mass, body fat percentage, weight and waist circumference. If...

Assess your current level of glycemic control by measuring your Hemoglobin A1c, fasting glucose and fasting insulin level. Determine if...

You have completed all 4 experiments, sugar, fitness and strength, sleep and food and now it is time to repeat your assessment and see if...

If you do nothing else as part of the lifestyle experiment, you should eliminate processed food in your diet. It is the simplest and...

Changing your eating habits can be difficult. Use these important metrics in your hypothesis statement for the food experiment so that...

There are several types of intermittent fasting. They all have a basis in physiology, and all can help you achieve your goals in the...

Diet Vegetables Fruit Dairy Grains Oil Nuts, seeds, and beans Eggs Fish and Seafood Red Meat Chicken Standard American Diet 1 serving per...

We have technically already performed one very important Food Experiment when we did the Sugar Experiment. Now, we will do two more...

This experiment uses more of a trial-and-error approach compared with the other experiments like Glycemic Control or Fitness and...

We have already touched on timing briefly when we talked about the element of sleep anxiety.  While getting one good night of sleep is...

One of the most vexing problems that we encounter in our program is the problem of nighttime arousal.  Often there is a stimulus to get...

Humans are daytime animals.  We are genetically programmed to be awake when it is light out and asleep when it is dark.  We are most...

In the first intervention, we suggested that to combat sleep anxiety, you need to create think of your bed as a warm, snug and safe place...

Perhaps one of the most common and difficult to treat conditions associated with poor sleep is sleep anxiety.  This occurs when you begin...

Alcohol We are assuming that you do not have dependence on alcohol because we screened for that in the first part of the experiment and...