Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Segmented Sleep Cycle

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Do you have trouble sleeping?   Do you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep?   Are you exhausted when the alarm goes off every morning?   You need to buy the latest over-the-counter chemical du jour, blessed by the pharmaceutical industry and guaranteed to put you in a coma for 8 hours!!!   Or how about a direct injection of caffeine to kick-start to your morning??!?       Or maybe you just need to learn how… Continue reading →

Barefoot Running (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My FiveFingers)

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  Let me ask you a personal question.  When was the last time you looked at your feet?  I mean when was the last time you really looked at your feet? As it turns out, those fleshy little nubs at the end of your legs are actually marvels of bio-mechanics.  How about this for a stat sheet?  Each foot has: 26 bones 33 joints over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments over 7000 nerve endings Think about it:  your feet make up 25% of all 206… Continue reading →

The Paleo Diet (or How to Eat Like a Caveman)

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He’s starting off writing about the Paleo Diet?  Oooohhh….look at Mr. Trendy, jumping on the bandwagon for the Next Big Thing!  How original. But, seriously…I’d like to take a minute to explain why this had to be done first – before I wrote a single word about any other topic.  To put it very simply:  because this is how Retrolithic was born.