Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Vols4us]

Thank you brother. I started 3 days a week at the gym. Now I’m at 5. 1.25 hrs each session. I haven’t told my provider what I’m doing. Can’t wait to go see her and have my BP taken and bloodwork ran.

Would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. I remember the puzzled, but smiling look on my provider. I guess he thought I would never give in and do it. He had tried to get me get off the sugar in my 40s.

I retired early so it was easier to manage for me. I did 60+ K of steps weekly for 5 years plus golfing a couples of times per week. Did moderate weight training at home for 30-45 minutes a day, 3-4 days a week. Now when I need to drop 10 lbs. I simply focus more on Keto foods to get into ketosis. I probably do 40K-45K of steps per week now as I have aged.

 

[vols 30]

Please God bring us Tennessee football and end this. Lol.

Twss.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

We live in a bubble wrap society… Live life to the fullest and have fun. None of us are making it out alive.

Thank you!...I hate all this overwrought pussification of boys...it is sickening.

 

[mrMet]

I will say health is a complex conversation. No one size fits all. In my research one study revealed that of all the healthy diets studied around the world the one consistent fact was removal of meat had the highest correlation to healthy biomarkers. They said even if the person ate chips it was still better. You have others that will swear to you we should only ever eat meat. I think the truths are:

Get good sleep
Drink plenty of water
Walk (better than RX for depression)
Try to eat in moderation.
If you do these you likely don't need a lot of RX, but never ignore family history and genetics.

One thing people forget is make sure you eat and get enough quality salt too

 

[DD4ME]

Cocky some of em

 

[volsagain]

I was looking at Niacin for cholesterol as my bad cholesterol has been elevated recently and my diet and exercise regimes have not really changed a whole lot. What I saw was that Niacin had to be taken in pretty elevated doses in order to have much impact on LDL. Is that what you are taking it for? I already consume a daily fish oil supplement. Is there a difference between the fish oil and the niacin? Don't want to waste money or flood my body with stuff it is just likely to flush.

You guys have talked me into trying all this stuff If it doesn't work I'm telling Doc.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

I’d just tell that OU fan that 2015 was a long time ago. If you think you’re getting that level of Vol team your sadly mistaken.

 

[OrangeMoundTNVol]

Cocky some of em

Me to every Sooner fan after the game after all that sh*t they’ve talked.

 

[UTgrad2015]

Farmers carries are great especially for those advancing in age. I heard someone say once that the reason so many older people fall is beacuse they lose their grip strength and leg strength. I saw this happen with my father in law with multiple falls before his passing in 2020.

I am working through a new max program at my gym. Lifting heavy and taking 15 minute outdoor walks 3 times per day on my breaks at work. Keep my diet pretty simple and have seen big results. Down 16 lbs of fat and working to drop an additional 15 lbs of fat while building muscle during this 16 week period.

Grip strength and walking speed are directly correlated with life expectancy

 

[jave36]

Most recent expertise I've seen are definitely moving back from the "dietary cholesterol is bad" argument.

Even the AHA, for decades a dietary-cholesterol fearmonger, said two days ago:




Now, for some reason, they still recommend keeping it "as low as possible without compromising the nutritional adequacy of the diet."

So, studies aren't showing an association, but keep living as though they do!

In the body, cholesterol is needed to produce needed sex hormones, build body tissues (see: Repair things... like arteries), aid the liver in its duties...

So, there doesn't seem to be aan association between dietary cholesterol and heart disease. The body produces cholesterol as needed to repair body tissues. It's found in excess in sick people. So, we prescribe things to lower its presence in the body...

Let's try that logic on other things in the body.

White blood cells are made in the body to help when things go wrong. We find them more often ion sick people. So, let's prescribe things to lower the presence of serum white blood cells...

Seems to be another area where Big Pharma is very happy to treat symptomatically as opposed to finding out what's at core wrong with the patient that may be causing their body to send out restorative substances like... cholesterol.

The point is that dietary cholesterol is HIGHLY correlated in our society to high saturated fats, which causes your body to produce an unhealthy amount of serum cholesterol. So yes, if you want to go by a technicality, dietary cholesterol has little to no effect on serum cholesterol. However, in practice, keeping your diet low in cholesterol ALMOST always results in a lower fat diet, which DOES have an effect on your serum cholesterol and therefore heart disease. Those studies isolate cholesterol like people are consuming lots of cholesterol separately from lots of fat. Yes, there are some niche diets that can achieve that, but for the masses, it's incredible impractical to say "eat all the cholesterol you want because it doesn't affect your serum cholesterol."

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

How would one find out the other mushroom?

Look up "the Stamets Stack"

 

[jave36]

Processed as in made in a lab vs Whole Foods such as fruit, veggies and meat

Also, take back your comment on red meat. Red meat for life

That's your definition of processed. What about salami? That's not made in a lab, all the ingredients are found in nature. But it's highly processed. I know I'm being pedantic, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people bandy about the term processed like it's evil.

Killing the chicken? That's processing. Taking the feathers off a chicken? That's processing. Slicing the meat off the bone? That's processing. So if you say you don't want your food to be processed at all, that means you want to eat the live chicken with the feathers and all the bones still in.

And I'm with you on eat red meat, I eat it literally every day. I know some day my genetics will force me to stop or die, but until then, I can't get enough.

 

[volinexile17]

Don’t take away my statin.
Huge family history of cholesterol and heart attacks.
Been on atorvastatin since I was 36. At 61, my cardiac arteries are 100% clear of any plaque.

That’s why I can handle the stress of being a Volunteer. Also can handle the joy of achieving

16-0

Actual medical professional enters the chat …….

 

[InVOLuntary]

Glad to see everyone getting their pre-game physical/health check-up today.

@Jackcrevol in game form...

 

[InVOLuntary]

Look up "the Stamets Stack"

I'm not looking up any man's sack!

Oh, you said stack, sorry.

 

[mrMet]

That's your definition of processed. What about salami? That's not made in a lab, all the ingredients are found in nature. But it's highly processed. I know I'm being pedantic, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people bandy about the term processed like it's evil.

Killing the chicken? That's processing. Taking the feathers off a chicken? That's processing. Slicing the meat off the bone? That's processing. So if you say you don't want your food to be processed at all, that means you want to eat the live chicken with the feathers and all the bones still in.

And I'm with you on eat red meat, I eat it literally every day. I know some day my genetics will force me to stop or die, but until then, I can't get enough.

I think you’re just over simplifying the term processed when it comes to food. Most all people refer to processed as items with high fructose corn syrup, food coloring, artificial flavors, natural flavors etc (all made from a lab)

Anybody with a shred of brain capacity knows what processing in when it comes to meat

 

[peaygolf]

How many of you are morbidly obese?

5'11"
163

 

[DD4ME]

 

[mrMet]

Ran is cooking

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Not seeing many Vols on any cuts lists.

 

[peaygolf]

Gov baseball just got a former Vol

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Glad to see everyone getting their pre-game physical/health check-up today.

I get all my medical advice from VN.

 

[Jackcrevol]

@Jackcrevol in game form...

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

@Ulysees E. McGill ain't got the time or patience for that role, Suave! I wouldn't want him typing it up while helping folks in backckwoods KY and TN get to medical appointments (and I know he wouldn't). I guess he could do it while waiting on them but then circle back to my initial statement.

Yeah...I definitely don't have the patience for it...that is way too much typing and analytical thinking for me.

 

[Big Orange#1]

How many of you are morbidly obese?

Yeah losing weight solves almost every health problem. If you are 250 pounds stop worrying about supplements and put the fork down folks.