7. Favorite links
- http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ Mark Sisson’s blog “serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence”. Here’s a great post from Mark Sisson on the basics of the “primal eating plan”.
- http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/insulin.htm A 4 part lecture on insulin resistance by Dr. Ron Rosedale
- http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/nutrition/a/aa080803a.htm A discussion of how fat and carbs are used as energy in muscles; and how lactic acid is created and builds up.
- http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/MuscleFiberType.htm Basic information about slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1548337&ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum A scientific study on the second day of fasting showed that there was a 5 fold increase of human growth hormone released in a 24 hour period compared to non-fasting.
- http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/human-growth-hormone.html Some research and some recommendations to optimize GH release from Peak Performance Online.
- http://www.hormonalfitness.com/ the website of Rob Faigin, the author of “Natural Hormonal Enhancement” and “Hormonally Intelligent Exercise”. Here’s a link to a book chapter.
