Things I'm Passionate About Part 3

This is a continuation in my series of things I am passionate about, in an attempt partly to get them out of my brain and partly to give me some focus and writing experience. Enjoy!

1. Walking

I walk…a LOT. I started when my arms became paralyzed after a surgical accident in 2017. Walking everyday to lose weight and get healthy since I’d become a huge fat-ass over the previous few years after a big split with my ex, and then nearly dying several times. I couldn’t seem to control my binge eating, but I could make myself walk, for hours upon hours a day around a mental track I created for myself in my house. From my basement office, to the far wall of my 3D printing lab, back to the hallway, down the hallway, upstairs through my laundry room to my kitchen, around my kitchen, down my upstairs hall to the bathroom down the bathroom (long bathroom) and back to the hall, then further down the hall to the living room, around the living room, then further down the hall to the front door and then retrace all my steps back to my office in the basement. This was 340 steps. So 3 reps would put me at one set of over 1,000 steps. I would grow to do eventually 63 such sets per day to the tune of 50km. Waking up at 4 and walking until sometimes 2pm.

2. Exercise/Training in General, Specifically Primal Type Stuff

One of my undergrad focuses in biology was evolutionary biology. I was, and still am, pretty obsessed with it. How the human body adapted to evolutionary pressure over time, how that impacted the behaviour of the brain and society, and in turn how those evolutions made us shape the environment after we got populous enough to do so. In the time span of humans on Earth, call it 200,000 years, we’ve had agriculture for less than 1/20th or so of that time, and the modern world, that most first-world people enjoy, for less than 100 years. Far too short a time for our biologies to adapt to this environment and lifestyle on an evolutionary scale and approach anything near what anyone would consider remotely healthy. It’s of my opinion (and only my opinion, I’m not a doctor of any kind and not giving any kind of medical advice) that in order to be healthy in a general sense, most people probably need to listen to their evolutionary biology and eat and work and “train” like the cavemen we still are.

3. Carnivore, Keto, and Paleo Dieting

Related to the above is my stance on diet and eating; mostly humans from where my DNA originates ate tubers and meat. After switching to such a diet, my health maladies have started rapidly disappearing and I’ve been losing fat and putting on muscle without much trouble. I’ve done lots of paleo and keto style dieting over the years on and off and had decent results, but when I discovered the carnivore movement I fell in love with the idea and the science and set to work to try It for myself. It’s literally saved my life so far. So for this I’d like to start sharing my anecdotes of what it’s done for me and others I know who’ve tried it, my interpretations of the science as I understand it, and sharing recipes and lifestyle related info about it (like how to order from any restaurant without embarrassing your family).

So that was part the third of my list of passions. Thanks for reading and keep watching for the next one.