Savage / Zen Newsletter No. 82
December 2023: Fear, Death, Sleep, Cholesterol, Testosterone, and Recovery.
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With over 200+ articles on this site, I’ve tried to offer as much illustrative and educational content as I can — in the realms of psychology, fitness, and nutrition. Yet, many have been persistent in their requests for prescriptions; “what I eat in a day”, what my progressions or programming looks like, etc.
Recent Articles:
Arresting the Fall
"Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says." ~ Freud In an age of post-truth politics and artificially intelligent media representations of humanism, we have, in desperation emphasized
Exploring Sleep and Testosterone Supplements: An Animal Pak Review
In my analysis Animal Pak PM showed mild effectiveness in improving sleep quality. Though, it appears less effective than its independent ingredients. In a follow-up analysis Animal Pak STAK continues to show benefits in alleviating low testosterone symptoms. Additionally, several noteworthy benefits of creatine were also observed.
For an even more granular cost:benefit analysis, see the following note:
Olympic Weightlifting: A Novice's Endeavor
Arguably, the snatch is the most powerful and athletic movement of all time; taking a barbell from the ground to overhead in single explosive movement. It is competitively performed in conjunction with the 2-stage clean-and-jerk. These are known as the Olympic lifts. My original 12-week plan was interrupted by a rib injury in late summer, so I was left…
What I’m Reading:
Reducing saturated fat intake lowers LDL-C but increases Lp(a) levels in African Americans
Acute nasal breathing lowers diastolic blood pressure and increases parasympathetic contributions.
As with the notorious 100 Deadly Skills Series, this book continues the tradition of being an easy and entertaining read. You won’t be ready to join an Amish community afterwards, but there’s a plethora of information to get you started or at least peak an interest in everything from home-building to hunting, solar panels to emergency communication.
The book does a great jobs of recurrently reminding folks that living on/off grid isn’t a binary decision and highly circumstantial. Any or all of these ideas in the book can be applied in isolation or combination to, as the subtitle says, improve self-reliance and live a more simple — though rugged and difficult — existence.
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