SHR # 2695:: Becoming A Happiness Warrior - Eric North - Almost twenty years ago, a few days before Easter of 2002, North was in the end stages of an almost ten-year abusive relationship. Life had lost its magic--he was mostly depressed, lonely, and very disconnected. He had lost his job, lost touch with his family, and had been living in a succession of cheap hotel rooms with an abusive partner. Living with an alcoholic or addict would be hard enough, but a physical and mental abuse adds an even deeper soul-destroying hell. After a particularly violent event, he felt his inner strength return and knew that he would do anything from that moment on to change his life. He left right then with nowhere to go, an unpaid hotel bill, and barely enough money to survive for another day. As desperate as things were, he knew that he was going to turn his life around. On that day, the blueprint for what would become his new life as the Happiness Warrior was forged.

SHR # 2694:: Antihypertensive Properties of Green and Black Tea - Dr. Geoffrey W. Abbott, M.S., Ph.D. - A new study from the University of California, Irvine shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. Published in Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, the discovery was made by the laboratory of Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the UCI School of Medicine. Kaitlyn Redford, a graduate student in the Abbott Lab, was first author of the study titled, "KCNQ5 potassium channel activation underlies vasodilation by tea." Results from the research revealed that two catechin-type flavonoid compounds (epicatechin gallate and epigallocatechin-3-gallate) found in tea, each activate a specific type of ion channel protein named KCNQ5, which allows potassium ions to diffuse out of cells to reduce cellular excitability. As KCNQ5 is found in the smooth muscle that lines blood vessels, its activation by tea catechins was also predicted to relax blood vessels - a prediction confirmed by collaborators at the University of Copenhagen.

SHR # 2693:: Silent MRSA Carriers Have Twice the Mortality Rate - Dr. Arch Mainous, Ph.D. - 2percent of the US population has MRSA at any given time. That's a large portion of the population. MRSA - or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - is rampant in hospitals, nursing homes, gyms, prisons and anywhere there is a concentration of people with open wounds and compromised immune systems. My bet is everyone knows someone who has it. In the elderly and infants it can be deadly. When it gets into the bloodstream it travels to every organ in the body. As the name implies, it's antibiotic resistant so depending on how bad the infection is difficult to get rid of. But over time you can get rid of it. An emerging problem however is people who carry the bacteria and don't know it. If you don't develop symptoms and the infection you my never know you have it. And that will put you at greater risk of premature death.

SHR # 2692:: The Blueprint Power Hour - Rob Regish - Join the fun. Live listener questions are answered. Nothing is off topic. Training, supplementation, nutrition, sex, drugs, rock -n- roll.

SHR # 2691:: The Fallacy that Only Adult Humans Drink Milk - Joel Green - Whenever the discussion of drinking milk arises, someone inevitably says “well only humans drink milk as adults” implying that drinking milk is bad for you, because no other creatures on the planet but humans do this. Even Arnold was quoted from his Pumping Iron movie saying “milk is for babies” as its inappropriateness for the bodybuilder diet. Meanwhile in the same time frame and geographical locale fathers of Physical Culture like LaLane, Gironda, Tanny credited raw unpasteurized milk and cream as their secret to building muscle and staying lean in the pre-anabolic steroid era. In this episode we explore this notion that dairy is somehow inappropriate once one is mature and has been weened to solid food “alternatives. Is there any truth to this notion that humans are the only species on the planet that continue to drink milk as adults?

SHR # 2690:: The Pep Talk: Immunity, Autoimmunity, peptides and Fasting - Dr. Heather Smith-Fernandez, MD - The immune system has been front and center since this pandemic. The people who are at greatest risk are those with pre-existing conditions including autoimmune conditions. Fasting, or time restricted feeding, has been used to treat autoimmune conditions. A newcomer to physicians' treatment offerings is peptides. These sophisticated strings of amino acids act as cellular messengers that help cells "fix" problems. Is there a way to leverage these two powerful tools to increase the likelihood of positive outcome in a variety of disease states? Listen and learn. shrnetwork.biz/freegift from Dr. Heather

SHR # 2689:: The Blueprint Power Hour - Rob Regish - Join the fun. Live listener questions are answered. Nothing is off topic. Training, supplementation, nutrition, sex, drugs, rock -n- roll. Part 2 - Black Seed Oil Extract from Nigella Sativa is all the rage today. What is it good for? Who will best respond to its effects?

SHR # 2688:: Casual Friday - TLAT Alisa Profumo - Skin Care And Anti Aging - The New Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen - Are Any Raisins Safe To Eat - What's Casual Friday Without Bill Gates - Plant Based Meats Aren't Healthier - Now It's Cow Burps - Plus More and Listener Questions Come Join The Fun

SHR # 2687:: Intuitive Fasting - Dr. Will Cole - For some, the idea of fasting by eating only one or two meals a day still sounds like an extreme and overly restrictive dieting tactic. But many of us already feel like victims to our daily eating schedule: three meals a day, plus snacks. Eat every few hours, we are told by the experts. This fixed eating schedule has become the norm. The truth is, this is an artificially constructed schedule that does not reflect our bodies' natural and most optimal eating schedule. In fact, eating three meals every day can cause metabolic inflexibility, which can easily lead to inflammation, weight gain, fatigue and chronic health problems. For millions of years, our bodies have actually functioned best with periodic times of fasting. With his fresh, new approach to fasting, bestselling author and functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole gives us the ability to take control of our hunger and makes intermittent fasting intuitive. You'll get in touch with your instinctive eating patterns, and become healthier and more mindful about how and when you eat. When your body is out of balance it can be very difficult to discern what it needs to build vibrant wellness. Intuitive Fasting will show how to finally find metabolic flexibility – and once you've reached metabolic flexibility, you can intuitively trust your body to function at optimal capacity, whether you've eaten six minutes ago or six hours ago.

SHR # 2686:: The Ultimate Home Gym - Doug Brignole - One thing this recent pandemic did is make a lot of people build their own home gym. The first an foremost consideration is space. Being selective and choosing equipment that you really need is a must. And saving space and money by not buying equipment you would like, but don't really need, is challenging. Enter Doug Brignole. His book The Physics of Resistance Exercise focuses on exercises and movements that produce the greatest growth stimulation with the least amount of risk of injury. By understanding the way the body intended the muscle to work, load efficiency is maximized. Using his approach to maximum-gains training, lets assemble the ultimate home gym together. Visit http://shrnetwork.biz/physicsofresistance to buy the book. Go to http://shrnetwork.biz/HOMEGYM for some of the equipment discussed.