Category «Interesting»

Improve your sleep

Another article on sleep … It is true that there are more and more publications that attempt to explain how to sleep better. And yet, I find that the advice that is given most of the time is basic and is not written by people who have already experienced sleep disorders such as chronic insomnia: …

Acid-base balance: irrelevant for nutrition

A while back, a subscriber was wondering about my article about acid-base balance (which I deleted and replaced with this more comprehensive one). He tells me that he has read the book Paleo Nutrition by Julien Venesson (which I read a few years ago by the way), in which the author explains to us that …

The importance of vitamin D

Vitamin D has an essential role for health. Indeed, it helps maintain bone strength and cardiovascular health, and prevents certain autoimmune diseases. Being deficient in vitamin D can lead to a great loss of energy, nervousness, migraines and even depression. Over 80% of French people are deficient in this vitamin despite its importance. We will …

Hormones and bodybuilding

Our body composition: two big mistakes Mistake # 1 : our weight / body fat rate is regulated according to the calories that we eat Mistake # 2 : Our results are limited by our genetics. We can classify the different types of genetics by morphotypes: ectomorph, endomorph or mesomorph. Both of these claims are …

Shoulder training

Shoulder training is important if you want an athletic physique. ANATOMY There are three different portions: the anterior (front of the shoulders), lateral and posterior (back of the shoulders) bundles. The shoulder allows movement: abduction of the arm (during lateral elevations for example) of adduction (movement performed during the negative phase of lateral elevations) antepulsion …

Vegetarianism and health # 2

In the first part of this article, we saw: that humans were not made to eat only plants, including in the origins of humanity that if we wanted to eliminate all or part of the animal products, we had to be careful to seriously control its nutrient intake In this second part I will focus …

Carbohydrates in the evening or not?

Traditionally, it is advisable not to eat carbohydrates in the evening, because these would be stored as fat during sleep. More recently, we have been told that, on the contrary, it is interesting to eat carbohydrates to improve fat elimination. So inevitably, once again we are drowned in a flood of contradictory information and we …

Save your shoulders

After my two articles on correcting posture in general (see here: part 1 and part 2), I wanted to focus specifically on the concerns encountered on the shoulders. Indeed, the shoulders are the joints that pose the most problems for athletes! In this article, I will therefore go further by giving you a daily post-training …

Vegetarianism and health # 1

In recent years we have witnessed a great rise in certain types of diets, especially vegetarians. We can even say that this rise sometimes seems like a fad. In a way, this is a good thing, as it causes many consumers to take a closer look at what is on their plate while also thinking …

Lemon water, liver and detox

It is well known that consuming lemon juice is good for the liver because it “detoxifies”. I will write this article in three points in order to analyze this received idea: 1 – The role of the liver in the body 2 – The concept of detoxification 3 – The real effects of lemon juice …