Level Up Wellness

04/01/2024

Happy April Fools Day! This is your reminder to not be a fool the other 364 days of the year by eating your veggies and getting moving! 🍎🥦🏃‍♂️

04/01/2024

Happy April Fools Day! This is your reminder to not be a fool the other 364 days of the year. 🍎 🥦

10/08/2023

How many time have you heard people dismiss information based on “conflicting evidence”? In all honesty this is only used when people don’t have any idea about how nutrition science works and allows them to place their trust in much less reliable sources. When people distrust nutrition information because of “conflicting evidence”, it just opens them up to accepting whatever aligns with what they already think or want to be true. I don’t think you need a book to tell you that this is not a good way to evaluate information. Even worse is some bad actors in the health sphere use the excuse of “conflicting evidence” to strike doubt into perfectly reasonable people so they can then profit from them by selling them some BS program, diet, supplement, etc. evidence speaks the loudest so a bit of science literacy can go a long way here. Don’t fall for hype. In the meantime, you can follow my page if you’d like. I take it in upon myself to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Or not of course, I’m not your parents lol! But again, don’t just trust me outright; ask good and relevant questions and learn the basics of how to interpret science. You owe it to yourself and the rest of the world.

10/04/2023

You can’t complain about results you didn’t get from the time you didn’t put in.

10/04/2023

A legendary saga

09/29/2023

Gut health has seen a massive surge of popularity in the last few years, and rightfully so! However, just like everything that blows up in the health sphere, there are tons out there spreading less than stellar information about it. Don’t fall for hype or people telling you that eating vegetables or legumes is somehow bad. You may feel much better without these things immediately, but that is likely only because you had compromised gut health before removing such things from your diet. Heal the gut and your body should be able to tolerate most foods. Gut health is really complicated and getting to the bottom of it can take time, effort, social support, and gumption. Meanwhile on the other hand, removing tons of foods from your diet and only eating a select number of foods is incredibly simple advice, hard to mess up, and always works in much the same way! But the thing is that it isn’t actually fixing the problem. In fact, that lower dietary diversity is almost certainly going to increase your gut dysbiosis in the future, but you’ll never know because you simply covered up the problem by removing foods that your body should be able to handle without correcting the existing gut imbalance. This is unfortunate because it leads to people eventually coming back to super healthy foods and having an even worse reaction because they have forced their gut into an even more dysbiotic state. Long story short, there’s no shortcut to health. Health is found in healthful living and there is a LOT of things we can do for gut health that most people don’t fully consider or implement. If you’d like some help with those things, maybe consider shooting me an email at [email protected]. Or not, I’m not your parents 😂 Whatever you do, just know you CAN get well! God bless 🙏🏼😁

09/26/2023

If you spend much time online in the heath and wellness sphere then you’ve probably heard the term “anti nutrient” thrown around quite flippantly with very little understanding of the decades of research we have on the compounds. We’ve known about, quote unquote, anti nutrients for decades. So why is it just now getting so much attention? There could be many reasons, but it seems a large one is simply the health and wellness community picking up on the “next thing”. Online health and wellness trends come and go and many times have very little or even nothing to do with actual evidence.

Anti nutrients, and the way they are presented just happen to be a shocking idea to people who simply don’t know better. I mean, “cmon! It seems so obvious that plants are trying to kill us, right?!”. And this emotional response is what allows so many people to use this argument of “anti nutrients” to promote their own “anti nutrient blockers” and other ideologies.

This is what I want to emphasize. Listen to your favorite influencer talk about anti nutrients. When they are talking, take note, are they telling an emotionally engaging narrative to support their points? Or are they providing actual evidence for their claims? Chances are, they heavily rely on storytelling and plausible sounding ideas told with great conviction. I give people this piece of advice all the time. Ready??? ——> When evaluating online health info. An easy way to w**d out lots of garbage is to ask your self one simple question…

“Is it science? Or storytelling?”

When people rely heavily on storytelling, that is a huge red flag that they may believe they have a good understand of the topic, when they actually don’t. It can also mean that they simply don’t know better, or simply haven’t read the research they are citing.

So take it easy and relax about the whole anti nutrient thing. You’re way better off focusing your energy elsewhere.

04/26/2023

A plant based diet may not always be the best business model, but if it’s best for you, isn’t that what really matters? 🍎🥦🍉🍌🥬🥑🫘🫑🥔🍅🥝🍇

04/15/2023

If you’ve been around, then you know that you have nothing to lose from carbs and a whole lot to gain! 🥔🍠🍎🌽🍌

04/11/2023