This is Part 3 of how to reduce your anxiety naturally with supplements.  I hope you enjoy the video!

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SUPPLEMENTS

For autophagy -- trehalose, resveratrol, caffeine, green tea, vitamin D

For neuroprotection and mitrochondrial function -- creatine, resveratrol, Longvida Curcumin, PQQ. luteolin

For brain function -- Coconut oil, MCT oil, cocoa powder, phosphatidylserine, L-tyrosine, Branch Chain Amino Acids (BCAA)

For muscle and nerve function -- B12, magnesium citrate, creatine

Anti- oxidants and neuroprotection -- alpha lipoic acid, acetyl L-carnitine, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, CoQ10, Vitamin C

Anti-inflammatory -- Vitamin D, Fisetin, ginger

Tau aggregation/tau levels -- ceylon cinnamon, quercetin, grape seed extract, DHA, silymarin, shilajit, caffeine (espresso)

Fast Food Health

Fast food is an affordable and convenient way to fill yourself up when on the run. The majority of people can't avoid the occasional fast food. Although you shouldn't feel guilty for an occasional indulgence, regularly eating fast food can seriously damage your health. Coupled with low nutritional value, the calorie, sugar and sodium content of these foods can lead to a variety of health problems. With statistical associations to weight gain, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular conditions and all-cause mortality, regularly eating fast food can be a dangerous thing.

Fast food is associated with an increased risk of death even after ruling out deaths due to cardiovascular conditions. In its 2005 study, the Canadian research team noted that regions high in fast food restaurant density are 2.52 times more likely to be extremely high in all-cause mortality. 

Health Craze

Healthy eating is a hot topic.  There are multiple diets that are gaining popularity like, low carb, high fat, all meat, no meat, and Paleolithic. Full disclosure, I follow the Gary Taubes diet methodology . Gary Taubes gained prominence in the low-carb diet debate following the publication of his 2002 New York Times Magazine piece "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?". The article, which questioned the efficacy and health of a low fat diet and defended the Atkins diet against the medical establishment. 

The Best Bang for your Buck               

I'm finally getting to the topic of discussion, CHIPOTLE. The best option for fast food hands down is chipotle.  As you see by the graph below, nutritional facts of a normal burrito bowl follow a low carb high fat and medium protein diet with plenty of fiber and low sugar.

You Can Still F*** it UP

You can easily make Chipotle meals that are unhealthy.  To avoid an unhealthy Chipotle meal you should stick to a no tortilla rule.  Also, try to avoid extra or large portions of rice. Chipotle sides often have a lot of added salt.  So try to stay away for some of the salsas with large salt content items as well.

Living and Parting with a Smart Watch

Life with a Smart Watch

So it's official I bought, used, and then sold a smart watch.  It was fun while it lasted but I think I'll wait awhile until I jump on the smart watch bandwagon again.

I puchased the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 Watch. A great watch in comparison to all the other smart watches on the market because of its long battery life, sleek design and multiple features.

I'm going to summarize three main points about my experience with this smart watch and hopefully my story will help you with your decision on whether or not to get a smart watch.  The first part is buying the watch...

Buying the watch:

I was excited, eager, and not worried about the cost.  So I bought the smart watch directly from Samsung's website.  The total came to $315 after tax.  A lot of money for something you wear on your wrist but not as much as the plain non-smart watch from NIXON that I wanted for $550.00, so I rationalized it as such. If I was to do it all over agian I would wait two months and buy a used watch on ebay for about $100 less.

 There are other smart watches on the market like the Android models from LG and Motorola.  Also, there's the Apple Watch, but for the features and build quality I would say that the Samsung Gear 2 is king for now, butttttt it has one major limitation which is that it only works with Samsung cell phones.

Using the watch:

The watch came in the mail all pretty and Apple like in beautiful packaging.  The instruction were easy to follow for setup and in no time I was stupidly using it to make phone calls and awkwardly take pictures.

After months of use the main functions of the watch that I appreciated and found beneficial were 1. The ability to glance at texts messages and email without digging for my phone and 2.  I could make audible text responses with very accurate results.  I also really enjoyed using the music player function with my wireless headphones for workouts and runs.  It allowed me to leave my phone at home and easily play my music without having to strap something around my bicep.  The final reason I loved the watch was because everyone looked at it.  It looks great around your wrist and everyone was curious about who was wearing it and what it was.  I mean that's like 95% why we wear watches these days anyways, but this watch actually does a lot of other stuff that can make your life a little easier.

Selling the watch:

Disclosure, I haven't used eBay in a long time.  That didn't stop me from selling my 6 month old high tech smart watch on it though.  I kind-of royally f*** my eBay posting when trying to sell the smart watch.  Lesson # 1 Do not sell high priced electronics using the auction style bidding.  Half the people bidding on these types of products are frauds and will not actually have the money to pay for the product.  Instead, list your item as a BUY IT  NOW option and go into advanced settings to select that you will only allow the product to be sold to paypal credit secure members that have funds automatically deducted from the buyer accounts when product is purchased.  I sold mine for $200.00 plus $13 for shipping.  I could have sold it for about $15 dollars more but was frustrated by the first several times with fraud eBay account members bidding on my original auction style post.  

All in all it was a good experience and I know that smart watches are a interesting addition to our connected lifestyles.  I hope to get another one again soon but I will wait until the cell phone is no longer needed to sustain an internet connection with the watch. 

-Reese's Pieces

Broccoli Raw or Cooked

Broccoli Baby

What a staple item to have in your fridge.  Broccoli is AMAZING! You can pair it with multiple dishes or just eat it by itself. All it takes is 15 minutes and some salt, pepper, garlic powder and butter for seasoning and you have a great side dish for dinner. Or you can eat it raw with some ranch dressing for a snack. Broccoli is loaded with great nutritional properties.

What's New and Beneficial About Broccoli

Broccoli can provide cholesterol-lowering benefits if you cook it by steaming. The fiber-related components in broccoli do a better job of binding together with bile acids in your digestive tract when they've been steamed. When this binding process takes place, it's easier for bile acids to be excreted, and the result is a lowering of your cholesterol levels. Raw broccoli still has cholesterol-lowering ability—just not as much.

Broccoli has a strong, positive impact on our body's detoxification system, and researchers have recently identified one of the key reasons for this detox benefit. Glucoraphanin, gluconasturtiian, and glucobrassicin are 3 glucosinolate phytonutrients found in a special combination in broccoli.

The Catch?

Awhile back I had a discussion with one of my best friends on the way to the super market.  We wanted to figure out which is more nutritious, raw broccoli or frozen broccoli.  My first thought was that fresh broccoli is better because its not processed.  But then I remembered that like any fresh produce, the nutrition found inside like antioxidants, start to deteriorate over time.... but when the produce is frozen right after its gathered from the farm, the natural oxidation process of organic compounds found in food can be significantly delayed.  So basically if you freeze the broccoli right after you take it out of the ground, you'll preserve the nutritional value better than letting it sit in a store for a week in its raw form. 

Well I thought I solved the problem, I was going to buy frozen broccoli until I die because it had more nutrition..... And then like most things I research, I continued to read more research, and I began to look up things about cooking veggies and how exactly does the frozen produce production process works.  And what I found out didn't change my purchasing of frozen broccoli but it did change how I would cook it!!!  

If you don't want to read further you can click the link to the right Cooking strategy for Broccoli  .  This will take you to a short 2 minute video explaining how mustard powder reacts with specific enzymes that convert all the good phytonutrients found in broccoli to their active forms.  In the frozen broccoli process, after the broccoli is picked the farmer will flash heat and freeze vegetable.  This flash heat turns off the necessary enzymes that convert the phytonutrients found in broccoli to there active states.  However, a trick has