PaleoJays Smoothie Cafe
A quick podcast that features tips about the paleo, ancestral, carnivore or barbarian template type of lifestyle. Sometimes politics as well- a succinct summation by your own PaleoJay! Come join the tribe...
Coping With Sickness as a Healthy Paleo Person podcast
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As PaleoJay, I am used to being a healthy person, and so when I occasionally feel a bit “under the weather”, as I do today, I have a real problem dealing with it! I think “Oh no! What about my workout? And then, the next one as well?? “ I tend to think of this little setback as ‘the end of the world’!
Although this is ridiculous, I do tend to feel this way…I feel this way because, if I get a little fever, and am all ‘stuffed up’, my brain tells...
Time for a New Podcast! Find Your Way Back Home!
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Yes, indeed- Let's get this podcast up and running!
Right now, my machine is waiting for some words, because what is a podcast without WORDS!!?? Right- it's nothing. And as of this moment, Nothing is on this podcast. And this is because here, in La Crosse Wisconsin, everything is now frozen- because of the weather.
Now, just this past weekend, I traveled to Illinois, the benighted state of darkness, to celebrate my mother's 100th birthday! My mother is wonderful indeed, and in fact her little home town is also wonde...
Is Paleo Still a Good Idea?
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Nowadays, we hear terms like ‘Carnivore’ and ‘Plant Based’, and ‘Keto’- rarely Paleo or ‘Ancestral’ about diets and nutrition. I get it: we are constantly challenged in our thinking, and so it should be. Health and fitness are journeys, we never really reach the end of that journey! So let’s examine the current ‘Journey’ of health…
Carnivore diets, eschewing all but beef and salt, are the big choice now. And carnivore is a good choice for many, especially those who have long term conditions and diseases. A carnivore diet is kind of a...
How to Live, Eat, and THRIVE!
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This is yet another paleo template type of podcast. I’ve had lots of other things going on, grasshopper, but never are you and this topic far from my mind!
I look about me, and see that really, little has changed! The nonsense of mainstream medicine is still ascendant, and everyone is still screaming “What about my cholesterol???? Why am I fat, and why is there any fat at ALL in my diet? And why do I feel like utter shit??”
And so, you see, mo...
When Should i stop Exercising Uncle Bob?
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When should I stop exercising? Well, I hope this is a trick question, because the obvious answer is never! Kind of like asking when you should stop walking, or sleeping, or eating for God’s sake! Moving your limbs and constantly striving to make improvements in your physical abilities is a lifelong project, and just as we should constantly work at getting better and more able physically, we should also try to do so mentally as well.
Just as I am constantly researching about improving my overa...
Change your Workouts as You Age Podcast
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Workouts are absolutely necessary for health and fitness! Now, hopefully you know that, and already accept the fact that while a proper, paleo sort of diet without industrial seed oils and processed foods of junk and fast food stuff, and loaded with good meats and full fat dairy is vital as well.
But what kind of workout is best for you? The bottom line is this: it changes over time! When you are a kid, meaning 20 or so and under, I suggest that calisthenics are best. Runni...
Is the Paleo Diet and Lifestyle Carnivore? Podcast
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It seems as though the great ‘Paleo Boom’ has come and gone! All the books, all the podcasts- where have they gone?
I’ve been writing and podcasting for more than 10 years; I used to listen to Robb Wolf and The Paleo Solution, Jimmy Moore and Livin La Vida Low Carb, Mark Sisson and his Primal Podcast, and many others. Don’t hear much from Robb Wolf anymore- Jimmy Moore is locked in prison for God’s sake- and Primal goes on, and is just kind of Paleo with a diffe...
Strength is the Ultimate Exercise Goal!
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There seem to be many views on what should be the goal of exercise! Should you aim, above all, at flexibility, or should it be cardiovascular ability? Or should you shoot for a balance of strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular (aerobic) fitness!
Well, obviously it seems to me, that a balanced approach is better- after all, all of these three components are crucial in their own ways. But together, they are the key to ultimate fitness, right? Well- kind of…
It used to be axiomat...
20 Minute workouts RULE!
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One piece of misinformation that has been around for a long time is the idea that strength training workouts need to be…LONG! And I mean HOURS long…
I fell for this myself in my younger days. I mean, if 1 hour of intense workout exercises is good, well, 2 hours is even better, right? And the big one: if 3 workouts per week is enough for Steve Reeves and his ilk, well why not be like Arnold and Zane, and workout 6 days per week, sometimes twice per day!
Rehab your Shoulders with Virtual Resistance podcast
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I have worked out with weights, and then with calisthenics for many, many years. Starting in my teens, and continuing now, as I prepare to turn 73 in April. My results have been phenomenal, and as I continue to work out daily, I have turned more and more away from weights and equipment, and more and more rely on calisthenics and virtual resistance.
I have acquired some injuries over time, and the most nagging is the shoulder. Everyone who does heavy pressing movements, particularly the bench press, has problems with...
A New Beginning!
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Our country has been failing, for quite some time. The democrats have become a new party, completely: from the “party of the working man”, which was never really true at all, they have fallen to the level of a totally leftist, socialist/communist totalitarian state, ready to rule over us all!
Donald Trump has changed all that. Not that he’s a perfect person, no one says that. But, he is a real, honest-to-God person that represents us all, in particular real, honest-to-God workers...
Workout for One Hour per day!
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I think this is a sane recommendation for any person: work out sensibly for one hour, every day of your life! Not too extreme, and not wimpy- you need this hour for strength and flexibility training, not mindless cardio, where you run like a brainless chicken. Such “training” only drains you, diminishes your muscle, not build it, and ignores strength building (the essence of truly working out!).
A true workout is very mindful. You need to ‘think into’ your muscles, flexing them slowly, and intentionally, throughout each exercise. This can be...
Dealing With Medical Nonsense!
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As we age, standard medical practice expects us to give up all common sense, and self-determination. They want to “take over” everything, and we are supposed to just acquiesce…
I am here to tell you to vehemently protest, and to take charge of your own health and future, just as you hopefully have for your entire life. Modern Medicine is NOT your friend!
My uncle Bob Manthey, my mother’s older brother, just turned 102 last week. He never saw a medical doctor during his life, e...
A Good Life is a Paleo LIfe podcast
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We all want to live a good life. We NEED to live a good, successful, in harmony with nature and our neighbors type of life! But, what sort of life should this be? Should we live in accordance with modern tradition, by moving to a major metropolitan area, and get a high paying job, and raise our family either in the city itself, or in the nearby suburbs?
NO! What you really want and need, to be healthy and well adjusted, is to live a PALEO LIFE. By this...
Save Your Homeland to Save Yourself podcast
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We talk here about what to do to optimize our health and wellness. And rightly so! Eat right, a strongly protein-centric diet. Plenty of micronutrients, from a paleo type of diet. Good sleep, every night, in a dark room, devoid of blue light distractions and screens…
Of course, all of these are essential to a healthy life for us and our family! Along with proper strength training, and adequate flexibility.
But all of this counts for naught- if we lose our country of Western...
The Human Diet and Lifestyle
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Ever since the paleo diet hit the news and the internet, different iterations and ‘spins’ on that format have appeared endlessly. Even at the supermarket, I see magazines in the checkout lane, screaming KETO in large print! “Eat FAT FAT FAT!” is all around, along with Carbs are death!
On the next magazine, Ozempic the diet drug is touted. “ Get skinny fast!” Really? They neglect to mention that not only do you need to take the drug for LIFE, but also that you lose muscle as well as fat! (W...
Workouts as We Age
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As you go through life, some things are constant. Working out is one constant: your body needs to work out, consume healthy foods, and get ample sleep every day of your life. These things remain the same!
I have found that working out for strength and flexibility actually become more important as you progress into your 50’s, 60’s and beyond. But the amount of stimulation your muscles need for strength decreases, while the stretching required actually increases somewhat.
Actually doing a strength...
Our Medical System is BROKEN!
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Most Americans nowadays are severely overmedicated, malnourished, and sick!
This sounds like an extreme statement, but is nevertheless true.
Most adults are on a number of drugs, from anti-depressants, statins, high blood pressure drugs; drugs to help you sleep, and drugs to wake you up. The average number of drugs the average American is on at any one time, are 7. At a cost of $1200 dollars per year, per person.
Of course, this is excluding the cost of going to see the medic...
Wulf and the Son of Man audiobook
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An Easter Story
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Introduction
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A Barbarian in Chicago full audiobook by Jay Bowers
This episode, I decided to include the audio readings of my book. I write under the names Jay Bowers, and Jess Thornton.
I hope you enjoy it!
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The Northwoods
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Chapter 1
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The University of Chicago
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Part 2
Final part 3 published soon...
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Escape from Decadence
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Chapter 3
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What You Need For Health podcast
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I know, you’ve heard it from standard medical advice your whole life:
‘You don’t need supplements! Everything your body and mind needs is in the food you eat!’
Well, this might have been true, even a couple of hundred years ago, to some extent. But nowadays, when the majority of the ‘fake, engineered foods’ most people ingest; things like seed oils instead of real animal fat, and soda pop and fruit juices instead of actual water, and fast food fake meat and white buns instead of real pastured meat...
2024 New Year- New You!
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New Year New You
Now I don’t mean that each year you should try to become a brand new person! Not at all. What I expect of each of us is to gradually learn about ourselves and our environment, and by self-observation and gradual study, to improve ourselves steadily, both physically and mentally.
I’m not kidding; I know this sounds pretty crazy in a way, but I really do mean it. While we do age and deteriorate in some ways, w...
Taper Back your Workouts! podcast
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Your daily workouts are crucial for your body, and mind!
Not only in the gym, or your living room, but outside and in the woods, roads, and park. They don’t need to be written down or chronicled, or obsessed over. Not at all! But they do need to be something that you fit into your daily life, as an important part, forever.
When I was young, 20 or so, I started seriously working out with strength training. As a skinny distance runner in high school...
Magnesium Oil for YOU!
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You don’t have enough magnesium! Probably, because almost no one does. The levels have been dropping in food sources for decades, and the diseases and illnesses caused by this lack are growing by leaps and bounds: high blood pressure, inability to sleep and relax, migraines and headaches, arthritis, diabetes (studies show magnesium is necessary to properly convert carbs and sugars), and the list goes on.
To even metabolize vitamin D you need adequate magnesium, and many mental phobias such as anxiety are linked to inadequate levels, and it al...
Oral Health for Total Health podcast
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Perhaps you’ve heard that our ancient Cro-Magnon ancestors in Europe of perhaps 35,000 years ago and more tend to have near-perfect dentition, despite not having toothbrushes, floss, or dentists…
Why do you suppose this is? And it’s not because they lived such short lives that they didn’t have time to develop cavities and the like. Some did die young; indeed, such active lives in the outdoors, hunting with primitive tools and fighting large animals took their toll. But, as always when comparing mortality in ancient times, we often forget that mortal...
Live in the Country!
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Let’s say you are young, 18-22 or so, and just starting out in life. You are hopefully well educated, and undoubtedly have some ideas of what you want to do, and how to support yourself, hopefully along with a family before too long.
Along with basic questions of career, and just how to get started, you really should consider as vitally important just where you should live! City and metropolitan area, suburbs of a large city, or small town and country?
Wel...
Go Carnivore... For A While!
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Hopefully you’ve heard by now of the Carnivore Diet!
It is very easy to understand; this is part of its charm. You can’t go wrong- you only eat meat. For some, like Jordan Peterson and his daugter, you only eat beef, and salt. (If they don’t, they suffer debilitating autoimmune conditions, and massive depression). And so, they follow this diet of necessity.
It is kind of, in my mind, an extreme paleo diet. Kind of an ice age diet, as...
Fit and Healthy at Any Age
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6nfG69c9g
I read and hear all the time about how we all should do certain things when we reach a certain age. If not, we are being irresponsible…
It starts really young: get your baby vaccinations- a LOT of vaccinations, all at once! (NOT a good idea. much better to space them out over years, and even better to pick and choose amongst the many pushed.). For instance: flu vaccine and coronavirus for babies?? Terrible idea!
As...
Build Yourself for Strength and Resilience podcast
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I just fell down, hard!
I went out to the garage, in the rain, and slipped on the mud around our new sidewalk landscaping project. It’s been dry here for so long that I think I forgot how to walk on mud, and my legs shot up in the air and I crashed down on my back. I was fine, and so just got what I came out for, and went back in the house.
But it got me thinking: I’m 71 years old now...
What is Most Important in Your Life NOW?
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Hello, and welcome to the Smoothie Cafe! We are here traditionally discussing health and fitness from a Paleo Diet point of view. A smoothie, made preferably in a Vitamix, is key to maximizing your nutritional density intake, and that is still my belief. But as in anything looked at honestly for a while, say 10 years or more as it is here, new facts come in, and opinions alter…
As it is in life! When you are young, say in your teens and twenties, you are rightly concerned with gettin...
Rolll With the Punches!
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I am at an odd place right now. It’s now even that crazy, but it does confuse me- I have gotten a new computer!
I know, that actually sounds good, not bad… but trust me: I was so used to my old computer that, even though it was slow, and sometimes frustrating- at least I always knew where things were, and how things worked in general.
Nowadays, however, although my computer is really, really fast- my prep work on things is really slow. I can’t...
How to Achieve Lifelong Health and Fitness
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It’s really not that hard to accomplish. The information is all there, unfortunately, much of it is obscured by people ‘selling things’, such as offering an easy way.
That is indeed the problem: no matter how hard you look, online, on TV or on YouTube commercials- there really is no easy way.
But there is a simple and effective way!
Eat an ancestral, or paleo type of diet. High animal protein, meat, and dairy. Some vegetables, with cruciferous veggies like...
The Liberal, Leftist, and self-styled Elites are Totally Wrong!
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ABOUT EVERYTHING!
I know, that sounds a tad extreme… but it is true, nevertheless. I started out today thinking about this while listening to a podcast by Shawn Baker, a carnivore doctor who has a podcast, and youtube videos about the subject.
He was interviewing a former vegan, as he often does. This was a man who almost died of his long-term veganism, and saved himself and his wife by becoming carnivorous. The numbers of such misguided people seem legion, and they stick to this ve...
The SCAMDEMIC is OVER!
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Was it really for almost 3 long years that we had to wear useless masks, had our churches and schools largely closed, and we were forced to inject into our bodies toxic MRNA fake vaccines that didn’t even work to protect us? And that now are proving to have done irreparable harm to our bodies, making us prone to myocardial diseases of the heart, often fatal?
Yes, that is exactly what we’ve lived through- the biggest scam and hoax in history. We are still...
Start YOUR Fitness Journey for 2023!
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It doesn’t matter where you are now. Not at all. This is, as they say, the first day of the rest of your life! So let’s get started.
It all starts with diet and exercise. Everything in your future life of fitness and wellness. So, this January 1st of 2023 (or whenever you are reading this, I’m writing on January 1st) clean out your cupboards and refrigerator. Get rid of anything toxic. First and most importantly, get rid of any toxic seed or vegetable oils! Corn oil, soy, can...
Total Upper Body Maintenance podcast!
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OK- my last podcast was about walking backward, and so bulletproofing and building your lower body. Remember, this is achieved by:
Walking backward, usually against the resistance of an elastic band ideally,
And then doing various ‘Knees over toes guys’ exercises, including deadlifts and stiff-legged deadlifts on a platform, aka Jefferson Curls. Doing pistol squats while balancing on gymnastic rings is great, and deep lunges with total control to strengthen the entire leg. Once again, the videos at ‘kneesovertoesguy.com can illustrate all of this superbly.
But now...
Get Ahead by Walking Backwards!
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I hope you are aware of the benefits of backward walking! I first heard about this from Ben Patrick, the ‘knees over toes guy’, and he is really onto something big here.
I am now 70 years of age, and I’ll tell you, this is around the age when many of my contemporaries are getting knee (and hip) replacement surgeries. Trust me: this is something you would much prefer to avoid if possible; and I’m here to tell you that these knee surgeries are completely preventable! In fact, most...
