P.D. (Dennis) Mangan is the founder of Rogue Health & Fitness and the author of Dumping Iron: How to Ditch This Secret Killer and Reclaim Your Health. In this episode of The Alpha Human Podcast, we discuss how Mangan rejected the advice of health authorities to cure his chronic fatigue syndrome and how he transformed […]
The Great Sugar Hustle
In the late 1960s the sugar industry paid-off scientists to publish a report downplaying the role of sugar in cardiovascular disease, key players from the powerful trade body representing the sector cherry-picked the studies used to ensure the finger of blame pointed to fat as the primary culprit in heart disease. The article ended up […]
Starving for Fat
Fasting has been shown in numerous studies to impart restorative and regenerative benefits, and periods of temporary starvation have a powerful impact on lifespan/life extension, with that said, fasting has its (obvious) limitations, the fasted state cannot be prolonged forever and as such its advantages, while abundant, are limited to how long one can survive […]
Bleeding Sugar
As far back as 500 BC, it was understood that high levels of sugar in the body (and excreted in the urine) was part of the pathology of Diabetes. By the late 1700s, it had become clear that, once eaten, the starchy foods we consumed were converted to sugar internally, and that, not only the […]
Fueling an Apex Species
Although the modern diet is primarily made up of processed and refined grains and carbohydrates (an effect of the agricultural revolution which began circa 10,000 BC), this is quite a recent phenomena in human history and runs counter to the way humans ate for millions of years … bursts of animal fat and protein fresh […]
Sweet (Brain) Death
For decades sugar was promoted as a health food that did everything from fight fat to energize you, the 1950s – 1970s saw some of the most brazen and manipulative marketing ever pushed on the American public. Rivaled in its guile only by the infamous health promoting cigarette ads of the same period, sugar was […]