Our ancestors who lived in pre-agrarian days or before farming, got most of their exercise by hunting and avoiding being hunted themselves.

Their number one goal everyday was to exist until the next day. In order to do that they had to eat. In order to eat they had to hunt. How’s that for planning your work and working your plan?

They were big eaters of protein which came from the meat of dangerous animals. In order to slay these beast required not only stealth, but intense burst of energy sustained for a short period of time. If they didn’t kill the beast, they stood a very good chance of becoming protein for the beast they hunted.

Most of the time it took numerous attempts to bring home the bacon. So man adapted to this and his body became lean and muscular. He also created a strong heart and lungs without “cardio” or aerobics.

What’s interesting is… there was no heart disease and no diabetes. The two biggest killers of people in the world today.

Today, the American Heart Association and traditional medicine recommend only small amounts of red meat, large amounts of carbohydrates, and exercise like aerobics that weakens your heart and lungs by causing them to shrink over time.

Sadly, the most exercise people get is walking from the couch to the pantry and back again. Thanks to big food manufacturers, most of us are addicted to high glycemic carbohydrates like crackers, chips, cookies and pastries that sap our energy and inflame our arteries.

If our practice of medicine is so sophisticated, why are two thirds of the people in the US obese? The answer is … the practice of medicine is just that. It’s not the prevention of illness. It’s the treatment of symptons of the ill.

Perhaps Big Pharma sees it as job security? Let’s be real. I know they see it as job security.

We no longer have to hunt for our food or avoid animal predators. The predators still exist, they’ve just taken on a different form.

If you want to learn how to get a body that’s lean and muscular like our pre-agrarian ancestors and also have lungs that support a strong immune system, stop by www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey – The Fitness Vigilante

Vaccine mania has taken the world by storm. If you’re considering getting a Swine Flu shot, here’s a few things you might want to think about.

1) Getting a Swine Flu shot does not guarantee you will not get the Swine Flu.

2) Why has the Federal Government felt it necessary to grant complete immunity to pharmaceutical companies who manufacture the vaccine if taking it results in critical long term side effects or death?

3) In a survey conducted by Nursing Times magazine, it was found that only 37% of nurses and front line health workers said they would take the vaccine.

4) 49% of doctors in the UK polled by Pulse magazine would reject the vaccine with 9% still undecided

5) All vaccines cause inflammation of the brain. The older you are the more inflammation exist. Some more severe cases lead to neurodegenerative diseases as a direct result of vaccines.

6) The Swine Flu vaccine will contain the heavy metal mercury which is toxic. It also contains immune stimulators called adjuvants. They’ve been associated with severe autoimmune diseases such as Lupus.

7) Why is the Federal Government involved in this to begin with?

92% of children who contract measles, mumps, or other childhood illnesses have been vaccinated.

9) Why have their been no mass epidemics after it was discovered that protection from childhood vaccines had waned in adults?

10) A 30 year study concluded that the regular flu vaccine did not reduce deaths or hospitalizations for pneumonia from flu, yet the CDC, and the American Academy of Family Practice still strongly promote it for the elderly.

There’s a heap of evidence now that the best way to combat the flu is with proper nutrition and supplementation.

Vitamin D3 stimulates a group of proteins called peptides which can kill or inhibit viruses, bacteria and fungi. The more you take the more microbe killing peptides it makes.

The government recommends only 400 international units per day. Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D., whose been studying things in this area for the last 30 years recommends 5000 IU’s per day and 15,000 IU’s per day if there is a true epidemic. Let’s see? Who’s advice should I take?

Start taking control of your own health. All the information you need is at your finger tips.

It’s also critical to exercise to get your blood flowing properly and stimulate your lymphatic system.

Learn more about the exercise part, especially if you’re over forty at www.kevinfuey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey – The Fitness Vigilante

If preventing a heart attack is simple, why is heart disease the number one killer of Americans?

We’ve all heard the terms associated with heart disease and heart attacks. Blockage, placque, high tryglycerides, clogged arteries, etc.

Most people just figure that the arteries that lead to your heart get plugged up with placque and blood can’t flow through to your heart and WHAMMY, you have a heart attack.

And this is true. But the way it happens may not be what you think.

It happens from the outside in instead of the inside out.

Placque builds up on the inside of your artery walls. So if you thought of your arteries as pipes that you were looking through from end to end, you couldn’t see it because it’s inside the walls of the arteries.

Then what happens is your arteries become inflammed and start to swell. This narrows the space on the inside of the artery for the blood to pass through. If there’s enough inflammation it creates a clot or bulge in the swollen artery which then closes the artery. All from the outer walls of the artery.

So the key to preventing a heart attack is to prevent the inflammation.

The media points to cholesterol as the culprit but your liver makes more cholesterol than you get from the foods you eat.

Inflammation is also caused by what you eat. Wanna know the two biggest culprits?

Sugar and processed oils like vegetable, soybean and canola oil.

So the simple way to prevent a heart attack is to limit your sugar intake and avoid vegetable oils. The best oils to cook with and that are completely healthy for you are olive and believe it or not, coconut oil.

Another simple thing you can do is use your own body weight for exercise. Exercise helps your body to work properly and when done properly, builds a strong heart. You can find out more about what type of exercise is best at www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey – The Fitness Vigilante

So we’ve talked about how your energy levels decrease with age and how CoQ10 can give you loads of energy.

We’ve also talked about how fr*ee radicals terrorize your body and how CoQ10 acts as an antioxidant to help prevent heart disease and other chronic illnesses.

Another thing this wonderful enzyme does is slow down the aging process.

It’s believed that aging is a result of less energy production.

We know that CoQ10 works within the cells to help produce energy. As you get older, you don’t produce as much CoQ10 and consequently have less energy.

Our bodies were designed for activity. As you get older and your energy levels decline you become less active. This lack of stimulation has a negative effect on your muscles, bones and internal organs which hastens the aging process.

CoQ10 has the ability to in a sense, reset the aging process in your cells. No, it won’t give you the cells of a teenager but it will provide you with the energy that will help you become so incredibly active that you might FEEL like one again.

Short burst of exercise using your own body weight also help energize your body, make it work better and turn back the clock on the aging process. Find out more at www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey – The Fitness Vigilante

No, I’m not talkin’ about the fr*ee radicals in Washington, D.C. I’ll save that for another discussion.

But I need to tell you something that might shock you. There’s a war going on in your body.

The funny thing is… that’s how your body was created. And the result of the ongoing war inside your body is AGE.

When your body converts food into energy it naturally creates some byproducts that attack enzymes, proteins and cell membranes. They’re called fr*ee radicals. And if these attacks are not answered, it can lead to hardening of the arteries.

It gets even worse because of additional environmental and lifestyle contributors. Things like air pollution, chemical toxins, certain pharmaceutical drugs, stress, smoking, alcohol and some of the foods we eat. All of these things contribute to the oxidation process. But instead of pipes rusting, your arteries harden and clog and eventually may cause a heart attack or stroke.

But there is good news. Your body fights back against the fr*ee radicals by creating antioxidants. You get this ammunition from fruits and vegetables. So when fr*ee radicals are contained by a sufficient arsenal of antioxidants you maintain your health and reduce the aging process.

There’s a couple of problems though. We can’t eat enough fruits and vegetables, especially as they’re grown nowadays, to keep sufficiently armed. Your body makes it’s own antioxidants but the amount decreases with age.

So we need supplements.

Vitamin C and E are really good ones to help fight this war. But one of the best ones is CoQ10. It has a special quality that combats the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (the sticky bad cholesterol).

CoQ10 is also known to protect the brain, the muscles, the liver and other vital organs. It’s hard to say enough about this vital enzyme and how it can protect you from disease and premature aging.

Another thing that protects you from disease and premature aging is exercise. It doesn’t require whole lot of it either. You’ll see what I mean if you go to www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey

I started taking CoQ10 for the benefits it would provide for my heart and my brain. But I never imagined the amount of energy I would have as an added benefit.

Energy is produced in the cells of your body. They take in oxygen, combined with sugars and fatty acids from food. These raw materials are then sent to the mighty mitochondria in your cells. I call them the mighty mitochondria because they are the “power plants” of your cells where energy is produced and every cell has 500 to 2000 mitochondria.

In the mitochondria the raw materials are combined with enzymes to produce energy. And that’s where CoQ10 does its job. It works as a go between so to speak, to provide the spark to produce the energy. Without sufficient amounts of CoQ10, it’s like trying to light charcoal without lighter fluid.

The lack of energy can have a serious domino effect on your body as you get older. So don’t take it lightly. When your cells don’t have enough energy it can damage your tissues. This in turn spreads to the muscles and ultimately damages the organ systems of the heart and brain.

Start supplementing with CoQ10 and see if you don’t turn into the Energizer Bunny. If you’re over forty the recommended dosage is at least 100 mg per day.

Another way to increase your energy is with simple body weight exercise. To learn more go to www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey

In my last blog I talked about the Miracle of CoQ10. Today I’m going to talk about why almost everyone over the age of twenty who doesn’t supplement is deficient in CoQ10.

1. Diet – Most people just don’t eat a healthy diet. The best sources of CoQ10 are the organ meats like beef, chicken and pork hearts. But almost no one eats them. Besides that, you’d have to eat a wheelbarrow full to get any type of therapeutic benefit.

2. Age – Your body naturally stops producing it in sufficient quantities between the ages of 20 and 25 and really slows down after 40.

3. Cholesterol drugs – It’s bad enough that cholesterol lowering drugs have very little effect on longevity and making you healthy. One of the other bad side effects is the interference with the production of CoQ10. Anybody who takes a statin drug should most certainly be taking CoQ10. Of course you should be taking it even if you’re not on a statin drug.

4. Extreme physical exertion – People who run marathons, long distance, triathlons, etc. create an adaptive response in their bodies that shrinks their internal organs like their heart and lungs. They have to shrink in response to the call for efficiency. This is not a good thing. It’s also compounded by the depletion of CoQ10, the enzyme for producing energy for your heart and brain.

5. Hyperthyroidism – An overactive thyroid increases your metabolism and can create irregular heart rhythms, weak muscles and consequently stress on the heart. This stress in turn drains the body of CoQ10.

If you haven’t started supplementing with CoQ10 you should seriously consider it. You’ll be blown away with the amount of energy you’ll have.

Another way to increase your energy is with short bouts of exercise using your own body weight. You can find out more about this type of exercise by going to www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey

CoQ10 is an enzyme naturally produced in our bodies and present in all of its trillions of cells. It’s primary purpose is to provide energy to your cells. Without it we would die. Yet few people have heard of it and many doctors tend to ignore it.

Your body naturally produces enough of it up to around the age of twenty. At that point production steadily decreases and at age 40 you produce very little naturally. You can get it from eating fish, beef, and pork but you can’t consume enough of any of these to get the amount you need.

Besides providing you with energy, it’s a powerful antioxidant that protects your body from accelerated aging and degenerative diseases. It fortifies the heart and brain and is especially beneficial if you have heart disease. Some studies even show it helps prevent Alzheimers.

It’s available as an over the counter supplement in grocery and health stores. You’ll find it in tablet, powder and liquid forms. The tablet and powder forms are know as Ubiquinone. In this form your body needs to break it down in oder to absorb. Most people under forty don’t have any trouble with this. But if you’re over forty, I’d recommend the liquid form (Ubiquinol) that comes in caplets. Since it’s already in liquid form it’s much easier for the body to absorb.

If you’re over forty, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra recommends at least 100 mg a day with natural Vitamin E because CoQ10 is fat soluble. You can also take it with your daily fish oil supplement or even olive oil.

Regular, non-endurance exercise also raises your CoQ10 levels. You can find out more about the tremendous benefits of short bouts of exercise at www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey

A natural result of aging is loss of muscle and loss of bone density.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Most muscle and bone density loss is due to inactivity. Lack of stress or resistance on the muscles.

You hear people blame their lack of activity on “getting old”. There’s saying that goes like this. “As the mind goes – so goes the body.” Is your vision one of “getting old” or vibrant health.

When you start losing muscle because of inactivity, you start losing bone mass as well. When you lack muscle tone and bone mass, it takes more energy to do things. You get tired faster. It’s a downward spiral. One thing leads to another.

You can reverse this trend with simple resistance exercises. When you properly exercise your muscles it puts a good kind of stress on your bones. This causes a chemical reaction in your bones and increases their density over time. Even people with Osteoporosis can in many cases reverse it and start building stronger, denser, bones.

What type of exercises do I recommend? Simple body weight exercises like squats, lunges and push-ups.

If you’d like to stay young and have strong muscles and strong bones – Exercise. You can get all the results you need in an hour or less per week.

You can learn more about my 1-5-3 Fat Burning System that helps you build lean, strong muscles and strong, healthy bones at http://www.kevinfurey.com

All the best,

Kevin Furey

Did you know that your body burns different fuels depending on how long you exercise and the amount of intensity exerted?

If you do low intensity exercise over a longer period of time, your body burns 15% fat and 70% carbohydrates.

Moderate intensity, longer duration exercise, lasting 45 minutes to an hour burns 55% fat and 40% carbohydrates.

High intensity, short duration exercise burns 3% fat and 95% carbohydrates.

Logically, if you’re trying to lose weight, most people would choose moderate intensity exercise because it burns the most fat DURING exercise. But that’s the problem.

Our bodies create an adaptive response to the type of exercise we perform. When you move into your fat burning zone DURING exercise… your brain tells your body to replace that fat for the next time you exercise. It even robs your muscle tissue to do it.

The truth of the matter is, you burn 60% fat while you’re RESTING or not doing any exercise at all.

So what type of exercise is best for burning fat?

The answer is short duration, higher intensity. This type of exercise burns 95% carbohydrates and 3% fat DURING exercise. Studies show that doing this type of exercise burns up to 9 times more fat than traditional cardio exercise. And it does it AFTER you’re done exercising.

Doing short duration exercise also creates an adaptive response. Since you’re burning primarily sugar during your workout, your brain senses that it doesn’t need the excess fat and tells your body to get rid of it. So the fat starts melting off your body while you’re resting.

You can have these types of results exercising for an hour or less per week. You’ll exercise less, burn more fat and create long toned muscles that’ll be the envy of your friends.

To find out more go to www.kevinfurey.com and learn about The 1-5-3 Fat Burning System.

All the best,

Kevin