Entries by Chet Zelasko

Fighting the Mutants Among Us

Unless you’ve been avoiding all information about COVID-19, you know that there are now variants or mutations of the original virus. The first mutation was identified in the United Kingdom; soon after, another was identified in South Africa, and finally, another in Brazil. Will there be more? Undoubtedly. Is it a big deal? Maybe. If […]

Double-Up for Safety

This is Super Bowl week so let’s lead with a football analogy in the fight against the COVID-19 virus. “The best offense is a great defense” has been used as a way to deal with teams who have a great offense: if you stop them from keeping the ball, they can’t do much scoring. That […]

How to Be Stone Free

I do my best to avoid social media. Occasionally, I make a comment and it confirms I was correct to have hands off in the first place. There was a discussion on the benefits of a lifestyle-only approach to health, completely avoiding conventional medicine. I remarked that some things, such as the bladder stones I […]

The Inconvenient Stones

Bladder stones, kidney stones, gall stones, gout—all can present quite a challenge if you happen to produce them. Imagine being scared to eat because you may end up writhing on the floor with gall stones. Or how about feeling a twinge in your lower back and having that fleeting thought, “Oh, no, I hope I […]

Why You Need Taurine

Two years ago, I wrote about an episode of food poisoning that Paula and I both had. It was gut wrenching, literally, but it may have been a good thing. How is that possible? Believe it or not, it might have been a training session for our microbiomes. Scientists have been examining ways to reduce […]

Planning Your Infrastructure Upgrade

In order to give you some ideas to help you focus on your body’s infrastructure, I’m going to share my list. I’ll give you my issues and why I feel they’re problems for me; I hope that will stimulate your thinking so you can determine your infrastructure upgrades for 2021. I don’t know that I […]

Improving Your Body’s Infrastructure

We need to plant our trees before we want the shade and fix our systems before they break. I read that quote from Seth Godin in his daily blog last week, and it spoke to me. I immediately emailed him and explained it embodied what I want to teach you, my readers, on how to […]

Using Melatonin to Treat COVID-19

Today’s research paper is a type of study that uses large datasets to examine the relationship between successful treatments for people with COVID-19 and related viral infections. Let’s take a look. Network-Based Drug Repurposing To say that this is complicated is a tremendous understatement, but let’s give it a go. Researchers identified specific targets for […]

How Melatonin Affects Memory

Most people understand that melatonin functions as a neurotransmitter and can help with sleep. What is now apparent is that melatonin also has powerful antioxidant capabilities, especially as it’s related to the mitochondria, as well as other neurological functions related to memory, according to new research papers. Researchers used an interesting test of memory in […]

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2021! I’m looking forward to teaching you how to be healthier, leaner, and fitter this year—in other words, how to be the best version of yourself. The first day of a new year is always exciting. What I’d recommend is that you use today as well as the rest of the weekend for […]