The Best Health and Fitness Articles of the Week #126 – Homemade Flax Hair Gel, Most Popular Strength Coaches and Dr. Bronner’s Soap Tips

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Do It Yourself: Homemade Natural Hair Gel with Flaxseeds – YouTube

I’ve always either just grown my hair out really long, or I shave it off completely bald. I haven’t had a real hairstyle for a very long time. I just got a haircut for the first time in probably 5 or more years and one of the biggest reasons is because I really, really hate having gross toxic products in my hair. I’ve hated hair styling products ever since I was a kid. Well, I’m getting married this weekend and my soon-to-be-wife wanted me to get a haircut, so I did. Before heading to the grocery store to pick some hair gel, I wanted to see if there were any natural hair gels on the market. I did a search for “natural hair gel” on Google and the first result was this awesome recipe using only flax seeds and water. I boiled 1/8 cup flax seeds with 1 cup water for about 6 minutes and then squeezed it through a paint strainer bag. So far I really like it. I hope it lasts through my wedding! Update: It got windy during my wedding and the flax gel didn’t last, but I still like it.



Best Nootropic Stack

I’m a huge fan of nootropics. I already take a stack of piracetam, choline, aniracetam and coconut oil when I’m at work. This article also mentions L-Theanine and Phenibut to act sort of like a beta blocker to cause calmness and reduce overactive brain activity, which can also be used with caffeine to wake you up, but without the negative side effects. That’s pretty freaking awesome! So this author recommends taking L-theanine at a ratio of 0.5 to 1 of the amount of caffeine taken, so if you consume 100mg of caffeine you want to take 50mg or more of L-theanine. The other nootropic mentioned here, phenibut, supposedly resets caffeine tolerance and can give you the best sleep of your life. He suggests taking it only twice per week (he does Sun. and Wed.) at two 300mg doses – one 3 hours before, the second as he’s going to bed. I don’t know about phenibut. If it feels like alcohol and can cause a hangover, I’m not sure I want it in my body. This forum thread about trying to get off phenibut is pretty scary too.



FDA allows natural blue from spirulina as food coloring

Food dyes are in everything and some of the most common dyes are quite toxic. It’s great that companies can start using spirulina as a food coloring. I never realized that it could be used as a food dye. I’m surprised it has taken this long to get approval.



Most Popular Strength Coaches & Thank You to All My Readers

This is kind of a weird thing for a strength and conditioning coach to spend their time on, but it’s clear that Bret Contreras is an excellent S&C coach and tech geek. There are some new names in his list of top ten coaches that are unfamiliar to me, so I’ll begin following them ASAP!



Dilutions Cheat Sheet for Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap

I’ve been wanting to move away from some of the toxic cosmetic products I use, while also trying to keep things simple, so I’ve been thinking about switching to Dr. Bronner’s soap products to do just about everything – wash my hair and body, brush my teeth, do the dishes, do the laundry and so on. This cheat sheet should come in handy, although it looks like it’s more trial and error and just using a couple dabs here and there or more if you need it.

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