The Proof is the Yolk

One of my tool makers would always say "the proof is in the pudding". That adage can be applied to many things, and none so simple as the humble egg yolk. Perhaps this is why Dave Asprey discussed it in his Biohacking 101 Podcast.

There is nothing wrong with your monitor, one of these eggs has a different colored yolk. The lightly colored yolk in the upper left is a popular brand of USDA Certified Organic Omega-3 enhanced egg, while the other two are from a Pasture Raised eggs like those sold by Vital Farms.

If you refer to the Whole Foods Market guide to eggs, Organic eggs come from hens that only have access to the outside and are still fed an organic (grain) diet, while Pastured Raised eggs come from hens that have access to pasture where they eat grass, insects and small vertebrates.

Omega-3 enhanced eggs are not what they are all cracked up to be either. The most common way to increase the Omega-3 content of eggs is to feed hens flax seeds, but it turns out that Omega-3 enhanced eggs are higher in ALA and not higher in the EPA and DHA that we want.

Yes, the Pasture Raised eggs cost up to twice as much as the Organic eggs, which are even higher than the commercial eggs I ate few years ago. So, perhaps I do not eat eggs all that often. But when I do, I go for the good stuff.

Stay well engineered,

Devon

These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. These statements or products referenced are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

I Wear My Sunglasses at Night

It is 11:59 PM. My alarm clock goes off in fours and thirty-one minutes and I do not feel tired. Maybe it was the second cup of Bulletproof Coffee today. Or, maybe it is because my circadian rhythm is off from my Christmas vacation. In times like these I don my red-tinted aviators.

Why red? The object is to block blue light and red does this quite handily. Why block blue light? Blue light blocks serotonin production in your pineal gland explains Mark Hyman in this Huffington Post article.

" As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work." John 9:4

There was a time when sunset was the end of the work day and the blue sky would turn an orange-red color before total darkness. This was the way that nature used to trigger our sleep. However, many of us work in spaces lit by florescent lights, stare at a computer screens all day and have bright "blue" HID headlights shined in our faces on the way home from work; while few of us have actually seen a sunset recently.

Eliminating blue light and sleeping in total darkness are perhaps two of the simplest things you can do hack your sleep.

Stay well engineered,

Devon

These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. These statements or products referenced are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.