PERFORMANCE

Jun 8, 20231 min read

SINNING TO PERFORMANCE

Why do I prefer the CACAN (vit.C,Asprin,Coffee,Alcohol, Nicotine) way to performance? I believe it to be less costly to health and...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Apr 4, 20232 min read

NICOTINE (the bottom line)

Nicotine improves our focus and motivation as well as our sense of wellbeing for relatively short periods of time. It does this by its...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Apr 1, 20232 min read

NICOTINE (the how)

How we get nicotine into our system (for performance) is the most important consideration. Nicotine, because of its impact on dopamine,...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 25, 20231 min read

ALCOHOL (why?)

Why use alcohol for performance? It works, it is cheap and you can get it readily. It is particularly effective in altering the brain,...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 22, 20233 min read

ALCOHOL (how to use for performance)

Intoxication rarely leads to a performance boost so the golden rule of alcohol for performance is do not get drunk. Alcohol is most...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 18, 20231 min read

ALCOHOL (for performance)

Alcohol is a widely available drug which has been consumed by humans for almost 9,000 years, so far as we know. Various reasons have been...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 14, 20231 min read

COFFEE (the bottom line)

PROS: Boosts energy levels Boosts concentration Protects DNA Protects against diseases of aging. Boosts brain function and health....

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 11, 20232 min read

COFFEE (the how)

My personal routine for drinking coffee begins with waking, where I definitely do not drink coffee. If you need coffee to wake up then...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 8, 20231 min read

COFFEE (the why?)

During my years as a competitive athlete I stayed away from coffee, as it was one of the few performance enhancing substances that was...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 5, 20231 min read

ASPIRIN (ps)

A friend sent me this article by Joseph Mercola on Aspirin, it is well researched and written, with easy to follow explanations of how...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 4, 20231 min read

ASPIRIN(the bottom line)

Aspirin is a drug and as a rule I do not use drugs, I would in a matter of life and death, but my whole approach is to live in such a way...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Mar 1, 20232 min read

ASPIRIN (how much?)

How much aspirin is enough? It depends on biochemical individuality, the current state of your body, the state of your gut and...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 16, 20232 min read

VITAMIN C (safe and effective)

Listen to the Today in Focus podcast from the Guardian based in the UK here, for a description of the problems facing the National Health...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 14, 20231 min read

VITAMIN C (the crash)

A client of mine called quite late one night to say that he was travelling in Asia for an extended period, had run out of C and now was...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 12, 20232 min read

VITAMIN C (how much?)

The official advice throughout the western world is that 75 mg of vitamin C per day, preferably from natural sources, ought to be enough....

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 10, 20232 min read

VITAMIN C (why)

In March of 2020 I was in the North East of the United Kingdom as the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding. As things went south and with...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 7, 20231 min read

RHYTHM AND BLUES (the blues one)

All people have rhythms which the body evolved to follow and tries very hard to continue to do so despite the many disruptions of modern...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 3, 20231 min read

RHYTHM AND BLUES (the circadian one)

All people have rhythms which the body evolved to follow and tries very hard to continue to do so despite the many disruptions of modern...

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Dudley 'Tal' Stokes

Feb 1, 20232 min read

RHYTHM AND BLUES (the ultradian one)

All people have rhythms which the body evolved to follow and tries very hard to continue to do so despite the many disruptions of modern...

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Dudley Tal Stokes

Oct 23, 20225 min read

BURNOUT

(quiet quitting) Burnout is the term used to describe a lethargy felt by someone towards their mode of earning a living and is thought to...

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