From time to time I like to share the results of the members of my private blog community with everyone else.

This testimonial is pretty amazing. For those of you who may think that Evolutionary Fitness is only for men, it is informative.

Dear Art,
Having found out about you through the Sunday Times article I have gone on to lose 56 pounds in 3 and a half months, and my husband 25 pounds no one can believe he had weight to lose . We both look and feel so much better and younger and barely a day goes by without someone asking how we have done it.I go about now with a pencil and paper to pass on your name! Rebecca

This article in the NYT is so well-done and so closely related to my work on stochastic processes that I have to put it up.

Check out the NYT on Risk Mismanagement.

Nassim Taleb and I, among many others, have a lot of issues with the model everyone uses these days. Value at risk is just one of many applications of the wrong probability model. The Capital Asset Pricing Model is equally at fault. Its arbitrage arguments are correct, but the probability model is wrong.

Notice how the article describes Nassim as fit and trim; a product of his EF lifestyle wherein he adopted kurtosis as the basis for resetting his metabolism.

Even more interesting is the way everyone reacted to the failure of Long Term Capital Management and the current failures described in the article of the prevailing model. Those who used the model embraced it even more strongly in the face of its clear refutation.

This is the same phenomenon one sees in cults. When the cult leader predicts the End of the World and it doesn’t happen the members group together in strong denial and more deeply defend the failed model. This is found in the research on cults and other deeply held beliefs and is seen as a defensive form of confirmation bias. The event is interpreted not as a failure but as a confirmation.

Does Global Warming sound similar?

The LA Times has an interesting story on Edna Parker who died last November at the age of 115.

She was still climbing ladders in her home, where she lived by herself, at the age of 100. Did I mention she loved bacon, eggs, and fried chicken? That would not be fair to the low-fat, high-carb experts would it? Having the kind of strength at 100 to climb a ladder is perhaps the best possible test of your life expectancy since only lean body mass gives that kind of strength. Of course, it is known that lean body mass is the best predictor of longevity once one becomes older. It is far more important to train your strength than to do aerobics (which wastes lean body mass) to live long. I bet her insulin was low too. That is the next best indicator. She is a data point that refutes the prevailing mantra of low-fat, high-carb diets and aerobic exercise. One other point, the age of many of the former longest-lived persons have routinely been over estimated. By the time you get into the upper tail of the distribution, the normal distribution no longer fits. There is an upper limit on life, but we cannot know what it is for rare individuals defy the odds and continue to unveil the limits.

For our Holiday Sale we are offering the Evolutionary Fitness DVD set (containing 7 hours of lectures and discussion) with a year subscription to my private blog for $170. This price includes shipping and handling.

This offer is only good through Pay-Pal. If you are interested in this offer e mail us at team.rucci@yahoo.com. If you are already a member we will send the DVD set to you for $140 and that will include shipping and handling.

The Sale ends on December 31, 2008. If you are making New Year’s resolutions, then Evolutionary Fitness should be one of them. Check the Zen of Evolutionary Fitness video below for a bit of New Year inspiration. Or absorb Bryan Appleyard’s effortless loss of 22 pounds in less than 3 months in the video below. I will say he looks years younger than when we met for our interview.

We also have a new site coming next year, with a Forum for discussions, more and more easily read content, and WW’s corner with her EF cooking secrets and recipes. We have so many intelligent readers on the private blog that the level of the discussion I look forward to on the new Forum will easily surpass what you can get in the gym or Googling around the internet. Many of our readers who have made the Evolutionary Fitness journey share their stories and knowledge with newbies.

We have had a great year for Evolutionary Fitness. With news paper and TV coverage, thousands of subscribers to my private blog where I reveal the details of EF training, eating and way of life, and with the upcoming (early 2010) publication of Evolutionary Fitness by Harper Collins in the US and Vermillion/Random House in the UK.

As always, Bryan is articulate and funny in this British TV show discussion of how well he has done on Evolutionary Fitness. In the UK this show is of Oprah stature.

I see a big change in Bryan’s appearance, much younger, and in the reduction of inflammation in his face. His metabolism has been fundamentally changed by Evolutionary Fitness and he does now live more like a wild animal than a caged lab rat.

This comment from a reader of my private blog is pretty inspirational. Sometimes women don’t feel that Evolutionary Fitness, we call it EF, will work for them. Read and believe. Just to clarify, IF means intermittent fasting, one of the other technologies we use in EF

Oprah could certainly use EF. Art, I’m sure she would love to have you in her show.

I’m amazed at my daily transformation. Sometimes I feel like I’m cheating on this lifestyle. I use to spend so much more time working out and figuring out caloric intake etc. I use to put in an hour a day of hard core workouts and thought that was great. Now, I factor it in at least twice sometimes three times depending on other activities and to boot my dog is getting fitter as well.

My dog is doing well on the EF lifestyle as well. Everybody who sees my dog keeps asking how come his hair is so soft and shiny and most people can’t quite articulate how to describe his physique well, because he’s muscular and lean. These words are lacking in the French lingo of late. I’m forever grateful for stumbling on your site/blog.

Read the rest of this entry »

I put this segment from my Evolutionary Fitness DVD set (containing 7 hours of lectures and discussion) up for the holidays and in anticipation of all those New Year resolutions people will be making.

Right now we are offering a deal that includes the full set of my Evolutionary Fitness lectures and a year subscription to my private blog for $170. This price includes shipping and handling. This offer is only good through Pay-Pal. If you are interested in this offer e mail us at team.rucci@yahoo.com. If you are already a member we will send the DVD set to you for $140 and that will include shipping and handling.

This offer wil end on 12/20/08.

The EF Team

Governments grow most rapidly during “crises”. But, they do not contract during good times.

I think John Lott’s latest Op Ed is just superb.

With holidays around the corner we here at EF want to offer a bit of a gift in the form of a combination of the Evolutionary Fitness DVD set (containing 7 hours of lectures and discussion) with a year subscription to my private blog for $170. This price includes shipping and handling. This offer is only good through Pay-Pal. If you are interested in this offer e mail us at team.rucci@yahoo.com. If you are already a member we will send the DVD set to you for $140 and that will include shipping and handling.

This offer wil end on 12/20/08.

The EF Team

Here is an excerpt from a more complete discussion on my private blog. It is so important that I want to share at least part of the information with everyone.

Your metabolic headroom is the difference between the least you can do and the most you can do. Dr. McGuff, a frequent commenter on my private blog has a site Ultimate Exercise where he discusses recent research on gene expression and anaerobic exercise; just the thing I have stressed for some years now. Just click on the articles link in the header of his site to read his discussion of anaerobic exercise as the ultimate anti-aging technology. Go to my private blog for more on the topic. EFers have had this technology available for years.