I Burned the Equivalent of Nearly 60 kg of Body Fat in 2 COVID Years
Paris, January 5, 2022
I did in the last two years 6,885 km (4,278 miles) with a total ascent of 40,600 meters (133,206 ft), and burned 452,577 kcal, i.e. the equivalent of 58.8 kg (129.3 lb.) of body fat. And by doing so, I keep my body mass index (BMI) naturally stable, slightly below 18 kg/m2 after I stopped running with sneakers, thanks to my body adaptation to barefoot running. It used to be around 18.5 kg/m2. With such a BMI, I have to fuel my physical activity with new calorie intake. In 1958, Max Wishnofsky calculated that 1 lb. (0.45 kg) of fat stores approximately 3,500 kcal of energy, which means that one pound of body fat would, for instance, provide me enough energy to run 20.6 miles or 33.1 km.
My purpose is to be as active and sober as humans should be to stay fit and healthy, with a strong immune system, and to show that everyone can do it, because it’s more crucial than ever to prevent and eradicate obesity. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed, for instance, in their March 12, 2021, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that “obesity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19, possibly related to chronic inflammation that disrupts immune and thrombogenic responses to pathogens as well as to impaired lung function from excess weight. Obesity is a common metabolic disease, affecting 42.4% of U.S. adults. Among 148,494 adults who received a COVID-19 diagnosis at 238 U.S. hospitals during March-December 2020, 28.3% had overweight and 50.8% had obesity. Obesity was a risk factor for hospitalization and death, particularly among adults aged <65 years.” In other words, over 79% of COVID-19 patients are either overweight or obese. Sadly, since the outbreak of the pandemic, instead of learning the lesson and taking the right and effective actions to reduce their body fat, too many people, including runners, did quite the opposite, while blaming a so-called quarantine 15, i.e. the pandemic for the additional weight.
“Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea”
In July 1975, in a display of voluntary servitude and parody of British and French colonial manners in Africa, four British businessmen carried in a sedan chair, with another white man holding a sunshade, the already fairly heavy Ugandan president Idi Amin to a party for diplomats, in Kampala. Africans “laughed out loud,” not so the former colonial rulers. In August 2003, Idi Amin, also known as “His Excellency President for Life, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular,” was allegedly weighing about 220 kg (485 lb.) when he fell into coma and died in the intensive care unit of a Jeddah Hospital, official cause of death: kidney failure.
Interestingly, “Jupiter” is the proud nickname of the French president, and it refers to the Roman god of the sky and the earth, the King of the gods and of all living species. In other words, Jupiter is also the “Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea.” In 2017, The Los Angeles Times confirmed that “Macron wanted to be a Jupiterian leader, unchallenged, like the Roman god of the skies.” Three years later, the German newspaper Die Zeit explained that France had become an “Authoritarian Absurdistan.”
Like other animals, our ancestors needed to develop temporary body fat as a life-saving source of energy for when they had no food. Paradoxically, billions of current humans are developing permanent overweight or obesity when there’s no more need to stock fat in our bodies. And instead of resorting to physical activity to burn that fat naturally and effectively, most of them look for passive solutions, including diets, pills, surgical removal of a large portion of their stomach, gastric bypass, burning the “balls” in saunas, etc., mostly to no avail. For the record, wild animals—including other big apes—are neither developing obesity nor warming the planet. So why are humans doing that, despite our allegedly “superior intelligence”? How did humans develop unlimited chutzpah and stupid megalomania? What went wrong with current humans? How did we end up transforming the earth into a planet of the masked apes, virtually and physically? Are humans retrograde primates?
As I thoroughly explain in the book “Running Barefoot for Human Survival,” all that resulted from thousands years of abusive and insane exploitation of our small genetic advantage—barely 1.2% of our DNA—that differentiates humans from chimps. I’m sharing hereunder some excerpts.
“We nowadays know that running is a drug, but many people are not aware of the full implications of the addiction on humans who don’t run, and who are indeed the suffering patients, while mistakenly assuming that the marathoners are those who have to confront the problem. The reason is that all humans are hooked on the natural drugs called endorphins, and long-distance running is the key to get the required amount that guarantees happiness. Since modern long-distance running is tantamount to persistence hunting, marathoners are rewarded with the adequate quantity of endorphins. But for the reward to work successfully, people must feel an irresistible need to get it. This is the way animal species survive, which means that humans who don’t run marathons may suffer as a result from the endorphin withdrawal syndrome. And, sadly, many of them seek relief in psychotropic medication, excess of food, licit or prohibited euphoric substances, impulsive consumption, pecuniary accumulation, loony superiority complex, quest for power or domination, cruelties to other humans, etc. Moreover, these ‘alternative therapies’ of the syndrome can create new addictions, which regrettably tend to persist in many runners of long distances.”
“An unexpected development has upset the sociology of the marathon, a race practiced and dominated since 1896 by the elites who made it their new preserved hunting ground, and were determined to do whatever they could to defend their privileges, as in feudal regimes. And since they were exclusively white men of the high social hierarchy, the fastest among them deserved a special distinction. They became the ‘elites’ of the marathon empire. Then the revolution came in the 1980s, when young boys, later followed by their sisters, descended from the mountains of East Africa, and started replacing the traditional elites in the major marathons held in Europe, North America or elsewhere. Like real empires, imaginary empires also rise and fall. It’s the natural cycle of history, and there’s not much even an ‘über-Brahmin’ can do. So, first, the women conquered their fundamental human right to participate in the marathons, and rapidly proved that the discrimination imposed on them were based on fallacies. And as if that wasn’t enough, the Kenyans and Ethiopians stormed the Brahmins’ Marathon Empire, and made it to the highest positions. In other words, the partial feminization of the Empire was followed by the total Africanization of the top ‘elites’ for both genders.
This latest blow proved more embarrassing for the pride of the old marathon aristocracy. Therefore, instead of trying to find out and accept the real reason for the East-Africans’ supremacy, they fabricated the theory of the speed genes to justify the humiliation inflicted by these new elites, so that the defeated can conveniently pretend: ‘We’re not fighting on equal terms!’ And so many people continue to defend such deceptions. A Danish ‘scientific study’ went even so far as to compare the East-Africans to avian species, the ‘study’ carried out in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya pretending that the Africans possess a genetic advantage and ‘bird-like legs.’ That begs at least two questions: do the authors of the so-called study and those who believe in them mean that the long-time white female holder of the world record and the Scandinavians and other runners, who dominated the marathons until the arrival of the East-Africans, also have the genetic advantage and the bird-like legs? Folks, birds are very different animal species. We humans are mammals, namely hunter-gatherers and perfect long-distance runners.”
“Humans are born to run barefoot to be happy and healthy, and strengthen our immune systems, which are our best defense against COVID-19, future pandemics and other infections. Running is therefore a vital activity for our species. Luckily, contrary to popular belief, all humans are excellent long-distance runners, thanks to our hunter-gatherer heritage. Only the form has evolved: our ancestors practiced persistence hunting for about three million years to catch animals for food, while we must run marathons not only to prevent the chronic diseases which are yearly killing over 41 million people and destroying our immune systems, namely obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, dementia, depression, insomnia, stress, etc., but also to discard unnecessary or harmful needs, protect the environment, save natural resources and thus guarantee the survival of our species. Sadly, laziness, gullibility, ignorance and easy access to food have turned too many humans into irrational and physically inactive consumers who seek happiness and the meaning of life in risks factors for chronic diseases (alcohol, tobacco, medicines, illegal drugs, excess of food, etc.), which also fuel permanent frustration, air pollution and global warming.
This explains why the combination of humans’ propensity to laziness and overeating with unrestricted access to food inevitably results in long-lasting overweight or obesity, so much so that even many doctors, other healthcare professionals, culinary chefs, wealthy or powerful people are among the fat and obese. The fact that only humans and their pets experience obesity—which means that chimpanzees and other wild animals know better than current humans how to manage their body mass index—bears testimony to the level of our irrationality, to say the least. Furthermore, chronic diseases—especially obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure—gradually destroy the brain (hence the Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias), the heart, the blood vessels, the lungs, the kidneys (hence the growing need for dialysis and transplants), the penis (hence the pandemic of erectile dysfunction), the testicles (hence the increasing male infertility), the joints, the immune system, etc. The damage increases with age and eventually trigger death, with or without COVID-19 or other infections.”
“In the collective mindset, if we want to run barefoot, we need to take the shoes off. The reality is that we don’t have to take any shoes off, since we are by default barefoot. The human body consists of organs that are anatomically and functionally adapted to their missions in the normal environment of Homo sapiens. They don’t need artificial protection, since, with the notable exception of the male gonads, all the fragile organs of the mammals are safely protected inside their body. So there is a vital reason for the testicles to migrate out of the abdomen and dangle dangerously outside: the central body temperature (37° C or 98.6 °F) would destroy them; and no testis, no species. Humans’ testicles require an optimum temperature of 34° C (93.2 °F), thus 3° C below the body temperature. Therefore, heating them voluntarily for instance in saunas with the expectation to eliminate fats or so-called toxins, only can aggravate the already significant decrease in male fertility, especially in rich countries. In other words, as perspiration contains only water, salt and tiny quantities of other electrolytes, exposing men’s body to temperatures of 60 °C to 90° C (140 °F to 194 °F) could, alas, burn the ‘balls,’ but never the fat.”
“If Big Doc honestly intended to save lives, they would have long ago stopped the risk factors for these diseases. But let’s be clear: they will never do that, because they are not going to ruin their business and their power. Fortunately, we can do it for them. It’s about time to get rid rationally, efficiently and for free of the risk factors for these chronic diseases, and prevent the annihilation of our immune systems.”
Running Barefoot for Human Survival
Human body is not designed for our lifestyle, hence the scourges and the risk of extinction we’re sadly facing. Like our ancestors, we’re born to run barefoot to be happy and healthy, boost our immune systems and ensure the survival of our species. And that’s crucial, since prevention is the free, safe and most effective solution to many diseases and pandemics, including obesity and COVID-19.
Moreover, aggressive prevention would not only save yearly tens of millions lives and a lot of money, but also significantly improve our quality of life and humanness, and drastically reduce global warming and the depletion of natural resources. Find out more in the book. Vous en apprendrez davantage dans ce livre.
Moreover, aggressive prevention would not only save yearly tens of millions lives and a lot of money, but also significantly improve our quality of life and humanness, and drastically reduce global warming and the depletion of natural resources. Find out more in the book. Vous en apprendrez davantage dans ce livre.