Day 18

Guess what day it is???

Its Wednesday - Hump day.

It is also starting to feel more and more like fall out, which means there is Pumpkin EVERYTHING.  In our house we now have 3 different pumpkin candles, pumpkin smoothies, and pumpkin beer.  I don't mind too much about those, but one think I love is when Kate makes Paleo Pumpkin Muffins.  She found a recipe that called for blueberries but substituted semi-sweet chocoloate chips, and they are great, and also grain/gluten and dairy free.

Recipe - 

2 cups Almond meal
1/3 cup coconut flour
1tsp baking soda
1tbsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 cups cooked pumpkin
6 eggs
1/4 cup raw honey
1/4 cup melted coconut oil
~1 cup chocolate chips

Heat the oven to 350
In a bowl mix -  Almond meal, coconut flour,baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and sea salt, and stir well
In a seperate bowl mix - cooked pumpkin, eggs, raw honey, and melted coconut oil with a hand blender
Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and continue to mix with hand blender until smooth
Add in the chocolate chips
Grease a muffin tin with more coconut oil
Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to fill each muffin space with mix and bake for 30-45 mins of until a toothpick can be inserted and pulled out clean

You can also make a load but pour the mix into a bread pan and cooking the same way

This makes ~16 muffins

Alzheimer's news - 

Researchers hope to have found a new way to view the proteins that form in the brain 

With a new florecent imaging compound, they are now able to view these proteins in live brains as they develop.  By using these compounds during a PET scan, doctors were able to view, in real time the spead of the proteins linked to Alzheimer's.

If doctors and clinicians are ultimately able to visualize all the processes that occur in the brain as Alzheimer's and similar diseases develop and progress, it would dramatically help not only diagnose the diseases earlier but help monitor and treat them as well.

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Today's workout

Today's work out was kept secret until we walked into the gym.

As it turns out, it was 40 minutes of rowing, with scores at 2k, 5k and total distance in 40 minutes.

I got another personal best today, by beating my 5k time by over a minute.

After rowing for 40 minutes, my legs were very numb, but after a few minutes, I racked the bar and squated 210 x 1