Spartan Crossfit Wimp to Spartan 14 from Peter Murphy on Vimeo.
Okay-- let me tell you that I tried to cut sugar, alcohol and caffeine out of my diet for 2 weeks. When we filmed this video, it was the first day of this "cleanse." THAT was why I looked like a Dementor from Harry Potter without its scary robe and giant tapeworm mouth. Post-filming, I succeeded with the sugar and caffeine, but not so much with the alcohol. You see, I consider Red Wine to be a) worthy of capitalization and b) its own food group. I suffer from a questionably Italian superstition: one glass of red a day keeps the co-pay away. Or perhaps it's not a superstition; perhaps it's fact! I found the following passage on the most reliable known source available to mankind, Wikipedia:
In 2006, Italian scientists obtained the first positive result of Resveratrol supplementation in a vertebrate (MSCAN = VERTEBRATE!). Using a short-lived fish, Nothobranchius Furzeri (MSCAN = SWIMMER!), with a median life span of nine weeks, they found a maximal dose of Resveratrol increased the median lifespan by 56% (MSCAN = WILL LIVE LONG TIME!). Compared with the control fish at nine weeks, that is by the end of control fish's life, the fish supplemented with Resveratrol showed significantly higher general swimming activity and better learning to avoid an unpleasant stimulus.
