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More protein probably helps. Optimal seems to be around 2g per kg of body weight. You can always just eat more meat. See Dr Shawn Baker for more info. https://twitter.com/sbakermd?lang=en

"age-adjusted [CHD] mortality rates having declined to about one-third of their 1960s baseline by 2000" "47% of the decline in CHD mortality rate ... attributable to evidence-based medical and surgical treatments while reductions in major risk factors contributed about 44%"…

Did you read the hit piece on her in the Daily Mail? Man, these factions are going to war over this stuff.

No comment on your numbers, but here's a list of low-carb-friendly docs that might understand your situation a bit better than most: https://www.lowcarbusa.org/low-carb-providers/lchf-doctors/

So instead of "you are what you eat," you would reframe that as "eat what you are." :)

Unpopular opinion, but I think jury is still out on n-6. Yes, it oxidizes, but your body knows how to deal with oxidation. Issue might be dosage. Exceed body's antioxidant threshold, and stuff breaks.

OK, this is obviously a controversial topic. Here's how I like to think about it: plaque requires both endothelium damage and apoB. Better to remove the damaging factors. Smoking is an obvious one that's easy to control. Others, like blood pressure, stress, hormones, sleep patterns are not so easy to control. Insulin…

I dunno, @baconslave. I think the stats are that something like 30% see a rise of LDL on keto. But I'd agree that fixing insulin sensitivity is a bigger win. And TG/HDL is a pretty good proxy. Nothing wrong with increasing the salmon in your diet, though. And Dr Phinney loves his olive oil. :)

Yes, that was a good primer. BTW, the full study is available for free -- just click on "full-text" or "PDF."

I went to amazon and looked at the package label. :)

Never tried the stuff, but you're describing "supersaturation." Too much solute / too little solution. Looks like they recommend 10 ounces of liquid. That's more than the typical coffee cup. Try a bigger cup?

Hope you recover quickly. I think docs like to distinguish between "heart attack" and "cardiac arrest." The former is due to a blockage (typically from a blood clot), while the latter is due to electrical/rhythm problems.

Tim Noakes was diagnosed with DM2 without ever being overweight, and he was a marathon runner. He mentioned that he had measurements of his fasting insulin going way back. 29 years old. BMI 20-21. Fasting insulin 5-8X normal. Cases like that are very interesting. Not likely to be fatty liver -- something else triggering…

You lose the most sodium in the first couple weeks. Look forward to keto-adaptation. :)

Could be many things, but I assume you've read all the advice about supplementing sodium while low-carb, right? One of the symptoms of hyponatremia (sodium deficiency): cold hands.

It's ad lib. "determine differences in ad libitum energy intake (kcals) during 2 weeks of eating an ultra-processed diet as compared to 2 weeks of an unprocessed diet matched for presented calories, macronutrient composition, sugar, fiber, and sodium"

Halls latest study will look at processed food and test the "low-crap diet" theory. :) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03407053

Could be the choice of scientists. I think Taubes wanted renowned scientists who were against him to be the ones to prove him right. He chose Kevin Hall (Dr CICO) and Gardner (vegetarian). Probably should have stuck with Phinney and Volek. :)

Yup. An interesting follow-up for me would be a study that slowly added "crap" back in to see what had the biggest effect on appetite/weight. Currently, the definition of "crap" is pretty ambiguous. :) "the reduction of edible oils, fatty meats, whole-fat dairy, and nuts was prioritized for the healthy low-fat group,…

I didn't really have a problem with the study (with the caveat that I haven't read the Real Thing yet). It probably represents real-life "healthy low fat" and "low carb" pretty well. Over 600 people, and most of them lost weight without consciously restricting calories. Average weight loss around 12lbs sounds small, but…

Personally, I would have loved to see the same Virta approach applied to a low-fat diet study arm. We have very little data that lets us separate weight-loss effects from specific dietary effects.

High fasting TG means that you have a high *circulating* level. Literally circulating as in going round and round because they have no place to land. You have high TG on a high-carb diet because of multiple factors. The high glucose availability means your tissues need to soak up that glucose and ignore the fat, except for…

Apparently postponed (TBA): Just got word that the weather is not cooperating with our session and has resulted in flight cancellations coming out of Europe, one of which is Dr. Phinney's flight. We therefore have to postpone his session. Thank you again for registering. We're still very much looking forward to having Dr.…

I found how they calculate LP-IR here: Lipoprotein insulin resistance score and risk of incident diabetes during extended follow-up of 20 years: The Women's Health Study Looks like it should track closely to TG/HDL. (It also correlated pretty well with hsCRP.)

MD's usually diagnose it in terms of "metabolic syndrome" or pre-diabetes. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20351921 if you have three or more of these traits or are taking medication to control them: Large waist circumference — a waistline that measures at least 35…

In my case, it worked wonders and it worked quickly. "Insulin resistance" is a fairly vague diagnosis. Different tissues can have different levels of insulin resistance. We usually consider 3: liver, fat cells, and muscle. In the case of the liver, 2 things seem to help. Keeping blood glucose in check and reducing "fatty…

A handful of almonds? :)

Maybe it's just where I live, but even Safeway stocks Greek yogurt these days, including the full-fat variety. And it's often on sale. :)

Not sure what you mean @canadjineh. They don't add anything extra -- it just takes more low-fat milk to get the same amount of yogurt, so you end up with more protein from the extra milk. Interestingly, in the case of Fage, they give you the same amount of yogurt per serving for the full-fat and 2%, but if you buy the 0%,…

Reduced appetite is the secret sauce of low carb, IMO. Personally, I would listen to your body. Don't worry about a "drop in metabolism." Your body is getting all the energy it needs from your fat cells, which is exactly what you want during weight loss. As Dr Ted Naiman likes to say: