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Bacon and eggs ice cream. Lots of sugar, though. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-cook-like-heston/articles/all/bacon-and-egg-ice-cream-recipe
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If you haven't already, try cheese crisps instead. Lower carb, useful sodium content, harder to eat the whole bag. :)
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There's an official medical term for it: "thin outside, fat inside". TOFI. :) In my case, low carb dropped ALT pretty quickly. Went to normal within the first 3 months. Liver fat seems to be the first to go as we lose weight.
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Just one of the many myths around "keto." You will see the highest levels in urine in the first couple weeks, which is why you need to pay the most attention to sodium in the first couple weeks. After that, the urine level goes down. Not because you're utilizing more ketones, but because the kidneys adapt. Ask yourself why…
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They work fine for me. What they tell you is that you've got ketones in your pee. That also tells you that you're losing sodium, which is probably more useful to know. So, yeah, if you're not replenishing that lost sodium, then you'll lose water and be somewhat dehydrated and have low blood volume.
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Probably more information here than anybody would reasonably want, but I found it fascinating. :) Liver enzymes, metabolomics and genome-wide association studies: From systems biology to the personalized medicine In a nutshell, ALT and AST are traditionally used as markers of liver damage -- the enzymes can leak into blood…
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I didn't find a lot, but here's a study on rats: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089990071300261X BCAA and leucine supplementation caused a large increase in ALT and AST vs placebo (PLA)
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On low carb, they usually go down. Are you eating a bunch of coconut oil, MCT, or butter? Their short-chain fatty acids are processed in the liver. I don't know if they'd have an effect on liver enzymes, though. Edit: one other consideration might be protein shakes. BCAA intake is associated with elevated liver enzymes.
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The book I recommended for him (Art and Science of Low Carb) is the only one I've seen that covers the need for sodium, potassium, and magnesium on low carb. Phinney was the first to really understand the mechanism of sodium losses on low carb, and that's why he recommends salted bone broth for as long as you're ketogenic.
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Carbs are good for muscle building because they promote insulin release, which is an anabolic hormone and because they replenish glycogen. But this does not mean that you can't build muscle nor replenish glycogen on keto. A theory is that a ketogenic diet can be very good for lean mass growth (improved body composition,…
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Ask the ketogains guys why they do it. Carbs and insulin are anabolic, but they'll also cause a bunch of fat gain during a bulk.
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Severe deficit? Most people will lose some muscle on a hypocaloric diet. Sufficient protein + resistance training should maintain muscle mass, even on a ketogenic diet. But otherwise, most of that info looks legit. Except that "reduced exercise intensity" goes away after about a month. Check out ketogains:…
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It's not just mryistic acid. Several SFA's are/were thought to cause inflammation, and the mechanism was assumed to be via activation of toll-like receptors: Saturated Fatty Acids and Inflammation: Who Pays the Toll? But that theory is controversial: Fatty acids do not pay the toll: effect of SFA and PUFA on human adipose…
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Here's my indoor gym. Various squats, lunges, and push ups. Till exhausted or bored. :) And here's my outdoor gym. Pull ups, inverted rows, dips.
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The body is a dynamic system. Everything is always in flux. There is no "amino acid pool" -- it's just a concept associated with the continuous breakdown and rebuilding of muscle tissue -- that protein turnover you referenced. Why would amino acids be used for fuel? Because we need glucose. Even when "keto-adapted," there…
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767992/ Figure 1 shows that it takes more than three hours of exercise per week to observe changes in heart rate, aerobic power, and left ventricular mass. Good article on oxidative stress here: http://www.completehumanperformance.com/exercise-oxidative-stress/ There's some…
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Rules of thumb I use: We can neutralize about an hour of oxidative stress, so I limit my exercise sessions to an hour or so. "Athlete's heart" (exercise-induced cardiomegaly ) is associated with > 3 hours per week of exercise, so I use that as a limit too.
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In the primary experiment caloriesproper looked at, they used bioelectrical impedance to measure FFM, which, as you know, is sensitive to hydration. They took all their measurements after subjects voided their bladders and bowels. DXA would be insensitive to hydration since it uses x-rays and measures tissue density, so it…
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My sleep changed dramatically. I used to have delayed phase sleep -- often up till 3am, 4am, etc. Now my sleep is ultra-regular. 11pm - 7am pretty much every day. I changed three things at around the same time: 1) I added a blue light filter to my devices (e.g., https://justgetflux.com/) 2) I did regular outdoor exercise.…
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There have been a bunch of studies that suggest "optimal" protein timing around exercise. Some discussion here: http://caloriesproper.com/meal-frequency-intermittent-fasting-and-dietary-protein/ It depends on your goals. You'll probably burn some protein with the combination of fasting and exercise, but if your main goal…
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Smoking trends can probably teach us something. Kids kept smoking until about 1997, and then a decline finally started, and today the rate has been cut in half. Education didn't work. Price increases worked. Bans and smoke-free places worked. Something that might work for kids: rather than appealing to health concerns…
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Personally, I wouldn't worry about LDL or TC unless you have other risk markers. And, you, as a woman in good physical condition, probably have very little risk. So I would go with the 2 out of 3 doctors who recommend doing nothing. :) Getting an NMR or VAP would give you more risk markers to evaluate and would likely put…
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I always blow my carb budget on chocolate. Does your body know the difference? Absolutely. But it's not the same for everybody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWLy7FLvZ4
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Minor quibble with your analysis, @Dragonwolf. Most of your readers won't be depleting their muscle glycogen. That would require intense exercise of all muscle groups. The guys in that study (one of whom was a competitive swimmer) did a bunch of swimming and running to deplete muscle glycogen. Low-carb typically just…
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A couple studies that more directly address protein intake and GNG: Dietary Proteins Contribute Little to Glucose Production, Even Under Optimal Gluconeogenic Conditions in Healthy Humans Fast 12h. Eat 23g protein, 19g fat. In the 8h that followed, body produced 50g glucose, 4g of which came from protein intake. But they…
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It's about glucose, ketones, and your brain. Your brain is the most metabolically active organ -- about 500 kcal/day. It normally gets all of that from glucose -- about 125 g/d. So what happens when you shut off the glucose (fasting)? Your body makes it's own glucose. It can covert protein to glucose at something like 1.6g…
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Not sure I understand the question, but here's what happens to muscles during a fast: And here's what happens during keto: Obviously more protein catabolism with fasting. Catabolism during keto is pretty much limited to the first 3 weeks, depending on protein intake of course.
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There's no conflict between low-carb and CICO unless you make one. :) The difference is between conscious calorie restriction and unconscious calorie restriction. I.e., it's all about natural appetite control on low-carb. But it doesn't work for everybody. Low-carb works best for the insulin resistant. There are plenty of…
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@TheSatinPumpkin: http://community.myfitnesspal.jp/en/discussion/comment/31499575#Comment_31499575
