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I know it can be confusing! It will all make a lot more sense after you've been at it for a while. Meanwhile, New Atkins is a simplified intro to keto for people who are interested in low-carb diets but don't have a scientific background. Phinney and Volek also have intro videos at the JumpstartMD YouTube channel. They're…

I can't really give you a recommendation. It's crucially important to arm yourself with knowledge up front. I would suggest getting a copy of the New Atkins book and reading through it to get a handle on the ins and outs of using a ketogenic diet for weight loss. Phinney snd Volek's Youtube vids are also great sources of…

Bingo! My $. 02 - I'd suggest factoring the fat you intend to burn from your Strategic Energy Reserve into your daily macros, which will reduce your dietary fat considerably. If it were me, I'd ditch most of the bacon and cheese (too much dietary fat) and watch the nuts (carbs), focusing instead on quality protein. I would…

Show them the vegan nutritionist's professional tear-down of the film cited by @Gallowmere1984 above, and maybe they'll think twice. Ouch!

Too many clothes?

I trust the ADA in terms of getting people with diabetes enlisted; it's their stubborn resistance to the thought of discharging anyone that's so scurrilous....

How many folks on daytime network TV would even admit to knowing the word, "ketogenic?" It's almost like the first time someone said *kitten* on TV (that's you Eric Cartman...)

I am pretty sure that these folks are not within a day's drive of your protocol.

Another good vegan site (with a scathing review of "What the Health" by a vegan nutritionist): http://www.theveganrd.com/ @baconslave

Wow. That was a great review! Chopped to mincemeat, er, pureed to porridge by a thoughtful fellow vegan...

Here's the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/lobEiSgjb9Q

Here's the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/lobEiSgjb9Q

Whoa. Sounds like you've unscrewed the poor pooch! (I hope the cigs haven't been replaced 1 for 1 by twinkies, though!)

Heck, if you are head-over-heels about any diet (well, ok, maybe not the Tapeworm or Cigarette Diets...), it's bound to give you a boost - lower stress levels, lower cortisol, lower insulin.....

How are you doing now? Speaking of the Wahls Protocol, I recently got a copy of the Wahls Protocol Cookbook. It's got a lot of great ideas and is a beautiful book to boot. FYI, from the publisher's blurb: "Dr. Wahls is sharing the essential Paleo-inspired recipes her readers need to reduce and often eliminate their chronic…

Sounds familiar! Enjoy it while it lasts, as things tend to get tougher as you near your initial goal weight. BTW, if you stay hydrated and get 4-5g of sodium per day, your chances of avoiding the mythical "keto flu" improve greatly.

Staying hydrated and taking in 4-5g of sodium per day? According to keto expert Steven Phinney, your body requires a certain amount of time to adjust to the change. As you start losing fat and fluid, all sorts of stuff is being evicted from your cells. So .... plenty of replacement fluids to help show the flotsam and…

...on a time-limited scavenger hunt for some wondrous, heretofore-unidentified treasure...

He gives good reasons for liking these books, and it sure would be nice to feel like I had enough time, money, and energy left in this lifetime to read and digest these babies. But if I did.....

Here is a relatively-accessible item from Hyperlipid, a technical nutrition blog with a lot of interesting-looking posts: Ketones: Should idiots be allowed to write the methods section of any "scientific" paper? Quote: "From the philosophical point of view I expect the methods section of a paper to allow me to duplicate a…

Aren't prednisone and most of the common steroids close to cortisol in for-profit form? Were serotonin-targeted meds part of the therapy?

How's it going?

So... I was at a 50th anniversary party yesterday for a couple that collectively has not put on more than 10-15 lbs since they were married. However, there were folks in attendance who looked, er, like slightly more likely to have blood sugar issues. I have to admit that the thoughts going through my mind were not as…

Here's an interesting, related post by Kresser: https://chriskresser.com/myth-of-adrenal-fatigue (2017) @cstehansen @knitormiss @nvmomketo

Doing well, thanks. I'll bet folks could find a few things to talk about! (Fasting, meds, lab tests, good FB pages...??)

"Simple" - what all lurks in such an innocent concept! (Might be slightly simplistic...)

@nvmomketo, maybe this will be helpful!

So no hypos, either?

Yep, I think a black/white, all-or-nothing approach to taking meds and many other life choices is something we should all make a conscious effort to resist. (Even the same drug may be beneficial at one point in someone's life and detrimental at another...) The best of the lipid experts are careful to distinguish between…

Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) scan results in reclassifying 50% of patients initially in the "need-statins" category to "no statins."(!) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26449135 "CONCLUSIONS: Significant ASCVD risk heterogeneity exists among those eligible for statins according to the new guidelines. The absence of CAC…