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There’s a big difference between merely avoiding deficiency and achieving optimal nutrient levels for peak health. Ask your doctor if your interested to know and get a vitamin and mineral screening test. I supplement vit D, K2, magnesium, zinc, a complex vit B and I also take cordyceps.

It's become the generic go to diet and it's description is also quite generic and generalized without taking regional, cultural, traditions, availability into account but instead and when looking into the diet they all sing the same tune. France and Spain consumes more red meat and fat than other, other regions hardly…

Well, good luck this time. Keto is a restrictive diet and hope it works for you as well as it's worked for me and the vast majority that do keto properly. Intermittent fasting is utilized a lot by people on the keto diet because generally keto dieters reduce their frequency to 2 meals a day but for people that eat 4 to 6…

As far as satiety goes there's lots of individual variability with factors like fiber, sleep, eating better and more whole foods which can't be studied for cause and effect and are mostly a feeling individuals have when they do some of these things, exercise makes me less hungry or is it more satiated, fish fills me up and…

I don't partake in alcohol very much, a few cocktails a month basically but there was one night that a friend and I finished most of a bottle of Dalmore scotch whisky and non of these factored into my weight either the day of or any day after, so a non issue for me. My go to cocktail is a gin martini made with Citadelle…

I've been low carb and keto for, actually 14 years, times fly. Anyway Barb I'll give you this link to look at and it's 1 page that basically tells you what foods you can eat, foods you can't and some recipes with links to more information on keto and most of this is easy to navigate and understand. Keto can effect our…

Is this a daily, weekly, monthly or rare event? If it's daily or weekly make it your option to pick where you might eat and if it's monthly or rarely then it might be feeding into the stress, anxiety and for some disordered eating habits from counting calories and of course this will and can displace or overshadow the…

Animal food is pretty easy with a good bang for your buck but if your a plant muncher then your going to have to embrace the processed world of soy.

When it comes to diet A1C will aways go lower when carbs of any kind are reduced and how much you reduce them is up to you and if your diet consists of mostly processed foods then switching some of that up with whole foods will also lower your A1C but probably not as much and it'll take much longer. When carbs are removed…

Well certain things like genetics and age is something we can't do much about but other factors like weight for example being obese or overweight can put stress on our arteries which increases blood pressure. Poor lifestyle choices like diet, consuming too much processed and UPF's, excessive alcohol consumption, and…

The glaring admission that your blood sugar is borderline, and I suspect that to mean it's too high is telling. This means your diet is front end loaded with carbohydrates. Remove carbs blood sugars normalize and this doesn't mean you have to remove all carbs or get down to a ketogenic diet, it means that the other 2…

The problem is as I see it, the gov't is driven to get rid of animal products and that's been pretty obvious for decades and they don't understand fat at all and suggest to consume less which leaves carbs, they love carbs. Telling people to eat less added sugar means people would need to consume more starch which are…

This morning I had burrada, the whole thing, sliced white onion, campari tomatoes, a little homemade pesto, extra virgin olive oil and some sea salt and pepper. I'm low carb so this is quite normal.

Yes, it's part of the story, it's the part that confirms a person actually has atherosclerosis, it is the determining factor. Stress, sleep, blood pressure, diet, level of activity etc are lifestyle factors that contribute one way or the other, depending on weather they're either in good standing or not and the propensity…

Talk to a specialist if you have any real concerns and there are tests available where a Dr. could easily attain to see if you have any arterial calcium buildup to show by % any risk you might have of any impending heart related event. Unfortunately Dr's aren't trained in that logic and are required by law to offer…

Here's 1300 recipes. https://dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes

Well there is a certain population among obese individuals who do have what would be considered good health, and numbers are obviously hard to accurately tabulate but the group referred to "metabolically healthy obese" is around 10 to 20 percent. Basically there's many health issues a lot worse that being obese, just…

Yes, I was a dozen years ago with an A1C of 5.9 put me in the pre-diabetes column and I was about 60 lbs overweight and with a few other health issues that where symptomatic of that elevated blood sugar. I focused on what I could control and what eventually worked almost immediately was removing sugar from my diet. And…

Seriously? if there's a medication that helps with losing weight and all you have to do is sign up and you can still eat ding dongs, that's a drug. The down side is like most medication when you stop taking them the effects no longer work and the ding dongs kick in fast and furious. It's the allure of minimal work along…

Well, personally if someone has a diet that is greatly compromised in vitamins and minerals like the SAD diet for example which over 70% of the population is their diet of choice then a multi vitamin might include some of those nutrients that are virtually non existent in that diet, which is still not going to add much…

Well, a no sugar diet would then technically be a carnivore diet with also leaving out the dairy aspect of the carnivore diet simply because all carbs are basically sugar. I suspect you mean any added table sugar and foods that have added sugars in them and to a lesser extent some of the many processed and ultra processed…

Jumping into 2 of the hardest protocols that absolutely interact with human biology extensively and then thinking a snack is mucking with your plan but keeps you sane, is well telling. Do you actually know anything about either of these plans, it doesn't sound like it, I may be wrong. What is your convincing theory based…

When people go on a journey (research) to figure out their health problems, obesity being one of those health issues, most of the time that rabbit hole will lead them to low carb/keto by default and resolving those health issues is almost a given and so much so it's the basis of which almost all lifestyle clinics use for…

Sure, consume less carbs and more animal protein and both bloating and inflammation comes down, a lot. :)

I've been supplementing lately with chuck beef roast cut into steaks, seems to be working pretty good. :#

Not something I worry about now considering almost all my foods are whole foods and I actually have to remember to consume salt because of the fact I'm not consuming any processed foods where they're typically loaded with it and I also consume quite a bit of fermented food as well and I like salt and use more than most I…

It took me a couple of years and finally went with a low (er) carb diet. It satiated me better than any other diet so it took my mind off thinking about food or how much it weighed or how many calories it has or what a label might dictate to me whether that food was good or bad, and so on and so on, that's just not…

I stay away from sugar, so no grains or other carbs and if it's not eggs which I consume a lot and i do mean a lot, it's another protein like a steak or fish like coho salmon with a side salad. Alternatively I've made tuna salad and used butter or bib lettuce for a wrap. I stuff chicken thighs with sauteed veg and cheese…

The planet has been bombarded with the analogy that fruit and vegetables are good for our health and we should eat more of them and have been told that fact decade after decade with no effect at all on their increased consumption, it just never happened. People really don't care enough to switch to other foods, so your not…

Are you complaining that your normal diet of mostly processed foods is tastier than whole food that you've changed to in hopes of getting healthier and losing weight and your not too excited about that transition. Is that what your saying? curious.