A close friend stopped carnivore a long time ago after four months because he missed eating "normal" foods. He recently started again after seeing its effects on me, and having also received poor results on a medical checkup. I wish there was a better way to get people started than "oh crap, I've been diagnosed with prediabetes. you did too but look really healthy now" though.
Or does it need periodic fasting?
Based on what I know now, it sounds to me like periodic fasting sufficient to encourage autophagy is a good practice to have in any diet.
If the government owns every company, maybe you have communism, but most likely what you have is autocracy. If the government owns a 10% stake of one company, that's some nationalisation. There are good reasons for it in capitalism, such as for regulating natural monopolies. I'm not sure Intel falls into "good reasons,' since it appears to me to be some kind of corruption.
If your frying something without sugar, where does the glycation come from?
I'm guessing implicitly he means don't fry foods containing sugars at high heat, not sure how you'd glycate it otherwise.
Saunas are black boxes
Ha, I see what you did there.
but with devices like air fryers, for example, I’m totally against them because they create advanced glycation end products.
I really like my convection oven :(
Triglycerides are a very good clue. If your triglycerides are absolutely normal—and normal is not less than 150—remember, we fudged a lot of the numbers. It's not 150; it's less than 100. That's normal. It's just that the population today has so much triglycerides that they put the level at that—just like your liver enzymes. When I was in training, liver enzymes greater than 25 were abnormal. Now it's 45 because everyone's got a fatty liver, so they just bumped it up. How daft is that?
Also unfortunately indirectly harming people.
For example, I'll tell you about myself: my "LDL" level is about 170-something—large particles, calcium score zero. My triglycerides are 80; "HDL" 75. That's what you want. You want a good, high "HDL" and a nice, low triglyceride. Then the "LDL" is going to take care of itself. You're going to have large, fluffy particles, and you can test for it. Someone like me—I'm going to test coronary calcium. With my coronary calcium score being zero, I know I'm going to be okay.
I should try to get coronary calcium as part of my yearly medical.
Mycotoxins, phthalates, glyphosate, herbicides, pesticides, and heavy metals all cause inflammation and impair mitochondrial function.
My personal opinion is that it's very likely plant toxins do too.
A major study from Finland showed that people with severe coronary disease who used a regular (not infrared) sauna three times a week had a 40%–50% reduction in sudden cardiac death. If I had a drug that did that, it would be a bestseller. Those who used a sauna five days a week had about a 60% reduction. These findings have been published, but they rarely make the news. Still, sauna clearly offers benefits.
Some argue that sauna raises body temperature and increases heart rate by about 30%, making it comparable to low-level exercise. Maybe. Another likely reason is detoxification, as toxins are excreted through sweat.
I really ought to start.
You can address all these different inflammatory pathways: the endocrine system, the liver, leaky gut, toxins, metals, lifestyle. But there's one thing that touches all the mechanisms and improves them all, and that's fasting.
Glad I started.
I teach patients how to breathe—breathing exercises, breathing in—and how to go into silence. I teach them to cultivate mental, internal silence. That is anti-inflammatory because you’re not sending those messages to the platelets; there is no message when you’re in silence.
I had no idea meditation was anti-inflammatory!
Our thesis is that when it comes to plaque or blood clots, inflammation is at the root, and this is a systemic process.
I found that 70% of the patients with what they call prediabetes had extremely high insulin levels. So, in spite of decent sugars, they had so much insulin. That identified a whole group of patients at extremely high risk of having a new event—another stent, progressive disease, increasing coronary calcium, heart attacks. So your metabolic condition matters. The biggest metabolic condition I found was prediabetes.
I can walk into the room and tell which patient has fatty liver and visceral fat—and therefore is metabolically abnormal and likely has high insulin levels.
What I often call “leaky gut”—more precisely, intestinal permeability—also plays a role, because inflammation from the gut is first processed in the liver.
You can be inflamed because of your lifestyle. Generally speaking, you’re inflamed because you’re nutritionally insufficient, so you can’t handle even normal stresses, and you develop inflammatory stress responses.
I’ve evolved to include toxicity workups as part of my plans, and I’ve mapped out the biochemical pathways by which toxicity creates atherosclerosis and inflammation in the body. So if you’re heavy-metal toxic, if you have a lot of mycotoxins from mold, if you have a lot of glyphosate, other herbicides and pesticides, plastics, BPA, and phthalates in your body—they don’t belong there. You didn’t evolve with them. Evolution did not include them. Your body’s chemistry—this is common sense, but we don’t want to accept it because we’re so used to this Western lifestyle—was not designed for those chemicals. They’re not supposed to be in your body, and you do not have the mechanisms to cope with them.
The next cause of small, dense LDL is omega-6. If you eat a lot of vegetable oils, it’s almost guaranteed that those oils enter normal LDL, displace cholesterol, and take up space. Now you’ve created small, dense LDL: cholesterol is gone and replaced by omega-6. Omega-6 is pro-inflammatory. That’s why none of my patients eat vegetable oils.
The most compelling case for me for being on a LCHF diet is the fact that multiple independant medical practicioners and researches, in various fields of expertise, have remarkably consistent experiences, theories, and approaches to treating chronic inflammation and improving metabolic health. It makes such a strong case.
Atherosclerosis, or plaque, is not a focal disease. It’s a systemic disease. If you’ve got it in one artery, guess what? You’ve got it in every artery—and you may think you don’t.
A bit terrifying.
Why am I stressing this? Because if you don’t want to develop plaque, don’t want plaque progression, and don’t want the consequences of plaque formation and rupture, you need to know the cause. It’s inflammatory. It’s not linear. It’s not just a scar that keeps growing. It cracks, repairs, cracks, repairs. It’s all related to inflammation. What is your inflammatory status? We are becoming increasingly inflammatory as humans. That’s why this happens. The body reacts, and you get inflammation.
Plaques are both caused by inflammation and inflammatory.
There are two parts to this whole problem. One is plaque formation and plaque rupture—that’s all about the plaque. The next is your blood. If your blood is clotty and your platelets are very jittery, you’re going to get a big blood clot. It’s as much a hematological event as it is an inflammatory process. There are two parts to this equation. That’s why we started paying more attention to the condition of your blood. Do you have clotty blood? Because if you rupture a minor plaque, you can get a big blood clot.
I wonder if grounding, which can decrease the viscosity of blood, can help? Blood donation also helps.
With aggressive lifestyle, dietary, and environmental changes—reducing toxicity, improving your food, and everything else—you can regress it. But the extent—probably the percentage stenosis—is likely very low. That means you can reduce it by maybe 10%.
Unfortunately it seems that lifestyle changes cannot reverse plaque entirely, and it also has to be managed by reducing inflammation as much as possible.
but with devices like air fryers, for example, I’m totally against them because they create advanced glycation end products.
I really like my convection oven :(
Triglycerides are a very good clue. If your triglycerides are absolutely normal—and normal is not less than 150—remember, we fudged a lot of the numbers. It's not 150; it's less than 100. That's normal. It's just that the population today has so much triglycerides that they put the level at that—just like your liver enzymes. When I was in training, liver enzymes greater than 25 were abnormal. Now it's 45 because everyone's got a fatty liver, so they just bumped it up. How daft is that?
Pretty damn daft, unfortunately, and indirectly harming far too many people.
For example, I'll tell you about myself: my "LDL" level is about 170-something—large particles, calcium score zero. My triglycerides are 80; "HDL" 75. That's what you want. You want a good, high "HDL" and a nice, low triglyceride. Then the "LDL" is going to take care of itself. You're going to have large, fluffy particles, and you can test for it. Someone like me—I'm going to test coronary calcium. With my coronary calcium score being zero, I know I'm going to be okay.
Too bad I can't get coronary calcium as part of my yearly medical.
Mycotoxins, phthalates, glyphosate, herbicides, pesticides, and heavy metals all cause inflammation and impair mitochondrial function.
My personal opinion is that it's very likely plant toxins do too.
A major study from Finland showed that people with severe coronary disease who used a regular (not infrared) sauna three times a week had a 40%–50% reduction in sudden cardiac death. If I had a drug that did that, it would be a bestseller. Those who used a sauna five days a week had about a 60% reduction. These findings have been published, but they rarely make the news. Still, sauna clearly offers benefits.
Some argue that sauna raises body temperature and increases heart rate by about 30%, making it comparable to low-level exercise. Maybe. Another likely reason is detoxification, as toxins are excreted through sweat.
I really ought to start.
You can address all these different inflammatory pathways: the endocrine system, the liver, leaky gut, toxins, metals, lifestyle. But there's one thing that touches all the mechanisms and improves them all, and that's fasting.
Glad I started.
I teach patients how to breathe—breathing exercises, breathing in—and how to go into silence. I teach them to cultivate mental, internal silence. That is anti-inflammatory because you’re not sending those messages to the platelets; there is no message when you’re in silence.
I had no idea meditation was anti-inflammatory!
Our thesis is that when it comes to plaque or blood clots, inflammation is at the root, and this is a systemic process.
I found that 70% of the patients with what they call prediabetes had extremely high insulin levels. So, in spite of decent sugars, they had so much insulin. That identified a whole group of patients at extremely high risk of having a new event—another stent, progressive disease, increasing coronary calcium, heart attacks. So your metabolic condition matters. The biggest metabolic condition I found was prediabetes.
I can walk into the room and tell which patient has fatty liver and visceral fat—and therefore is metabolically abnormal and likely has high insulin levels.
What I often call “leaky gut”—more precisely, intestinal permeability—also plays a role, because inflammation from the gut is first processed in the liver.
You can be inflamed because of your lifestyle. Generally speaking, you’re inflamed because you’re nutritionally insufficient, so you can’t handle even normal stresses, and you develop inflammatory stress responses.
I’ve evolved to include toxicity workups as part of my plans, and I’ve mapped out the biochemical pathways by which toxicity creates atherosclerosis and inflammation in the body. So if you’re heavy-metal toxic, if you have a lot of mycotoxins from mold, if you have a lot of glyphosate, other herbicides and pesticides, plastics, BPA, and phthalates in your body—they don’t belong there. You didn’t evolve with them. Evolution did not include them. Your body’s chemistry—this is common sense, but we don’t want to accept it because we’re so used to this Western lifestyle—was not designed for those chemicals. They’re not supposed to be in your body, and you do not have the mechanisms to cope with them.
The next cause of small, dense LDL is omega-6. If you eat a lot of vegetable oils, it’s almost guaranteed that those oils enter normal LDL, displace cholesterol, and take up space. Now you’ve created small, dense LDL: cholesterol is gone and replaced by omega-6. Omega-6 is pro-inflammatory. That’s why none of my patients eat vegetable oils.
The most compelling case for me for being on a LCHF diet is the fact that multiple independant medical practicioners and researches, in various fields of expertise, have remarkably consistent experiences, theories, and approaches to treating chronic inflammation and improving metabolic health. It makes such a strong case.
Things I found particularly interesting:
Atherosclerosis, or plaque, is not a focal disease. It’s a systemic disease. If you’ve got it in one artery, guess what? You’ve got it in every artery—and you may think you don’t.
A bit terrifying.
Why am I stressing this? Because if you don’t want to develop plaque, don’t want plaque progression, and don’t want the consequences of plaque formation and rupture, you need to know the cause. It’s inflammatory. It’s not linear. It’s not just a scar that keeps growing. It cracks, repairs, cracks, repairs. It’s all related to inflammation. What is your inflammatory status? We are becoming increasingly inflammatory as humans. That’s why this happens. The body reacts, and you get inflammation.
Plaques are both caused by inflammation and inflammatory.
There are two parts to this whole problem. One is plaque formation and plaque rupture—that’s all about the plaque. The next is your blood. If your blood is clotty and your platelets are very jittery, you’re going to get a big blood clot. It’s as much a hematological event as it is an inflammatory process. There are two parts to this equation. That’s why we started paying more attention to the condition of your blood. Do you have clotty blood? Because if you rupture a minor plaque, you can get a big blood clot.
I wonder if grounding, which can decrease the viscosity of blood, can help? Blood donation also helps.
With aggressive lifestyle, dietary, and environmental changes—reducing toxicity, improving your food, and everything else—you can regress it. But the extent—probably the percentage stenosis—is likely very low. That means you can reduce it by maybe 10%.
Unfortunately it seems that lifestyle changes cannot reverse plaque entirely, and it also has to be managed by reducing inflammation as much as possible.
The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber.
TIL. It's always rather amusing as someone outside of America that posts containing factual information get downvotes purely based on the perceived alignment of the subject on the zero-nuance American Political Spectrum. I block ads, so I wouldn't know.
Joe Rogan is quite possibly my least favourite person that sometimes (accidentally?) says things I agree with on the internet.