What about Rumble? GN is on there and directly supportable.
- Why I don’t find expert opinion compelling
I DEMAND to see the source studies the opinion is based on, and I will apply the same evaluation to that. If the expert opinion is based on a volume of cherry picked epidemiology then I don’t think much of the expert opinion. This includes the WHO IARC.
You’re being very nice by not mentioning that many experts are bought and paid for by corporate interests. It’s important to look at who the experts are and what organizations they’ve done the studies or are speaking for in the context of the larger, more influential organizations that they are associated with in any way.
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I can only speak from my own experience, but self-experimentation was a part of it, as well as reading science that isn't just nutrition science. For example, we know that plants contain toxins, since it's a fact. We know that thermally stressing PUFAs results in various oxidation end products, again because this is a fact. We know that ultraprocessed foods are by and large made up of plant matter. In that case it would make sense that if the hypothesis for carnivore is that I wouldn't need any plant matter in my diet, then I could avoid all these things. I decided to test that by doing an experiment on myself to see if that's true that I could just not eat any food derived from plants for a while.
At the time I was already on a LCHF whole food diet with moderately high fat so I knew I could switch slowly without affecting my gut too much, but to be safe, I had blood panels done and informed my friends that they should tell me if I looked even vaguely sick in that period of time. I was also not going through any stressful events other than this, so I would be able to minimize other confounding effects caused by hormonal changes.
My results were that I was informed by the same friends that I looked the best I'd ever been, I lost ~5 kgs of body weight (unfortunately only BIA and not DEXA scan, so I can only guess that it was mostly fat/water) and that my HDL went up, but it went up alongside my LDL levels. My sleep quality improved and my stiff shoulder resolved.
The most obvious and easiest test for me I think would be fiber and constipation. You can try that self experiment easily in 30 days, I don't think there's much danger there.
Thank you for linking her talk about the paper! It gives it so much more context. It's clear now that they studied a cohort who had already developed some brain network instability, and used exogenous ketones to induce ketosis in the participants. Dr. Lily does mention a ketogenic diet as a means to get into ketosis as well.
Nick Norwitz found that plaque predicts more plaque, but this seems to offer some hope that it's possible to reverse some of that with diet. It's curious that some of the quantitive analysis would have conflicting results, though.
Can't wait for the year of the vibe coded OS.
Dr. Norwitz has very high "self experimenting mad scientist" energy.
One possible thing that may account for some increase in my LDL is that I only started avoiding industrially processed seed oils when I started LCHF, prior to that even though I was eating whole foods I did not try to avoid seed oils. I would also eat deep-fried meats, like tonkatsu or kushiage.
Thank you for doing that for me!
have you been increasing physical activity in the different phases?
Yes, I now walk about twice as much as I used to daily. Starting from being diagnosed with NAFLD I started running and morning calisthenics. Prior to that I used to swim every day, but Covid stopped that and I did not resume swimming after.
have you been getting stronger? Any new PRs, or endurance changes?
Yes, I've been gradually increasing the amount of daily calisthenics I do in the morning. Recently I've gone from about 25 push-ups a day to 35.
do you have a standardized training program? Or was the effect all from diet?
I do, I do about 30 minutes of calisthenics in the morning. The McGill Big 3, planks, pushups, and a bunch of stretches. I used to run every other day but have switched that out for more walking.
Really curious about what this leads to. We also know that plants can signal each other via the mycelium, they have awareness of their surroundings and events, just not in the same way we do.