I haven’t had a problem with alcohol, except one occasion when the alcohol had sugar in it

It’s nice to see recent stuff on gout, when I last looked into it there was nothing you could base food decisions on since before the invention of allopurinol

The old stuff right before all research stopped pointed the finger at sugar

I had gout while I was on carbs, I couldn’t go off allopurinol until I had given up carbs completely. Now I haven’t had any medications for ages.

A thing I have heard, but I can’t place where, is that all the super muscle youtube carnivores have high uric acid, so there’s a hypothesis that success in strength training is better with high uric acid.

Anyway eating only meat animal sourced foods (I also eat eggs) appears to protective against gout, I still have high uric acid, as bad as when I put on allopurinol, but now I don’t get gout.

Today isn’t tracking day, it’s the annual Australia Day party day. Oh well, I have been pretty happy on this way of eating for the last two years, so I’ll be fine for another few days

I should write a start date on my salt so I can tell average grams per day

I don’t normally weigh my food, though I did a couple of times while I was eating once a day at 960g. I’ll measure what I eat tomorrow and drop it into chronometer

I have a kilo of liver on order which will pick up tomorrow. My intention is to grind it with lean meat and fat trimmings and make rissoles (maybe burgers in Americanese) with the ground beef and liver and egg for binding

Oh and I fry my meat in tallow, my eggs in butter

My average in the past has been a kilo a day over the course of ten days (reckoned on my usual ~10kg meat purchase lasting ~10 days)

Smoking is only HR 4 compared to metabolic syndrome with HR 6

It’s rare for something to be worse than smoking, though this is for cardiac not all cause

Annoyingly that app doesn’t use an accurate number for vitamin C in beef

Not that I’m good at keeping track, I’m not one for logging. I also prefer my hunger signals to tell me if I need more rather than an app trying to guess

Keto for me had quite a bit of low carb veg. I think some of those didn’t agree with me given how much better I feel on zero carb

I never did the keto fake foods, I think I have been doing low carb on and off since I was 20, I’m now 47

My carnivore diet has been scotch fillet steak (rib eye), eaten until satisfied, and often about 4 eggs a day. My “too much fat” thing I think was because I had fallen into a one meal a day pattern, and it’s hard to process a day’s fat in a single dose

While I was fat I ate leaner cuts

I buy my meat as whole prime cuts, I need to up my frozen storage space so I can instead get a whole cow

TG/HDL = 1.0 as at July last year

I expect it to be better next time

I recall that a1c reads high for zero carb people with the cells living longer

The home glucose test seems a reasonable solution

Under keto I couldn’t do nearly as much. I’m progressing well on the resistance exercises, and I’m faster each time I ride

On keto I didn’t advance and I was tired all the time. I think it’s because I wasn’t eating enough

Yeah this guy is the business. His Alzheimer’s experiment was two groups 12 weeks on dietician designed low fat for one group and 12 weeks on keto for the other group

Then both groups go on normal diet for 12 weeks to clear any effects from the previous part

Then they swap. The first group does keto for 12 weeks and the second follows the dietician’s low fat diet

So each person had both treatments

Note that there is no current treatment so you couldn’t really compare to the current standard of care

Is dr Matt Phillips the one producing all those low carb papers? Motor neuron disease, MS, and the rest?

And yes he is that person, he talks about it about 10 mins in

One thing I like about his studies is they’re not keto vs. standard diet, it’s keto vs dietician designed perfect low fat diet

So everyone does better, and the keto people do best

Do you know if my 6.1 is within bounds for dawn phenomenon?

6.1 mM/L is 110 mg/dL

Ed. Per Wikipedia in excess of +1.1mM/L or 20mg/dL

There seems to be a correlation between years in academia and research and inability to design a good presentation

I wonder if the rock industry person, who was a family friend when I was a kid in the 80s, had tinnitus. I didn’t know him well enough to hear such complaints, but he had lost quite a bit of hearing due to his job.

Meanwhile and incidentally I have had my highest blood glucose result (6.1mM/L) on a blood test on zero carb, with a first thing in the morning test a year and a half into that way of eating. Apparently there’s an effect called the dawn phenomenon where blood glucose peaks around dawn, presumably to help us get moving, but the lack of demand in fat adapted people means there’s no demand, so a bit later it’s mopped up. It nearly had me get a home glucose tester.

Am I reading fig 6 correctly:

• The more they lowered the cholesterol* of the experiment group the more likely they were to die
• The more the control group’s cholesterol* went down the more likely they were to die

The population of the study were more likely to survive the more cholesterol* they had

*actually lipoproteins - and given the date of the original data “total cholesterol” with no differentiation between HDL and the various sizes of LDL

Aside: Do you know why we call the lipoproteins “cholesterol”, is it that they were originally thought to be free cholesterol?

I’m not sure why they are talking about ketoacidosis at all, is it relevant?

I think it’s because many people still, especially those working with diabetes, hear ketone and think of the uncontrolled diabetes crisis. I suppose it’s also vaguely useful to point out that an excess so very much in excess that it breaks the body’s ability to maintain correct acidity isn’t helpful. As if we don’t already know that everything is a poison, what matters is the dose.

That last bit about how poorly tolerated the keto diet is sounds very much like the first two weeks with poor guidance, or a badly designed ketogenic diet using foods some participants were intolerant to

I couldn’t do internet keto or Atkins keto for long. I didn’t tolerate it well. But zero carb is easy I have been doing it for 2 and a bit years.

The bit that really grabbed me that I didn’t know was that it’s actually more efficient to feed our grain crops to cattle than to turn that grain to bread if what we want is the complete collection of amino acids we need in the balance we need.

I doubt it’s more efficient when reckoned on energy, I mean it can’t possibly be, but what use is energy when it isn’t also nourishing?