Archive for February 2014
Probiotics: The Genetic Component of Obesity
[Please do read and integrate this, but here’s a thinking update, April of 2015: Gut Bugs, Probiotics, Prebiotics…And how our microbes make us who we are. This is a process.] In the obesity debate, you generally have: You eat too much, don’t move enough. Lack of discipline. Can’t resist reward. You eat too much fat. You……...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: When Phytate Becomes a Nutrient
Morpheus What I outline below I found almost humorous. Really, I laughed out loud when I read it. One of the most sacred tenets of paleo is that of phytate, or phytic acid. It’s a Very. Bad. Thing. Primarily found in higher concentrations in cereal grains, it binds to important minerals in our food, such……...
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Alec Baldwin to the World: ‘Fuck You I Quit’
Well, this was one helluva read first thing this morning and I loved just about every bit of it: Good-bye, Public Life, penned by Alec himself and aptly published on a site named “Vulture.” The Look Think what you will about Alec, and I know he’s such a lefty commie ideologicaly, but I always can’t help……...
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Clue Train: If You Give People No Vitamin D, Then Expect The Result To Show It Doesn’t Do Anything
I’ll make this short because frankly, it’s too stupid to bother with much. The only reason I’m bothering at all is because… The dozens of questions I’ve received about it Grant Whores with a twist (‘further research would be pointless’) The Media Whores are all over it like stink on shit (typical) To sum it……...
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Resistant Starch is Going Bananas! A Reader Testimonial
Nice Saturday morning email from Alie. I want to give you a big huge thank you for all the work you do on getting the info on RS out there. It is starting to make a big impact in my life. My husband and I have been eating according to paleo/primal for a couple of……...
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Friday Links: Art Ayers Keeps Cooling Inflammation; New Potential Type 2 Diabetes Drug; Case Study
~ Dr. Art Ayers contacted me yesterday for comments prior to his latest post and really, the only meaningful thing I had was to make sure Tim and Dr. BG were in for lots of credit. Paleo Gut Flora Repair I was shocked to learn that there were some paleo (meat and veggie) eaters who……...
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Leave Titty Squeezing to the Guys, Not Doctors. Wotcha Say, Guys?
I can’t even stand the thought of a mammogram, even though I’ve certainly not, and will surely never be having one. Guys, imagine having to go in every year, dangle your package between two cold plates of some metallic alloy—designed to be cold, impersonal, and clinical. To add insult, the nurses in attendance will simply……...
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Dr. Art Ayers Now Calling Resistant Starch a Panacea, But Why?
The post, with a link to here, is: Resistant Starch, Panacea, but Why? Dr. Art, biochemist, is one of those guys (much like Petro “Hyperlipid”) who’s all about the science, all the time, no exceptions. We are fortunate these sorts of single-pupose guys exist; for if not, we’d be in dire need of inventing them………...
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Looks Like Dr. William Davis Was Right in Wheat Belly
Well what do you know? I’ve been following Dr. Davis for a long time and have really applauded a lot of the work he was doing over the years getting really good results for people, primarily by getting them off wheat and getting their vitamin D levels up. The results often showed up in significant……...
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Famous Suicide
Warning to all the new folks: This is Free the Animal. Nothing is off the table, nothing is taboo. Ever. In fact, I embrace opening the door to in-your-face rational discussion of anything and everything; and if for nothing else, simple refreshing contrast. …I was on my iPad anxiously awaiting the Super Bowl—home alone and……...
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Another Resistant Starch Facial Recomposition in Spite of 10 lb Weight Gain
Remember Michelle from a few days back, the one who presented at the hospital with a BG of 680, diagnosed diabetic (type 2) ketoacidosis? By way of review: I started upping my carbs two months into my personal n=1 PS experiment that started in November and now eat between 100-200 grams of carbs (tho I’ve……...
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How to Get Your Important Question Answered (on Resistant Starch or Otherwise)
Greetings, Maggots! 🙂 I blog not only to think, write and get word out there, obviously, but also to have robust comments where information, anecdotes, experiences, and specific knowledge get shared in a crowdsource sort of way. In the past, I usually had time to field questions I’d receive in email, via Facebook, Google+, etc….…...
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Resistant starch and energy balance: impact on weight loss and maintenance
Hot off the presses this week, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Tim writes in email. Hey, Guys, check this out. A new paper (review of other studies) just out this week. Kind of disappointing, but still a total ‘Win’ for us. The goal of the paper was to see if RS was a……...
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The First Non-Weight-Loss Body Recomposition Success Story on Resistant Starch
It’s quite remarkable what the other 90% of your body can do, in terms of raw cell numbers. Commenter Charles Richardson non-anonymously (unlike those anonymous who poopoo anonymous anecdote) rings in. I started potato starch in August or September, when the picture on the left was taken. The one on the right was just taken,……...
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A Quick Revisit of the Resistant Starch Research
Even though there’s a thousand or more (Amazon PS purchases) worldwide now on various forms of resistant starch (potato starch, mung bean starch, green plantain, green banana, tapioca starch, and even hi-maize) and so far—in compiling anecdotes for the book—positive experience outnumbers negative better than 9-to-1 in self reporting in comments, there are naysayers. Most……...
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Remarkable T2 Diabetes Reversal: From VLC to Starches and Resistant Starch
You gotta see this. Diagnosed T2, with diabetic ketoacidosis and blood glucose of 680 and afterward, readings around 200+. Tried controlling with very low carbohydrate, got down to fasting readings of 140, but then worse and worse as time went on. Here’s what happened when she added resistant starch and later, 100-200 grams daily of……...
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NOT Smarter Than Your Average Bear: Introducing the HealthyKidneyDamageLifestyle
“The problem with designing bear-proof food lockers is that we’ve found there’s a significant overlap between the smartest bears, and the dumbest humans.” — A Yosemite National Park Ranger heard in a radio interview years ago I believe it was a Jimmy Moore podcast way back with the heart surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry that I first caught……...
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Just Look at the Pictures. Big Agra, Corporate Profits, and Grant Whore Collusion
I’m not beyond putting up a post that simply links to someone else’s work that’s so dramatic everyone needs to go take a look right now. KRIS GUNNARS: These 11 Charts Show Everything That’s Wrong With The Modern Diet. You literally don’t even have to read a word, beyond the x-y indices and chart titles. Do……...
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Dispelling Paleomyths: Humans Ate a Lot of Starch, Even During the Ice Age
DuckDodgers in comments, the one who “dug up” all the great info on Chufas, or Tiger Nuts, a starchy highly nutritious tuber that I find tastes great and is very satiating. He’s been digging up a lot more on other starchy stuff as well, dispelling lots of Paleomyths. ~~~ I think (true) paleo is rather……...
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Science Lessons from Gary Taubes and David Katz On The Obesity Epidemic
Read both published articles. Both have many merits if you maintain The Big Picture and just step off Your High Horse for a few minutes. This is what education is all about. …But first, as an aside, gratuitous name dropping (my version of a message from sponsors). I exchanged an email or too with Peter……...
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