Archive for 2014
“Stalling” in Wheat Belly and LC Weight Loss After Amazing Strides
Subject near and dear to my heart, and if you’re one who throws in the towel for a year, two, or even more, I’m your “authority.” There is one aspect that doesn’t get enough attention, in my view. It’s a fuzzy thing, because it’s something that could happen in your 20s, but most likely won’t.…Read More
Keith Norris on the Anarchy of Paleo
It goes without saying that one aspect of the Paleolithic was that not only were there no central governments, but likely no “traditional” hierarchical structures amongst hunter-gatherer tribes. The first meat, fat, plant eating anarchists. I skim or read a lot of stuff out there every day. Sadly however, so much of it is merely…Read More
Moving Forward: My Approach to Evaluating the Science and Knowledge of the Gut Biome and Resistant Starch
Time to look forward. There’s no question that since my very first post on resistant starch in April, 2013, things have changed in a number of ways. I like to think that the more than 130 posts related to resistant starch or the microbiome in some way—many including contributions by others, like Tim Steele and Grace…Read More
Beautiful Anarchy: I Had A Public Dispute. She Asked Nicely. Resolved
Way way back, among the many other ways I’ve tried to drill into heads in my Internet activities, I had an idea one day. …When you engage in political and social discourse, and you do it enough, you’ll find an odd thing. People argue about the most effective or practical way to force somebody else…Read More
Delicious: American State of Torture
Just stated getting wind of the news and I love it. Bring it on. I say let the other countries have their just reward: China, Russia…resurrect Stalin and Pol Pot, maybe. They tortured too, but they did so according to practical calculations. Here’s the rub: America always professed a principled stand against torture, ruling out arguments…Read More
Chris Kresser Gives Me Deep Insight and Confirms My Hashimoto’s Amelioration Approach
I titled it that way because in an email I got from Chris this morning, he wrote/confirmed much of what I was seeing in comments over my last post about my clinical diagnosis of my subclinical Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, on top of my own Googling. I shot him an email yesterday. Recently, we’ve been loosely sharing…Read More
And The Winner Is…Hashimoto!
So, looks like I have Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an auto-immune disease. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease in which the thyroid gland is attacked by a variety of cell- and antibody-mediated immune processes. It was the first disease to be recognized as an autoimmune disease.[1] It was first described by the Japanese…Read More
For Better or Worse: Honesty Log Time; Grace Liu and the History with “Paleo King”
By mutual agreement, this post has been taken down. Beautiful Anarchy: I Had A Public Dispute. She Asked Nicely. Resolved Update: Well, the truce didn’t last long. I have permanently severed all ties with Ms. Liu: Fear of Raw Potato Starch Ingestion is Probably IrrationalRead More
My Blood Panel Update: Starch and Resistant Starch Version
[Do check out the two posts I put up this weekend, if you didn’t see them. I especially like the post on gun fear and ignorance. A post every gun control lefty ought be forced to recite from rote memory. And as a sort of prelude to this post, I’ve been clandestinely cycling high protein/high fat,…Read More
Potato Soup Recipe; Cycling High Protein and High Carb
I have a post I’m drafting that’s about blood work I just had done that I find interesting. Still waiting for some of the results, so I’ll put this up in the meantime. You saw what I was eating in Mexico recently (here and here). Reasonably carbby. Then we went to Vegas for a couple…Read More
doG Save Me From Gun Control Abject Ignorance
This began as a comment reply to PZO, but got long and involved enough that I had a what the hell? moment, and plopped it up here as a full post, for fun and profit. Geez, Evan. What do you think happened in medieval Europe? In ancient China? In modern Somalia? In our own western…Read More
Why You Should Focus On Gaining Understanding, Not Knowledge; Honesty, Not Truth
First, juxtapose the two concepts: knowledge; understanding. Chew on it for a bit. What’s similar? How are they differentiated? Here’s a second bit of homework. Juxtapose truth and honesty. … Done yet? Don’t continue unless you’ve given your best at distinguishing each set. Alright, ready? Understanding subsumes knowledge (or makes of them anti-knowledge), and honesty…Read More
“Reason has again become treason”
Wish I’d come up with that. Does “The Land of the Free” Have Any Rational Meaning? I once knew a man who was a deacon in the Catholic Church. During certain ceremonies, his job was to raise his hand in a gesture of blessing over a church member and say some Latin words. The problem…Read More
TED Finally: Free The Animal. Species Agnosticism in Veterinarians
I’m not interested in very most of TED talks. There’s no point in explaining why. It’s far easier to explain why I look at each quotidian announcement carefully, pick and choose. Here’s one I watched just the other day and by coincidence, it came across right after I’d been on the road and heard the…Read More
FINAL Thoughts on Inuit and Non Ketosis
It’s in the can. Thank doG (aka Duck). It began with no goals, but a lot of posts later, I’d say that using the Inuit as a model for any sort of diet will be more than suspect. Too many non-sycophant, independent thinking people out there. They’re the minority by far, but sycophants are merely……Read More
CPT-1A – P479L Mutation in Inuit: Acknowledge It’s No Basis For A Ketogenic Diet; Recommend a “Ketogenic” Diet Anyway
Here’s the backdrop. A post by Peter at Hyperlipid. And then, A Second Post. Many comments on both threads, including Dr. Mike Eades participating in the second one. TL;DR: from what I gather of Peter’s posts: Inuit not in ketosis. It’s just a high fat diet. Let’s look into this. First, Duck and I put together a series…Read More
This Message Should Ring From Sea to Shining Sea
Andy Taylor lives. “When San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users, Violent Crime Went Down“Read More
One Mind At a Time
I get lots of emails. Many lots. Big Lots. It’s truly what keeps me at this because blogging does get wearisome. From diabetics who’ve found a more reasonable path in flexible eating for some personal or particular enjoyment—counter to the Shiite Ketarded—to folks who’ve come to hate armed highway robbers as I do and their…Read More
My Last Two Meals in Mexico: Steak and Quail; Machaca
Both the beef and the quail are local baja raised and hunted. I’m sure the beef was grass fed. Decidedly leaner than the Stateside supermarket stuff. Bea and I split this, as well as a flan for dessert. I don’t think I’ve had quail since I was a kid and a Spanish Basque uncle…Read More
Mexico Fun
This has been ideal. Weather perfect here in Rosarito Beach, room perfect, food great. The people, a pleasant joy. Some pics for your vicarious enjoyment. Living Room With a View More View Bea & I Split a Lobster Last Night TACOS MANUEL Lunch Bea and I were here with her family back in about…Read More