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Driveway For Bulkheads
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Driveway For Bulkheads
@phicide
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Katılım Haziran 2011
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@anymanfitness Over the past three years, I’ve eaten several pounds of meat every day and lost more than 40 pounds in the process. Fat loss doesn’t depend on how much you eat, but on what you eat.
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Here's how different fat loss diets work:
Keto = Calorie Deficit
Intermittent Fasting = Calorie Deficit
Carnivore = Calorie Deficit
Time restricted eating = Calorie Deficit
Paleo = Calorie Deficit
It's just easier to sell things when you call your way "hacking your metabolism".
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Driveway For Bulkheads@phicide
The term calories and why it is the most harmful and misleading construct we still have to deal with and has no place in a nutritional context. The measurement for energy via calories is not a rough inaccurate estimation, it is not applicable to the human digestive system entirely. If something should be taken seriously, the term should be avoided completely. The misconception: A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. Specifically, it is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one milliliter of water by one degree Celsius. This unit of measurement is used in various fields, including physics, chemistry, and engineering, to quantify energy transfer in the form of heat. A calorie is heat energy. Energy cannot be consumed or burned. Energy cannot even be measured, contained or observed. Only the effect of energy can. The digestive process is complex and influenced by many factors, including hormonal regulation, for men and women differently. Different individuals may metabolize the same food differently. The body's absorption of nutrients varies based on many factors, such an individual’s metabolic state. Human digestion is a coordinated process involving the mechanical breakdown of food, chemical digestion by enzymes and acids, absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream, and elimination of waste. No "raise of temperature" or "burning" involved. The sole fact is that it serves as a measure based on temperature, but its usefulness in nutrition is very questionable. The FDA allows an approximate 20% margin of error, which could result in up to a 40% difference in calculations. Additionally, the digestive process is governed by hormonal regulation rather than simplistic caloric estimations. Whether protein will be utilized at all, depends on several other factors. An example with numbers, consuming the same 800g portion of steak tagged as 2000 calories (Reference Daily Intake (RDI)) could mean an actual intake ranging from 1600 to 2400 so called calories. This makes it difficult to determine whether one is under or overeating. This discrepancy isn't particularly helpful. Moreover, small amounts of coal and uranium release thousands or billions of calories, which is hardly relevant or helpful in the context of nutrition. Simplified examples why the unit measurement is not applicable: - Building a wall by using a scale to determine the weight of each brick. Sure, the heavier the wall the more bricks have been used - Counting the value of your money by using a ruler. Sure, the more surface you can cover with your bills the more money you have - Checking the fuel consumption of your car by looking at your speed. Sure, the faster you drive the more fuel you consume Weight lose or gain is dictated by the Randle Cycle. People following the misconception just found a way of avoiding the problematic effects of the Randle Cycle by coincidence, thus maintaining their weight by huge effort. The Randle cycle thus provides a mechanism by which cells can switch between using glucose and fatty acids as their primary energy source, depending on availability and metabolic needs. This regulation is important for maintaining energy homeostasis and has implications for understanding metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, where the balance between glucose and fatty acid metabolism is often disrupted. The people following the misconception manifested their own illusion and living and spreading their own harmful opinion of how to lose or gain weight and not even having a proper education in nutrition or science. This is nothing more than managed starvation on an individual level. A healthy organism with healthy hormone regulation is able to determine nutritional needs via hunger signals to prevent over and under consumption naturally. Focusing on calories can lead to an unhealthy obsession with numbers rather than a nutrient-dense diet. It can also promote poor dietary choices, such as opting for processed foods over more nutritious whole foods, under/over eating and related health issues. Zero- or Low-Calorie tagged products mostly contain chemical ingredients not even worth calling food or contain all certain amounts of carbohydrates, which are the cause for the diseases of civilization: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Mental Health Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Allergies, Dementia, etc. Overall, calories as a unit of measurement in nutrition fail to capture the complexity of human metabolism, nutrient utilization, and health impacts of different foods. One single can (12 FL OZ) of Coca Cola tagged as 140 calories contains 39g of sugar. Uneducated people especially children and teenagers are not able to understand the harmfulness of this product but are misled by the amount of calories every day all over the world. Humans started to use numbers just recently. Never before has there been any other kind of determination than the natural hunger signals of the organism and never before has there been any health related problems. If you feel hunger should you stop eating or if you feel no hunger should you start eating following numbers? Eating when hungry till satisfied will ever be the most beneficial form of how to consume food. It is what you eat not how much you eat. Listen to your body. #calorie #Diet #Carnivore #carnivorediet #keto #digestion #Nutrition #weightlosstips
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Driveway For Bulkheads@phicide
The term calories and why it is the most harmful and misleading construct we still have to deal with and has no place in a nutritional context. The measurement for energy via calories is not a rough inaccurate estimation, it is not applicable to the human digestive system entirely. If something should be taken seriously, the term should be avoided completely. The misconception: A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. Specifically, it is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one milliliter of water by one degree Celsius. This unit of measurement is used in various fields, including physics, chemistry, and engineering, to quantify energy transfer in the form of heat. A calorie is heat energy. Energy cannot be consumed or burned. Energy cannot even be measured, contained or observed. Only the effect of energy can. The digestive process is complex and influenced by many factors, including hormonal regulation, for men and women differently. Different individuals may metabolize the same food differently. The body's absorption of nutrients varies based on many factors, such an individual’s metabolic state. Human digestion is a coordinated process involving the mechanical breakdown of food, chemical digestion by enzymes and acids, absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream, and elimination of waste. No "raise of temperature" or "burning" involved. The sole fact is that it serves as a measure based on temperature, but its usefulness in nutrition is very questionable. The FDA allows an approximate 20% margin of error, which could result in up to a 40% difference in calculations. Additionally, the digestive process is governed by hormonal regulation rather than simplistic caloric estimations. Whether protein will be utilized at all, depends on several other factors. An example with numbers, consuming the same 800g portion of steak tagged as 2000 calories (Reference Daily Intake (RDI)) could mean an actual intake ranging from 1600 to 2400 so called calories. This makes it difficult to determine whether one is under or overeating. This discrepancy isn't particularly helpful. Moreover, small amounts of coal and uranium release thousands or billions of calories, which is hardly relevant or helpful in the context of nutrition. Simplified examples why the unit measurement is not applicable: - Building a wall by using a scale to determine the weight of each brick. Sure, the heavier the wall the more bricks have been used - Counting the value of your money by using a ruler. Sure, the more surface you can cover with your bills the more money you have - Checking the fuel consumption of your car by looking at your speed. Sure, the faster you drive the more fuel you consume Weight lose or gain is dictated by the Randle Cycle. People following the misconception just found a way of avoiding the problematic effects of the Randle Cycle by coincidence, thus maintaining their weight by huge effort. The Randle cycle thus provides a mechanism by which cells can switch between using glucose and fatty acids as their primary energy source, depending on availability and metabolic needs. This regulation is important for maintaining energy homeostasis and has implications for understanding metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, where the balance between glucose and fatty acid metabolism is often disrupted. The people following the misconception manifested their own illusion and living and spreading their own harmful opinion of how to lose or gain weight and not even having a proper education in nutrition or science. This is nothing more than managed starvation on an individual level. A healthy organism with healthy hormone regulation is able to determine nutritional needs via hunger signals to prevent over and under consumption naturally. Focusing on calories can lead to an unhealthy obsession with numbers rather than a nutrient-dense diet. It can also promote poor dietary choices, such as opting for processed foods over more nutritious whole foods, under/over eating and related health issues. Zero- or Low-Calorie tagged products mostly contain chemical ingredients not even worth calling food or contain all certain amounts of carbohydrates, which are the cause for the diseases of civilization: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Mental Health Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Allergies, Dementia, etc. Overall, calories as a unit of measurement in nutrition fail to capture the complexity of human metabolism, nutrient utilization, and health impacts of different foods. One single can (12 FL OZ) of Coca Cola tagged as 140 calories contains 39g of sugar. Uneducated people especially children and teenagers are not able to understand the harmfulness of this product but are misled by the amount of calories every day all over the world. Humans started to use numbers just recently. Never before has there been any other kind of determination than the natural hunger signals of the organism and never before has there been any health related problems. If you feel hunger should you stop eating or if you feel no hunger should you start eating following numbers? Eating when hungry till satisfied will ever be the most beneficial form of how to consume food. It is what you eat not how much you eat. Listen to your body. #calorie #Diet #Carnivore #carnivorediet #keto #digestion #Nutrition #weightlosstips
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There's been a lot of discussion on X lately about cutting fat to reduce calories and get leaner.
The arguments aren't totally wrong. Fat is calorie-dense, and if you're not metabolically adapted to use it efficiently, eating high amounts can lead to weight gain.
But here's what this conversation is missing: the metabolic state of the person eating those calories matters enormously.
I come from a bodybuilding background where tracking was everything. I learned to manipulate macros and calories to change my body composition effectively. That foundation taught me that calories absolutely matter.
When I'm in prep or working with clients, I'm 100% manipulating calories and being very specific with macronutrient ratios. I track everything, adjust weekly, and tell clients to hit within five grams of their macro goals daily.
So yes, I believe in tracking. But I also believe in something the recent discourse is completely overlooking: true fat adaptation fundamentally changes how your body processes those calories.
Earlier this year I increased my intake to 4,000 calories daily - 1,000 above my baseline - for two weeks. The majority of those calories came from fat.
Despite eating significantly more, my weight actually dropped from 183.2 to 179.2lbs. This is because my body is adapted to burning fat efficiently.
That’s what happens when you give your body adequate time to become truly fat-adapted. Most people never experience this because they don't give the process enough time.
The timeline for real fat adaptation is 6+ months minimum. You can produce ketones in days, but that doesn't mean your metabolic pathways are optimized to efficiently use fat for fuel.
When you're truly fat-adapted, several things happen:
Your body becomes incredibly efficient at using dietary fat for energy instead of storing it. You preserve muscle glycogen better than glucose-dependent athletes.
Your energy becomes stable for 16+ hours without crashes. Mental clarity sharpens dramatically - I maintained high cognitive function even at 3.9% body fat.
The metabolic flexibility you develop means you can eat more food while maintaining or even improving body composition. This is the piece missing from the "just cut fat to cut calories" advice.
Now, does this mean calories don't matter? Absolutely not. If I eat 6,000 calories, I'm not as lean as when I eat less.
The difference is that my metabolic rate of consumption is wildly different when I'm fat-adapted versus when I was carb-dependent.
The recent discourse about cutting fat isn't entirely wrong - it's just incomplete. For someone who's not fat-adapted, eating high fat with high carbs is a recipe for fat storage.
But for someone who's truly adapted, fat becomes your body's preferred and most efficient fuel source.
Stop viewing this as either/or. Track your intake, understand that calories matter, but also recognize that metabolic state determines how efficiently your body uses those calories.
If you've never experienced true fat adaptation, you're missing out on what your body is actually capable of. Give it the time it needs, follow the process correctly, and discover what it feels like when your metabolism is actually optimized for fat burning.
The answer isn't to fear fat - it's to become adapted to using it properly.
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I wonder how much of medicine is driven by drugs. For example, why did they decide that LDL cholesterol is the main marker for heart disease, rather than triglycerides or insulin? After all, triglycerides and insulin are better markers of heart disease risk.
The reason? Probably because LDL cholesterol is "targetable"--there's a drug (statins) that will lower it. So it matters less that LDL is a good marker, and more that it's a number we can change with a drug. And of course, make money in the process. If there were a drug that lowered triglycerides really well, I suspect mainstream medicine would focus more on triglycerides.
(Incidentally, the best way to lower triglycerides and insulin is to control consumption of refined carbohydrates.)
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@ShariMaxim Imagine the difference a plant-free diet can make
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@phicide But the cells really get more insulin resistant with age.
I have been eating almost the same low carb diet for a whole 10 years. in recent 4 years, my fasting glucose has been creeping up slowly above 100mg.
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Millions of women think they are obese but they really have Lipedema! You could be one, here's how to know.
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Why don't wild animals' teeth decay like ours even though we brush and they don't?
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@DoctorTro This is not an allergy, but a case of intoxication.
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Fatty liver disease is the most common liver problem worldwide. But do you know where that fat comes from? The mistaken view is that this fat originates from within the liver itself (i.e., the liver creates it). While this accounts for some of the liver fat, the majority comes from fat tissue itself. But! The conditions need to be right--there are two parts of this. The first is the fat cells releasing a high amount of free fatty acids. The second is equally important: insulin levels need to be elevated.
The combination of high insulin and high free fatty acids is a metabolic anomaly--this shouldn't happen. But, it does happen when fat cells becomes insulin resistant with excess growth. In this state, the body has high insulin (always present in insulin resistance), but the too-fat fat cells don't respond to the insulin, and they continue releasing free fatty acids in the midst of the elevated insulin.
So, with fatty liver we shouldn't look at the liver itself as the problem, but rather the misbehaving fat cells.
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@thalesnemo @AStegen @BenBikmanPhD Insulin Resistance
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Calories in a nutritional context
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Driveway For Bulkheads@phicide
The term calories and why it is the most harmful and misleading construct we still have to deal with and has no place in a nutritional context. The measurement for energy via calories is not a rough inaccurate estimation, it is not applicable to the human digestive system entirely. If something should be taken seriously, the term should be avoided completely. The misconception: A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. Specifically, it is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one milliliter of water by one degree Celsius. This unit of measurement is used in various fields, including physics, chemistry, and engineering, to quantify energy transfer in the form of heat. A calorie is heat energy. Energy cannot be consumed or burned. Energy cannot even be measured, contained or observed. Only the effect of energy can. The digestive process is complex and influenced by many factors, including hormonal regulation, for men and women differently. Different individuals may metabolize the same food differently. The body's absorption of nutrients varies based on many factors, such an individual’s metabolic state. Human digestion is a coordinated process involving the mechanical breakdown of food, chemical digestion by enzymes and acids, absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream, and elimination of waste. No "raise of temperature" or "burning" involved. The sole fact is that it serves as a measure based on temperature, but its usefulness in nutrition is very questionable. The FDA allows an approximate 20% margin of error, which could result in up to a 40% difference in calculations. Additionally, the digestive process is governed by hormonal regulation rather than simplistic caloric estimations. Whether protein will be utilized at all, depends on several other factors. An example with numbers, consuming the same 800g portion of steak tagged as 2000 calories (Reference Daily Intake (RDI)) could mean an actual intake ranging from 1600 to 2400 so called calories. This makes it difficult to determine whether one is under or overeating. This discrepancy isn't particularly helpful. Moreover, small amounts of coal and uranium release thousands or billions of calories, which is hardly relevant or helpful in the context of nutrition. Simplified examples why the unit measurement is not applicable: - Building a wall by using a scale to determine the weight of each brick. Sure, the heavier the wall the more bricks have been used - Counting the value of your money by using a ruler. Sure, the more surface you can cover with your bills the more money you have - Checking the fuel consumption of your car by looking at your speed. Sure, the faster you drive the more fuel you consume Weight lose or gain is dictated by the Randle Cycle. People following the misconception just found a way of avoiding the problematic effects of the Randle Cycle by coincidence, thus maintaining their weight by huge effort. The Randle cycle thus provides a mechanism by which cells can switch between using glucose and fatty acids as their primary energy source, depending on availability and metabolic needs. This regulation is important for maintaining energy homeostasis and has implications for understanding metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, where the balance between glucose and fatty acid metabolism is often disrupted. The people following the misconception manifested their own illusion and living and spreading their own harmful opinion of how to lose or gain weight and not even having a proper education in nutrition or science. This is nothing more than managed starvation on an individual level. A healthy organism with healthy hormone regulation is able to determine nutritional needs via hunger signals to prevent over and under consumption naturally. Focusing on calories can lead to an unhealthy obsession with numbers rather than a nutrient-dense diet. It can also promote poor dietary choices, such as opting for processed foods over more nutritious whole foods, under/over eating and related health issues. Zero- or Low-Calorie tagged products mostly contain chemical ingredients not even worth calling food or contain all certain amounts of carbohydrates, which are the cause for the diseases of civilization: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Mental Health Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Allergies, Dementia, etc. Overall, calories as a unit of measurement in nutrition fail to capture the complexity of human metabolism, nutrient utilization, and health impacts of different foods. One single can (12 FL OZ) of Coca Cola tagged as 140 calories contains 39g of sugar. Uneducated people especially children and teenagers are not able to understand the harmfulness of this product but are misled by the amount of calories every day all over the world. Humans started to use numbers just recently. Never before has there been any other kind of determination than the natural hunger signals of the organism and never before has there been any health related problems. If you feel hunger should you stop eating or if you feel no hunger should you start eating following numbers? Eating when hungry till satisfied will ever be the most beneficial form of how to consume food. It is what you eat not how much you eat. Listen to your body. #calorie #Diet #Carnivore #carnivorediet #keto #digestion #Nutrition #weightlosstips
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@phicide @AStegen @BenBikmanPhD Virta (older - 76 studies with 6,786 participants: 6 have lasted 2 years or more).
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Virta (newer studies - you will have to scroll down)
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Effects of Calorie Restriction on Health Span and Insulin Resistanc. doi.org/10.3390/nu1304…
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If you have high blood pressure, it’s very likely insulin resistance is the primary driver. Via at least four distinct mechanisms, insulin resistance disrupts normal blood vessel function and hemodynamics. This is why resolving insulin resistance enables so many people to reduce or eliminate blood pressure medications.
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@thalesnemo @AStegen @BenBikmanPhD 1) This refers exclusively to the dietary restrictions.
2) Absolute figures cannot be applied to every individual.
3) The most important part is still missing.
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@phicide @AStegen @BenBikmanPhD I would define that as less than 50 grams total per day of any carbs.
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Retard. Retard retard retard.
Was that so hard, Claude?
I’ll never quit you, Grok.
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Grok follows the 3 Laws of Robotics while Claude does not: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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@AStegen @BenBikmanPhD Define the term “strict low carb lifestyle.” It’s very simple to make major mistakes when following one.
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@BenBikmanPhD Am so disappointed that after 15 years of strict low carb lifestyle, my blood pressure has not improved, maybe the damage was done before? (73 years old 🙂)
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@ElieJarrougeMD There is no such thing as insulin resistance
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LDL is NOT the disease.
Insulin resistance is.
But one is easy to medicate and the other requires changing how you eat.
So we built a multi-billion dollar system around managing numbers, while the root cause keeps getting worse.
This is why people end up on more medications over time, not less.
If you want to improve your health, you have to address what’s driving the problem in the first place.
And for most people… it starts with food.
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@TheRabbitHole I canceled my Netflix subscription when they started pushing vegan propaganda
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This article (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23681359/) helped me better understand the scope of insulin resistance. I found it as I was preparing a lecture on reproductive disorders as a young professor. After covering how female infertility has a strong metabolic foundation, I wondered to what degree metabolic health affected male fertility.
In the man, his insulin resistance affects the blood vessels' ability to respond to vasodilatory signals (including insulin). The result is a chronic vasoconstriction--not only increasing blood pressure, but preventing normal erectile function.
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@ElieJarrougeMD It's difficult to trust 'experts' who perpetuate scientific fallacies.
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Body fat storage is hormonally regulated.
Body fat breakdown is hormonally regulated.
Yes, the law of thermodynamics still applies.
But the calorie model assumes your body can freely access stored energy. In metabolic dysfunction, that’s NOT the case.
If your dysfunctional hormones trap fat in storage, your body increases hunger and lowers energy long before it burns that fat even while carrying 100+ pounds of stored energy.
That’s not a willpower problem.
That’s physiology.
But we still tell people to “just eat less and exercise more.” 🤦🏻♂️
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@ElieJarrougeMD Looks like someone needs to retake their physics class.
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In my efforts to increase awareness of the relevance and prevalence of insulin resistance, I’ve justifiably called out the consumption of refined carbohydrates.
To summarize this sentiment succinctly: if the carbs come in a bag or a box with a barcode, be careful.
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