Robb Wolf

What has generally passed for "Western Liberal Democracies" will largely live or die by which approach dominates. WLD's are a once (thus far) in history event. there is nothing to guarantee they go on, nor that something like it would ever happen again.

I have an old paper from the 1970’s looking at fasting and even at significant calories deficit, 50-100g of carbs largely blunts sodium loss. All of this is pretty clear in the literature. I’d not be surprised if there is fairly wide individual variation, but at a population level, low carb diets just about universally increase sodium excretion.

Eric you asked me first about the Reddy study, which was a low carb, high protein diet (i.e. 19-33 grams of carbs). Grok's response is to the Kodama studies, which were mixed diets likely around 250-300 grams of carbs. Regardless, eating more carbs wouldn't increase sodium requirements compared to low carb diets. Protein is natriuretic and carbs are sodium sparing. If a group of individuals requires 4.2 grams of sodium to remain in neutral sodium balance and 4.5-4.7 grams of sodium to maintain calcium/magnesium balance on a mixed diet, it's very likely they will require more than that in a low carb, higher protein setting.

One harm from low-salt diets can be: Negative calcium, magnesium and potassium balance. When the body doesn't get enough sodium, the bone will get stripped by the osteoclasts to maintain normal sodium levels in blood. However, this also leads to calcium and magnesium loss from bone at the same time. This loss of calcium and magnesium from bone --> spikes serum calcium and magnesium levels (tricking the body into thinking it is overloaded in those 2 minerals) --> leading to a downregulation of calcium and magnesium absorption from the diet --> causing negative calcium and magnesium balance. A negative magnesium balance can also lead to intracellular potassium deficiency (as magnesium is needed to keep potassium in the cell). Furthermore, if calcium, magnesium and sodium are being lost from bone, it's also likely that potassium is also lost. Numerous balance studies have shown that when someone exercises for 1 hour per day, consuming 2,200 mg of sodium is not enough to keep them in positive sodium balance, inducing negative sodium, calcium and magnesium balances. Thus, direct balance studies show that the recommendation for < 2,300 mg of sodium/day by all the Dietary Guidelines is misguided. Indeed, balance studies indicated that when exercising for ~ 1 hour per day, the required amount of sodium to maintain neutral sodium balance is 4,187 mg/day and 4,500-4,700 mg of sodium/day to maintain neutral calcium and magnesium balance. This is much higher than the < 2,300 mg of sodium/day recommendation by the Dietary Guidelines. Thus, controlled balance studies (the highest level of evidence we have) indicate that the guideline recommendations for sodium of < 2,300 mg is too low and can't even keep someone in positive sodium, calcium or magnesium balance if they are exercising for ~ 1 hour per day. @KetoCarnivore

Pain Behind Your Knees? youtube.com/shorts/HUgXg-R… Thanks @kneeovertoesguy exactly the issue I’ve had!!

🚨New Paper: "Seven Years of 700 Cholesterol Without Coronary Atherosclerosis: A Lean Mass Hyper-Responder Case Report" Link: doi.org/10.3390/diseas… For the past 7 years, I’ve been running what is essentially a natural experiment in cholesterol and heart health. During that time, I’ve largely lived with: 👉Total cholesterol around 700 mg/dl 👉LDL cholesterol between 500–600 mg/dL I recently underwent advanced coronary CT angiography imaging with AI-guided analysis. This is not a CAC. It measures all plaque (soft + calcified), with expert interpretation and AI-guided analysis capable of quantifying plaque down to the cubic millimeter (mm3). Now, to address the obvious question: Am I too young for plaque? In brief: No. The clearest comparison is individuals with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, who often have similarly extreme LDL/ApoB levels and can develop advanced plaque as toddlers, and even heart attacks as early as age 8. Also, nutrition influencers in their 30s have publicly shared quantified plaque scores from these same imaging technologies. In one recent case, a plant-based influencer in his thirties was found to have 61.3 mm³ of plaque despite having far lower lifetime LDL exposure. (He can identify himself if he so chooses.) My case also isn’t a one-off. There are many individuals like me, including older individuals with similar LDL-C and ApoB without any plaque. The difference is that I’m an unusually well-characterized subject, with extensive metabolic data and health markers tracked over time. You can learn more at the newsletter or open-access paper, linked above. The science of heart health is not settled. And cholesterol is not a simple story. 🚨 If you want to help spread the word... Quote Tweet this post (or create an original post) including the article link with a thought. Academic papers are increasingly evaluated using attention metrics. Original posts from unique users are one way to increase these metrics and help ultimately increase its reach. 🚨 If you want to learn more, I'll include more learning resources below 👇

@PatsyDiabetes Doing Gods work!!

This is outrageous.. Not a single person on my flight is masked up while we’re in the middle of a double pandemic (Covid + Hantavirus). I politely informed the flight attendant that this is a super spreader event. She just shrugged and walked away. I've already filed a formal complaint with the FAA and CDC. This is reckless and cannot stand. Masks save lives, the science is settled on that.

@ThatChrisRyan Tutti e Due.

@robbwolf This claim is often misrepresented as a strict, mandatory law, when it is actually part of a municipal, climate-focused nutritional guideline for public, government-run nursing homes in Copenhagen.

Restricting a regenerative, nutritionally dense form of protein to the elderly is diabolical. One must be either woefully ignorant of nutrition, or just hate people. Or, perhaps a bit of both. How is this being justified? "A Green party rep explained the logic: the elderly "have been the biggest climate sinners throughout their lives."" Collectivists seem to get a "come to Jesus" moment on economics not on the front end, but on the back end. It will always be cheaper to cull people than to support them. Choose wisely

@Devon_Eriksen_ @simonmaechling Simon does not strike me as fun at a party nor particularly good at “science.” He may know his way around lithium aluminum hydride for a pro-chiral reaction, but that’s a technical skill, Not Science.

Meet @simonmaechling. Simon has a PhD in organic chemistry. He is very proud of his PhD in organic chemistry. He can't wait to tell you about it, it's in his twitter bio. Simon identifies as a scientist. In fact, he identifies as all scientists, ever, since the beginning of history, and his pronouns are we/us/ours. He uses these pronouns as he informs us that, by writing and defending a thesis, he has inherited credit for every engineering and technological advance in human history. He fed billions of people because he is Norman Borlaug. He saved millions of cancer patients because he is both Francis Crick and James Watson simultaneously. He powered nations because he is inhabited by the very soul of Enrico Fermi. If humanity conquers the stars, he will retroactively become Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk, as well. Please clap. Unfortunately, there has been one small oversight. Simon doesn't actually know what science is. Perhaps universities in France don't require coursework in the history or philosophy of science, to attain a PhD degree. Or perhaps he was sick that day. But whatever the reason, his hat or his shoes, Simon doesn't understand that science is an algorithm. Not a person. Not an institution. Not a body of knowledge, or a set of data. An algorithm. It is a simple, stepwise procedure. It is the act of examining the universe to see what is there. It is not the act of examining one's baguette to see which side it is buttered on. Which is precisely why a lot of institutions, who prominently, proudly, and fraudulently use the word "science" in their names, have lost the public trust that Simon feels entitled to. They took money. They sold their judgement and modified their results. They took money from Proctor and Gamble, and they told us that beef, butter, and eggs are bad for us, and we should eat crystalized cottonseed oil instead. They took money from Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Unilever, and told us a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and that the worldwide obesity epidemic is your fault because you somehow magically were born lazier and greedier than previous generations. They took money from a cabal of grifters in the federal bureaucracy, and told us the planet has a fever, and we all need to pay more taxes so they can give it to their grifter friends. They told us that if we didn't use our entire population as guinea pigs for an untested medical technology, we were personally killing grandma. These people expect to share in the respect we have for Newton and Einstein, for Watt and Tesla, for Fleming, for Turning and Von Neumann. But they are not any of these. They are Pravda. They are Squealer. They are Baghdad Bob. They are not scientists. They are whores. No, wait a minute... upon reflection, I wish to apologize to the world's whores for that last sentence. A whore is infinitely better than a fake scientist, because, however degrading her profession, however much it scars her mind and soul, a whore only takes money from those who freely give it, and delivers something they value in return. I've never had a whore try to poison or rob me.

@simonmaechling Not good with a combo of irony with a dusting of statistics I see. …

Lightning strikes are not infectious diseases. Vaccines are designed to prevent infectious diseases.

Possibly one of the best ever. youtube.com/post/Ugkx1XVx9…

@liberty_lyss @MarioNawfal @MarcScottEmery BINGO

@MarioNawfal @MarcScottEmery “Eat your meat because the commies are starving elderly people in Copenhagen”

🇩🇰 Copenhagen's Green-led council is limiting elderly care residents to 80 grams of beef per week for climate reasons. That works out to 11.4 grams a day, which is less meat than most people put in a single taco. A Green party rep explained the logic: the elderly "have been the biggest climate sinners throughout their lives." So the plan is apparently to make them atone for it in their final years, one thimble of mince at a time. Critics, including opposition parties and elderly advocates, say the policy risks undernutrition in a population already vulnerable to it. The council says it's flexible, but the elderly eating climate penance for dinner might disagree. Source: BT, Ekstra Bladet

Why America stopped eating cereal youtu.be/oK9TVOo-gOA?si…

Eat the rich…then what? youtu.be/M9IVeHyyMP8?si…

I really enjoyed this podcast. We got to dig into a lot of nuanced discussion around regenerative ag, climate and a host of related topics. Cows Could Save the Planet? The Truth About Regenerative Farming youtu.be/PM9r-r1d0rk?si…

California killed his 32,000 plants for...a bug? youtube.com/shorts/4PWIrfi…

DROPPING LIKE DONIMOES – YouTube’s AI Demonetization is Out of Control (... youtu.be/s7LAoMblOPk?si…

The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry youtu.be/Ff0AYRWrnGY?si…

@ChrisCuomo You are a special kind of reality avoidance on this topic. Are you ok? Blink twice for help.

Why are these maga people so determined to pretend that we don't have white nationalist hate groups in this country?

So @grok, we all just discovered that the SPLC has allegedly been funding some of the worst of the people and groups it claims to oppose. What are other activist pressure groups that advocate censorship/deplatforming of their enemies that could be doing the same thing?