Archive for September 2013
With My Apologies to George Will in Advance
Nothing Else Matters So close no matter how far Couldn’t be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are And nothing else matters Never opened myself this way Life is ours, we live it our way All these words I don’t just say And nothing else matters Trust I seek and I find…
Read MoreResistant Starch Supplementation Improves Insulin Sensitivity
Part 2 of my series on the N=2 will be up early next week. In the meantime, here’s a study, with full text.
Insulin-sensitizing effects of dietary resistant starch and effects on skeletal muscle and adipose tissue metabolism
M Denise Robertson, Alex S Bickerton, A Louise Dennis, Hubert Vidal, and Keith N Frayn
From the Introduction:
“…Insoluble fibers, such as resistant starch (RS), are nonviscous and thus have no effect on glucose absorption, yet they have been shown in short-term human studies (8) to increase insulin sensitivity. Despite epidemiologic evidence linking insoluble fiber intake to a reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes (9-11), the metabolic link between chronic RS ingestion and insulin sensitivity has yet to be proven in humans.
“One possible mechanism by which dietary RS intake might modulate insulin sensitivity is through alterations in fatty acid flux. Fatty acid metabolism is a key feature in determining tissue insulin sensitivity. Abnormalities in fatty acid storage and lipolysis in insulin-sensitive tissues with increased flux from adipose to nonadipose tissues such as skeletal muscle may be a critical event in the development of insulin resistance (12). The direct effect of RS consumption on fatty acid flux is unknown beyond studies that have measured fasting triacylglycerol and cholesterol concentrations after RS intervention (7). In isolation, short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which are produced during colonic fermentation of RS, inhibit adipose tissue lipolysis (13), but an in vivo effect of dietary RS intake has yet to be shown.
“We showed previously that short-term (24 h) high doses of RS (60 g/d) significantly elevate postprandial insulin sensitivity, with lower circulating concentrations of both NEFAs and SCFAs (8). In the present study, we assessed the effect of a more sustainable dose of RS of 30 g/d for 4 wk to allow the assessment of longer-term metabolic adaptation to RS. By using an integrative approach to this nutritional question, we have assessed adaptation to RS intake at the gene-tissue and whole-body levels in humans.”
Read MoreFrancisco Bravin aka “Frank”: Hello, and Are You Out There? Your Five Grandchildren Want to Meet You
Sorry, can’t help it. Public Service Announcement, and hopefully Google does its magic. A Comment from Sheena Generalo just came in. Frankly, I was a bit embarrassed about the post I wrote that she commented on, but that happens often. It was about young life, stupid risk, and bar girls in the Philippines. Wooo even wrote…
Read MoreThe N=2: Tatertot Tim and Commenter Marie Test Potato Starch on Ketosis Part 1
What?
Starch…while in ketosis…on a ketogenic diet? It’s an oxymoronic contradiction in terms, right? After all, isn’t the LC catechism that even severely restricted amounts of starch or refined sugar can knock you out of ketosis? And now, with “nutritional ketosis,” the recognition that even protein can knock you out? After all again, “excessive” protein is the new carbohydrate in terms of staying in ketosis.
Here’s a crazy idea.
How about 30-40g of starch, plus a decently highish protein meal, and you STAY in ketosis, if that’s your goal? How about if the starch actually enhances the stability of your metabolic ketosis? I say ‘metabolic’ instead of ‘nutritional’, because replacing whole protein with isolated fats is not adding micronutrients. It’s actually taking them away in the hundreds of percent, replacing them with relatively empty calories that low carbers often see as virtuous because of desired metabolic effects, and not necessarily optimal cellular and hormonal feeding and function—save for the single of many hormones they seem to care about: INSULINZ!!!
That was commenter Marie’s quest.
Read MoreThe Relative Nutritional Bankruptcy of Good Fats
There’s been a discussion in comments in my last post about the propriety of high fat diets vis-a-vis the nutritional benefit to them in terms of vitamins and minerals. Also, questioning the idea that a high fat diet is necessarily better than a relatively high starchy one. Let’s say 50%, roughly, the balance being made…
Read MoreResistant Starch Self Experimentation Prelude: Sisson, Konstantin Monastyrsky, and my Commenters
In advance of tomorrow’s publishing of important, meticulously tracked results using potato starch to control blood glucose in various circumstances including ketosis, I thought I’d pump something out quickly on what’s been going on.
Fist up.
Konstantin Monastyrsky’s guest post at Mark’s Daily Apple: Dietary Fiber Is Bad for Sex – That’s the Only Claim About It That Isn’t a Myth. Suffice to say that other than discounting the CW that we should be seeking out all kinds of fiber roughage for health (Translation: Please Buy My Product), which I agree with, the post is really a mess and I guess it’s left to me to say that Konstantin is weird and has an unhealthy obsession with excrement (not to mention other “analities”). There, I said it.
The comment thread is pretty wild, especially given Mark’s balanced way of doing things. I have a couple comments there. Pretty tame, though. I’m a guest, I know my place.
Today, Mark follows up with his own post
Read MoreYou’d Be Surprised How Many Thankful Emails I Get From Religious People
In yesterday’s inbox. Name withheld, as it’s probably best none of his parishioners who Google his name, find that he’s reading my blog. “Dear Richard, “I’ve learned and continue to learn so much from your blog. I just wanted to say thank you again. “I know I probably represent everything you despise (being a Lutheran…
Read MoreSuccess: Pre Diabetic Glucose Regulation With Resistant Starch (Potato Starch)
I am having some real success lowering my fasting (I am pre diabetic)
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How to Deal With Other Human Animals Who Live By Force or Quasi Force
I laf when I hear my wife on the phone about anything to do with business services. I tell her the truth: “you’re never going to get what you want, behaving like that.” She knows what’s right and wrong and she’s usually right. The problem is, she tells people. Strangers. On the phone, representing those…
Read MoreA Quick Note About Breaking Bad and Who Wins in the End
My Breaking Bad story is that I was pretty sure it must be great, as much as I heard about it but never saw it the last what? 5 years? Until… Thanks to a sister-in-law and her husband, I got season 1 on DVD as a gift on the last spectacle that is the holiday…
Read MoreMaggot Update “Don’t Let My Daughter Die, Governor!”: Chris Christie vs. Medical Marijuana
What a fucking fat fuck fucker. Governor Chris Christie: my sincerest hope is that you die writhing in pain. The sooner, the better. Let’s toss in a bunch of other politicians, just for good measure. Nothing like a good start. All the smart people will laf and have a party. You are irredeemably loathsome. Just…
Read More“Cliteracy:” You Literally Can’t Even Make These Lafs Up
I laughed a lot over this JudgyBitch post: Some women are totally clueless about their own bodies. Obviously, that makes men terrorists. New heights in utter idiocy. Laf Apparently, this is the “brainchild” of one Sophia Wallace. Whatever. While there’s a lot of different posters JB posts, this one was actually kinda funny-clever if you ask just…
Read MoreJury Nullification vs. The Drug War: NJ Weedman on His Unlikely Marijuana Acquittal
I just stole Reason.tv’s title because it basically has it all. The video is just under 10 minutes. You should watch it, and especially if you don’t toss jury summonses in the trash as I’ve done every time, all my life. I have never “served” on a jury (slavery supposedly ended). If you want me to…
Read MoreMike Bilyk Glasses and Loops in His Hang Glider at Andy Jackson Airpark in San Bernardino and Hits the Spot
This is pretty damn beautiful, not to mention astounding. Got a minute and 23 seconds to spare? Glassoff from mike bilyk on Vimeo. Andy Jackson Airpark is near and dear to this heart, being the second high altitude flight I did after my basic training back in around ’97. Parents-in-law lived in Moreno Valley and…
Read MoreGay Marriage Justice Update #2
Just another joke, folks. Relax. Not my fault if, as with most good jokes, there’s a grain of a ring of truth. Question: What does a lesbian bring to a 2nd date? Answer: A U-Haul. Question: What does a gay man bring to a 2nd date? Answer: There is no 2nd date. Be relax out…
Read MoreBad Debt Rule #1: Get Off Your Moral High Horse
I hear it all the time: “You should pay your debts.” …and… “But you promised!” And that was just for the “benefit” of my clients. I got far worse. For 20 years, I had a firm that at its height, raked in over $3 million per year in fees assisting thousands of small businesses and consumers…
Read MoreGay Marriage Justice Update
“I fully support Gay Marriage. They have every right to be as miserable as we are.” — overheard in the steam room at my local gym I had lunch with a local attorney today. Word is, amongst the family law folks, lesbian divorces are the most acrimonious anyone has ever seen in memory. I thought…
Read MoreGot Ground Lamb? Then Make Keema Matar
I did, and I did, after searching around a bit. I picked this recipe; because everything is better in fixed-width font. Sometimes, you just can’t improve on that which is sufficient. It popped up in search because for some reason, I was looking for something to do with ground lamb and tomatoes. Bingo. …Provided,…
Read More“Labor Day:” Doing Soviet Better Than the Soviets
Well, I guess there’s at least one thing to celebrate as concerns “the labor movement” in the United States. And one thing to bemoan. Both shown in the following graph, and I’ll leave it for you to determine which is which. Union Density What to conclude, except that with quasi market-driven private sector union membership…
Read MoreAlrighty Then. Fuck Trader Joe’s and the Aldi’s From Germany Who Own it.
Bag It, Trader Joe’s Tells ‘Pirate’ Grocer In Canada For the past year and a half, Mike Hallatt has been driving across the U.S.-Canada border and back, bringing loads of groceries back to Vancouver. There’s no food shortage in Canada — but there’s an absolute lack of Trader Joe’s grocery stores, and that created an…
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