Archive for January 2014
Very Low Carbing: Let’s Just Kill This Beast
The identity of this formerly Low Carb Doc will forever be safe with me short of State torture—as will be the identities of the Low Carb Docs who have seen worse, not better, in their patients. “Spanish Caravan” (edited for style, not content) ~~~ Paleophil, the legal issue here is an example I cite because it harkens…
Read More“Tigernuts” – A Nutty Tuber or Tubery Nut?
One cool thing about having my style of blog that I get to have so many nuts as commenters. They’re distributed amongst the geeks, nerds, ne’er-do-wells, muckrakers, slackers…and plain ol’ assholes, like me. My comment sections are truly representative of the misfits of society, which is why they’re a perfect fit for Free the Animal. From…
Read MoreThe Ruler’s State of the Union Address in Two Pictures
It’s 2000-Fucking-Fourteen. Get your pathetic asses out of the nest, fly by your own command, and go get your own food. Otherwise, I shall laugh at you and taunt you for a second time.
Read More“Can you coordinate the dance of your body’s 100 trillion microorganisms?”
Simply amazing, remarkable, must watch TEDMED. Astounding. I can quibble, because I think that the best way to get your microbiome sorted is to arm your allies against your enemy. However, the presentation is remarkable for how he shows pretty well how very amazingly complex it is. And yes, that is the general thread of…
Read MorePodcast: How Resistant Starch Foods Can Make You Smarter, Faster And Healthier
Ameer Rosic is one of those people that conjure my favorite saying in French: s’il n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. Ameer has an ever present smile, he’s high energy, and he thinks. And I always like that. I recorded a podcast with him a couple of weeks back and it went live today. If you want…
Read MoreWriting Blues, Quick Food, Same Clothes, Vaping, and Bright Spots
Pretty much a Zombie, lately. I think it was John Durant who said, in reference to writing The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health (highly recommended, especially the Biblical parts): “Writing a health book is the unhealthiest thing I’ve ever done.” I can relate, but on a much smaller scale. I have Tim, and Tim…
Read MoreDon’t Worry About Cholesterol
A comment by Dr. Charlie, biochemist. ~~~ Sorry for delay in getting back to you re TC/ apoB and Gabriella’s concern over a patient who had a blip in her LDL readings. In a way I’m glad that I did because just by chance I watched again the Wisdom of Clouds speech by Tom Naughton…
Read MoreSaturday Morning Obesity and Gut Biome Link Roundup
Spent about 12 hours offline and woke up this morning to about 250 unread emails. Everything from comment notifications, Facebook shares and comments, Tweets, etc. So, I opened up a new post window and plugged the most interesting stuff I saw as I went through it all. ~ Science Daily: How fiber prevents diabetes, obesity Scientists…
Read MoreFood For Thought and Discussion: Root Cause of the Obesity Epidemic, with J. Stanton
J. Stanton of Gnolls.org touched off a dispute in the comments of a previous post that I think merits further thought and discussion. As background, J and I are friends. Here’s photographic proof: J and I at the dinner table at my vacation home. The next day, just a couple of months in advance of his…
Read MoreA Facebook Convo With Robb Wolf
What say you? Since even before Robb himself began questioning the sanity of Low Carb as the unequivocal harbinger of objective, just-so health qua inquisitorial dogma in the context of a so-called healthy lifestyle with ubiquitous designs, I’ve been chewing just like I know he has. I blogged about his own n=1 with potato starch…
Read MoreJeff Leach Wrote:
Buzz is out that Dave Asprey didn’t like his RS via PS experiment. (I would have been surprised if he had, because if beneficial, LC is an ass and he’s been wrong for a long time—which I love to be, but he’s not demonstrated, yet.) Moreover, if he actually took the months I and others…
Read MoreIntestinal Gluconeogenesis
One more for the low carbers, since gluconeogenesis is the only meow of the cat. A novel function of intestinal gluconeogenesis: central signaling in glucose and energy homeostasis Abstract The gut can contribute to the control of glucose homeostasis by its high glycolytic capacity and a recently described function, gluconeogenesis. In addition to its quantitative…
Read MoreThe Great Robb Wolf on Potato Starch
He dropped this comment on the Facebook thread on my last post, where I expressed disappointment over Fred Hahn’s convenient dismissal, since even though he found a potato diet worked wonders to lose weight, it has to be fundamentally from a low-carb perspective (read the thread). Resistant starch basically makes low carbers look like ignorants…
Read MoreConfirmation Bias: Resistant Starch
There were only two options. The first was for Tim & I to have our little gig in posts and comments and giggle in emails and keep it cloistered, or just put it out there and see what happens. Obviously we chose the latter. Since it’s gone Plaeoviral, there’s problems. Wow, I ate that 30oz…
Read MoreShereen El Feki: Sex Happens For Arabs, Muslims; and Go Figure
TED talks are a double edged sword. So many good, so many bad. For me—and I make myself appraised of every new one—it’s the 1st 2 minutes that decides if I’ll watch the whole thing, and that’s only if I didn’t see the title/subject as stupid, superfluous (a huge percentage) or too niche interest pour…
Read MoreHappy Civil Disobedience Day aka MLK Day
Forget all the other bla bla, designed to keep the ignorant ignorant and distracted by the politically expedient in terms of contrived antagonism. MLK is important, but it’s because, like Gandhi, he took Henry David Thoreau seriously and put it to the test. Well, at least someone out there got it right. Dr. Martin Luther…
Read MoreThe Blooming Science of Gut Flora
This is too cool, Jeff Leach of The Human Food Project: Going Feral: my one-year journey to acquire the healthiest gut microbiome in the world (you heard me!). I think he has a way to go to top the resistant starch monster, Tim: Resistant Starch: American Gut Project Real Results And Comparison (Very Big News). At any…
Read MoreTake It It All On Faith Like the Bible Tells You, Duh!
I’m so thankful on this TGIF that God made us with 100 trillion cells in our guts (and about a trillion on our skin) that outnumber our own cells 10-1, and their genes to ours, 125-1. Given that the bacteria and yeasts in the gut all give off various chemicals, and there are up to…
Read MoreYou’re Only 10% of Who You Think You Are: The Tim & Richard Book on The Gut Microbiome, Resistant Starch and More
Well, I used news of our fist public announcement of a book coming soon in Angelo’s Latest in Paleo Podcast as a hook to get you to listen. Hope you did. But if you didn’t… The Title of the post is not necessarily—and probably not—the title of the book, though that’s the working motivation. Once…
Read MoreA Quick Lesson in “The Dose Makes The Poison”
The identity of this formerly Low Carb Doc will forever be safe with me short of State torture—as will be the identities of the Low Carb Docs who have seen worse, not better, in their patients. “Spanish Caravan” (edited for style, not content) ~~~ Paleophil, the legal issue here is an example I cite because it harkens…
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