Archive for February 2014
Long Term Very Low Carb and Ketogenic Diets = Bad News
Via Spanish Caravan, a frequent commenter with let’s just say a “medical background.” ~~~ Physiological Insulin Resistatnce (PIR) results from glucose deficiency the same way mucin deficiency induces dry eyes, nostrils, colon and anemia like symptoms. They’re both ways of preserving glucose for your brain. When you VLC, your muscles become insulin resistant to preserve…
Read MoreAre You Living In Your Own Private Solipsis? (Idaho)
Ever heard of solipsism? Solipsism (Listeni/ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/; from Latin solus, meaning “alone”, and ipse, meaning “self”) is the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not…
Read MoreGreen Bananas as a High Source of Resistant Starch
In all the talk of potato starch as the most concentrated form of resistant starch known to man (80% RS by weight, 20% moisture, easy to dose—even in plain water), I’ve not written much about two other very respectable sources of RS, both in whole foods: green plantains and green bananas. They’re about 50% RS…
Read MoreMicro-Social Medical Insurance and Helping Out One of Our Own
Woman, a PhD biologist, raises over $21,000 in a few days for her husband’s uncovered brain cancer care. Interested? Then read on. I got an email yesterday. This is interesting (but sad). Monica, who is a PhD in biology…is doing some amazing Internet research to find out about her husband’s cancer to help to help him… Robb…
Read MoreTigernuts II: My Experience and The Chief Nuts Behind It
There’s a previous post focussing on the nutrition and health benefits of Tigers’ Nuts. What a pleasure to deal with such a fine company, and fine folks behind it—two men from England who’ve been friends and business partners for 40 years. Jack and Jim. Both have more than impressive accomplishments in business. Check out how…
Read MoreThe Top Three Reported Benefits of Resistant Starch
What does it do, primarily? I’d say among the hundreds of anecdotes from thousands of people trying it out worldwide, it’s: improved blood glucose regulation—both fasting blood glucose and blunting of spikes after starch foods—vivid dreaming with deeper sleep, and batter bathroom TMI: regularity, constipation, improved stool consistency. In an ordered list, 1, 2, 3,…
Read MoreMatt Stone and General Cloistered Idiot Update
You know what I find odd? I put this out there on September 27, 2013: Note To Matt Stone aka Body Temp “Guru”: You’re In Short Pants; and, You’re Welcome. Not a peep. Anywhere. You’d think that at least someone, somewhere would have taken note of it, created a mess at his place, whatever. Turns out…
Read More…Oh, One More Thing…
I’ll do this as a separate post rather than as an update to the one I just put up, because it’s that important. You can file this under either “why I do what I do” or, “Richard loves to rub people’s faces in steaming piles of stinky shit when they deserve it.” Your choice. Some…
Read MoreThanks Sports Fans. All Time Record for Free the Animal
There are many who just hate it when I tout this sort of thing and they mock me for doing it. So, that’s why I’m posting it. I love hate. …Perhaps more than I love love. Here’s what you’ve gone and did. All Time Record Unfortunately, owing to a freak WordPress fart Thursday afternoon that…
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