tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post6042158258520458553..comments2024-03-29T06:45:45.894+00:00Comments on Hyperlipid: Physiological insulin restisance: Guess what?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-76532254244581501262014-09-11T00:00:09.364+00:002014-09-11T00:00:09.364+00:00Hi Peter, just saw this post and found your blog. ...Hi Peter, just saw this post and found your blog. Wonderful work you are doing! I am type 1, previous low carber testing out the newly popular keto diet and after a couple weeks of wonderful blood sugars and a drop of 30% in basal rate of insulin, I am experiencing the phenomeon of physiological insulin resistance, or so I believe. Reading this, am I correct in thinking that a few carbs will alleviate this occurrence and lead me back to the happy place of lower insulin needs? I have kept my carbs at under 20 for the 3 weeks now - Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10895955566124524874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-47361172360663334892014-02-04T21:49:13.495+00:002014-02-04T21:49:13.495+00:00The question is whether the deleterious effects of...The question is whether the deleterious effects of systemic hyperinsulinaemia are off set by the beneficial effects of ketones. This is very much an aside from my own interest in long chain saturated fats. Of course, my own approach is to mimic caloric restriction without the caloric restriction. Safe starches do not figure in this.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-7424205987961164542014-02-04T07:36:14.747+00:002014-02-04T07:36:14.747+00:00What do you see as some of the worst possible case...What do you see as some of the worst possible case risks with MCT Oil?<br /><br />I understand your point about the study I quoted being somewhat loaded. But there are plenty of studies that show butter/dairy by itself can spike insulin. But what really concerns me more is the fact butter/dairy may also cause insulin resistance. All I know is that when I ate very large amounts of dairy cream, my fasting glucose went off the charts.<br /><br />I understand your response on Davis' post about butter to be that you are not combining it with starchy carbs, and therefore for you the issue of insulin resistance does not matter as much. In my case, I want to eat about 120 to 160 grams per day of starchy carbs (primarily white rice), so it's an important issue for me which fat(s) can I combine with that to give me best control on glucose one and two hours after the meal.P1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10150386241231733361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-41054884077964502002014-02-02T12:52:37.968+00:002014-02-02T12:52:37.968+00:00Hi P1,
MCTs are very complex. Essentially, they b...Hi P1,<br /><br />MCTs are very complex. Essentially, they behave more like sugars than fats. If you have the persistence to slog through the Protons thread you can see that they are largely diverted to the liver where the flood of acetyl-CoA is used for a combination of ketogenesis and de novo lipogenesis, to give a mix of palmitate and monounsaturated fat which eventually get exported in triglycerides. <br /><br />It is quite possible that the generation of palmitate in the liver simply blocks hepatic glucose extraction, so insulin penetrates to the systemic circulation and allows normal glucose uptake as MCTs are not getting past the liver, so there is no systemic insulin resistance.<br /><br />Most of the work on MCTs was done many years ago and the papers are not as replete with data as modern papers. But the authors are, thankfully, less bent.<br /><br />Try these discussions<br /><br />http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/butter-insulin-and-dr-davis.html<br />http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/protons-pancreas.html<br /><br />Bear in mimd that the study you are reading was very, very carefully set up to get the graphs. Obviously, w/o the carefully selected carb/protein load there would be no insulin spike at all, and they know this (but forgot that particular control group).<br /><br />You are also talking about insulin at 150pmol with PUFA vs 220pmol with butter. The control group at the bottom of the graph was just the carb/protein component, i.e. much lower in total calories. Imagine the insulin response with 800kcal of that mix. The group is bent.<br /><br />Anyway, MCTs are very complex, handle with care.<br /><br />Peter<br /><br />BTW adaptation to VLC takes some time. I was fine for chronic aerobic exercise by 3-6 weeks. Full adaption felt more like 6 months for hard stuff. And even then, for extreme hill climbing on my pushbike, I had to tailor my climb rate to my oxygen delivery rate, otherwise the world tended to pink out. I don’t seem to use glycogen facilitated anaerobic fuelling. But at the top of the hill I’d just keep going as if there had been no hill, no oxygen debt to repay…Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-44684404612250107442014-02-02T09:31:45.233+00:002014-02-02T09:31:45.233+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.P1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10150386241231733361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-1086756386265603392014-02-02T09:31:15.260+00:002014-02-02T09:31:15.260+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.P1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10150386241231733361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-10339083040700507922014-02-02T09:30:24.021+00:002014-02-02T09:30:24.021+00:00Part 2 / 2:
I would very much like to do some con...Part 2 / 2:<br /><br />I would very much like to do some controlled tests with different kinds of fats, but here is my problem: I can measure glucose but I have no practical way to measure insulin! And it turns out that insulin is actually the more meaningful thing to measure here. Because as the graph in the study I published suggests, if you only follow glucose things can look pretty normal. But insulin resistance is only confirmed by watching insulin grow extremely high, and then watching how glucose responds to that event. You need to follow glucose and insulin together.<br /><br />Since we appear to have so many biochemists here, can someone explain to me what is the test process / machine used to measure insulin? Is there any practical insulin test within the reach of a home user that doesn't involve at $20K piece of equipment the size of a refrigerator?<br />P1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10150386241231733361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-13985350256985473442014-02-02T09:29:53.008+00:002014-02-02T09:29:53.008+00:00Part 1 / 2:
Perhaps I am late to comment here, bu...Part 1 / 2:<br /><br />Perhaps I am late to comment here, but I find the graph of insulin and glucose responses to MCT Oil extremely interesting.<br /><br />First, maybe I am misunderstanding something, but how do you get insulin resistance out of this graph? Far from it, this graph might show hyperinsulinemia, but glucose responds quite rapidly to that?<br /><br />Second, from what you describe, normal glycolysis is being impaired, but glycogen metabolism is not being impaired. Wouldn't that in fact be a virtue not a vice? Because glycolysis involves oxidation. Disposal to glycogen should be much more efficient and less damaging potentially. Note these comments are in context of a low carb diet, where the muscle can actually put that glucose to use and store the glycogen. Obviously the person on higher carbs that has completely stuffed his muscles with glycogen isn't going to be able to store most of that glucose as glycogen, so I'm not sure what happens to that person.<br /><br />Here is a similar study, where the (human) patients are fed either a monounsatured fat (olive oil), or a saturated fat (butter), and they graph insulin and glucose post-meal:<br /><br />http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/93/3/494.full<br /><br />And here is the graph of interest from the results:<br /><br />http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/93/3/494/F1.large.jpg<br /><br />Like in the study you post, the saturated fat meal creates hyperinsulinemia, but unlike your study, the saturated fat meal in the study I post also creates complete insulin resistance. If you look at the insulin for saturated fat, it soars to ~500 whereas glucose never responds rapidly, or largely, to this huge insulin input. The body is pumping out more and more insulin, and glucose fails to respond appropriately. THAT is insulin resistance. Your graph to contrast shows clearly that glucose is being used up (presumably as glycogen stores).<br /><br />What are the differences between the two studies to explain these dramatically different results? One hypothesis might be that all saturated fats - including dairy fats like butter and MCT Oil - create hyperinsulinemia, but only *some* saturated fats (or specific fatty acids) additionally create insulin resistance for all glucose metabolic pathways, including glycogen storage.<br /><br />If that hypothesis is correct, it would suggest that the low carb dieter who eats a few starchy carb meals a day might want to use MCT Oil as the fat with those meals instead of butter. Because MCT Oil might allow glucose to moderate and be stored efficiently as glycogen. To contrast, butter might cause insulin resistance for all pathways including glycogen, so butter would cause glucose to rise much higher.<br /><br />The reason that your post is so interesting to me is that I am prediabetic (my father was prediabetic his whole life and it never became diabetes, so probably I share some inefficient genes). In my case, I have achieved remarkable control of my post-meal glucose through a combination of low/moderate carb diet (after initially trying as low as 40 grams/day of carbs and running out of glycogen, I am now back to about 120 grams/day and doing okay) and careful testing of different fats with my three starch meals each day (corresponding to roughly three cups of rice at breakfast, lunch, and dinner). What I have incompletely documented is that with MCT Oil my glucose stays very low after eating just rice. With other fats, it goes quite high. So for example, my fasting glucose might be 80, and after a cup of rice with MCT Oil one hour later I am at 90. For me that is LOW. If I try that same cup of rice with nearly equivalent grams of fat from butter, my glucose one hour later is 105 to 130. (As an aside, I started this journey with fasting glucose of 115 and now have that down to about 85, and I'm trying to keep my post meal glucose under 120.)<br /><br />Up to now, I have not really understood this result. The graph from the study you published, and your discussion, all seem to reinforce my observations about MCT Oil.<br />P1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10150386241231733361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-34309915226349259762009-10-04T06:17:01.462+00:002009-10-04T06:17:01.462+00:00Hi Peter-thanks for the great blog.You mentioned a...Hi Peter-thanks for the great blog.You mentioned above a preference of yoghurt now. For high fat/min. lactose/cassein and insulin response what is best? Greek/creme fraiche?<br /><br />I still consume daily 300mls+ of tesco double cream-is this still ok unfermented. Is UK dairy still largely pastured or is it now industrial and high in Omega 6. <br />What are you general thoughts on cheese on optimal diet as i'm a glutton for brie and cheddar. <br />Sorry about the litany of mundane questions. <br />NathanNathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536617044214768367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-48468032020842302832009-09-28T20:02:01.624+00:002009-09-28T20:02:01.624+00:00Kirk, there is nothing progressive about physiolog...Kirk, there is nothing progressive about physiological insulin resistance. You have very little glucose, you divert it to your brain. If you allowed yourself more glucose you would make more insulin, reduce fatty acid release from adipocytes and increase your insulin sensitivity to an appropriate level. Might take a few days.<br /><br />The problem with pathological insulin resistance appears to come from your adipocytes becoming insulin resistant, probably through over distention with triglycerides, and then releasing palmitic acid even in the presence of as much insulin as your pancreas can produce. They probably got that over distended due to hyperinsulinaemia being used to mop up glucose released by your insulin resistant liver. Your liver gets insulin resistant through fructose. Which means sucrose and HFCS. <br /><br />The messenger is the same. One is normal physiology, the other is fructose poisoning. That's ignoring issues like bisphenyl A in your fat cells, which probably matters. There is probably an issue with mitochondrial dysfunction in adipocytes which is a trigger for insulin resistance and inappropriate free fatty acid release too.<br /><br />So on chicken and coconut you would use free fatty acids to keep glucose out of muscles and available for brain, you really would die without this phenomenon. You would not usually become hyperglycaemic, though I know of one person who has achieved this in extreme ketosis for difficult weight loss. A few carbs sorted this out.<br /><br />Hi Marnee, The other thing I noticed, back when I used to pushbiked more, was that on extreme hill climbs I HAD to stay aerobic, so I paced myself, and did really well within my oxygen delivery capacity. But at the top of the climb I can just up the gears and go, no recovery period, no lactate pain. I'm no sports physiologist but I guess I work almost fully aerobically and mostly on fatty acids. This makes anaerobic stuff very hard but aerobic stuff easy and non exhausting. Plenty more fat where the last lot came from....<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-83555401036633669252009-09-28T19:34:58.064+00:002009-09-28T19:34:58.064+00:00Siberian,
What makes you think your glycogen and ...Siberian,<br /><br />What makes you think your glycogen and glucose would be depleted significantly? Skeletal muscle runs on fat almost exclusively unless in an extremely anaerobic state, like very fast sprinting. If in fact your glucose levels were lower than the acceptable range, meaning your hepatic system could not keep up with demand, you would feel light headed, dizzy, and probably nauseated. If you feel fine then just eat normally as you feel like it and your glycogen stores, if depleted at all, will eventually come back to normal. It's really only there to feed your brain, not your muscles. <br /><br />I mean just look at me. I run long distance and play Ultimate Frisbee on a zero carb diet. I have no hypoglycemic problems. I have no endurance problems. That is because, as is shown on this blog in many places, there are mechanisms to conserve glucose and those mostly involve increasing fatty acid concentrations in the blood. Also, keep in mind that muscles love to burn fat -- it makes a lot more ATP than glucose with a lot less waste product. So even if going anaerobic there is still lots of ATP to work through (produced from fat) before glucose is needed. And one can only go anaerobic for so long before very serious fatigue sets in. Then you take a break, oxygen levels return, and ATP is produced from fat again. Glucose is still conserved (to keep the brain alive!)<br /><br />I also read that in the fasted state, the brain will use up to 70% in ketones. So, still, glucose is not as highly demanded as one might think and it is conserved.Marneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581045023000720429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-89145268959434694022009-09-28T06:36:23.043+00:002009-09-28T06:36:23.043+00:00Sorry but that doesn't help me understand. Wha...Sorry but that doesn't help me understand. What would happen if say, you ate only coconut oil and chicken breast for a year? You would produce a ton of insulin and get more and more insulin resistant? Isn't that the path to obesity and diabetes?kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051470212044354113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-46558462383880617702009-09-28T05:51:53.257+00:002009-09-28T05:51:53.257+00:00@Kirk "Why is insulin resistance a good thing...@Kirk "Why is insulin resistance a good thing with low glucose?"<br /><br />Peter answered this above (I asked the same question):<br /><br />...glucose is fine for energy if you have some glucose available. If you have no glucose you will drop in to ketosis to save your remaining glucose for your brain. Burning your last 10g of glucose in your biceps is a bad idea.Charles R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09139496312163674161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-5848763552596778892009-09-28T04:13:36.686+00:002009-09-28T04:13:36.686+00:00Why is insulin resistance a good thing with low gl...Why is insulin resistance a good thing with low glucose?kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051470212044354113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-29544017223231923882009-09-27T23:33:38.732+00:002009-09-27T23:33:38.732+00:00Hi w
I'm sure Peter will be along with his ta...Hi w<br /><br />I'm sure Peter will be along with his take on this in due course. <br /><br />Meanwhile I'm going to chip in only because coincidentally I've been mulling over another 'theory of eating' that I used to be very interested in called 'Food Combining', and this has some bearing on your question.<br /><br />The name 'Food Combining' is a bit misleading as the central tenet is that you <i>shouldn't</i> combine foods of different types: specifically, that carbs and proteins should be kept apart. Fats and non-starchy vegetables are considered neutral.<br /><br />There seem to be two rationales offered:<br />1. That protein and starch require different secretions to be digested properly, and mixing them up leads to incomplete digestion. <br />2. That food will leave the stomach at the rate of the slowest digesting substance, therefore the quickest digesting substance will tend to ferment and spoil while it's waiting.<br /><br />Both ideas sound plausible. I really have no idea as to the truth of either.<br /><br />There seem to be plenty of people ready to testify to the wonders of it, but that's the case for practically any diet.<br /><br />One could claim that if you were to follow this theory strictly, you would effectively reduce your carbohydrate consumption (banished from at least one meal a day) and therefore would be on a low-carb diet in disguise. Of course, the food combiners could turn that round on you and say that if you follow a strict low carb diet, you're food combining by default! (no carbs mixed with your fat/protein).<br /><br />I'll also note that in a strict vegetarian context, food mixing is not only allowed but <i>encouraged</i> as a supposed guarantee that you'll get 'complete proteins' without animal products. So that's another strike against vegetarianism in my view. <br /><br />Looked at from an evolutionary point of view (as we low-carbers tend to) it seems unlikely that early man would have been able to always have meat/fat and tubers/veges on hand for every meal. More likely feasts of meat and snacks of plants (if you allow that possibility).<br /><br />My (weak) feeling about it is that if you're including any substantial amount of carbs in your diet, it wouldn't do any harm to separate them out into their own meals and may do some good.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.drbass.com/sequential.html#articles" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is some info from Dr Stanley Bass on the concept..^https://www.blogger.com/profile/14209117357558394101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-63460917072321127972009-09-27T22:55:36.049+00:002009-09-27T22:55:36.049+00:00I also have a question about carbs: if I'm goi...I also have a question about carbs: if I'm going to eat them, should I eat just them, eat them with fat, with protein, or with vinegar (for as I have read somewhere vinegar reduces blood glucose spike)? What is your opinion?<br /><br />and thank you for a great blog...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09736813501402462093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-65030753101487476912009-09-27T20:57:37.592+00:002009-09-27T20:57:37.592+00:00Hi Ken,
Just skimmed the intro so far. Where does...Hi Ken,<br /><br />Just skimmed the intro so far. Where does that leave the food pyramid? Oh, where it belongs! And these Cloggies just seem to take it for granted that LC and low GI are associated with less chronic disease. Bring on the Dutch cheesecake and gin, the later with the water frozen out in a deepfreeze before drinking....<br /><br />Alcohol and ketones: Yes, I suspect this may be where the benefits derive vs the problems from hepatic lipidosis... I have a vague post do-able around that idea.<br /><br />Dillon, not much change except my cream fermenting fell to pieces on the move to Glasgow and I haven't restarted the production line. Now I'm back to work I'll probably need yogurt in preference to the cream I'm on at the moment as it travels better! My wife has a whole load of gluten free recipes which we've adapted to LC but the essence is unchanged.<br /><br />Sanjeev,<br /><br />I've not seen this, few studies look at what seem like reasonable intakes over some time in humans. But I would just point out that three apples is > 30g of fructose. That's not trivial in the eyes of a LC eater. Also there will be a normal distribution for the incidence of NAFL against fructose intake and someone has to be on either extreme of the curve!<br /><br />Siberian and LeenaS (hi!). I put up a similar reply on the palmitic acid post. If your liver is reasonably functional there will be no problems dealing with the amount of carbs eaten by a LC eater in the presence of palmitic acid. As insulin rises the supply of FFAs will drop and the liver and muscles will accept glucose, especially if they are well glycogen depleted. I don't see an issue with the amounts we might eat. Maybe problems with half a kilo of carbs with the OD level of fat, but that's the next post.<br /><br />Hi Chainey, welcome back, feel free.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527788116058656094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-31642500180595398332009-09-27T08:06:32.328+00:002009-09-27T08:06:32.328+00:00Hi Peter
Was listening to a Malcolm Kendrick inte...Hi Peter<br /><br />Was listening to a Malcolm Kendrick interview today and he described how for a long time he thought he was entirely alone in his views (about harmlessness of cholesterol, etc.), so I decided to dust off my "<a href="http://chainey.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">people</a>" list (which I had saved when I mothballed my blog) and republish it, just in case some lost and lonely soul googles one of the names and wants more references.<br /><br />You okay to be on it? If not I'll promptly remove you.<br /><br />Also, feel free to offer suggestions about who else should be on it..^https://www.blogger.com/profile/14209117357558394101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-69202550182666446232009-09-26T10:35:23.273+00:002009-09-26T10:35:23.273+00:00That should not be a problem.
Eating potatoes (30...That should not be a problem.<br /><br />Eating potatoes (300-400g??) with butter (60g only?) should not be a problem, since palmitic acid molecules from butter do not enter directly into the blood stream (because fat cannot swim in water/blood). Rather they are packed (with other ingested fats) into water soluble cabs called chylomicrons and moved to storage very effectively, if there are that much carbohydrates to use first.<br /><br />The "palmitic acid wave" comes from liver only after the insulin has done its task with sugars. And, depending on what you have eaten before, that palmitic acid may well be originating from carbohydrates, not butter...LeenaShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565398001624904475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-66303810438763086372009-09-26T09:35:48.647+00:002009-09-26T09:35:48.647+00:00Hi everybody and thanks to Peter who writes amazin...Hi everybody and thanks to Peter who writes amazing stuff. <br /><br />Imagine that I have just had some fun and played a game of football. The game was long and my muscle and liver glycogen are low now. I want to feed them (and my brain) with some glucose. I choose to eat some potatoes. In this case they will give me about 60 grams of starch. To keep those potatoes palatable (and Kwasniewski happy) I will add 60 grams of fat from butter to my meal. But now there is that palmitic acid and a danger of IR. My guess is that a meal like this would digest pretty slowly and cause a large insulin AUC.<br /><br />In a case like this should I drop the butter and have a dry meal without the butter. Intense and short insulin spike. But now I will get hungry in a couple of hours... Who likes to eat constantly? How much starch can my body handle with that much palmitic acid causing IR? Pedantics?simpletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07605940255598760525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-44871347638372308482009-09-25T19:32:47.999+00:002009-09-25T19:32:47.999+00:00I don't see a "contact" button so I&...I don't see a "contact" button so I'll leave this comment <br /><br />have there been any studies showing a small to normal amount of fructose plus PUFA causing liver abnormalities? <br /><br />all the stuff I've seen has been excessive, prolonged amounts of fructose or PUFA doing these things. <br /><br />Maybe there's been something that combined "normal" fructose ingestion (say 2 or 3 apples a day), and "normal" PUFA (say 2 or 3 capsules of fish oil or flax oil) and found some worrying effects?Sanjeevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09522727136330797375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-63613001039272577332009-09-25T13:56:02.015+00:002009-09-25T13:56:02.015+00:00Peter, I liked when you posted "What I eat&qu...Peter, I liked when you posted "What I eat" with a UK slant, such as Sainsbury's Value Mince, and was wondering if you could post an updated version? I'm wondering if much has changed in light of recent research?Winalothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01368230443291472745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-73758307343350586412009-09-25T11:56:52.253+00:002009-09-25T11:56:52.253+00:00Variants in Neuropeptide Y Receptor 1 and 5 Are As...<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007070" rel="nofollow">Variants in Neuropeptide Y Receptor 1 and 5 Are Associated with Nutrient-Specific Food Intake and Are Under Recent Selection in Europeans</a><br /><br /> "Our data suggest that lower carbohydrate intake, consuming meals with a low glycemic index and glycemic load, and/or higher alcohol consumption, gave a survival advantage in Europeans since the agricultural revolution. This advantage could lie in overall health benefits, because lower carbohydrate intake, consuming meals with a low GI and GL, and/or higher alcohol consumption, are known to be associated with a lower risk of chronic diseases".<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17820-bashed-your-head-you-needed-a-stiff-drink.html" rel="nofollow">Bashed your head? You needed a stiff drink </a>.<br />"a study of 38,000 people with head injuries, which found that those with alcohol in their blood were more likely to survive. For every 100 people who died when stone-cold sober, only 88 died with ethanol in their veins."<br /><br />Conection with ethanol being ketogenic ?Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637818790791725275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-39728950013976546482009-09-25T07:56:33.680+00:002009-09-25T07:56:33.680+00:00I too have noticed a "crash" after a cou...I too have noticed a "crash" after a couple ounces of coconut oil. interesting. of course to some extent that is a refined product and I have no business drinking straight coconut oil; coconut milk or coconut out of the shell has not given me that trouble.<br /><br />olga - use lots of butter and coconut milk in cooking, for me heavy cream never gets old. nuts, avocados. high fat salami, pork belly, fish, etc.jon whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418296789422616035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36840063.post-24170007851707572002009-09-25T02:42:40.703+00:002009-09-25T02:42:40.703+00:00Peter, Ahh thank you for the correction. I need to...Peter, Ahh thank you for the correction. I need to work on reading more closely <br /><br />Westie – problem with the assumption of adrenal fatigue is the following:<br />1) my hypoglycemia was worst when I was not restricting food (i.e. eating lots of insulin-generating food)<br />2) my hypoglycemic tendency improves with every subsequent year of low carbing (if it was “adrenal fatigue related to low carbing” I would see a trend of worsening hypoglycemia). For example, I can now drink coffee while sleep deprived without any hypoglycemia. This was not possible before.<br />3) I don’t have problems losing weight if I restrict carbs and calories so as to optimize insulin and fat metabolism. I am very often energetic (sometimes too energetic, hehe) and I am thin now (120#/65in)<br />I’m not so keen on the idea of adrenal fatigue anyway. It is irrational, in my opinion. Your classic low adrenal patient has none of the symptoms of an obese stressed out person. The low adrenal patient is hypotensive, hypoglycemic, thin, weak, fatigued. THIN, did I mention that? Adrenal hormones are crucial for appetite – they antagonize leptin function in CNS and raise insulin. <br /><br />There is a trend of people calling “being stressed out” as “adrenal fatigue”. Don’t ask me, I don’t get it. Stress causes high cortisol, and high cortisol leads to all the problems people confuse with low adrenals (being obese, over eating. glucose problems, mood impulsivity/lability and depression). Low adrenals involve low cortisol which causes anorexia and frailty.<br />The fatigue in so-called “adrenal fatigue” is usually secondary to mood disorders and metabolic syndrome (induced by stress/genetics) or completely unrelated conditions like hypothyroid (yes adequate cortisol affects the conversion of t4->t3 but most people are not low in cortisol with fatigue). The fatigue in real low adrenal is related to true hypocortisolemia which means low catecholamines, low SNS, low thyroid, and thus low energy.<br /><br />High fat, low carb, moderate protein – I definitely feel BEST on this diet. Too much protein or too much carb will give me BAD MOJO. Too much protein = anger, rage, chaotic moods, hunger (atkins attitude and ineffective weight loss). Too much carb = torpor, hypersomnia, apathy, hunger (atypical depression basically). <br />High fat, low carb, enough protein = happy me as can be :DItsTheWooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12057537399918684119noreply@blogger.com