V
I just reread your comments here after perusing Jenny Ruhl's site and they really
became so much clearer. You are smart and fiesty. Banned from the kingdom is an honor. Remain a thorn!

JS

I have done sooo well lc paleo and sometimes wonder why when I hear people say they stalled or get high fbs. It seems my liver is not very good at gluconeogenisis. If I go zero or vvlc my BS just inches lower and lower. Into the 50's and 60's or possible 40's. My body seems forced to flip over to fat burning immediately. Does my limp liver actually make it easier for me to lose and maintain on lc? I think it would be a detriment in a famine situation as I lose weight so fast without carbs. Do people with Inuit type livers that can supply endless glucose and thus insulin have a harder time? My head hurts.. I think it is what you were addressing in your Flexibility post. I think if you have lost your flexibility it's better to be a fat burner like me. It's a little easier when you can control your glucose needs not your rogue liver. Your current post also addresses reasons I wasn't satiated for years. Always trying to reverse the feeling of metabolic derangement when my BS levels were heading back down and socialized eating fests. I hope something there made sense:-)

Bea:

Very low FBG on VLC could have multiple causes.  Your liver (and intestine…I'll probably write about that sometime) might not be keeping up with the demand.  Alternatively, your muscles might not become physiologically insulin resistant.  Or both.  Or something else entirely…I don't feel comfortable e-diagnosing that one!

"I think if you have lost your flexibility it's better to be a fat burner like me."

As far as we know, complex I — the glucose-burning one — is what breaks in one's mitochondria that causes met flex to be impaired.  I suspect this is why low-carb diets are so effective, particularly for the morbidly obese and those who became obese before adulthood…you're bypassing the worst of the mitochondrial damage, and perhaps allowing the population to recover somewhat — which is why people often find they can tolerate carbs again after some period of time on LC.

"Your current post also addresses reasons I wasn't satiated for years."

Yep.  If you don't give your body what it needs to live, you're likely to stay hungry no matter what you eat.  (And re: my 2013 presentation, if you have a continual obligate demand for glucose, you're always going to be hungry once your blood sugar drops.)

JS

ps the least harmful advice you can give would apply to somewhat metabolically normal people. the problem is the ones who are suffering have all sorts of different root causes for their suffering that you (and science in general) don't understand. you need a little more humility. I admire terry wahls, but I had to laugh at one part of her interview on livinlavidalowcarb when she said 'her' insight that vitamins and minerals should be gotten from real food as opposed to supplements was a "stroke of genius". when the young, astute interviewer asked her what sparked this insight, wahls said she couldn't remember. I had to laugh. I heard the same thing- that there are probably lots of undiscovered nutrients in real food that probably work together synergistically- so it is foolish to just depend of supplements- I heard that from de vany and Bernstein YEARS ago. but wahsl feels she had a brilliant stroke of insight. LOL this example is too show the dearth of humility in the paleo/ancestral health etc. blogosphere. but I guess one has to have a lot of confidence as a personality trait (irrespective of innate intellect) to stand in front of a bunch of people who are suffering and say 'I know what to do.'

V

Make sure you put your dirt in little capsules and call it Tahitian Soil Based Organisms. 🙂

i can see how things affect my nuclear family from day to day, so i make suggestions to them. for others i just say what works for me, and they can do whatever. i am grateful for people who give out info for free. de vany once said that he can only guarantee that his advice will work for him alone. i added, we are all on our own and we need to be cautious. he admits to being ignorant of a lot of things. for example, he started taking glutathione around the same time he starting his brand of paleo. he isn't sure of the relative impact of each on his health, and he doesn't want to find out by stopping any part of what he is doing.

i didn't like when you said you weren't making money, implying you should be with all you have produced. do why not make money then? something in the works? also, could you please tell me how to distinguish night time temp changes that wake me up as being hormone related as opposed to blood sugar related or a combination of both? what is your recommendation as to what diet would be most helpful in this case? my point- metabolism is much more complex that what you have uncovered. i thank you for all your hard work.

Thank you again for spending the time necessary to do the research instead of using your intellectual credit card to build a hypothesis and cling on to it.

"Bea:

I'm in the middle of a giant chunk of research right now, and it'll be both interesting and extremely valuable to the community — but as you said, it takes time.

And yes, the LC bashing is just provocation marketing."

Can't wait!

“Paleo” Is An Exclusive and Not Inclusive Diet: What Are You Eliminating Rather Than Including, Next?"

That was the heading on FTA. He then proceeded to mock some poor woman's diet and encouraged the disciples to do likewise.

J, you said: "Do I occasionally have street tacos? Sure"

Man, you did not eat enough meat that day, falling back on prey's food!! 😀 😀

Just kidding, I do buckwheat galettes and rice a couple of times a month myself 🙂

All quiet on the posting front, eh? There's been a lot of noise lately about resistant starch and safe starches. Some people do seem to be very concerned about colon health and the gut bacteria. All very interesting to be sure.

My interest of late has become focused on the other side of the GI tract. I stumbled upon the work of Mike Mew and Orofacial Myology. Now, while most people in the whole foods movement, especially those familiar with Weston A Price, are concerned about tooth decay and good dental arches, I've not seen anyone else approach the subject of facial construction from the more physical perspective. Yes, nutrition has a big role to play, but what about those of us who have already suffered the damage caused by diet and lifestyle in our developing years?

The fact is that our facial bone structure remains 'plastic' throughout our lives, and any neuromuscular disorder or poor lifestyle habit can cause our faces to 'melt' downward as we age. The conundrum for me is how nutrition works with skeletal musculature to deform civilized humans. I always assumed that it had something to do with lack of K2 and bone formation, but now I'm not so sure. The evidence seems to point to sinus inflammation that forces changed breathing and eating habits.

I know this is really off topic for this article, but maybe someone could objectively figure out the "chicken" and the "egg" about diet and facial construction. After all, who wouldn't want to look better, relatively speaking, as he/she ages?

FOX
I said one bite, cuss it!

KYLIE
I'm trying! I have a different kind of
teeth from you! I'm an opossum!