Awesome again, JS. You're not only explaining what's happened in my past to get me to this deranged place (lol, I love claiming to be deranged - it makes my day!) but you are also providing accessible and useful information for changing what I'm doing right now. Your series is making sense of some of the received wisdom that is often delivered without a SOLID rationale, such as 'eat protein for breakfast'. I'm left with no annoying 'yes, but . . .' responses, which is a relief. These posts are providing the background that needs to be in place before I can do scary things like 'eat when you're hungry THEN STOP'. Sometimes I can do that, sometimes not.

I'm rambling, sorry - fantastic job, I'm really excited. But I'll shut up now!

@J Stanton
"That's entirely due to one blogger, who's spent the last six months pushing that particular hypothesis."

Seemed like after Guyenet got his Ph.D. he lost the ability to comprehend the scientific method; it's bizarre.

It's also a real shame. I loved his blog when I discovered it in fall 2010, but I stopped bothering a few months ago..

"People aren't overweight because they want to be fat: they're overweight because they're hungry all the time!"

Fat dead rat!

JS,

awesome! i'm finally catching up on this series during my break (linked via Dr. Jaminet's blog).

i lost interest in the last 7 months in the FR Hypothesis; it became repetitive without becoming clearer or less subjective or circular (to me).

Live in freedom, live in beauty in 2012.

pam

(i like your closing so much that i've stolen it! XD)

Just wanted to add my kudos to you for this series! After reading Stephan's series, and sorta getting it but sorta not buying it completely, I came here and what you've written makes more sense to me... science-wise and based on my personal n=1. Excellent job. Always love your posts - you're a gifted communicator and writer.

This series (and this site, and this idea of how to live in general!) has been such a huge impact on my life I don't even know how to express it. The opening of this(?) installment, about how our body's desires are not evil or wrong is something I've struggled with for most of my life. I have a great deal of difficulty with dissociation from my physical self (as a symptom of bipolar disorder) and one of the hardest and most rewarding things about the last few months of 'embracing the predator' is the focus on physical minutiae that allows me to understand what is actually happening in my body. I'm not obese and never have been (170 lb, 5'7" female), and I don't believe I'm metabolically 'broken', but neither have I ever felt healthy. This focus on understanding myself as a whole has been so helpful and illuminating. Thank you. I have always thought of myself as sort of an amateur scientist - at least my mindset is grounded deeply in the scientific method - and your explorations and explanations have been deeply helpful in forming a framework to understand myself. My mind, my body, my functions and dysfunctions all become so much clearer when I have these concepts (hedonic impact, incentive salience, satiety, etc.) to work with and the terms to use them clearly.
So anyway, I'll stop rambling, but just know that you have been a hugely positive influence. My baseline mood has even improved a bit since I started eating a like a person, and the fluctuations I've always experienced are not as rapid or as severe. I have hope that I will eventually achieve the dream of being a healthy and wholly integrated person. (if that makes any sense at all!)

Every time I reread one of your articles it seems that I learn something new. I appreciate all the hard work and long hours it must take to research and write them. I read a lot of paleo blogs and I've learned a lot from most of them, but your articles are among the few that I find worthwhile to reread again and again.

I can't wait for the next one. Keep up the good work.