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My take is that the first 6kg is visceral fat. After that it's subcutaneous fat and that is harder to shift. Lots of things can interfere with shifting this fat. So no, not guaranteed that you will continue to lose more weight after you lose visceral fat on low carb diet. However, I do think...

Fat Emperor podcast 45 with cardiologist Ross Walker, as it covers all this stuff. An excellent podcast and one I will encourage my GP to listen to. To summarise; you should only take statins if atherosclerosis is confirmed, either by CAC or previous experience, eg heart attack. You should...

Yes, fibro is the diagnosis they give when they have exhausted everything else. There is no definitive test for it other than unexplained pain in one or more joints for , if I remember correctly, 3months. Interestingly I read that intestinal yeast infections can be related to it, and I wouldn't...

Are you sure you are insulin sensitive? You will not lose weight while you are resistant.

Cardio neuropathy is something that can happen in diabetics, and has a range of symptoms, though only effects a small percentage of diabetics. High resting pulse rate is one of the symptoms, another is non changing heart rate with exercise, or slump in blood pressure with postural changes; but...

I suppose you can just get c peptide test, though the half life of c- peptide is greater than insulin so possible to have false highs in 8 hr fasting test. For some people c-peptide would not be as precise as a fasting blood insulin.

Working as a HCP I find it difficult to get people to change their lifestyles. Firstly it takes a lot of clinic time to explain what the changes they have to make are. The practitioners often offer confused and contradictory advice. GP says eat healthy grains and walk; someone else low fat high...

Research, research, and research some more. If the professionals cant help, then do it yourself. Things to consider is adrenal gland disorder, thyroid disorder, pituity disorder, all can be affected by high insulin and blood glucose. Dont dismiss gut disbiosis as that can affect everything...

Doctors dont like insulin tests because of the wide variation in norma test results, this means they can't fit you into the appropriate pigeon hole diagnosis. There is a thing called HOMA-IR which gives an index between fasting insulin and glucose. You will probably have to self fund for this...

Indy51 often has links to great podcasrs and video, as well.

I find Ivor often drifts off on tangents, and his podcasts are quite long. Sometime I cant make out what he is saying because of the accents. The interview with Dr Kendrik was like this. So I download the transcript of the interview and reread the points I find interesting, then go and research...

My latest obsession is insulin resistance, thanks to Ivor at Fat Emperor. My latest blood test were fine with improving liver health and all the things you'd expect with low carb diet but still feel tired and limp in mornings and **** on at least one or two days a week, weight loss stalled...

All my liver function levels have come down with using low carb healthy fats diet. If you avoid fructose and other starches, (and booze is a starch) like the plague it will get better. Others with more experience with controlling sugars are better qaulified, but livers have remarkable healing...

That's mad. Thats so Trumpian!

I get a type of vertigo that mostly happens when lying down. When I roll over my head spins for a few seconds then settles. Getting to sitting position really sets it off but stops when I stand up. It's an old(er) person thing. Has a long name. Vertigo is often related to virus type infections...

My wife can't eat any animal fats. The reaction is fairly violent with evacuation of the GIT at both ends. She can eat certain cheeses and is wary of some nuts as they can also effect her. She's an obligate vegetarian. So I can understand your concerns with too much fat in the diet.

There is good evidence that seed oils high in omega 6 favor the production of prostaglandins which is a hormone that excites inflammation. Omega 3 go on to produce eicanosoids which are anti-imflammatory. It is the balance of 3:6 that is important. Out of balance, excess 6, leads to silent...

Treatment depends if the callus is thick and crusty, or thin and dry. Thick and crusty see a podiatrist and have it debrided flat, then use a moisturizing cream that has urea in it, 10-15% urea is a goodly amount and use it daily. Thin and crusty callus just go straight to the moisturizing...

Around the 29 minute mark of Ivor's interview with Malcolm Kendrick they discuss how high insulin levels in blood are bad for arterial health. Malcolm states that both high sugar and high insulin are bad. Need to get both down. My understanding being that while you can manage high glucose...

The problem is that the science contradicts itself. I myself follow the LCHF diet as it makes more sense to me. The blood clot theory for atherosclerosis also makes more sense to methan the cholesterol theory But I have a Science degree and work in the health industry. If I was anybody else I...