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<blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2414104" data-attributes="member: 506169"><p>Hi SOTR sorry I'm a bit late in responding but would like to add my 2p worth.</p><p>1. Complex (or brown or wholefood ca) carbs - My BG meter tells me they are the same (roughly) as refined white carbs for me.</p><p>So not a good thing particularly as a breakfast. I no longer eat 3 meals per day since 'fat adapted' because I'm no longer hungry in the morning so I extend my overnight fast to 16hrs or even 20hrs on a weekend.</p><p>Some Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics did a 'challenge' last year to prove that we don't need carbs for energy - all the glucose we need is easily produced by our liver even if we eat no carbs at all. They ran/walked 100 miles in 5 days fasted i.e. on no calories (not just no carbs), so relying on body fat alone. Testing was done every day to confirm that they were using body fat as fuel rather than leam muscle mass. They weren't all overweight, even very thin people carry several days worth of energy around in their body fat.</p><p></p><p>This ' was then replicated in South Africa earlier this year. </p><p></p><p>2. The current thinking on Cholesterol is that the ration between HDL and Triglycerides and between HDL and LDL or total cholesterol matter more than the amount of LDL because they indicate the quality of the LDL. In any case, LDL cholesterol is required for life itself - it is used in the immune system, and to produce hormones etc. The brain itself is mainly cholesterol which may be a reason why some statins (mainly those known to cross the blood/brain barrier) have a side effect of 'brain fog' in the worst cases this can be like feeling you are getting early onset dementia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ianf0ster, post: 2414104, member: 506169"] Hi SOTR sorry I'm a bit late in responding but would like to add my 2p worth. 1. Complex (or brown or wholefood ca) carbs - My BG meter tells me they are the same (roughly) as refined white carbs for me. So not a good thing particularly as a breakfast. I no longer eat 3 meals per day since 'fat adapted' because I'm no longer hungry in the morning so I extend my overnight fast to 16hrs or even 20hrs on a weekend. Some Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics did a 'challenge' last year to prove that we don't need carbs for energy - all the glucose we need is easily produced by our liver even if we eat no carbs at all. They ran/walked 100 miles in 5 days fasted i.e. on no calories (not just no carbs), so relying on body fat alone. Testing was done every day to confirm that they were using body fat as fuel rather than leam muscle mass. They weren't all overweight, even very thin people carry several days worth of energy around in their body fat. This ' was then replicated in South Africa earlier this year. 2. The current thinking on Cholesterol is that the ration between HDL and Triglycerides and between HDL and LDL or total cholesterol matter more than the amount of LDL because they indicate the quality of the LDL. In any case, LDL cholesterol is required for life itself - it is used in the immune system, and to produce hormones etc. The brain itself is mainly cholesterol which may be a reason why some statins (mainly those known to cross the blood/brain barrier) have a side effect of 'brain fog' in the worst cases this can be like feeling you are getting early onset dementia. [/QUOTE]
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