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What is "water Ott broth"? Couldn't find it in Google.
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I was vegetarian for about a decade and during that time my cholesterol was too low such that my doctor recommended "nuts, beer, wine, and hard liquor" as a way to boost my LDL. I saved the voicemail he left and it was a running joke that I had a prescription for the bar. The moment I started eating meat again my levels went back up. My doctor has always said I was overweight but in the last couple years I added an e…
Might I ask what reason your doctor gave? To my current knowledge there's no blood LDL too low / blood LDL is not an adequate tool to judge any deficiencies. I'm a last year med student who eats plant-based himself and my physician was very pleased with my very low cholesterol levels. Blood cholesterol is not 100% necessary to provide your cells with colesterol as they can produce their own. In fact blood cholesterol…
I went in for an annual physical and had blood taken. He gave me a call a few days later and it went to voicemail. He left a message saying the results were online and the only thing he saw as problematic was that my LDL was really low. He said being that I was vegetarian, nuts, beer, wine, and hard liquor were probably the best sources.
I didn't call him back to inquire further, and it wasn't mentioned in any subsequent physicals. I don't have a medical background and wasn't aware low cholesterol was even potentially an issue. Until your comment it didn't even occur to me that it served a purpose in the body, I just assumed it wasn't supposed to be there.
Unfortunately the voicemail has long since autodeleted itself.
This was also around 2008 if that matters.
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I don't calorie count. 4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food ( like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. Then i have a snack after. But Its very odd I am NOT hungry just like "used" to eating as if it's a memory. I am still getting used to this. I can't explain it clearly. I guess you just have to try it. My whole family has diabetes even m…
>4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food (like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. If I can make a suggestion...if possible continue the fast into the workout. If you find you don't have the energy to get through the workout or performance suffers try replacing the meal with a sugarfree pre-workout to get through, then eat the carbs with som…
Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimicks and fad diets. I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.
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#174If people are interested in learning more about fasting, I put together a few visual guides on it here - http://impossiblehq.com/nutrition/intermittent-fasting I also highly recommend the zero fasting app for tracking. Super simple and really clean app that makes tracking fasts simple. Start small and see how it goes. I find the 16/8 routine tends to work best for me personally with 36 hour fasts sprinkled in every c…
Do you find that you're able to do cognitively demanding tasks while fasting? Even small fasts seem to sap my concentration and critical thinking. Once I eat again I feel like I think better.
This is likely just a function of fluctuating glucose levels. Fasting + becoming fat-adapted can help with this.
That said, I have gone through fasts and said f-it at hour-mark 34 because I was on a deadline.
It's not a religion, so do what works for you - but I would at least try it.
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>4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food (like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. If I can make a suggestion...if possible continue the fast into the workout. If you find you don't have the energy to get through the workout or performance suffers try replacing the meal with a sugarfree pre-workout to get through, then eat the carbs with som…
Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimicks and fad diets. I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.
>Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimmicks and fad diets.
Do you see the irony is calling fasting a fad diet when it has been part of human culture across the globe for thousands of years, and instead you point to "3 healthy balanced meals a day" which essentially was a fad diet in the 18th century.
>I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.
Again all the Worlds major religions have codified fasting into their religious texts and traditions (they must have thought it was pretty important to pass down together with sacred religious texts).
As far as Keto...the original Keto diet was developed and codified because is prevented epileptic seizures, but that wasn't a wild guess in the dark, its been known for thousands of years fasting would prevent seizures (it just wasn't codified that fasting puts someone in a state of ketosis which can be mimicked with a high fat diet).
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Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimicks and fad diets. I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.
>Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimmicks and fad diets. Do you see the irony is calling fasting a fad diet when it has been part of human culture across the globe for thousands of years, and instead you point to "3 healthy balanced meals a day" which essentially was a fad diet in the 18th century. >I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto. Ag…
Fasting is done by religious people (not renowned for their rational thought) to appease a god, not because they think it's supposedly healthy. And sure, replace my "three meals a day" with "regular eating throughout the day" if it makes you feel better. My point is, our ancient ancestors were foragers and would have grazed on plants throughout the day. It's what our bodies have evolved to do. As for keto, you said it yourself. It was used as a way to reduce epileptic seizures, not because it was thought of as the optimal way for humans to eat.
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I don't calorie count. 4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food ( like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. Then i have a snack after. But Its very odd I am NOT hungry just like "used" to eating as if it's a memory. I am still getting used to this. I can't explain it clearly. I guess you just have to try it. My whole family has diabetes even m…
>4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food (like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. If I can make a suggestion...if possible continue the fast into the workout. If you find you don't have the energy to get through the workout or performance suffers try replacing the meal with a sugarfree pre-workout to get through, then eat the carbs with som…
That actually makes sense
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I am relatively adapted to it at this point, so it doesn't bother me as much. I time it so I start the fast towards the evening and then it ends mid-morning - so you're only really pushing through one full day without food. I'll have coffee/tea for caffeine and electrolytes seem to help depending on your situation. Start with several smaller fasts before going full 36 and if you need to eat before the full 36 hours a…
Do you break fast eating specific things or just go about eating your usual meal?
I typically don't eat breakfast. I eat a relatively low-carb diet throughout the day w/ more carbohydrates around my workout (in the evening)
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Except it isn’t. It also involves not eating or snacking after early evening. It is, what it says.
I really wish there was a movement to eliminate snacking. In my view that’s the real killer. Eat two or three times day and leave it at that. Whenever I start snacking on stuff between I start putting on weight.
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Interesting. I did an "animal-product only" diet for about six months, and I began to feel sorry for everyone else and their inability to think deeply. I was in an almost constant state of enlightenment. Then my buds convinced me to go on a 2000 mile road trip, and after the first stop at Wendy's I lost it, and haven't had the will to go back. It's been like 4 years now.
animal-product only ? No veggies?
Correct. I even ate organ meats as a source of vitamins and minerals I thought I lacked.