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Free The Animal is a personal blog at freetheanimal.com about health and science. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Research? Sort of. Experience? Yes. Owsley "The Bear" Stanley, the famous LSD manufacturer and Grateful Dead sound engineer, lived very healthily on an all-meat diet for over 50 years. (Note: he did have cancer, though likely due to HPV and years of secondhand cigarette smoke and firsthand marijuana smoke, and his diet probably helped him survive it, and he had a heart attack, but that was likely due to complication…
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on “Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?”Submitted The Fall of Bloodletting and the Rise of Iron as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI'll see your pet theory and raise you mine: most people are sensitive to the additives added to fortified wheat sold in the States, especially Vitamin B[0] and Iron[1]. [0]: https://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrichment-promotes-everyt... [1]: https://freetheanimal.com/2015/06/enrichment-theory-everythi...
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on “Fructan, not gluten, induces symptoms in patients with gluten sensitivity”Submitted An intentional 70 pound weight gain - “Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthe paleo diet is a growing diet/lifestyle based on eating real foods. If anything else its very interesting to read about. http://freetheanimal.com/ancestral-life-way is a great blog for anyone interested.
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on “How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick ”I agree that dieting is hard, but it's largely not because of different calories being stored differently . The big nutritional study [1] sponsored by Gary Taubes (the main proponent of "not every calorie is created equal") show that low-carb and low-fat diets result in same weight loss. I'm also not aware of any study (though I haven't looked very hard) that shows intermittent fasting results in greater energy cons…
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on “Reducing Wasted Food at Home”The paleo diet is awesome. I've lost a considerable amount of weight on it, and feel and look much better. Also, a diet with staples like grass-fed beef, pastured butter (or any other healthy animal fat), avocado, and fish is my kind of diet. No more forcing down bitter grain or soy products in fruitless attempts to go "healthy". Plus, my meals are so substantial and high in fat that I only need to eat once or twice…
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on “Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)”In my case, ketosis was great to fix my metabolism and kickstart fat loss when I was overweight. However, after a couple of years in ketosis, I started to get some worrying symptoms (mainly brain fog and constipation). Now I am eating about 200g/day of carbs (mainly from rice and veggies) and I feel much better. My weight remains the same. This is a good intro to the potential problems of chronic ketosis [1]. [1] ht…
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on “How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control”There has been some debate about the actual Inuit diet, specifically, about its carbs content. It seems that fresh and/or frozen flesh contains a significant amount of carbs (in the form of stored glycogen). This is a good review[1] of the whole thing. [1] http://freetheanimal.com/2014/03/disrupting-carbs-prebiotics...
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on “How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control”>p.s. I just finished reading "Grain Brain." Regardless of what you think about gluten, It's not just gluten. Look into enrichment. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*pBs90R1LfdGOfpTS.... Most people are actually sensitive to the additives added to fortified wheat sold in the States, especially Vitamin B[0] and Iron[1]. [0]: https://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrichment-promotes-everyt... [1]: https://freethe…
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on “Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health”This was also my experience during the first 6-9 months but, after that, I started to develop some problems [1]. Watch out for the symptoms and don't be, as I was, dogmatic with this diet. My feeling is that going low carb/high fat helps to fix a broken metabolism, but once this is done, returning to a higher carb diet seems a wise move. I am now eating 180-200 grams per day (from rice/potatoes and veggies), all pos…
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on “Fat: The New Health Paradigm [pdf]”If there are any brands of whole wheat (unenriched), air fried ramen noodles available in Canada or North America, please post here. Been wanting them for 3 years now. Enriched flour has been linked to diabetes and obesity by some pretty dramatic studies. These links below are not the studies themselves, but summaries of current knowledge and research, put in context. HOW FOOD ENRICHMENT MADE US FAT, DIABETIC, AND C…
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on “The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle”actually, there is a related phenomenon called "Beyond Shampoo" or "nopoo" (the website seems to be down). There is a huge movement around giving up soap and shampoo permanently to avoid and cure stuff like dandruff, acne, etc. I personally had HUGE successes with it in improving my overall hygiene - but be warned that it takes upto six months for your body to "reboot". during that time, your hygiene grows worse - b…
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on “Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your teeth?”I've been shampoo free for three years, now. It's like the parent says. My transition period lasted 4 weeks and I wore a hat the entire time. After that, my hair was the softest it's been in its life. No fuss, no muss. I wash it daily with water, when I shower. I use neither shampoo nor conditioner, just water. Here's an article[1] by a guy who did it as well. He was linked on boingboing in 2009 and 2011. His site a…
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on “Modern Minimalism”I started the paleo diet about 6 months ago. In that time I lost about 18kg of fat easier than any other diet I have ever been on. My blood lipids (I was about to start statins for cholesterol) have all improved dramatically in this time, to the point where my doctor is now incredibly interested in the topic. My psoriasis and eczema have all cleaned up dramatically. The crossfit gym I go to has seen massive improvem…
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on “ How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days) ”When I was single, I went on a modified (included small portions of lean meats) Eat To Live diet as an experiment.For breakfast, I jammed myself full of fruits and some dairy. For lunch I had a Subway salad with all the veggies and a lean meat. For dinner, I had a large punchbowl-sized salad with a variety of vegetables and a lean meat. Broccoli and vast amounts of spinach seemed a common theme. I also drank A LOT o…
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on “ Trying Tim Ferriss's "no grain" diet for 30 days...”Ray talks about that here: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml I, too, always thought of iron as something people would be missing often, but as it turns out, conditions related to excessive iron (and estrogen and PUFA) are much more common. Ray's argument, in a nutshell, is that iron-supplemented foods and just about everywhere (due to an excessive worry of providing too little) and this contrib…
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on “Coffee drinking inversely associated with mortality”Yup[0]. [0]: http://freetheanimal.com/2015/08/fall-bloodletting-iron.html
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on “How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain”What they forget to mention is none of the countries mentioned adulterate their foods with Iron and B Vitamins[0]. They eat real food, not something cooked up in a lab. When you take that into account, the "french paradox" isn't all that paradoxical. Unenriched wheat and rice have a suppressing effect on appetite, whereas enriched wheat and rice has the opposite effect. [0]: an excess of B vitamins makes it easier t…
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on “What the World’s Healthiest Diets Have in Common”If you want a deeper, more serious view of the potato diet and its possible mechanism of action, check our Richard Nilokey's blog. A good starting point would be [1]. [1] https://freetheanimal.com/2016/02/the-potato-diet-practicali...
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on “Potato Diet”
