It IS all about lifestyle. After decades of eating low carb meals, at least most of the time, I weigh 114 at 80. Also I am ridiculously healthy. Thank you, thank you Drs. Eades. BTW, champagne doesn/t count. Did it ever?
Last Spring, I wrote about Semaglutide and how it compares to an inexpensive, natural, tasty sweetener. The sweetener won by miles in every way including price! Here's a quote:
"Semaglutide is a very expensive drug. According to The New York Times, the dosage used to treat diabetes has an average retail price of about $1,000 a month (so $15,000 for 68 weeks); and using it for weight loss requires significantly larger doses. Sadly, when the pricey drug therapy was discontinued, the study subjects reported that they started to regain the weight. (Allulose costs about $0.50 an ounce; 14 grams would cost $0.25. So the total cost for the 16 weeks of supplementation for the Allulose trial would be about $21.00, assuming you don’t deduct the cost of what it is replacing. And you can follow the protocol and keep eating Allulose as long as you want or need to.)"
Thanks for adding more recent data about the drug. It is an ineffective rip off.
I could not agree more with your analysis of government intrusion & social media. The entire “private” company argument position falls apart when government coercion is in play. Having spent my entire career in federal law enforcement, I view this through the following analogy. If an individual approaches me as a federal agent and relates that the private company he works for is engaged in criminal activity, and that he has stolen records from the company to prove this, I can accept these documents and use them in my investigation & subsequent trial. On the other hand, if this same individual is an informant of mine, and I instruct or otherwise encourage him to steal these same documents, I cannot use them in any way, shape or form. That would constitute a 4th amendment violation, and any court would suppress that evidence. The difference of course is that the 4th amendment protects us from unlawful searches or seizures conducted BY the government. In the first example it’s a private citizen acting completely on his own, no 4th amendment protection applies. The second example involves government direction, and is a clear 4th amendment violation. The federal agent would need to obtain a lawful search warrant, approved by a federal judge, to obtain those records.
I know without a doubt that if I were to go back to my old SAD eating habits that made me fat and sick, I would regain my now sustainable 47 pound weight loss. I was able, through the magic of a very low carb lifestyle over the past 6 years, to go from 155 down to 110, and then this fall to 108. ( I am 5'2") Also, the non scale victories are numerous. The best ones are no more severe headaches and no more severe sciatica, low back and hip pain. I feel better at 51 than I did at 40. Something that Big Pharma couldn't do.
You can easily “short” that to NSV’s. I promise you, 99% of your readership will understand it immediately! It’s a very common expression, and a good one, too!
I grew up in South America and every summer we came to the US to see family and shop. I would get my fill of American TV shows for the 3 weeks we were stateside and Captain Kangaroo happened to be one of them.😄
'On that three month post-intervention evaluation, most of the improvement from the low-carb diet was gone. The lab values of both the low-carb subjects and the low-fat subjects merged. The low-carbers were still a little better off in terms of lab values...'
Speaking from my own personal experience, I went on a low-carb and then ketogenic diet to see if it would help with a mystery neuropathy. It didn't do anything for that, but it improved my health in so many other ways, including no-more-colds and back-to-my-high-school-weight, that I've never looked back. I wonder if it's possible to discern from the study how many individual participants decided to maintain the low carb lifestyle after the end of the study just because they liked what it did for them.
I did find it took a year or two to adjust both socially and physiologically. Potlucks and other social events can be especially challenging. But after a while it's no big deal.
Typo: "I fear that seeing Sammy go down mabye the only justice they see" "mabye" should be may be, even though when you read it quickly it looks like "maybe", which would be a typo also.
How I lost 2hours and 45minutes of my life while eating a low carb diet:
I listened to Peter Attia and Lane Norton reinforcing each other about how smart they are and why low carb, high meat-based protein, avoidance of seed oils, etc etc, sucks as a life style. Oh, and don't forget to take your statin because you know how bad "bad" cholesterol is about infiltrating the tight-junction endothelium of arteries and causing atherosclerosis.
Here's a partial look at the show notes to save you the trouble of listening. I'll never get that 2:45 back.
1:47:43 - Layne’s views on low-carb diets, the tribal nature of nutrition, and the importance of being able to change opinions
1:56:27 - Where Layne has changed his views: LDL cholesterol, branched-chain amino acid supplementation, intermittent fasting, and more
2:12:16 - The carnivore diet, elimination diets, and fruits and vegetables
2:18:18 - Fiber: Layne’s approach to fiber intake, sources of fiber, benefits, and more
2:24:02 - Confusion around omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the Minnesota Coronary Experiment
I decided to go 95% carnivore (I can't give up coffee, tomatoes, onions, hot sauce, or pepper) about a month and a half ago. Best thing I've ever done. I've lost about 12 pounds without even trying. I eat until I'm nice and full and I'm never really hungry. I only eat two meals a day now and I have no urge to snack.
I'm sleeping sounder and have less joint pain. I thought I would get bored with the limited food choices but I relish every meal. I don't feel deprived at all. Last week, I ate a small piece of cake at a grandchild's birthday party and didn't feel guilty and also realized I wasn't missing much.
Ok, you had a TON of good stuff in your Arrow #102, but no kidding, hubby and I giggled all evening long over telling "Thierry Breton to jump up a fat dog’s ass." That's JUST what we needed to hear! Have a great weekend and we'll "see" you next Eadesday, um, Thursday.
It's one of my favorite expressions. I had a hunch MD was going to modify, so I went back after she had proof read and took a look. Sure enough. She had changed it to "a dog's hind quarters." Not the same. So, I changed it back. Glad you enjoyed it.
I am sure she did it with the best of intentions, but it would not have been the same! And…..I DO SO love the commentary sections available in Substack!
Grammar: ‘The celeb tells me “everyone in Hollywood” including he, himself, is on Wegovy’ - it would be better to say, ‘The celeb tells me “everyone in Hollywood”, including him, is on Wegovy’.
I disagree. The "he, himself" is an appositive phrase that refers back to "everyone in Hollywood," which is the subject of the sentence. Since both are the subject, then I would argue it calls for a subjective pronoun, not an objective one.
But, as always, I'm willing to be educated if I am wrong.
Sure, “including he, himself” is an appositive phrase. The problem is that *within* that phrase, “he” is the *object* of “including”. And doesn’t it just sound wrong to you the way it is?
I don't think it "just sound[s] wrong" the way I wrote it, or I probably wouldn't have written it that way. I think the way you wrote it: "...everyone in Hollywood, including him, is..." sounds wrong. To my ear, at least. But that's just my ear. Ears differ, I suppose.
I took a quick run through Duck Duck Go asking about the he himself construction to see if there was a specific rule. Here is the first link I came up with that addresses the issue: https://grammarhow.com/he-himself-grammar-meaning/ This site uses as an example of correct use: "He mentioned that he himself was the only one capable of achieving this feat."
Having written that, I can't tell you that that is the definitive site as to what is correct English grammar. That would be like saying, Hey, I found this site telling me the vaccines are "safe and effective," and so that makes it believable.
It IS all about lifestyle. After decades of eating low carb meals, at least most of the time, I weigh 114 at 80. Also I am ridiculously healthy. Thank you, thank you Drs. Eades. BTW, champagne doesn/t count. Did it ever?
Last Spring, I wrote about Semaglutide and how it compares to an inexpensive, natural, tasty sweetener. The sweetener won by miles in every way including price! Here's a quote:
"Semaglutide is a very expensive drug. According to The New York Times, the dosage used to treat diabetes has an average retail price of about $1,000 a month (so $15,000 for 68 weeks); and using it for weight loss requires significantly larger doses. Sadly, when the pricey drug therapy was discontinued, the study subjects reported that they started to regain the weight. (Allulose costs about $0.50 an ounce; 14 grams would cost $0.25. So the total cost for the 16 weeks of supplementation for the Allulose trial would be about $21.00, assuming you don’t deduct the cost of what it is replacing. And you can follow the protocol and keep eating Allulose as long as you want or need to.)"
Thanks for adding more recent data about the drug. It is an ineffective rip off.
https://www.carbwarscookbooks.com/too-good-to-be-true-a-natural-sugar-for-weight-loss/
I could not agree more with your analysis of government intrusion & social media. The entire “private” company argument position falls apart when government coercion is in play. Having spent my entire career in federal law enforcement, I view this through the following analogy. If an individual approaches me as a federal agent and relates that the private company he works for is engaged in criminal activity, and that he has stolen records from the company to prove this, I can accept these documents and use them in my investigation & subsequent trial. On the other hand, if this same individual is an informant of mine, and I instruct or otherwise encourage him to steal these same documents, I cannot use them in any way, shape or form. That would constitute a 4th amendment violation, and any court would suppress that evidence. The difference of course is that the 4th amendment protects us from unlawful searches or seizures conducted BY the government. In the first example it’s a private citizen acting completely on his own, no 4th amendment protection applies. The second example involves government direction, and is a clear 4th amendment violation. The federal agent would need to obtain a lawful search warrant, approved by a federal judge, to obtain those records.
Great explanation. Thanks very much. I hadn't even thought about it from the perspective of the 4th amendment.
I know without a doubt that if I were to go back to my old SAD eating habits that made me fat and sick, I would regain my now sustainable 47 pound weight loss. I was able, through the magic of a very low carb lifestyle over the past 6 years, to go from 155 down to 110, and then this fall to 108. ( I am 5'2") Also, the non scale victories are numerous. The best ones are no more severe headaches and no more severe sciatica, low back and hip pain. I feel better at 51 than I did at 40. Something that Big Pharma couldn't do.
I love the phrase "non-scale victories." I may steal it.
Yes, please do. I heard the term a few years ago, and have used it ever since. It's not always about weight loss. :)
You can easily “short” that to NSV’s. I promise you, 99% of your readership will understand it immediately! It’s a very common expression, and a good one, too!
As you already know… Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food. ✌️
I grew up in South America and every summer we came to the US to see family and shop. I would get my fill of American TV shows for the 3 weeks we were stateside and Captain Kangaroo happened to be one of them.😄
'On that three month post-intervention evaluation, most of the improvement from the low-carb diet was gone. The lab values of both the low-carb subjects and the low-fat subjects merged. The low-carbers were still a little better off in terms of lab values...'
Speaking from my own personal experience, I went on a low-carb and then ketogenic diet to see if it would help with a mystery neuropathy. It didn't do anything for that, but it improved my health in so many other ways, including no-more-colds and back-to-my-high-school-weight, that I've never looked back. I wonder if it's possible to discern from the study how many individual participants decided to maintain the low carb lifestyle after the end of the study just because they liked what it did for them.
I did find it took a year or two to adjust both socially and physiologically. Potlucks and other social events can be especially challenging. But after a while it's no big deal.
Typo: "I fear that seeing Sammy go down mabye the only justice they see" "mabye" should be may be, even though when you read it quickly it looks like "maybe", which would be a typo also.
Enjoyed 102. Keep them coming!
Fixed. Thanks.
Could it be the money SBF gave Republicans was for the many Rhinos indispensable to the Democratic Party?
How I lost 2hours and 45minutes of my life while eating a low carb diet:
I listened to Peter Attia and Lane Norton reinforcing each other about how smart they are and why low carb, high meat-based protein, avoidance of seed oils, etc etc, sucks as a life style. Oh, and don't forget to take your statin because you know how bad "bad" cholesterol is about infiltrating the tight-junction endothelium of arteries and causing atherosclerosis.
Here's a partial look at the show notes to save you the trouble of listening. I'll never get that 2:45 back.
1:47:43 - Layne’s views on low-carb diets, the tribal nature of nutrition, and the importance of being able to change opinions
1:56:27 - Where Layne has changed his views: LDL cholesterol, branched-chain amino acid supplementation, intermittent fasting, and more
2:12:16 - The carnivore diet, elimination diets, and fruits and vegetables
2:18:18 - Fiber: Layne’s approach to fiber intake, sources of fiber, benefits, and more
2:24:02 - Confusion around omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the Minnesota Coronary Experiment
2:33:18 - Layne’s views on fats in the diet
I decided to go 95% carnivore (I can't give up coffee, tomatoes, onions, hot sauce, or pepper) about a month and a half ago. Best thing I've ever done. I've lost about 12 pounds without even trying. I eat until I'm nice and full and I'm never really hungry. I only eat two meals a day now and I have no urge to snack.
I'm sleeping sounder and have less joint pain. I thought I would get bored with the limited food choices but I relish every meal. I don't feel deprived at all. Last week, I ate a small piece of cake at a grandchild's birthday party and didn't feel guilty and also realized I wasn't missing much.
'Those subjects in the control group lost massive amounts of weight as compared to those in the placebo group'
Isn't control group the same as placebo group? Probably you meant study group instead of control group?
Ugh, yes, the control group is the same as the placebo group. Good catch. Not really a typo, just a mistake, which is worse.
Ok, you had a TON of good stuff in your Arrow #102, but no kidding, hubby and I giggled all evening long over telling "Thierry Breton to jump up a fat dog’s ass." That's JUST what we needed to hear! Have a great weekend and we'll "see" you next Eadesday, um, Thursday.
It's one of my favorite expressions. I had a hunch MD was going to modify, so I went back after she had proof read and took a look. Sure enough. She had changed it to "a dog's hind quarters." Not the same. So, I changed it back. Glad you enjoyed it.
I am sure she did it with the best of intentions, but it would not have been the same! And…..I DO SO love the commentary sections available in Substack!
Might as well jump on this bandwagon: "The ad, which is obviously and ad ..."
Anyway, great post today, thank you.
Fixed it. Thanks.
Grammar: ‘The celeb tells me “everyone in Hollywood” including he, himself, is on Wegovy’ - it would be better to say, ‘The celeb tells me “everyone in Hollywood”, including him, is on Wegovy’.
I disagree. The "he, himself" is an appositive phrase that refers back to "everyone in Hollywood," which is the subject of the sentence. Since both are the subject, then I would argue it calls for a subjective pronoun, not an objective one.
But, as always, I'm willing to be educated if I am wrong.
Sure, “including he, himself” is an appositive phrase. The problem is that *within* that phrase, “he” is the *object* of “including”. And doesn’t it just sound wrong to you the way it is?
I don't think it "just sound[s] wrong" the way I wrote it, or I probably wouldn't have written it that way. I think the way you wrote it: "...everyone in Hollywood, including him, is..." sounds wrong. To my ear, at least. But that's just my ear. Ears differ, I suppose.
I took a quick run through Duck Duck Go asking about the he himself construction to see if there was a specific rule. Here is the first link I came up with that addresses the issue: https://grammarhow.com/he-himself-grammar-meaning/ This site uses as an example of correct use: "He mentioned that he himself was the only one capable of achieving this feat."
Having written that, I can't tell you that that is the definitive site as to what is correct English grammar. That would be like saying, Hey, I found this site telling me the vaccines are "safe and effective," and so that makes it believable.
Dr. Eades - You don’t really mean it when you say you feel sorry for Sam B-F, do you?
I could go on forever explaining why I feel sorry for him, but, yeah, I do.