Hello friends. This issue of The Arrow is longer than usual. I’m compensating by sending it out earlier than usual. A lot of stuff this week including a great new study that confirmed what I already pretty much knew. But nice to have it confirmed officially. Before we get to that, though, I’ve got a few personal details to write about. For those of you who are interested in those sorts of details. The rest can skip on down.
There is a high fat high carb food in nature: Milk (straight from the animal - not the stuff in stores). Of course since its designed for rapid growth, the highly insulingenic combination of fat and carbs makes sense...
Very apropos about returning to your keto diet. I find that I have to be assertive and spend my last dollar on rib eyes, then freeze them up, or my good woman might buy a $10 jug of BBQ sauce in case I'm not watching, her thinking that I'll shut up about food to the relatives, at last. You have to be resolute with keto, and keep purifying your environment...
So all of those years we were told to add coconut oil to rice or butter to our sweet potatoes was the opposite of what we should have been doing. dang, better to find out now than later. TY
Cholesterol is discussed in chapter 13 of PP1. Page 385 has the nearest to what is in your note. I didn't wise up to the scam until 2003, though I never measured my 'cholesterol' and never took any Statin. I wish I had come across your book when it came out. Here is my latest anecdote. Earlier this year I had a blood panel & ECG. Some months later I saw my lovely GP and he said I should consider a Statin. Although I have not thought about the matter for some years I gave him an alternative view, with a critique of Prof Sir Rory Collins analyses (I used to walk past his research offices often), and all the negatives of blocking the mevalonate pathway, and that cholesterol has been part of animal cells since animal cells with a heart pumping blood round pipes for millions of years so evolution would have fixed any conflict. If there is a problem it must be something else. As I was leaving he said, “As you have got so far OK, I guess it would not make much difference anyway” – I am well over 80. He is a good GP same age as my sons.
Recently, because of my new gym fanaticism that has me doing 5 HARD days per week, I'd been sorting out and testing things for a mini-pre-workout meal and regardless of what's claimed about being a fat burner, guys who actually do regular hard training know very well that carbs trump. Like I always say, if protein and fat were the things to eat to fuel competitive and professional athletic sports, that's what the top money-makers would be eating prior to competition.
That is not the case.
... Anyway, I gave something a try. Chopped up a Fuji apple and navel orange, topped with LF plain yogurt, then a good 1-2 TBS honey. FANTASTIC. Buzzing through the workout like crazy.
Then it got better.
I ran out of yogurt one day and did ONLY the fruit and honey, and this was in isolation...hours after whatever else I had eaten.
Oh, man. Just amazing. A real nice steady energy throughout a session where I may be doing 20,000Kg total lifting volume. No drag-ass at all.
What this has resulted in is I've become a carnivore - frugivore. Two big meals per day upwards of 50-100g protein each, whatever fat, no carb but trace (like a little onion, the Brit "gravy granules," etc.), lotsa eggs.
Then way outside those meals, mostly fruit (sometimes honey), whatever amount I want and the big telltale in terms of carbs with fat are, even if I only eat a half big or whole small buttered potato with a nice ribeye and fatty sauce or browned butter, I still go comatose. If no potato, no prob.
But if I eat the whole damn potato by itself outside a fatty meal, or with no-fat condiments, I not only do not get drowsy, it's energetic.
And, this all makes sense because it should. Nature doesn't put carbs and fat together.
... Except one place: mammal's milk. And what is that for? To grow tissue, both lean AND fat.
Immensely enjoying your Arrows, while waiting for older Arrows to be available, I read your previous blog posts. And read some of your book rec. about viruses, Kennedy's "Real Fauci", Duiesbergs "Inventing AIDS", and "Dissolving Illusions" so now I want to further open this Pandora box with a book about rabies virus and if it does indeed causes illness. I am highly skeptical after reading all those books that what we have been told is true. (How can vaccine injected AFTER the infection, protect you against illness?!) Thanks for you work.
Hi, you were asking for natural carb and fat combos. Nuts but especially cashews comes to mind, but let’s take breast milk as a reference point. It has proven quite effective in adding mass to little people. We also see that French fries has similar proportions, only 5 times more… (data from my local fda portal)
per 100g fat carb prot fat /carb energy shares
Breast milk 65 kcal 3,5% 7,4% 1,1% 47%/46%
Cashew nut 574 kcal 46,4% 18,8% 20,0% 71%/13%
Banana 88 kcal 0,4% 18,3 % 1,2% 4%/ 85%
French fries 316 kcal 15,8% 38,6% 3,9% 44%/50%
It was some Willet study, where different potatoes were lumped together. If you stratified those, the
French fries were the most fattening product of all! And of course, they are fried in seed oils. My hypothesis is that if you want to affect all the American people with something, change the frying oil. Which is exactly what happened around 1990, when all fast-food chains moved to (were forced to) “healthful” vegetable oils, abandoning tallow. This is close to the inflection point of obesity etc misery that has increased ever since in the U.S.
Just wanted to mention that I bought Protein Power in hardcover somewhere around 1997 (in fact, I have ALL your books in hardcover). I had read Atkins' books, but yours answered more questions for me. I loved the paleopathology and Egypt chapter and think that's when I finally put 2 and 2 together. I had been taking graduate courses in human paleontology and knew about the diet of early humans. It took that chapter for me to slap myself in the forehead and realize low carb with plenty of protein and fat was the way to go.
What about avocados? For a 100g serving, it has 177 calories with 17g fat and 7g of carbs (according to my source).
Mike - another gem that, for some reason, didn't seem all that long. I especially appreciate the link to David Zweig's article - and am hoping that forwarding it to friends will make them question, at least a tiny bit, the mainstream (legacy) media. As for the violin/viola video? (at one time in the mists of my past I played both) - that was hilarious, and while the yodeler wasn't playing his violin at the time, he was definitely amazing. Re the Keto - no one has to convince me of that anymore - but I hope you convince many many more to try it.
The only tiny glitch - amazing for such a long post:
Nov 2, 2023·edited Nov 2, 2023Liked by Michael Eades
Dr Mike, thought I'd jump in with the first comment. Been reading you for decades and this blog since before it was called The Arrow.
Do you know of effective ways to search your past posts? I recently got a calcium score that concerned me and I remember you discussing the ins and outs of calcium scores in the past. But searching for it stinks on substack. I've tried searching for "calcium score". I've added Eades and Arrow as search terms. Substack returns from all authors. Then I tried searching you with google, but apparently Substack isn't know to google. Any search strategy/tip/suggestions?
Been searching on my phone (iOS). Perhaps desktop searching works differently.
If you buy a raw sweet potato and bake it in your oven you would have an unprocessed carb. If you put butter on the hot potato you combine a carb and a fat. Is that bad?
There is a high fat high carb food in nature: Milk (straight from the animal - not the stuff in stores). Of course since its designed for rapid growth, the highly insulingenic combination of fat and carbs makes sense...
Very apropos about returning to your keto diet. I find that I have to be assertive and spend my last dollar on rib eyes, then freeze them up, or my good woman might buy a $10 jug of BBQ sauce in case I'm not watching, her thinking that I'll shut up about food to the relatives, at last. You have to be resolute with keto, and keep purifying your environment...
My professional violist sister: How do you tell the difference between a violin and a viola?
The viola burns longer.
So all of those years we were told to add coconut oil to rice or butter to our sweet potatoes was the opposite of what we should have been doing. dang, better to find out now than later. TY
Cholesterol is discussed in chapter 13 of PP1. Page 385 has the nearest to what is in your note. I didn't wise up to the scam until 2003, though I never measured my 'cholesterol' and never took any Statin. I wish I had come across your book when it came out. Here is my latest anecdote. Earlier this year I had a blood panel & ECG. Some months later I saw my lovely GP and he said I should consider a Statin. Although I have not thought about the matter for some years I gave him an alternative view, with a critique of Prof Sir Rory Collins analyses (I used to walk past his research offices often), and all the negatives of blocking the mevalonate pathway, and that cholesterol has been part of animal cells since animal cells with a heart pumping blood round pipes for millions of years so evolution would have fixed any conflict. If there is a problem it must be something else. As I was leaving he said, “As you have got so far OK, I guess it would not make much difference anyway” – I am well over 80. He is a good GP same age as my sons.
Really glad you're harping on this macro-mix issue. I first came upon such a realization back in 2015 with this post by Carl Lenore.
https://superhumanradio.net/blog/why-you-may-reconsider-buttering-your-potato
But all I did was just kinda watch it.
Recently, because of my new gym fanaticism that has me doing 5 HARD days per week, I'd been sorting out and testing things for a mini-pre-workout meal and regardless of what's claimed about being a fat burner, guys who actually do regular hard training know very well that carbs trump. Like I always say, if protein and fat were the things to eat to fuel competitive and professional athletic sports, that's what the top money-makers would be eating prior to competition.
That is not the case.
... Anyway, I gave something a try. Chopped up a Fuji apple and navel orange, topped with LF plain yogurt, then a good 1-2 TBS honey. FANTASTIC. Buzzing through the workout like crazy.
Then it got better.
I ran out of yogurt one day and did ONLY the fruit and honey, and this was in isolation...hours after whatever else I had eaten.
Oh, man. Just amazing. A real nice steady energy throughout a session where I may be doing 20,000Kg total lifting volume. No drag-ass at all.
What this has resulted in is I've become a carnivore - frugivore. Two big meals per day upwards of 50-100g protein each, whatever fat, no carb but trace (like a little onion, the Brit "gravy granules," etc.), lotsa eggs.
Then way outside those meals, mostly fruit (sometimes honey), whatever amount I want and the big telltale in terms of carbs with fat are, even if I only eat a half big or whole small buttered potato with a nice ribeye and fatty sauce or browned butter, I still go comatose. If no potato, no prob.
But if I eat the whole damn potato by itself outside a fatty meal, or with no-fat condiments, I not only do not get drowsy, it's energetic.
And, this all makes sense because it should. Nature doesn't put carbs and fat together.
... Except one place: mammal's milk. And what is that for? To grow tissue, both lean AND fat.
HI Doc,
Immensely enjoying your Arrows, while waiting for older Arrows to be available, I read your previous blog posts. And read some of your book rec. about viruses, Kennedy's "Real Fauci", Duiesbergs "Inventing AIDS", and "Dissolving Illusions" so now I want to further open this Pandora box with a book about rabies virus and if it does indeed causes illness. I am highly skeptical after reading all those books that what we have been told is true. (How can vaccine injected AFTER the infection, protect you against illness?!) Thanks for you work.
Hi, you were asking for natural carb and fat combos. Nuts but especially cashews comes to mind, but let’s take breast milk as a reference point. It has proven quite effective in adding mass to little people. We also see that French fries has similar proportions, only 5 times more… (data from my local fda portal)
per 100g fat carb prot fat /carb energy shares
Breast milk 65 kcal 3,5% 7,4% 1,1% 47%/46%
Cashew nut 574 kcal 46,4% 18,8% 20,0% 71%/13%
Banana 88 kcal 0,4% 18,3 % 1,2% 4%/ 85%
French fries 316 kcal 15,8% 38,6% 3,9% 44%/50%
It was some Willet study, where different potatoes were lumped together. If you stratified those, the
French fries were the most fattening product of all! And of course, they are fried in seed oils. My hypothesis is that if you want to affect all the American people with something, change the frying oil. Which is exactly what happened around 1990, when all fast-food chains moved to (were forced to) “healthful” vegetable oils, abandoning tallow. This is close to the inflection point of obesity etc misery that has increased ever since in the U.S.
JR
Just wanted to mention that I bought Protein Power in hardcover somewhere around 1997 (in fact, I have ALL your books in hardcover). I had read Atkins' books, but yours answered more questions for me. I loved the paleopathology and Egypt chapter and think that's when I finally put 2 and 2 together. I had been taking graduate courses in human paleontology and knew about the diet of early humans. It took that chapter for me to slap myself in the forehead and realize low carb with plenty of protein and fat was the way to go.
What about avocados? For a 100g serving, it has 177 calories with 17g fat and 7g of carbs (according to my source).
I would give you 5 stars just for including the "fiddle" video.
Re. Creutzfeldt's paper, it would be better to cite the regular DOI link (https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01225454) rather than the one leading to dark web (https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/BF01225454), since the regular link allows a free downloading of the PDF.
This discussion of “incretin” is extremely interesting and useful! Reading your articles is a great pleasure.
Mike - another gem that, for some reason, didn't seem all that long. I especially appreciate the link to David Zweig's article - and am hoping that forwarding it to friends will make them question, at least a tiny bit, the mainstream (legacy) media. As for the violin/viola video? (at one time in the mists of my past I played both) - that was hilarious, and while the yodeler wasn't playing his violin at the time, he was definitely amazing. Re the Keto - no one has to convince me of that anymore - but I hope you convince many many more to try it.
The only tiny glitch - amazing for such a long post:
parked in on our driveway.
parked it on out driveway . . . .
Dr Mike, thought I'd jump in with the first comment. Been reading you for decades and this blog since before it was called The Arrow.
Do you know of effective ways to search your past posts? I recently got a calcium score that concerned me and I remember you discussing the ins and outs of calcium scores in the past. But searching for it stinks on substack. I've tried searching for "calcium score". I've added Eades and Arrow as search terms. Substack returns from all authors. Then I tried searching you with google, but apparently Substack isn't know to google. Any search strategy/tip/suggestions?
Been searching on my phone (iOS). Perhaps desktop searching works differently.
If you buy a raw sweet potato and bake it in your oven you would have an unprocessed carb. If you put butter on the hot potato you combine a carb and a fat. Is that bad?
Michael had referenced some books on lying with statistics, what were the names?