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  • Kinda expected, I always disable leta when I setup a mullvad browser.

    The biggest killer was not being able to go to the original engine. Let’s search for the image of a duck, oh leta doesn’t do images, ok open this search in Google… Not a option either. Adds lots of friction

    I like the DDG option of having a g! Escape to Google with my query if I need it.





  • Your philosophy is antithetical to existence.

    Being alive kills other things, nature is competition. From bacteria and viruses in your body constantly being killed, to animals in the food supply (even veggies and croplands have pest control), just living in a safe community relies on the killing of other life: removing dangerous animals from the community, keeping pests out of food stores, keeping the water clean (kills water based life)

    The phone you are using is at the end of a very complicated supply chain that mines resources from the earth, which requires killing animals… Moving resources across the earth, which requires killing animals (fish hit by boats, animals run over by cars, birds hit by trucks, pest control in all the production and storage facilities), etc.


  • When we maintain fasting for 5+ days we have a fairly large bump in autophagy, a state where the body kills off and recycles damaged cells. This state can cause some types of cancer to be more obvious to our immune systems and allow the tumor to be attacked. In some cases otherwise inoperable tumors can be removed after shrinking them through fasting.

    Cancer cells can’t metabolize fat, when your fasting and in ketosis your body is only supplying fat and the cancer has nothing to eat (mostly, there is some glucose produced as a baseline)

    I.E. fasting slows down the cancer energy rate so that the immune system can start catching up.

    This is why the press-pulse cancer protocol uses deep ketosis and fasting in addition to supreasing the bodies glucose production. I.e. never adding external sugar into the body at all during treatment.











  • The only problem is eating enough, I frequently miss my target of 3000 kcal, but I am simply not hungry much of the time.

    If your eating fatty red meat (more fat then lean), and your not hungry - I don’t think you need to hit a arbitrary calorie target.

    If you have access to a body composition scale, as long as your non-fat mass is holding steady, I’m not sure there is any concerns at all.

    I have noticed that my dandruff is way less, my skin doesn’t flake, I can focus better (not as good as meds but maybe 30% of the way there). I also dropped body fat a bit and gained some muscle, but I need to do that for other reasons too. Overall it is not an awful diet.

    I’m also doing the zero-carb eating pattern, in addition to what you saw my shoulder injury went away (but comes back if i cheat), my tinnitus went away, and I don’t get sunburned… weird stuff


  • So thanks, again, especially for challenging my suggestions when it’s often risky here in internet as you’d often get negative pushback and most wouldn’t bother to subject themselves to that.

    The greatest joy I’ve found on lemmy is collaborative constructive discussions where people don’t agree, but are open to other people’s ideas. Thank you for being a thoughtful person.

    just a completely unrelated blood draw revealed problems with my blood glucose before it ever got to diabetes, and also revealed some (luckily minor) damage to my liver due to fatty liver.

    If you haven’t heard of the TG/HDL ratio as a marker for insulin resistance, its a fascinating area of research. It’s on all lipid panels and can tell people about creeping insulin problems (i.e. CVD risk, FLD risk) - https://hackertalks.com/post/5922188

    ketogenic diet is very good for the latter (fatty liver, perhaps inner fat in general I think?)

    Yes, all visceral, inter organ fat, inter muscular fat - resolve quickly on a ketogenic metabolism.

    I was advised to return to more normal diet but with strictly reduced carbs so as to not let the problems resurface.

    I’m not aware of any dangers of staying keto full time, so I don’t think the return to a carb based metabolism is necessary (but if that is what people find more sustainable, more power to them)

    And when doing any bigger diet changes, it’ll be good to have a baseline from before it, to compare against at different points of the diet.

    100%


  • since saturated fats come with other problems themselves.

    I would love to know what those problems are, from my reading of the literature the vilification of saturated fat was misattributed (i.e. the damage sugar and carbs caused got blamed on saturated fats in the lipid heart hypothesis)

    new research and guidelines. To that end, I’d recommend checking out if that is indeed true, and if the new recommendations/consensus would make my point moot.

    There isn’t much consensus, but the tide is turning - https://hackertalks.com/post/17259951

    As far as I’m aware, fiber is a critical component of our gut health but also immune system robustness.

    From my reading we don’t know much about the gut and fiber, we are just at the beginning of our understanding. So there are lots of assumptions that may not apply. For instance, and most relevant to the couple eating a animal based diet for seizures, fiber is not necessary for gut health - right now most papers assume a diversity of biotics in the gut are the most healthy… and the assumption is that fibre increases this diversity… which is true in a carbohydrate eating population. But in people only eating animal based foods we have case studies showing a very diverse gut… given the state of literature the assumption that fibre is essential hasn’t been demonstrated, especially in a ketogenic metabolism. One of the major benefits of fibre in a carbohydrate rich gut is providing BHB locally to the gut lining, which has major benefits, but in a ketogenic metabolism BHB is being generated constantly in the liver and gets all over the body including the gut (and also the brain).

    I was given the rough guide of overall carbs - fibers = “final” carbs ingested. Not really sure how to translate that into English but I think it’s a common rule of thumb and you get the gist. Has that changed since?

    That is still true, fibre is indigestible by the human gut, its the bacteria that break some of it down into SCAs which then get absorbed. Fibre does not spike glucose, however, it does block the absorption of other healthy food you eat in the same window… Again from my reading fiber isn’t essential, especially in a ketogenic metabolism, so avoiding fiber just means the food you eat is even more nutritious

    But I’ll end on this note: Whatever I or someone say here on internet, best to double-check it all with your dietitian if doing an overseen diet, and yourself from internet if you’re doing it on your own.

    Completely agreed, really good advice. Monitoring personal health metrics is also helpful, especially lipids, ketones, glucose, fasting insulin, etc…

    Nutrition and health are no small things to play with. Our body is flexible and can survive a whole lot, in a lot of different situations, but there are prerequisites for it to thrive in a sustainable way. And there’s a fundamental distinction between just surviving/existing and thriving/being healthy.

    I couldn’t agree more, well said.