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alright thanks, cheers man.

4201 yur last comment to me was quite rude and if this was a DM I'd simply bail out and avoid a shit slinging contest, but as this is a public forum with other people possibly interested I'll elaborate. I have an idea baked into my brain that "sugar is bad" and that carbs should be restricted. I did Tim Ferriss' 'slow carb diet' for quite a while in 2017 to decent effect (that's basically replacing all starches with lentils, eat yur vegetables, and don't eat fruit because it has sugar). Currently basically my entire extended family and a lot of people at work etc... is on the keto diet. Lots of fatty meat, extremely restricting carbs, bacon is back in fashion. Seems like a violation of common sense but hey it's backed up by science with doctors and influencers and podcasters everywhere discussing the wonders of ketosis and how satiating fat is. I've always maintained good health and vitality but I've seen my weight kind of fluctuating over the years as well as those around me sort of struggling with BMI and experimenting with macronutrient distribution, and all the while there is a background belief that sugar (carbohydrates) should be limited and definitely refined sugar is "bad." So it was quite revelational to me to discover a huge community and body of work that's pro sugar, pro carb, with sound logic to back it up. The message is simple, eat sugar (cabohydrates, any of them) to fuel your brain and body for work and maintain full resting glycogen store in muscle and brain so u have max potential energy for work. Take in some protein and plenty of micronutrients (veg, green drinks, sups, etc...) for your body to maintain itself. Limit fat intake until your at the BMI that you want and then hold and simply manipulate your BMI with your fat intake, understanding that all fat consumed goes directly into storage and it's not easy to burn off excess fat. This is basically the opposite of the current macro nutrient zeitgeist, and is completely heretical because fruit juice and refined sugar is used strategically and appreciated as a nutrient. I'm not planning to eat a pure table sugar diet, with lead poison sprinkled on top. Or even to maintain a severely fat restricted diet super long term. But yeah this seems like an interesting experiment to drop the 10kg fat I've been carrying on and off for 10 years. Anyhow, I'm doing the kempner diet as an experiment. (vid below) Here's another video. I'm assuming no one watched the previous ones because they're like 1 hour rants. But watch this one. It's only 6 minutes long, and cites various pub med studies and medical researchers and their work over the last half century.

hmm, yeah what you said there is par for the course that excess sugar causes obesity, diabetes, bad stuff etc... and sugar is bad. I totally agreed as that's one of those beliefs that's programmed in by default in western culture, I think. Serious, I was totally on board with anti sugar, been trying low carb diets for years, cut out sugary drinks, candy, etc... Totally in line with the doctors orders and common western dietary thinking. But yeah this guys video content was quite a shock to my system. Maybe sugar is good? worth trying to me, I'm in for a couple month long experiment. he says every cell in the body runs on sugar, so eat sugar. Really resonates with me in a very sort of childlike pure logic. And for some psuedo sciency type backup if that's needed, well u could just watch the guys video's, but what he says is that all sugar that you eat goes into the blood and excess sugar is purged out by the kidneys and pissed out and not stored as fat. Whereas all fat that you eat goes directly into fat storage and only burned off when muscle glycogen is depleted and that's hard to maintain psychologically, and it makes people lethargic as compared to a high carb diet, and throws your endocyn system out of wack long term. And also that diabetes is actually caused by too much dietary fat intake and fat blocking ATP receptors or something and not allowing sugar into the cells. Anyhow, it's all beliefs until verified by doing it, I've never actually seen an "endocrin" haha. gonna give it a go.

Just wanted to share a wildly divergent perspective on the most healthy way to feed oneself. ...with sugar This person advocates carbohydrates as your primary food source (rice, pasta, fruit, fruit juice, and literally table sugar). He strongly advocates starting the day by eating fruit covered in refined table sugar. It's such heretical thinking that it really caught me off guard and I knee jerk just blew this off as ridiculous, because I've been following along with the keto VS carnivore VS vegan slog fest and trying some of these. And everyone knows that refined sugar is "bad." And most in 'western culture' including myself view complex carbs as dubious or something that should be avoided. But if you actually follow the video all the way through, the logic seems good. Basically that every cell in the body is powered by sugar. Sugar is the 'nutrient' that you actually run on. So what should you eat for mental and physical energy? ...sugar, dummy Here's the video: And background context, he's vegan, an endurance athletics coach, and appears to blur into like a life coach to his coaching community. And one more video, specifically for Leo (more unsolicited advice, sorry buddy can't help it). I noticed and watched this one about SIBO and leaky gut. It's kind of an obnoxious rant and I think overly dismissive and sarcastic about the situation. But towards the end he kind of goes into his childhood gastro problems and how he comes from a fat family etc... I think it's an interesting card to consider as part of strategizing on how to re introduce food. ...table sugar dissolved in water. This is the most efficient and easily digestible strategy to get a full power up injection ATP into brain and muscle cells. White table sugar is not synthesized in an industrial chemistry lab BTW, which I always assumed for some reason. It's pulled out of the leaves of sugarcane plants and de-colorized.

@Leo Gura sorry another suggestion can't help it... just an armchair engineer I'm in good health so haven't tested this on myself but seems very relevant to autoimmune disorder and also this seems like the cutting edge in processing and reporting clinical research. listen to the Rich Roll podcast with Will Bulsiewicz >> https://www.richroll.com/podcast/will-bulsiewicz-538/ This is all about gut health and microbiome and how this is foundational to all things human health next if that resonates read or listen to Will B.'s book. "Fiber Fueled" >> deeper dive on the podcast material. (I'm currently reading this and implementing as fast as I'm reading thru the book) then as a further step, Will B has an online course, https://theplantfedgut.com/course/. All about correcting gut dysbiosis then being able to reintroduce a wide range of food in a controlled manner. ...I'm not planning to take the course as I'm in good health. I have no affiliation with any of this. Just seems like a great lead. Looking forward to good physical health for u.