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Technically you can make gains in the gym even by eating only mars bars but I can't imagine what the long-term consequences of that would be. It is easy to see 900 kcal from potato chips equal to for example 900kcal from a plate containing beans, vegetables and fish or chicken. Calories are calories, yes but you also get a lot of other nutrients in the second dish where potato chips are literally only sugar, nothing else. Well that and a bit of fried olive oil. It is not always just about calories. You have to look at where are the calories packed and how are they distributed. 900kcal in 150kcal is extreme amount and it would take probably 2 jars of beans or 4 chicken steaks or 10 kilos of broccoli to get the same amount of calories. It is rare that so much calories would be packed in such a small package in nature. Not even honey. Also potato chips have no nutritional value besides bunch of super fast absorbing sugar so it is very similar if you ate 150g of white bread with olive oil. You will get extreme insulin spike and extreme sugar spike which will leave you with extreme hypoglycemia. Going a bit deeper, we know that potato chips are roasted on very high temperatures. When you heat simple carbs (like chips or potatoes) on very high temperatures or in oils you create something called acrylamides, known neurotoxins and suspected carcinogens. Acrylamides create a lot of mess in the blood, they bind to other molecules and form something we called AGEs, highly toxic particles especially for your vascular system. On the other hand olive oil has the a lot of antioxidants that will protect it fairly well from oxidised particles but I would say they use the same batch of oil to roast many batches of chips..do you know what I mean? Like using 100l of olive oil to produce 20 times more chips than is healthy. This saves costs and saves from the necessity to clean deep friers all the time. The first batch may be somewhat ok but the second , the third and the tenth may already contain a lot of bad stuff (free radicals and lipid peroxides that are toxic to your DNA) Also there is a lot of salt which doesn't help, chips are scratchy and can irritate stomach. They have very little fibre either. If you are looking to make muscle gains, look for foods that are also high in other nutrients and don't just focus on calories. Think about mixing up plates of vegetables, carbohydrates, fats and proteins. If you want more healthy calories add nuts, nutt butters, avocados, hummus and things like that. Animsl foods are also higher in calories if you eat those. Soz for long email but though it was helpful to explain why calories are not equal to calories in the bigger picture. Also I might be wrong and maybe they indeed change the oil a lot and avoid large temperatures which would be better but I'd still save these chips as a special treat and get 99% of your calories from better foods

You need animal tissue especially fat tissue to store heavy metals. Algae are primitive unicellular plants, they are just not complex enough to store pools of heavy metals. In terms of filtration and purity claims, I don't know how trustworthy they are which is why I've always been sceptical of fish oils, it is basically an extract of fish adipose tissue, the greatest storage of mercury. This is a large grey area at the moment. At the same time in men, excessive supplementation of PUFAs can increase your chance of prostate growth later in life so there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. It is probably better to get most of your Omegas from plants like flax and chia and add occasional cycle of 1g flax oil + 300-400mg of algal oil. I do 2-3 cycles per year like this. The concern is that you need to convert a top of the chain Alpha-linolenic Acid (ALA) all the way to EPA & DHA which requires several levels of elongation and desaturation (see picture). In men this conversion is poor. Somewhere about 4-8% of ALA makes it all the way to DHA If you are stressed, nutritionally deprived, alcoholic, eat a lot of sugar it is even worse. Genetic snips also apply. Flax Seeds only give you ALA. You can probably jack up ALA by eating more flax and thus convert more down the line but I believe there's a bottleneck as you only have a limited amount of dealt 5 and delta 6 desaturase enzymes capacities per unit of time (see picture) the argument for fish & fish oil is they are great source of EPA & DHA but you have to balance the risk of heavy metal contamination which is where ALgal oil (DHA rich) comes as a new alternative. It is also more ethical & ecological (but could be that algal overharvesting will also have a lot of unforeseen consequences). Btw when you up your Omega 3s sometimes it is possible to go overboard and cause a mild immunosuppression because you overflow your cells with Omega 3s and Your Omega 6s will drop. This can be an issue in Vegans supplementing large amounts of Omegas and avoiding other fats like nut butters and seeds. This is an incredibly complex topic and I feel we don't know most of it just yet

Gotta be the cringiest cover I've seen in a while. This is a sort of Wolf of Wallstreet type of book "get rich bro" "never back down bro" get rich or die trying and how to get all the pussy you want

There is another concern with this. Very often these things are boiled in the can along with the sauce. Tomato sauce gets so acidic that it starts breaking down the tin from the inside and effectively your main concern is no longer only mercury but aluminium as well. For example Heinz beans in Europe are made this way so essentially what you eat is a lovely aluminium soup with bunch of sugar and few beans. That being said mackerel is generally fairly safe to consume comparing to likes of tuna. The bigger the fish the bigger the problem. Sardines are generally safe as they have short lifespan and don't eat other fish. Wild-caught Alaskan Salmon with dark-red meat is also fine but you will pay for it 3 times as much. If Omega 3s is your reason for eating fish, you can also go for combination of Algae Oil and Flax oil and you'l be fine.

agreed Superfoods are highly overrated especially with the number of nutrients marketers claim they contain. Different countries would have different staple foods and there is this trend that if it comes from the amazon forest or mountains, it has to be exceptional. Where Europe has blueberries, South America has Acaii. Where Europe has buckwheat, Asia has brown rice and South America has quinoa. Where Europe has beetroot, Peru has Maca. Different people have different foods that have historically ensured a decent proportion of their calories. But now with the endless exploitation of our western countries we have turned these into "super foods" and are selling them for excessive prices. Most of those foods are not worth the carbon footprint and can easily be replaced by local foods. So many people even on this forum are afraid of legumes for example where they easily beat any powders out there. You don't have to eat chia, walnuts grow all over the place and flax is as cheap to grow as sunflowers.

Sibo, dysbiosis, gut permeability, fungal overgrowth, candida and all sorts of other digestive issues. Intolerances generally are not an immune problem but a digestive one but it is individual and can be a combination of multiple things.

I did suffer from asthma, allergies and few depressive episodes in the past but managed to get on the top of them. No my place to comment on Leo's health problems, he does not want people speculating on that.

or go for plant-based one like Vivo Life who publish their own heavy metal results online and use mostly natural dried ingredients like reishi and turmeric

This is completely irrelevant. Legumes have been part of human diet since the time of ancient Egypt. If they were toxic we would have found out by now. Autoimmune are a modern thing caused by our toxic lifestyles including excessive consumption of animal products. Phytic acis has actually been associated with protection from cancer and tumour forming. careful with sourcing facts on paleo forums, extremely biased information. Read this. True that most of the evidence is in-vitro but it is a beginning and we need further investigation. Phytic acid is thrown out as some sort of deadly substance where it can actually be helpful. EDIT: forgot to mention. You can reduce phytic acid by soaking, cooking properly or sprouting. again, not true. This (link) is a large systematic study pooling 64 studies that associated oats and cardiovascular disease, majority of which show beneficial effect. Not that cardiovascular diseases are closely linked to blood sugar balance as diabetes and insulin resistance are one of the key contributors to atherosclerosis meaning if your blood sugar is disrupted you have higher chance of having heart attack or stroke prematurely. There is no evidence to any of these claims, again more paleo forum nonsense. Here is a meta analysis (pooling multiple study data). They found that oat betaglucans had no effect on fasting insulin levels or HbA1C (glycated hemoglobin is a long-term marker of blood sugar balance). So it mean oats do not significantly improve blood sugar but they don't make it worse either. Nobody eats oats alone, people eat it with berries, nuts and seeds all shown to improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar balance and reducing risk of diabetes btw Mark Hyman is one of the most biased sources you can have. He has been called out for making dangerous and pseudoscientific claims, demonising fruits and vegetables and promoting his cancer causing diet. Him and Atkins are not that different and we know that Atkins is a heart disease diet.

@Austin Actualizing there is lots but this is the only one i trust and have experimented with

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^ seconded, even those of us in relationships are interested in this. + I'd love life Q&A. How about 2 hours of questions & answers * also any sort of rant would be a nice relaxing topic

@StudentOfLeove

This is a completely new dimension of toxic orange

Your liver makes ca.1g of cholesterol per day plus every cell in the body makes a little bit for its own needs. It can be helpful to get a little extra cholesterol from diet to support steroidogenesis but most people eat too much cholesterol already. In terms of saturated fats, there is very little physiological benefits from eating large amounts and you can probably meet your needs from eating plant sources of fat, maybe an occasional egg or fish.

you have to account for combination of macros & micros as well as potential damage and pitfalls. I can see a lot of pitfalls eating liver especially from non-organic sources which is where most livers come from. A pound of beans won't harm you, a pound of liver can. Kale is alright, but it has no macronutrients and eggs are not as dense, hardly comparable to something like pinto beans. Beans have a bit of everything on the top they are great source of protein and carbohydrates + they have lots of fibre and are prebiotics for your gut + they have no cholesterol and saturated fats. Flax are kinda ok for cholesterol modification but the effects are low comparing to legumes. Legumes have lots of great phytochemicals that specifically work on modifying markers of cardiovascular health. Check out this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5713300/ None of the expensive superfoods come even close to this and yet people pay so much money for crap like spirulina and acai I'd say the two complement each other nicely since beans have no fatty acids

https://cronometer.com/ Set your age, weight and height and it will do the hard work for you. I don't know of any online free platform that does the job better. The nutrition information of all foods are trustworthy and verified against various governmental bodies https://cronometer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018239472-Data-Sources

Lentils , beans and oats??? Oh cmon !! Legumes are THE MOST nutritionally dense food on the planet (pound-for-pound) Oats are beautiful blood sugar balancing food with exceptional effect on high LDL cholesterol

Growth factors, bovine sex hormones, heavy metals, chemicals, thickeners, additives, colourings, sweeteners and all sort of crap.

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Frozen is a usually better alternative with berries. Often picked at peak of ripeness and flash-freezing preserves most water-soluble vitamins. Minerals are always retained. I always just add them to a bit of warm water and this way you defreeze and wash at the same time. Takes a bit longer but you'll save money on buying frozen berries. You also minimise all the additional handling and picking as frozen once packaged don't get touched by anyone. Don't bother with vinegar, you cannot really remove pesticides from the fruits, it is located inside the structure of the berry and can't be removed. Benefits of berries outweigh the cost of any pesticides so it is still a good idea to eat them. Have organic if possible but if not, non-organic are still ok.

Reading either (or both) of the two below can help you crack this conundrum. Don Miller's - Building a Story Brand or Seth Godin's - This Is Marketing Essentially it is not about what you know or how knowledgable you are but what people are willing to pay you for. There can be a big gap between the two. Basically you need to find your own niche market and create an avatar of your ideal client. The person who will travel countries to go and see you. The one who will love everything you produce and spread the word to other people. It is a grandiose goal to want to serve everyone and to change the world and while the intention is good and genuine it may as well be a pipe dream. I am not saying "don't be a dreamer", rather I am saying "start small and build up" Think about what is the smallest viable market you can serve and define them perfectly and clearly. That is a good start. Always remember that the goal here is to serve other people. You are providing a service that is specifically for them. It is tailored exactly to their needs and requirements and because they are your ideal client, they will love you for it. If somebody doesn't like it and they criticise you, that's ok...it was never meant to be for them. Those people are not your market and their opinion does not matter. Anyways, rather than listening to me read the above books, these guys are geniuses in conscious and honourable marketing.

I think what Tim Ferris sees is that fruit is just a bunch of sugar wrapped in colourful peels. He can't be blamed for this because this is not his expertise but he shouldn't be bashing on nature's most healing foods just because he has an uneducated opinion on it. There is a difference between sucralose (white table sugar) you get in mars bars and chocolate and the types of sugars you get in apple. I think most people afraid of fruit fail to make this basic distinction. In nutrition, when we say sugar we mean glucose, the smallest and the most foundational unit of carbohydrate molecules. Glucose is essential for your body to create energy. Your brain prefers glucose (although it can also run on ketones) and so do your muscles and most cells. Glucose is the easiest source to burn. It is a clean fuel that does not create a lot of waste residue such as when you burn protein for energy. As such fruits provide the cleanest and most rapidly available source of energy. But besides some essential vitamins a& fibre that you can indeed get from vegetables, fruit contains cocktails of phytochemicals and polyphenols. These cannot be found anywhere else at least not in such amounts. These are substances we buy in pills nowadays because we believe we can isolate them and used them to our benefit, although that is rarely the case. You would have heard of examples of these: resveratrol, quercetin, anthocyanidins, proanthocyanidins, malvidin, kaempferol, carotenoids etc. There are hundreds of these and we don't know most of them. These chemicals can act beneficially to different systems in the human body. They heal tissues, support brain, strengthen immunity, clear out cholesterol, dump inflammation, strengthen the heart muscle, get rid of free radicals..... You won't find any phytochemicals in animal foods so focusing solely on macros and micros is missing the whole picture. There is also the energetic/vibrational component of fruits. I don't know too much about this but it appears that fruits also feed the energetic body, not just the physical one and we know that lot of diseases that cannot be traced to physical imbalances are caused by a wounded energetic body. I know this sounds pseudoscientific and I can't really prove this in any way but I do believe this to be the case.

@Enlightenment wow nice find! Never seen such a comprehensive comparison. What's their source?

And losing your health as well I'd say. Anyone who tells you fruit is bad for you because of sugar is completely clueless about nutrition.