DHEA
Pregnenolone
Adrenal Support Supplements
Adrenal Minerals

All from a company called Biomatrix

Just got my cortisol test back and found out I am slightly high but even more so I have a flipped profile. Low in the mornings and high at night.

Would you say this is contributing to stalled fat loss ??

A. Thanks for being awesome.

B. Talk to me about gum. This may be a silly question, but I am willing to sally forth. Listening to (I believe) Podcast 4 you mention the release of insulin when the taste of sweet is introduced to some people (or even the thought). Which makes me wonder about gum and what it does to the body. In a long workday gum can be my only salvation – but – I don’t like it already b/c of the sorbitol and how that impacts the body…

Any thoughts?

Could you comment on biosignature? How is that different then metabolic typing from a psuedoscience point of view? It has been awhile since you attended the biosignature seminar, how has it impacted your clinical practice? Thanks.

Pat

My questions are 1) should I drop the metcons after the strength sessions (they are short, like 10-12 minutes) and 2) in your opinion is this a case where I should maybe play with some sweet potatoes/yams post workout even if the goal is to lean out a bit? I’ve just been hitting about 15 g bcaa and 10 g glutamine and 5 g creatine post workout but I feel like I’m depleting my glycogen stores pretty good with the high rep work.

I am working on fat adaptation The IF solution would definitely solve a lot of my questions. That will be another one to experiment with. The only wrinkles I’ll have there is figuring out how to come up with a breakfast of that size when I’m not travelling via car.

One question – what kind of activities are you doing on the weekend when you’re eating like that?

When would you suggest hitting the snack? Just if I start to feel hungry or something? Obviously, a paleo kit will keep in the heat (it’s very similar to my current solution, so…), and it doesn’t take up much space in the bag at all.

Thanks!

I’ll be posting some recipes and whatnot on there shortly. I got my wife on board so that makes it infinitely easier now.

BTW, I posted a Paleo Primer to send to friends and family on tha basic questions of Paleo. Its aim was kind of take to whole “checkout Robbwolf.com, etc.” and then having no one actually follow up on it. Trying to hold some of my families hands on this whole crazy “eat meat, veggies and fat” deal. You would think that I’m telling them to jump of the Golden Gate Bridge. http://downanddirtypaleo.blogspot.com/2010/01/have-you-ever-eaten-paleo.html

Fat sources aren’t a problem, of course. Really, though, my concerns around a cooler were about smarter carbs. Keeping a salad edible in 100 degree weather seems kind of tough without a cooler. They’re also relatively bulky, and the shooting bag has relatively limited room in it (though I can find solutions for needing more space, too).

I haven’t tried it, yet, but I presume going without carbs all day long isn’t a hot idea – but after all this exposure re: fructose, I’m now questioning fruit as a wise choice for carbs. And I’m not sure where to look for a good “no cooler required” solution. Probably, I’m not being creative enough or something…

I’ve been guilty of over thinking things, too… LOL…

I would recommend becoming fat adapted, then getting familiar with intermittent fasting. On the weekends, I eat a breakfast that consists of one pound of sausage with four duck eggs (these are larger than chicken eggs). The meal last about 12 hours. If you could do something similar, you could get away with bringing very little with you. Maybe a paleo kit as a snack and some coconut water for hydration and electrolytes and you would be set.

Amen. Robb likes to make fun of the fact that I think fructose is evil but the evidence is there support my fear of the stuff.

3) BU/Creatinine = 26.4 (‘normal’ is 6-22) ** so this was flagged as High, although BUN individually was 19 MG/DL (7-25 normal) and Creatinine was 0.72 mg/dL (0.58-1.06 normal)

thx in advance,
Kari

This is why I almost have an aneurysm when some MD or RD, who forgot most of their biochem, tells me or one of our clients hat a ketogenic diet is dangerous. A KD is safer and works better than ANY of the anti-epileptic meds available, yet it is relegated to freak show status.

I think I am one behind on podcasts but I wanted to thank you so much for your discussion on carrots (that they are not evil:). I dropped fruit just wanted to let your readers know that what REALLY helped was having baby carrots to munch on.

Looking forward to this supplement video!

Thanks for being such a great resource. I’ve been skeptical about the Paleo Diet for a while, but I’ve been finding that your and other’s recommendations produce real results especially in regard to improving digestion.

My question? I’d like to put the strict Paleo Diet on trial by doing it for 60 days and doing some before and after tests. Recently I’ve had my neurotransmitters tested, so I think I’ll include that. I’m also interested to know how the diet affects my alkalinity. Would a saliva test be appropriate for this measure? I’m also going to measure body weight, strength, etc. Last bit – would a 60 day trial be long enough to measure a hormonal response if I were to do that? Any suggestions about how to measure the affects of the diet would be appreciated.

I do realize that I’d be one lonely data point in a sea of variables, but that’s how I roll…

TIA+

Is there a benefit to taking the Carlson “Super Omega 3″ fish oil vs “Norwegian Salmon” oil. They’re both 1000mg capsules, with 300epa-200dha in Regular and 360epa-250dha in Salmon. The salmon contains MORE epa-dha overall, but is significantly cheaper. Anyone know why? Have experience?

I’ve subscribed to an email newsletter put out by Dr. Gabe Mirkin for years. Dr. Mirkin is an MD and endurance athlete (a competitive 71 year-old bicyclist). He writes a lot about sports nutrition, and I’ve found that his advice generally runs about 180 degrees from yours. Below is a snippet from today’s email where he cites a new study that shows that a high-carb low-fat diet provides better muscle growth than a low-carb high-fat diet. I’d love to hear your take.

George

Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
January 24, 2010

Obesity and High-Fat Diet May Both Prevent Muscle Growth

A study from the University of California, Davis shows
that a high-fat diet prevents exercising mice from enlarging their
muscles (Journal of Physiology, December 2010). The mice
received either a low fat, high carbohydrate diet or a high fat,
low carbohydrate diet for 14 weeks. Each group was divided into
those who performed progressive resistance exercises with their
plantaris muscles or those that did not do this exercise.
Those who exercised on the low fat, high-carbohydrate diet had
substantially larger muscles than those who exercised on the
high-fat diet. Chemical analysis of their muscles showed that the
high fat diet group had lower levels of polysomes (Akt and S6K1)
necessary for making protein.
If this study can be applied to humans, it will mean that
not only does a high-saturated-fat diet make you fatter, it also
keeps you from enlarging your muscles. We know that both full fat
cells and eating large amounts of saturated fats (the dominant fat
in meat) turns on your immunity to cause inflammation that can
prevent the body from making protein necessary for enlarging
muscles. (Journal of Nutrition, January 2009). A high saturated-fat
diet also blocks insulin receptors and thus prevents your body from
responding to insulin, which is necessary for muscles to heal from
intense workouts. Insulin drives amino acids, the protein building
blocks, into muscles to help them heal faster. Anything that blocks
muscles’ ability to respond to insulin will decrease amino acid
entry into muscles and thus delay healing so you can’t recover as
fast for your next workout. Further journal references and
recommendations can be found at
http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/muscle_growth.html

Thanks for sharing the invaluable knowledge.

I’m trying to wrap my mind around the ‘carbs and protein pwo’ but I’m having trouble thinking of how I might omit the fat. Obviously as Andy has pointed out most protein sources have fat in them anyway, plus unless you straight boil or steam your animal flesh (which don’t produce the optimal results re: taste) you need some source of fat to get your protein source into a cooked form (assuming that you do in fact want to eat it cooked). How do you guys generally negotiate this conundrum?

Great site, great show. Love it. I have a quick question regarding weight loss.

I’m doing PaNu ala PaleoNu.com for five months now. I’ve lost 19kg, but since about 1 month I’m plateauing around 95kg with 29% bf. I still eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, meat or fish with a few vegetables for dinner, and maybe 1-2 bars of 70% chocolate a week. I take fish oil. Lots of Kerrygold grass fed butter and cream. I don’t really train, just the occasional pull-up (can do 13 with kip). What could be the reason for my weight plateau? Is dark chocolate 1-2x per week too much? I don’t think the total calories are too much, when I measure it’s usually between 2000kcal and 2500kcal. Carbs usually below 50.

Any help appreciated. Keep spreading the word. I try to spread it too

I don’t know if you saw this, but this is a story out of Minneapolis. A boy’s epileptic seizures were CURED by changing his diet to a Ketogenic diet. The Dr at the Mayo clinic recommended it and it worked. From more then 100 seizures a day to ZERO.

The main worry from the mom was feeding all the fat to her child. Worried that his cholesterol would skyrocket. It didn’t. Go figure.

What confused me was that the Dr recommend the change to the Ketogenic for kids that don’t respond to medications. Why wouldn’t you prescribe medications for kids where changing their diet doesn’t help? Seems backwards to me.

Anyway – good story.

http://wcco.com/health/high.fat.diet.2.1436243.html

Review – “Sugar: The Bitter Truth ”
I have some notes and a summary from “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” lecture presented by Robert H. Lustig, M.D.,UCSF. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM)

Its about a 1.5 hour long video but really informative.

1) Fructose (Sucrose vs. High Fructose Corn Syrup) consumption has increased in the past 30 years, coinciding with the obesity epidemic.

2) A calorie is not a calorie, and fructose is not glucose.

3) You are NOT what you eat; you are what you DO with what you eat.

4) Hepatic fructose metabolism leads to all the manifestations of the Metabolic Syndrome:
- Hypertension (Through Uric Acid pathway)
- de novo lipogenesis, dyslipidemia, and hepatic steatosis (Through DNL Pathway)
- Inflammation
- Hepatic insulin resistance
- Obesity (Through VLDL transport to Adipose tissue)
- CNS leptin resistance, promoting continuous consumption (Brain is tricked into thinking it is starving and you need more fuel)

5) Fructose ingestion interferes with obesity intervention (The more soft drinks, the less diet and exercise will “work”)

6) Fructose is a chronic hepa-toxin (“alcohol without the buzz”) but the FDA can’t and won’t regulate it. Its up to “Us” to regulate it.

An interesting side note dealt with infant formula. Infant Formula (Similac) contains 43.2% Corn Syrup Solids and 10.3% sugar(sucrose), essentially a “Baby Milkshake”. A comparison would be to Coca Cola at 10.5% sucrose. Literature exists linking the earlier a child is exposed to sugar, the more they will crave it later on in life. Also, there is new literature showing the more sugar a pregnant woman ingests, the more that gets across the placenta causing developmental programming changing the unborn child’s adiposity.

Also, a comparison made again about Soda v. Beer, there is no difference between the amount of calories that reach the liver. Beer Belly = Soda Belly. Would you give your child a beer? Most likely not, but would you have the same resistance to giving them a soda, most likely not. But Soda is Alcohol without the (drunk) buzz.

- Fructose is a Carb
- Fructose is metabolized like Fat (low fat diets aren’t really low fat because the fructose/sucrose doubles as fat. Essentially Low Fat diets ARE ACTUALLY High Fat diets)
- Fructose is a TOXIN

25 y/o male
5’11” 180 pounds
CFT- 800
Fran – 4:17
Murph – 39 flat
10k – 42:08
13.1 m – 1:51:00

Love your site man, thanks for all the time and work. Hopefully I can someday find a way to help or contribute in some way- for now I’ll just try to help other people to the best of my ability using what I learn from you. The second question this pod cast really caught my attention and promted this question.

Question: I have been following an eating model after Mat Lalonde’s for over a month now and really enjoy eating the three basic meals a day on low carb. I found when I eat real low carb I do not have the mid afternoon crash, and I have dropped some body fat down to around 9 or 10%. I train BJJ 3 or 4 times a week and CFSB 2 or 3 times a week mixed in with some daily yoga. I have been paleo for about a year now. I noticed recently my recovery really feels slow and I am staying sorer longer. Typical day looks like this:

(Today)
6:30AM: 5 whole eggs, 3 pieces of thick sliced bacon, half a can of chilled light Thai coconut milk, Vit D, Fish Oil

11:30: 3 small chicken breasts (the size of my palm), 1 red bell pepper, 3 pieces 100% cocoa, Fish Oil

5:00: 3 salmon filets, red cabbage cooked in Olive Oil, and some steamed broccoli. Fish Oil.

6:00- 8:00 Jits

Jits classes are intense, minimum 45 min. rolling. Anyway I am thinking of keeping everything the same and adding a Post workout shake after Jits. I was thinking, and tried it tonight, was 1 scoop BCAAs/Whey (20g protein and 90 cal), 1 cup frozen spinach, ¼ can lite coconut milk, scoop 100 cocoa powder, and generous amount of cinnamon. So total cal looks like 250ish.

Will this be adequate enough for recovery without adding body fat? I like Yams, but I have been doing so well on low carb that it seems wrong to plow down a yam at 8:30 right before bed. I have a high carb day (aim for 200) every Saturday after a long run or endurance WOD (Murph or the like).

Goals are to maintain, or maybe loose, more BF and have proper recovery for Jits and any str gains I can get.

Thanks!

Dave, the thing you seem to be missing is meat. Meat doesn’t go bad that quickly. I know in the modern world peoplle get all jittery about meat that’s been out of the fridge for any time at all, but it just doesn’t. I grew up on a farm, and we had a meat safe for meat. That’s not a refrigerated meat safe – just a wooden box in a place that is permanently shady and well ventilated, with very fine mesh small enough to keep flies out. My grandparents didn’t have a refrigerator until the mid fifties. They were sheep and cattle farmers and ate meat twice or thrice a day, so would keep a whole slaughtered beast hanging up in a cool killing shed until they had finished eating it.

Nowadays, I cook extra meat for dinner each night, refrigerate it overnight, pull it out of the fridge at 7am in the morning, put it in my bag, and eat it at meal times throughout the day. Still fresh and delicious at 5pm. Rare roast beef and everything. Chicken is great, so long as it was properly cooked in the first instance. I’ve been doing this for years, and haven’t died of botulism or salmonella yet. Not even in hint of food poisoning.

Regards,
Anthony White

I’m a little behind in your podcasts but I came across the one where you’re talking about too much Vit E wrt antioxidants and fish oil. The fish oil I’m taking has 400mg EPA/200mg DHA, leaving 400mg of whatever else in there, among others, natural tocopherols ( I believe this is VIT E). They don’t state how much though (no idea if it’s 30IU VITE, more). I think part of that 400mg is glycerin, gelatin, etc. Should I not get too worried here? I’m knocking back about 3 capsules per meal…

thanks in advance,

Roelant

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/champ+Brock+Lesnar+says+Canadian+health+care+like+Third+World+country/2464293/story.html

Question: I have a two year old daughter and my wife and I are pretty much paleo with her per Cordain’s recommendations in his FAQ section (for sure gluten free). How much DHA for her. Also, my wife is having our second child in a month, and I understand she should also be on DHA instead of regular fish oil. How much for her with the whole breast feeding thing?

I sent you an email last week but I might have left a couple things out. So i´ll simplify and add at the same time. I´m in a situation where I have practically no time, and really only time for breakfast and lunch. Furthermore, I don´t have access to the best carbodohydrate selection (I´m in the Dominican Republic). So the question is it alright to do intermittent fasting every day, as in eating only breakfast and lunch but getting all my zone blocks in? The other is, the one meal that I have after working out, should I not have my fat blocks there and up the carb blocks or should I just do everything even? Any ideas that you have on what I should do would be great. Thanks!

@ Robb: I’m still having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea that people actually believe the earth is flat, but, I shouldn’t I teach high school kids and they will believe just about anything!

Keep up the good work, I’m a proud member of this cult and I can’t wait until you take over the world. Flat or otherwise.

In the end, you simply can’t change someone’s religion for them. In most cases, I figure, why try? It’s just energy you’re dumping into a black hole rather than something useful… (and, in basically any situation, beliefs like those of the FES start to resemble religion, so…)

3 things:

1. What are your thoughts on krill versus fish oil? I now take krill because it smells less, no burps, and I can take a lot less for the same impact.

2. You often say things like “lean out” – what do you define as “lean”?

3. Suggest you consider putting up a paypal donation button – I for one would be very happy to pay for the information and entertainment you provide. The guy over at nephropal has just done this in a classy and sensible way. Nothing wrong will bringing in some extra cash, right?

d-?-Hydroxybutyrate protects neurons in models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease

http://www.pnas.org/content/97/10/5440

Get with Dutch and come to Fort Worth for a workshop

Cheers,

Ronin