I've been enjoying following your blog over the past few months. Thanks for the excellent content! Can you please explain the preference for sugar over starch in this experiment? Seems like starch would be preferable to at least slightly blunt the blood glucose spikes. Is it the protein content of high starch foods like rice and potatoes that you are trying to avoid?
I've been enjoying following your blog over the past few months. Thanks for the excellent content! Can you please explain the preference for sugar over starch in this experiment? Seems like starch would be preferable to at least slightly blunt the blood glucose spikes. Is it the protein content of high starch foods like rice and potatoes that you are trying to avoid?
I think he thinks along the lines of Ray Peat here: starches take longer to digest and have more protein (8-10% instead of fruit's nearly 0%).
Since the goal is to get blood glucose back to baseline in the afternoon fasting period, starches could take too long. I've seen this myself, when I was doing the rice diet a couple months ago my glucose was over 100 all day long.
In the fruit portion of the honey diet, it was usually back down within only 1h.
In a sense, the glucose spikes are a point: he wants the glucose to go up & down rapidly, instead of it taking longer.
I've been enjoying following your blog over the past few months. Thanks for the excellent content! Can you please explain the preference for sugar over starch in this experiment? Seems like starch would be preferable to at least slightly blunt the blood glucose spikes. Is it the protein content of high starch foods like rice and potatoes that you are trying to avoid?
I just copied Anabology's protocol here: https://longestlevers.com/fat-loss/honey-diet.html
I think he thinks along the lines of Ray Peat here: starches take longer to digest and have more protein (8-10% instead of fruit's nearly 0%).
Since the goal is to get blood glucose back to baseline in the afternoon fasting period, starches could take too long. I've seen this myself, when I was doing the rice diet a couple months ago my glucose was over 100 all day long.
In the fruit portion of the honey diet, it was usually back down within only 1h.
In a sense, the glucose spikes are a point: he wants the glucose to go up & down rapidly, instead of it taking longer.
This sounds like the carb cycling diet compressed into one day....?
Yea, something like that