I read a few of his articles. It's quite crazy. He stopped eating PUFAs, his body temperature came up a lot, from 97 to 98.5F (Broda!) indicating that his metabolism fixed itself over a couple of years.
He hasn't touched a PUFA since, and his BMI magically came down from 28 to 23.
I suspect that everything else he's been doing is completely irrelevant except to introduce noise. I couldn't find a graph anywhere, which is a shame. I'd love to see his weight history with all his various experiments labelled.
Congratulations by the way! Stellar results, it's just rather hard to say what caused them.
I'm currently really really interested in the idea of PUFAs as an unnatural food that sods up our systems (and in particular dysregulates the homeostat that regulates weight), but I don't quite buy it, and I don't want to believe anything that isn't actually true, so anything you can tell me for or against that idea I'd be most grateful for.
When did you cut the PUFAs? Do you remember? You seem to have taken the idea very seriously for a while. The temperature rise over a couple of years is pretty much exactly as I'd predict if the PUFA cutting was at the start of that period. Did you feel better as a result?
This is a good summary. I’ve been reading MAS for a long time. He is a trailblazer. He is aware of and thinks through most of the trends in this diet fitness space. A good guy.
- You didn't lose weight until 2015, when you additionally went on the potato/modern peasant diet?
If so, that would be compatible with the observations from r/saturatedfat that some people can lose weight just by cutting out PUFAs, but many need to restrict protein or even stay HCLF or HFLC on top.
I think that PUFAs, by clogging up the metabolism, might cause a sort of type 2 thyroid problem / thyroid resistance. So symptoms but normal blood tests.
I read a few of his articles. It's quite crazy. He stopped eating PUFAs, his body temperature came up a lot, from 97 to 98.5F (Broda!) indicating that his metabolism fixed itself over a couple of years.
He hasn't touched a PUFA since, and his BMI magically came down from 28 to 23.
I suspect that everything else he's been doing is completely irrelevant except to introduce noise. I couldn't find a graph anywhere, which is a shame. I'd love to see his weight history with all his various experiments labelled.
What's the GF in Peat GF?
Congratulations by the way! Stellar results, it's just rather hard to say what caused them.
I'm currently really really interested in the idea of PUFAs as an unnatural food that sods up our systems (and in particular dysregulates the homeostat that regulates weight), but I don't quite buy it, and I don't want to believe anything that isn't actually true, so anything you can tell me for or against that idea I'd be most grateful for.
When did you cut the PUFAs? Do you remember? You seem to have taken the idea very seriously for a while. The temperature rise over a couple of years is pretty much exactly as I'd predict if the PUFA cutting was at the start of that period. Did you feel better as a result?
Did you ever have any 'thyroid' symptoms https://stopthethyroidmadness.com/symptoms/ (to me these are 'slow metabolism' symptoms).
Have you seen any weight gains since cutting out the PUFAs, or has it been a fairly monotonic decrease ever since?
This is a good summary. I’ve been reading MAS for a long time. He is a trailblazer. He is aware of and thinks through most of the trends in this diet fitness space. A good guy.
Definitely fascinating to read his decades long journey and view on various diet ideas coming and going.
Is it fair to say that:
- You avoided PUFAs strictly since 2013
- Some of your hypo-ish symptoms improved (temp)
- You didn't lose weight until 2015, when you additionally went on the potato/modern peasant diet?
If so, that would be compatible with the observations from r/saturatedfat that some people can lose weight just by cutting out PUFAs, but many need to restrict protein or even stay HCLF or HFLC on top.
> I had 2 thyroid panels and both were perfect.
Oooh! Why were you getting thyroid tests? Did your doctor think you had thyroid symptoms?
I think that PUFAs, by clogging up the metabolism, might cause a sort of type 2 thyroid problem / thyroid resistance. So symptoms but normal blood tests.