The war on cows is a war on us. Meat consumption is correlated with reduced heart disease.
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I lift 4 days a week and have never experienced such an explosion in strength, growth of muscle mass, energy, and overall health until I switched up my diet, adding in more fats, keeping protein high, and much less carbs. I eat very little carbs now, and when I do it’s typically just a couple slices of lower carb bread, fruit, or honey.
My diet primarily consists of ribeye (or NY Strip) steaks, lamb burgers, bison burgers, pasture raised eggs, cheese (goat cheese is amazing), dairy, grass fed butter, grass fed ghee, fruit, honey, mushrooms, MCT oil, and once in awhile potatoes. I get almost everything from local farmers markets.
But if grandma makes one of them delicious pies for a special occasion, you can bet your ass I’m eating it.
nice ! I think i'll try out that diet.
I envy you. I used to eat 2 ribeyes/week + burgers and a little chicken. Plus butter, cheese, all the good stuff. Until last year when I almost got called home for a 95% blocked right coronal artery. 2 stents, 25 lbs, and a year later, I'm running the equivalent of 6 X 5Ks per week and lifting. But now I'm eating mostly grains, veggies and fruits with a little turkey and one modest serving of beef per week - I get 4 servings outta 16 oz ribeye now, not one. Unfortunately not everyone can stick to an Adkins like diet. As much as I'd like it, my genetics don't.
That's very interesting. I need to study this topic a bit more, but I do keep stumbling over stories and studies that point towards the idea of red meats/healthy fats causing clogged arteries (due to high cholesterol) being a somewhat of a lie. Mega-agriculture with grains/wheat/seed oils and sugar have been pushed so hard over the last 100 years in the USA. With that being said, it sounds like you do have a good diet with mixing in veggies, fruits, some meats, and exercise.
Stan Efferding is a prime example of this as many people follow his Vertical Diet and their overall blood markers and health improve, even dudes well into their 50s/60s. Red meat, white rice, fruits, yogurt, eggs, cheese, fish, olive oil, cranberry juice, spinach, sweet potatoes, carrots, nuts, and bone broth is what the vertical diet primarily consists of... and avoid grains, wheat, bread, pasta, cereal, oats, processed vegetable oil, brown rice, high FODMAP foods, sugar, sugar alcohol, legumes.
It may also be worth looking a bit into the role of Vitamin D + Vitamin K2 + Calcium. I have seen some interesting resources about calcification due to being deficient in Vitamin K2.
But like you said, genetics can likely play a huge role here. I also think a balance, such as adding in fruits, honey, nuts, vegetables, and exercise is extremely important as well. I am not a huge fan of the diets like Adkins/Keto where people just start slamming anything as long as its full of fats. Fruits, nuts, honey, and some vegetables are excellent for you. And most important of all - keeping your body moving/exercise/lifting.
And one key factor which IMO makes more of a difference than all of the above - portion control. My primary diet consists of morning juice - beets, carrots, apples, oranges, blueberries, and celery plus protein powder. Snacks are nuts usually. Lunch is small - sometimes a sandwich with a single slice of meat and cheese and more veggies. Dinner is usually a grain, maybe a protein, and veggies. It's hard to avoid bread, but when we eat bread, it better not have more than 4 ingredients in it - fresh bread or I don't eat it. And the once or twice we eat out per week, we split our meals. Also, anyone drinking diet sodas needs to stop now. Same for regular soda too. All toxins.
We're all very different in metabolism. Just an off the top of my head comparison between healthy vegan Indians and healthy fat eating Inuit shows that we are somewhat adapted for out historical environment.
I maintain good health on a nearly vegan diet. I'm muscular and quite intelligent. I think I'm built in a way that I can live on that nutritionally poorer diet, but I know that not everybody else is.
Once size fits all is not true.
No doubt about that. There is also a lot of science regarding blood type and diet, in that certain blood types should eat/avoid certain foods. Atkins may work for someone without a cholesterol issue, but not for those that have one (me). Thankfully, a low dose statin that doesn't mess with my ligaments plus a sensible (mostly vegetarian) diet works for me. The hardest part is getting enough protein. I'm now 5'9" and 170 lbs and pretty muscular, especially for my age. People usually don't think I'm in my mid 50s, early 40s is the general guess. Good genes, other than being a triglyceride factory.
I'm a B negative I believe.
I'm a similar height and weight to you, just nearly a decade younger. I also have people believing I am younger than I am, even though my hair is thin these days.
I sometimes get a bit of psoriasis and a bit of arthritis in my previously injured joints.
My blood pressure and heart rate are low. I think I am quite lucky with my genes, apart from a bit of epilepsy and autism and autism has its uses.
you are draining your body. you will feel the effects eventually
I have upped my protein intake and lowered my carbs and sugar. I take lots of vitamins and supplements and my health has definitely improved. I sometimes do one meal a day. I'm not saying I wouldn't be healthier on a carnivore diet, I don't know. It's just that I can tolerate a poorer diet for a long time.
you were eating plant oils which gave you the blocked artery. is my guess
I'm pretty much all olive oil and a little vegetable oil. Mayo and butter is now plant based too. Nothing fried except occasional fries. All of my values are normal as of last blood test 2 weeks ago.
Some people can last 10 years on plant oils before they start to crumble. I am not telling you what to do. I just hope you will be careful.