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1/ So, I'd mostly always been relatively thin, faintly athletic. But, I was starving all the time, often w brain fog if it ate the wrong things for too many meals, & I couldn't breathe through my nose for days after eating some foods. &, low mental/physical energy, slow healing.
2/ Eventually, I lost most of my allergies from meditation, and I could eat as much pizza and ice cream as I wanted and still breathe fine at night. And, so I did, for a while. The physical and mental energy plus fast healing were amazing, but I started gaining weight.
3/ And, insulin resistance is weird. There was this background hunger, and I had to keep eating and eating (and gaining weight) to keep up my (amazing) energy and fast healing. I didn't gain *that* much weight, but I freaked out my girlfriend.
4/ I had previously done a gazillion hours of nutrition/metabolism research, so I drew on that plus contemporary internet buzz, which I had enough knowledge to filter. I cut out milk protein and non-whole-grains from my diet.
5/ I started to lose weight, but I had so much trouble sleeping. I added large amounts of collagen protein to my diet. I haven't looked at the pathways, but presumably I was facilitating serotonin production, to compensate for the removal of fast carbs. I could sleep again.
6/ No milk protein plus only whole grains keeps insulin down. Balancing e.g. muscle meat with plenty of collagen (changes protein balance) evens out lots of metabolic pathways. Non-rancid flaxseed (plus low-mercury fish) for essential fatty acids.
7/ MCT oil (three lengths not two) plus butter gives you fats of many different lengths, for steady energy via a spread of self-tuning metabolic pathways. Whole-grain rice plus a little bit of fruit is plenty of carbs.
8/ Plenty of salt conserves potassium and covers chloride. So fruit, greens, if necessary, and maybe a little bit of potassium citrate if you need more potassium. Then you just need magnesium and calcium to finish off electrolytes--brazil nuts and, say, some bone-in oily fish.
9/ I take a half- to eighth-dose of a complete, "mostly whole-food/natural" multivitamin on most days. If you become sensitive, you can titrate it. I find it obviously useful. I suspect overdose is what might make multivitamins seemingly cause premature death.
10/ So that's infinite stable mental energy (for thinking and meditation), stable weight (as long as even just a little exercise), restful sleep, minimal hunger, everything tastes amazing, and no food cravings. It takes a few months for everything to settle down.
11/ I may fall off the wagon and need to do more tweaking. Sometimes I don't get enough magnesium and start casting about for magic food. And, I can't figure out why I sometimes crave crushed red pepper. Also, meditation is still revealing immune system and taste/craving errors.
12/ If you change your activity levels or exercise habits, all your steady-state micronutrient and macronutrient preferences move and your tastes and portion preferences change, with a transient component and a new asymptotically approached steady-state component.
13/13 Keep insulin down, exercise a bit, get your essential fatty acids, get your amino acid ratios right, get your electrolytes and micronutrients, and things mostly take care of themselves. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice.
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