David has been featured on the blog before under the testimonial David’s Story. He’s lost 40 lbs on a strict version of The Croissant Diet in 7 months while eating 5 pints of Haagen-Dazs per week, as well as croissant sandwiches and cheeseburgers. David had tried keto and vegan diets in the past with less …
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Introduction My thesis in this series is that humans get fat NOT from sloth and gluttony, human characteristics wrapped in morality and asceticism. They in fact get fat from torpor, an underlying metabolic change triggered by consuming linoleic acid. In my previous article I introduced the concepts of this series as well as the idea …
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Introuction to Torpor, Sloth an Gluttony This is the first post in my new “Sloth and Gluttony” series where I will be arguing that the obesity epidemic was NOT caused by billions of people around the globe simultaneously becoming slothful and gluttonous. I will argue that in fact the reasons are biological and evolutionarily conserved. …
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The title of “High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden” makes it unambiguous as to the authors feelings about why the Tsimane have high metabolic rates. They include this graph to show just how unique the Tsimane are. I recently wrote about the plunge in American Metabolic rates in women between …
As a biologist, I always think in evolutionary terms. All mammals share a single ancestor who had developed a warm-blooded metabolism. Many mammals hibernate: bears, ground squirrels, skunks, bats, anteaters, etc. To hibernate, you have to throttle back your warm-blooded metabolism to a torpid one allowing your metabolic rate and body temperature to drop. Since …
Recently I posted an article recommending combining sterculia oil with berberine and/or fish oil as a way to escape torpor. I chose this combination because they mimic the effects of leptin, the hormone produced by our fat cells whose job is to keep us lean but to which most of us are resistant. As discussed …
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Introduction If you follow this blog you probably won’t be SHOCKED that I’m following up Metabolic Rates in American Women Plunged Between 1919 and 1986 with this post. The same group that did the 1986 paper about metabolic rates in women followed it up with a paper about men in 1987.​1​ They conclude, “The classic …
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Intro I have suggested that increased consumption of the Omega 6 polyunsatured fat (PUFA) linoleic acid throughout the 20th century has led to an American population where the majority of us are in a torpor-like state as defined by high levels of stored PUFA in our bodyfat coupled with high expression of the transcription factor …
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Brad’s Daily Recipe Introduction I’d like to reach my target weight this year or next, but more importantly I’d like to understand HOW I get there as the journey continues. I’m not interested in losing weight by starving myself, I’d like to FIX my metabolism. Many (most?) of us are in a torpor-like state as …
Inroduction So I have a fancy metabolic tester to track my metabolic rate. It’s honestly pretty amazing if you have $7500 burning a hole on your pocket. Sometimes they have deals and I’m an affiliate so if you give them my code “BMarsh”, you’ll get $600 off. If you can’t afford a metabolic tester, here’s …
Study Design I started my sterculia oil (SO) trial with a 16 week n=1 safety trial. I took a lot of the oil – 4400 mg which is 1 tsp daily – for 8 weeks. I would NOT take this much but I wanted to make sure it was safe. Then I didn’t take any …
Introduction It’s time for the season finale! Next week I will pivot to discussing my personal results of using sterculia oil to inhibit SCD1. In this post I will summarize my posts on the topic to date before bringing the thread to a near term conclusion using an example that in retrospect will be so …
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Overview Very Long Chain Fatty Acids (VLCFA) I’ve become very interested in very long chain fats – those weird ones that you ignored on your OmegaQuant test. Things like behenic acid, a 22 carbon length saturated fat. In Good PPAR, Bad PPAR, I pointed out that there is a positive feedback loop where too much …
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I’ve been promoting the OmagaQuant complete test as a way to calculate your Desaturase Indix (DI or DI18) to know your SCD1 levels. This is calculated by dividing your oleic acid (18:1) by your stearic acid (18:0). There are a lot of questions about what people’s numbers SHOULD look like. Ideally your DI should be …
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Overview Introduction I introduced PPAR alpha in Dietary Monounsaturated Fat as an altogether good actor, doing things like increasing the rate of fat burning. The PPAR genes are indeed master metabolic regulators. In this post I’m going to introduce PPAR alpha’s troubled sibling, PPAR gamma. The PPARs are transcription factors, which is to say that …
