Bcoulal's Journal

The LCHF diet can make you smarter. I'm always an advocate of feeding those neurons first. Click on this link: How Eating Fat Can Make You Smarter

Drinking tap water, more harmful than you think.

Which water is the healthiest to drink? For those who think reverse osmosis filtered tap water is, incorrect. Not even spring water compares. Nothing beats holy water (distilled water).

The chemicals in tap water can cause cancer. For those of you who approved your city water treatment plants to recently allow fluoride as an added treatment (as if it didn't have 100s of other chemicals in it already), you're signing your own future health demise and death warrants. Ignorance isn't bliss, it's karma waiting to happen.

Check out this cool old school science class on the different versions of water, where it's been before it reached your mouth, and how it affects your body when ingested. Isn't it time to set your mind free from ignorance?

There's no such thing as good or bad cholesterol, all cholesterol is good.

The only reason people perceive cholesterol as bad is because Ancel Keys' flawed studies in the 1950's on different types of fats caused society to demonize fat and reject cholesterol as a necessary nutrient in life. Since that study, million of products containing the label "low fat," has been produced and billions have been made in profit. The sneaky thing about a "low fat" products is that it's high in processed sugar and carbs, which is what's causing most people to drop like flies today, whether it be diabetes type II, cancer, or heart disease.

Doctor Peter Attia explains how cholesterol works and how cholesterol is wrongly accused of causing heart disease when in fact it's sugar and phytosterols from certain starches like corn (which is one of the few that has the highest amount of naturally occurring phytosterols) that prevents the absorption cholesterol, and misleads low-density lipoproteins into the walls of your arteries.

The problem with phytosterols is that these plant molecules are structurally similar to the body's cholesterol, when they are consumed they compete with the body's normal cholesterol for absorption in the digestive system, thus impeding or even preventing absorption of normal cholesterol and where does that cholesterol go if its absorption is being blocked by phytosterols? In the artery walls of course. Every person that has been examined with arteries "clogged" with low-density lipoproteins containing cholesterol have always found high levels of phytosterols as well. Go figure.

Peter Attia - The Straight Dope on Cholesterol and Diet.

Myth: The brain can only use glucose for fuel.

Fact: The brain can function on both ketone bodies and glucose. In a completely keto-adapted state, the brain can use up to 75% of its energy in the form of ketones.

The brain can use up to 120g of glucose during a normal carb-addiction state, but it only uses 20% of your body's total metabolism. In a keto-adapted state, you only need 25% of the total glucose usage while the other 75% can come from ketones. If you do the math, subtract 75% energy in the form of ketones from 20% of the total energy used as glucose (120g) and it would equate to about 30g of carbs a day.

The whole point of eating 30-50g of carbs on a ketogenic diet is to sustain the brain with the other 25% of energy in the form of glucose while the rests of the body loses excess bodyfat, but there are other ways to get glucose. Carbs aren't the only way. See below why.

Myth_02: You have to eat carbs to provide a steady supply of glucose to your brain.

Fact: Your body is an evolutionary marvel surviving millions of years adapting to unpredictable harsh environmental variables in almost every corner of the globe. Face it, we're survivors, otherwise we'd have been in same fate as the dinosaurs, long extinct.

It can fast, it can eat fat and lose weight, and it can eat only protein and synthesize its own glucose using gluconeogenesis without ever touching carbs. Should your body not find any glucose due to weather constraints or unforeseen and unexpected circumstances, you can hunt/fish and survive on animal protein and fat until the next spring.

That's how the Eskimos did it, before North America was invaded and their food became westernized. As a matter of fact, click on the link and read this Discovery Magazine article "The Inuit Paradox: How can people who gorge on fat and rarely see a vegetable be healthier than we are?."

You must do more than just detox your body, you must also detox your mind, as that's the center of your entire being. Without a clean mind, your body will follow suit as the body is essentially a physical extension of the mind.