Good to hear from Dr. Fung😊. I try to stick with whole foods, and I love beans, which are carb heavy but also high in fiber . I figure they are a good substitute for eating bread and processed snack food. Lots of times I eat taco meat, black beans, salsa and veggies. Little or no rice, and no taco shells. Very filling and the net carbs for the omad are low.
One of my many questions is something that the Doc has spoken to a little bit in another YT vid. It is about knowing when you are fasting too much. From what I can tell, if there are stories about people fasting for over one hundred days, then there really is no way to over fast unless you simply do not have the body fat. I like fasting for many different things. There really is a long list of very significant life quality factors that fasting can increase and possibly introduce. So I am a big fan of the challenges. It is not something you can do right out of the gates without challenges. I am getting to the point where I am within ten pounds of my lowest possible healthy weight if I still want to be active and toned. This is totally foreign territory for me basically since I was a toddler in the seventies. I have had SAD, sugary, starchy diet disease since puberty basically. I started down this path a little over a year ago simply by deciding to take extra virgin olive oil, one or two oz's a day. one before breakfast and one before lunch. It added good fat and curbed the cravings big time. Coupled with serious walking in the warm Minnesota months. I didn't get into keto/fasting until a couple months ago. Since then however, I noticed that the weight I was losing was different somehow. I noticed how the loose skin became much more noticeable. I guess the fasting is a major factor, but I think getting serious about sugar and processed carb cutting is also huge. Started at 220, now at 160. 5'11". I have health problems. I am learning that the medical industrial complex may be against me when it comes to "total" cholesterol and getting off statins. I am coming to learn that the fatty liver test may allow a fatty liver to be considered "normal". Even though my HDL crawled up to 50, after being below 40, it is still too low. Major changes that I have seen is the weight, losing 2.5 sizes around waist, trygs came way down and HDL went up. I am weaning myself off, actually I have weaned myself off of statins and I have informed the doc. LDL's went up, but I am not worried. From what I hear from objective voices online, it is not that big of a deal especially in comparison to the benefits of the improved factors.
The ldl going up is unhealthy in the context of inflammation. Of your triglycerides are low ie less than 100, and your hdl higher, the higher ldl doesn't seem to be pathogenic.
@@iss8504 thank you. I gather you mean that LdL is not bad per se when inflammation is not present and high, or not well controlled triglycerides is a marker of inflammation.
Good to hear from Dr. Fung😊.
I try to stick with whole foods, and I love beans, which are carb heavy but also high in fiber . I figure they are a good substitute for eating bread and processed snack food. Lots of times I eat taco meat, black beans, salsa and veggies. Little or no rice, and no taco shells. Very filling and the net carbs for the omad are low.
One of my many questions is something that the Doc has spoken to a little bit in another YT vid. It is about knowing when you are fasting too much. From what I can tell, if there are stories about people fasting for over one hundred days, then there really is no way to over fast unless you simply do not have the body fat.
I like fasting for many different things. There really is a long list of very significant life quality factors that fasting can increase and possibly introduce. So I am a big fan of the challenges. It is not something you can do right out of the gates without challenges. I am getting to the point where I am within ten pounds of my lowest possible healthy weight if I still want to be active and toned. This is totally foreign territory for me basically since I was a toddler in the seventies. I have had SAD, sugary, starchy diet disease since puberty basically. I started down this path a little over a year ago simply by deciding to take extra virgin olive oil, one or two oz's a day. one before breakfast and one before lunch. It added good fat and curbed the cravings big time. Coupled with serious walking in the warm Minnesota months. I didn't get into keto/fasting until a couple months ago. Since then however, I noticed that the weight I was losing was different somehow. I noticed how the loose skin became much more noticeable. I guess the fasting is a major factor, but I think getting serious about sugar and processed carb cutting is also huge.
Started at 220, now at 160. 5'11". I have health problems. I am learning that the medical industrial complex may be against me when it comes to "total" cholesterol and getting off statins. I am coming to learn that the fatty liver test may allow a fatty liver to be considered "normal". Even though my HDL crawled up to 50, after being below 40, it is still too low.
Major changes that I have seen is the weight, losing 2.5 sizes around waist, trygs came way down and HDL went up. I am weaning myself off, actually I have weaned myself off of statins and I have informed the doc. LDL's went up, but I am not worried. From what I hear from objective voices online, it is not that big of a deal especially in comparison to the benefits of the improved factors.
The ldl going up is unhealthy in the context of inflammation. Of your triglycerides are low ie less than 100, and your hdl higher, the higher ldl doesn't seem to be pathogenic.
@@iss8504 thank you. I gather you mean that LdL is not bad per se when inflammation is not present and high, or not well controlled triglycerides is a marker of inflammation.
Loved the summary at the end, eating more home cooked food and spacing eating has really benefitted my health and waistline.