Post by purr on May 26, 2023 4:47:04 GMT
PHILOSOPHY ON AN EMPTY STOMACH
To get right into it, it's:
I got to eat.
Few people living in affluent countries like the US know what real hunger feels like. During my own year long exploration of the Ketogenic Diet cuopled with Intermittent Fasting I've come to believe that unlike what popular culture and Hollywood suggest it's not love but hunger which is the most powerful emotion. When we're REALLY hungry everything in our minds focuses on getting food in. Civility, democracy, the greatest freedoms forgeddaboudit! Got to eat. Let's eat the fat politicians first.
INTERMITTENT FAMINES
Silly word play on the practice of not eating (or even 'snacking') in between meals. My bad. Seriously, we know not hunger (hopefully) because none of us reading this thread lived through the horror of a famine.
To refresh my own memory here's the definition of Famine:
A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases.
During The Age of Man, an era going back some 11,700 years Before Present, aka the Anthropocene, the endless recurrence of famines 'intermittent' between the people and cultures of Earth thriving and doing really well for themselves until places and tribes and entire civilizations got hit by catastrofic collapse of the eco system, sun induced droughts, mini ice ages (there was one 1200-1700CE), super volcanism, even cosmic body impact, causing periods with no animals to eat, no crops, no daily bread.
WHEN WE STARVE
One straightforward response by both vulnerable (very young/old/sick) AND young adults in their prime is to die. Millions of Anthropogenic starvation deaths are on record, China repeatedly getting hit the worst, for example 30+ million Chinese dying this time due to bad government during Chairman Mao Zedong's 1958-1962 'Great Leap Forward', an ill conceived plan that basically stopped farmers from farming. Yes, food does not magically appear in supermarkets. It actually comes from dedicated hardworking farmers.
Yet some survived. Miraculously the bloodlines who lived through mankind's famines, our ancestors, seem to have done so by being able to toggle between multiple modes of metabolism. Two big ones are Ketosis (slow longterm fat burning converting into energy) which is the optimum way to deal with starvation as well as its opposite number: Glycemic metabolism (converting sugar into energy) which is how our bodies adapt to times of plenty. That lifesaving capacity to switch between various metabolisms is called metabolic flexibility. It's how we survive on this fickle planet. It's the underlying physiological mechanism making the Keto diet such an amazing adventure.
WHO NEEDS KETO
Nobody invented the Ketogenic diet I'm enjoying so much right now having lost 54lbs without hunger yet at best health since decades. It was discovered accidentally in the UK during the 1920s when doctors found that young children suffering from severe epileptic seizures improved from not eating while unconscious. It was found that entering spontaneously into Ketosis cleared up their epilepsy. Today, based on extensive research, it seems fair to conclude that Keto plus Fasting delivers a wide range of health benefits. Primary benefit for some 350,000yrs BP of Human Time has been to survive famines. Handy bonus is that when we rely once more on high quality grass fed/free range meats and animal fats, wild caught fish and whatever leafy greens we can lay hands on, our bodies appear to switch to pre-historic survival mode. Those lovely nutritious fats help lose superfluous pounds without hunger, while decreasing your chance at dying from stroke, heart attack, liver disease or Diabetes Type-2. It's tech to use (or choose not to use) during times when the Earth allows us to eat without limit. Gorge on sweets and breads and highly processed foods. We are free to eat ourselves to death.
purr
To get right into it, it's:
I got to eat.
Few people living in affluent countries like the US know what real hunger feels like. During my own year long exploration of the Ketogenic Diet cuopled with Intermittent Fasting I've come to believe that unlike what popular culture and Hollywood suggest it's not love but hunger which is the most powerful emotion. When we're REALLY hungry everything in our minds focuses on getting food in. Civility, democracy, the greatest freedoms forgeddaboudit! Got to eat. Let's eat the fat politicians first.
INTERMITTENT FAMINES
Silly word play on the practice of not eating (or even 'snacking') in between meals. My bad. Seriously, we know not hunger (hopefully) because none of us reading this thread lived through the horror of a famine.
To refresh my own memory here's the definition of Famine:
A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases.
During The Age of Man, an era going back some 11,700 years Before Present, aka the Anthropocene, the endless recurrence of famines 'intermittent' between the people and cultures of Earth thriving and doing really well for themselves until places and tribes and entire civilizations got hit by catastrofic collapse of the eco system, sun induced droughts, mini ice ages (there was one 1200-1700CE), super volcanism, even cosmic body impact, causing periods with no animals to eat, no crops, no daily bread.
WHEN WE STARVE
One straightforward response by both vulnerable (very young/old/sick) AND young adults in their prime is to die. Millions of Anthropogenic starvation deaths are on record, China repeatedly getting hit the worst, for example 30+ million Chinese dying this time due to bad government during Chairman Mao Zedong's 1958-1962 'Great Leap Forward', an ill conceived plan that basically stopped farmers from farming. Yes, food does not magically appear in supermarkets. It actually comes from dedicated hardworking farmers.
Yet some survived. Miraculously the bloodlines who lived through mankind's famines, our ancestors, seem to have done so by being able to toggle between multiple modes of metabolism. Two big ones are Ketosis (slow longterm fat burning converting into energy) which is the optimum way to deal with starvation as well as its opposite number: Glycemic metabolism (converting sugar into energy) which is how our bodies adapt to times of plenty. That lifesaving capacity to switch between various metabolisms is called metabolic flexibility. It's how we survive on this fickle planet. It's the underlying physiological mechanism making the Keto diet such an amazing adventure.
WHO NEEDS KETO
Nobody invented the Ketogenic diet I'm enjoying so much right now having lost 54lbs without hunger yet at best health since decades. It was discovered accidentally in the UK during the 1920s when doctors found that young children suffering from severe epileptic seizures improved from not eating while unconscious. It was found that entering spontaneously into Ketosis cleared up their epilepsy. Today, based on extensive research, it seems fair to conclude that Keto plus Fasting delivers a wide range of health benefits. Primary benefit for some 350,000yrs BP of Human Time has been to survive famines. Handy bonus is that when we rely once more on high quality grass fed/free range meats and animal fats, wild caught fish and whatever leafy greens we can lay hands on, our bodies appear to switch to pre-historic survival mode. Those lovely nutritious fats help lose superfluous pounds without hunger, while decreasing your chance at dying from stroke, heart attack, liver disease or Diabetes Type-2. It's tech to use (or choose not to use) during times when the Earth allows us to eat without limit. Gorge on sweets and breads and highly processed foods. We are free to eat ourselves to death.
purr
