The eye opener for me was to think of the Lenten fast. No meat, no oil (except omega 3s from fish), no eggs, no dairy. The OLD fast. This is basically the sugar diet.
And the science says that if you do something like this, super low oil/low protein, for a period (not long term), then the body goes and finds all the oils in your system and uses them up. When your body runs on carbs only, it’s super easy to digest and gives it a rest. You’re able to heal and repair. It makes sense that God wouldn’t tell us something bad.
Absolutely! Great point!
One of the questions I have involves releasing PUFAs from the body's fat storage.
I haven't started researching this yet, but the little I've come across seems to indicate that you don't want to go full spectrum fat burn - say, by a ketogenic diet - not only because you don't want to be in chronic fat oxidation, i.e. stress mode - but because you don't want to flood your bloodstream with these freed up PUFAs.
What I've so far been able to garner is that the ketogenic protocol will slow the metabolism, crash the thyroid, release mountains of fat into the blood, and overstimulate the stress response - so that in the long term you wreck your metabolism, stress your liver, raise cortisol, adrenaline, and estrogen, and make yourself less insulin sensitive.
If you eat - and possibly supplement (aspirin and niacinamide?) - in a manner calculated to slow down fatty acid oxidation, you may still lose weight by healing the metabolism, given that the heart, muscles and kidney like fat for energy, and so the body is always burning fat even when making good use of glucose metabolism.
Based on that idea, I am trying to keep dietary fat as saturated as possible, and under 60 grams per day.
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