Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"

On the other hand, in the counterfactual case the reverse critique would also be possible: if he's so sure about his science claims, why doesn't he put his money where his mouth is?

I use my tears when I see a cake I’m not allowed to have

Anything that kicks off your metabolism will make it not fasting.

> does milk/cream in coffee make it not fasting

almost certainly yes, that breaks the fasting .. milk specifically is fed by mothers to their young to gain weight a.k.a. not fasting

The milk in coffee is a pretty substantial number of calories, particularly if you have a programmer coffee habit.

I only recently tried coffee for the first time in my 40s. I didn’t understand the appeal, but I suppose it’s an acquired taste.

What I’ve seen over the years from occasionally being around coffee drinkers in the morning didn’t look like joy. It looked like addicts, unable to function and singularly focused, until they acquired coffee in the morning. When outside of their normal environment with quick and easy coffee, this seemed like an annoying burden to deal with.

I had a caffeine addiction from soda when I was in high school, which I broke in college. It led to chronic headaches if I didn’t have enough. In high school I didn’t put 2 and 2 together to know why I was getting the headaches and my dad was trying to push to take me to a neurologist.

Nothing about my experience with was joyful, nor has it looked like joy when someone wakes up in an unfamiliar city and is frantically looking for the nearest cup of coffee before they can talk about anything else. I’ve seen this from multiple people on multiple occasions.

I like this saying a lot, but I have found the opposite by experience. I stopped drinking coffee recently, and frankly, I found that coffee didn't add much positives to me, aside from the feeling of looking forward to drug myself. The evaluation of its effects after ingestion is bleak - my mood improved after 10 minutes for like 30-60 mins, then I was back to my normal feelings. I sweat a lot more, was more jittery, and much more irritable throughout my entire rest of the day. Which I didn't even know about, since I have been taking caffeine daily for 20+ years now.

This is so on point, the big money in ag is pushing a lot of these conspiracies. If that's your argument for your diet, it's a shaky one.

I will go that far to admit I don't know what's the healthy diet in the end, because there's too much industry influence anywhere you look.

> ie pasta ins't very healthy unless cooked al dente, then it becomes much better for the body

That sounds absurd. I think you have been lied to.

The FDA claims a sedentary 40 year old man needs 2400 calories a day, the same as a 17 year old incidentally. [1] Or that everybody just needs 50g of protein a day. [2] Then there's the fat vs sugar food pyramid nonsense that led to more than half a century of health degradation.

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/media/112972/download

[2] - https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/daily-value-n...

The government shapes diets both through guidance (food pyramid, “plates”, etc) and regulation. For example, a major criticism revolves around farm bill payouts that incentivize corn production, leading to cheap fructose that finds its way into everything.

That was nearly my great-grandfather. Completely healthy until he was 103. Didn’t need glasses, walked without support, lived alone, completely there mentally and had a fantastic memory. Then he got shingles which affected his throat so eating was painful. He was dead two weeks later. Went from completely healthy to dead practically overnight.

Well humans don't seem to really learn anything that spans more than a generation or two, so there's plenty of time.

It's not the fact that we turn to dust -- we all understand that; but denying healthcare because you're gonna die anyway is messed up.

Thanks, that's very interesting.

I was concerned about that and had my liver checked a couple of years ago but it might have been too early then. I'll brush up on that.

My guess would be this is just nonsense.

No one has an eating too much protein problem. The average person has a sitting on their ass problem that leads to all kinds of health issues, especially when combined with a too many calorie problem.

There is absolutely no evidence that long term high protein consumption leads to these things.

Variety is the spicy of life, and all things in moderation.

It's like asking if on and off cocaine is better than always off... sugar being a sort of cocaine-like thing for the brain.

One thing to note here is that ketosis may be achieved by diets less strict like MAD etc.

Where does it say that? Besides the GP clearly discloses that it is LLM-generated.

If it isn’t, it should be. No one asks in a forum because they want to hear from an LLM.

FWIW I definitely noticed a downturn in my feeling of well being when I stopped huffing acetone.

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> Most who lift and do low carb time their carbs before and after workouts for specifically this reason. Some also do carbs before bed.

This is exactly what I do. I have a have a pre-workout carb meal to try and compensate.

Though one interesting thing I've noticed is that I've intentionally had to eat carbs as my body fat percentage has decreased. Otherwise I feel very low energy (though to be fair, I think part of it is that I'm still very active on my rest days, usually doing 20 - 30k steps). I think with higher body fat my body could simply burn that fat for energy, whereas that surplus simply isn't there.

I would rewrite your last sentence as:

You can get < 100g of carbs a day and not have negative impacts to your strength and energy.

It’s kinda tough to get a good baseline of what people are talking about without real numbers - like I’d personally rate my carb consumption as “moderate” - I don’t eat meat so it’s tricky to meet my Calorie needs by cutting out rice and increasing my bean consumption. OTOH the added sugars in my diet are practically zero.

I wonder if that is really true globally. You can't really escape carbs in some cuisines like Asia and some of them are really doing just fine.

What you're saying makes no sense without context. You say "we" but someone who's extremely active vs extremely sedentary are going to require different macros to compensate.