Who is carb sane

I spent far too much of my life arguing with Evelyn Carbsane on Jimmy Moore's low carb forum. I'm afraid that although she has a good brain and scientific background she hasn't a good grip on what actually happens in real life.

We can read all the research and do experiments in which we alter one or other factor BUT in the end it's what actually happens in our own individual body that actually matters to each individual. Although Evelyn was posting on a low carb website she was promoting a calorie-restrive way of eating which is bad form as being ultimately required. Although her own experience did not seem to show that she was able to manage either very successfully. She hasn't understood the role of gut flora in regulating individual response to diet.

She thinks it's all about macronutrients and calories and I think micronutrient deficiencies, inflammatory status, gut flora, mitochondrial function are also implicated.

If you were able to weigh your brain and your gut flora the gut flora would be heavier. Making changes to our diet, as Zoe suggest to eliminate Candida will also change our gut flora to a mix that is less likely to extract as many calories from our food.

I don't think Carb-Sane has spent sufficient time studying the role of Brown Adipose Tissue in Thermogenesis and I don't think she understands how this can be exploited for weight loss purposes by improving melatonin production and ensuring a drop in ambient temperature through the night. She has had a terribly corrosive effect on the Low-carb, Paleo blogosphere and has done more harm than anyone to promoting good health and common sense.

Similarly research experiments into weight loss have to be sustained for long enough for the body and it's resident gut flora to adapt to those changes. Only when you understand that changing 25 OH D level, Omega 3 ratio, correcting magnesium deficiency, improving circadian rhythm, can all take months rather than days or weeks, can you understand why most modern nutritional research doesn't get anywhere near seeing what can actually happen in real life when people actually make those changes.

If we are going to win the war on obesity we have not only to lose weight but we have to keep that lost weight off, and to do that we have to correct the underlying metabolic dysfunction, inflammatory status or micro-nutrient deficiencies that gave rise to the weight gain, caused the reluctance to exercise and maybe caused irreparable damage. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Carbsane wants us to keep repeating the mistakes of the past. So CarbInsane then.. I think you have to spend time at Hyperlipid to understand how far from reality Carbsane and a lot of research scientists have strayed.

If you find yourself wanting to blame me, realize this is exactly what Jimmy Moore wants from you so that he can continue perpetrating his fraudulent livelihood. Jimmy Moore, and now his wife Christine Moore, are not really interested or seeking optimal health. Jimmy has long given up on weight loss, and it matters not what the actual weight is on the scale at this point, he's behind the ball position on January 1, when he began Atkins in so many ways. He has a serious eating disorder at the root of all of this Very sad for him and those who love him.

Still, he inexplicably preys on desperate obese people seeking solutions or excuses. He does this to feed an insatiable need for accolades from others, and to live a higher life than he otherwise would be like multiple cruises each year!

He makes carbohydrate restriction-based plans -- I don't care what the next fad and that's what it is! But do not spread junk science. Go forth and share your own story if you want. Or not. Probably not a good idea to turn it into your primary source of income.

He is the one delegitimizing your successful way of life in the eyes of others. He is the one adding to all the confusion by spouting nonsense like steak is chocolate cake true story.

It's just that won't make those folks rich, and the accepted science will be nowhere near the exaggerated claims you've heard repeated in your echo chambers.

Lastly, if you know someone who follows Jimmy or is thinking of following him, share this post with them. If they still feel he's a reliable source of information, at least you've done your part. I'd rather you encourage them to chase success. I don't know what exactly prompted him to try to claim his butter eating stunt was a joke, but that lie don't fly!

But this must be coming in reaction to "friendly fire" -- criticism from within the community. I am encouraged by this development! Yes, it's been forever. I've been generally pretty well. Knocking about on social media Facebook and some Twitter What has turned into a long hiatus wasn't planned, but it happened due to running out of steam and still seeing the same old, same old.

I may or may not discuss more at some point, but if I don't just jump back in and blog, I probably never will again! The following editorial in JAMA has been making the rounds on my Facebook feed, and I have a bit of a different take and reaction to it I would encourage everyone to read this before this blog post.

It's interesting to me how differently people react and would love if you join in comments. Before I begin here, this post will not be discussing red meat studies and the healthfulness per se. I also want to make it clear that this is not an endorsement of Dr. David Katz or his True Health Initiative. But it is also crystal clear where Katz and the THI's biases lie Lessons from a Cafeteria Rat. I'll include a little commentary with each.

At around the 12 minute mark, Stephan makes a great opening play, and then gets distracted or flustered into fumbling the football.

Stephan asks what it is about the food environment, etc. He then calls out some numbers from the research summary he posted on his blog in advance of the podcast. The study I discuss in this blog post is the one included in " 52" that he's discussing in the podcast. Joe seemed perplexed by this idea that we couldn't replicate the junk food fattening with sugar or even fat alone.

But it is evidence that as a dietary prescription of sorts, neither is going to garner much success in the general population. But one last thing before I go on this point. I've mentioned this before, and I'll mention it again. We just don't have anything near this for low carb diets, let alone keto versions.

In his article, Sisson says the following:. Look at the full text I provided. Two who were normal weight at baseline lost a little bit of weight in the form of fat. One who was underweight at baseline gained weight: this individual grew 1. The authors mention that the results here are in contrast to those seen in children treated for epilepsy because of full bone mineralization at baseline. Perhaps, at the very least, there should be extreme caution for growing children or teens to embark on a keto diet!

I see no reason to trust Mark Sisson on the long-term appropriateness of any diet. I couldn't help but snap a picture of this at the playground yesterday. Asylum regulars will recognize the true cause of the obesity epidemic in this picture. B logstress Note:. An apology: Parts are long, and I threw a bunch of images in at the end and such just to preserve for posterity.

An open letter to my critics who may be in the audience:. It's OK for you to think what you may of me. If you find yourself wanting to blame me, realize this is exactly what Jimmy Moore wants from you so that he can continue perpetrating his fraudulent livelihood. Jimmy Moore, and now his wife Christine Moore, are not really interested or seeking optimal health. Jimmy has long given up on weight loss, and it matters not what the actual weight is on the scale at this point, he's behind the ball position on January 1, when he began Atkins in so many ways.

He has a serious eating disorder at the root of all of this Very sad for him and those who love him. Still, he inexplicably preys on desperate obese people seeking solutions or excuses. He does this to feed an insatiable need for accolades from others, and to live a higher life than he otherwise would be like multiple cruises each year!

He makes carbohydrate restriction-based plans -- I don't care what the next fad and that's what it is! But do not spread junk science. Go forth and share your own story if you want. Or not. Probably not a good idea to turn it into your primary source of income. He is the one delegitimizing your successful way of life in the eyes of others. He is the one adding to all the confusion by spouting nonsense like steak is chocolate cake true story.

It's just that won't make those folks rich, and the accepted science will be nowhere near the exaggerated claims you've heard repeated in your echo chambers. Lastly, if you know someone who follows Jimmy or is thinking of following him, share this post with them. If they still feel he's a reliable source of information, at least you've done your part. I'd rather you encourage them to chase success. I don't know what exactly prompted him to try to claim his butter eating stunt was a joke, but that lie don't fly!

But this must be coming in reaction to "friendly fire" -- criticism from within the community. I am encouraged by this development! As the thought process goes: it's not about calories even if they count , it's about how the food impacts us that causes us to eat too much or just enough. A hat-tip to Melanie Mac Smiley who sent me this study almost three years ago!

R ecently May comments about obesity at a Pediatric conference have made the rounds. Here is link to the full text in "print version". The AMA classified Obesity as a disease in Five years later we've made little to no progress, likely because we've got "experts" pontificating and arguing over semantics and false dichotomies.

The false dichotomy of Disease vs. Choice is right out of whatever master playbook teaches that if you keep the "masses" arguing, they might not notice you're full of it.

It's really the only explanation I can think of for the circular arguments made with nary a tinge of irony on board straight faces. I have a bunch of stuff in the draft pile here on this topic, but cannot seem to organize it. I decided to start a series. In no particular order. This installment deals with the following statement from the Resolution by the AMA :. These words were uttered just over a decade ago by Gary Taubes. Seth Roberts : But you'd seen Nobel-Prize-winning physicists get it very wrong.

Gary Taubes: But what they were getting wrong were subtle; yes, they'd believe incorrectly that they'd discovered elementary particles, but what they were doing was a real subtle game. What they were misinterpreting were extraordinarily subtle aspects of the data. And I made it as well, up until five years ago. I never thought differently. But what radicalized me is that they don't care.

If they successfully ward off my threat to their beliefs, then I'm in a very dangerous place. Then it's, like I said, where I end up a bitter demented old man, one of those guys who's muttering to himself all the time that they, the establishment, didn't listen to him….

I don't mean to wish ill on a person, but if he doesn't end up a muttering demented old man, it means that fantasy wins out over fact, and sensationalism over science.

I'm bumping this for reasons that should become obvious soon. Several years ago, Dr. Sadly, the video is no longer available. This "after" blood was very cloudy, and the technician holds this up and identifies the source of the cloudiness as fat.

Yes, high in fat and carbs, but favoring the starches. He has apparently been reading in fits and starts, in other words, probably not really reading obscure books about obscure cultures from long, long ago. Mind you, that in five years plus of arduous and comprehensive research put forth in Good Calories, Bad Calories , there was no mention of the Yahgan people he's about to discuss.

One wonders why not. Heck, this is right in his time period of excellence for nutritional research and reporting!

Uttermost Parts of the Earth , this is to a version of a book Taubes states was published in But alas, no Yahgan I also checked Wikipedia's alternate spellings , among the conventional-wisdom-challenging by Taubes circa It's OK really, nobody expects you to track down every obscure culture, especially one that counters your hypotheses. Fast forward to Currently, Gary Taubes has been thinking about black swans as he engages in a bit of light Summer reading.