Pretty exciting new tech:

A new paradigm in sweat based wearable diagnostics biosensors using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02133-0

From mice to men? From Harrison: Rodent diet studies are limited in their generalizability. A slightly different way of thinking about this is that in mice, fat appears to be necessary to create a pro-inflammatory environment. In humans, sucrose appears to be necessary for a pro-inflammatory enviro...

Here's the "high fat" diet used in the study (Teklad, Harlan, catalog #TD88137): http://www.envigo.com/resources/data-sheets/88137.pdf It's ~43% carb, and 42% fat. The carbs are primarily white sugar with a bit of corn starch. The fat comes from "anhydrous milkfat" with 1.5g of c...

So I have been randomly testing my BG and when I first started eating LCHF my fasting BS was in the low 80's and would be mid to upper 90's after meal, 2-3 hours after. I also was using urine ketone test strips and was consistently in the moderate range 40 mg/dl. I don't have a blood ketone tester,...

George, thanks. I'm going to read all the FMD papers, and probably reread Mattson's work, now that one question I had has been solved: Is the experience of the FMD too unpleasant for me? Answer: not at all! Starting June 8, here are my calorie totals for each day. 325 is today. Wow, go G! Following...

I stumbled across a pretty awesome tea today -- I'm surprised I hadn't tried this sooner. My electrolytes were a little off today, having carbed it up a bit the past few days before going back into HFLC land with an inadvertently low-sodium breakfast. Knowing the feeling and easy solution, I threw s...

apod, where are you in the SmartGut process? My husband and I got our free SmartGut kits this past week. It's a surprisingly slow process, it seems. I requested a test on April 30, had my sample taken and mailed back on May 11, and as of June 12, it's still listed as "Processing." This wo...

Please enlighten me; Are you interpreting "favorite" to mean most efficient/necessary or most preferred? Since that quote is taken out of context I can't really speak to the author's statement. But glucose is absolutely the most preferred form of energy, considering if you have enough car...

On cronometer, I can usually rack up a good 4,000 mg/d of potassium while eating very low carb if my calories are up ~2400kcal/d. There's not a ton of it in any one food, but it does all add up (particularly with avocado, tomato, squash, spinach, and salmon.) If I loosen my definition of low carb fr...

I came across an interesting tidbit in Mercola's new book, Fat For Fuel. He recommends taking vitamin K2 at night rather than during the day for reducing muscle cramps on low-carb diets -- I'd love to find a published article that might back up this claim with some sort of proposed mechanism. I had ...