It's interesting looking at the data that a ~8% SFA intake of ~17g/d provides the lowest LDL-P, while an 10-11% SFA intake brings you up to the highest LDL-P at ~20g of SFA. That's the difference of about 1 small can of sardines or a single square of dark chocolate... splitting the difference, the ...

... I noticed that your SFA intake has slowly risen while your fiber intake has concurrently dropped. It could be that simple. I get around 50 grams of fiber a day from a combo of my vegs and SunFiber, a prebiotic guar gum, recommended by my FMP. I was shocked at the positive effect that it had on ...

Gemma, I find it hard to stay at a BMI of 20. My "natural" tendency, given what I eat and the amount of exercise I do, is to drift downward. My solution is to just add an ounce of hazelnuts at the end of every meal, even if I might already feel complete. (Hazelnuts chosen because they're l...

Re your better lab numbers: What was the treatment during that period? Did you also get NMR numbers with the 2nd test sset? The details of my treatment are buried somewhere in that thread, Dan. Too much for me to remember it all. I started with a very complex antimicrobial protocol to heal my gut. ...

No, I haven't tried the blue-blocking glasses. I use f.lux on my computer and Twilight on my phone. Do you think the glasses are a better solution? I already wear glasses, and glasses over glasses are usually uncomfortable. I use similar programs as well with the blue blocking glasses. I wear conta...

I shoot for restricting food intake every day to a 10 hour window, but this has been screwed up lately by the sleep issues I've been having and it's gone up to an ave 12 hr window. Hopefully that fiber will help me get back on track with this. Ah, that may be at play. My guess is that a longer fast...

It is reported from many sources that MGO arises primarily from glucose metabolism, but this is patently false IMO under the ketogenic conditions which those authors have failed to consider. Thus, MGO is a potential problem for us, but especially for me because I don't generate "robust" i...

Cultures with high prevalence of ApoE4 that suffer little cognitive decline all eat blue zone style diets, so I'm shooting for that and is working well for me. Good luck with that! Also, keep in mind that most disease results from a mismatch between lifestyle and genetics, infectious agents, or env...

OGTTs are notoriously inaccurate for low carber's unless you do a 3 day 150+ gram per day carb loading just prior to testing. Did you? OGTT are not inaccurate on low-carb diets. They show insulin resistance. Of course low-carbers like to make an excuse for this and call it physiological insulin res...

From what I understand, pantethine has a different mechanism of action than other forms: "In multiple clinical trials of patients with elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, total and LDL cholesterol were decreased by an average of 12%, triglycerides decreased by 19%, and HDL cholesterol was ...