@Bling5 FYI Dairy is only nutrients. Cooked veggies can be great. yeah i saw the rat studies with how they lost fat on coca cola. show me anyone who has done that and thrived. Me. and i dont think fruit should be meals. fruit can accompany a meal and help with digestion (e.g. digestive enzymes in pineapple etc.) but it is a waste of an opportunity to make fruit a meal. again talking about body recomp an performance. not leisurely vacation diet. you would get way more out of using that opportunity to get nutrient density in. Wonderful point. The most consistent way to improve metabolism and digestion is a well balanced macro meal. Including balancing micronutrients when possible. Isolated fruit/sugar sources are fine as a snack — but I’ve found a tiny bit of protein in some form, to be handy between meals to balance high carb snacks. add cooked leaves and cabbages and bell peppers and lettuces and stuff. ive never experienced the downsides of these that people on rpf postulated about for years. in fact i did way better when i added all this stuff i took out after browsing rpf and taking ray's words too literally and personally Cooked veggies with all the tasty cofactors like a smidge of butter and cheese are great, and a great way to increase salt and gelatin intake in a palatable manner. There are methods to producing the vegetable stock in a safe manner, but for many people, including myself, something like cabbage is very powerfully anti-thyroid. For many people like myself, almost any amount of nightshades like bell peppers are terrible on digestion and brain fog. Of course I want to live my life so I trial and error where I can get away with something to make enjoyable food, but due to the anti nutrient factors, that’s very important for anyone to be aware of. If I were OP, I think it would behoove to look for recipes that remove goitrogens and phytoestrogens — be that boiling for x time and tossing the water, etc. With that said, there is no nutrient missing from a diet of weekly oysters and liver, with daily dairy and juice consumption — way cheaper, too. You may have a decent metabolism/resilient digestion, and the amounts you’re consuming aren’t impacting you. I know there are suggestions Ray makes that I don’t stick to religiously, and that’s where I’ve learned to be mindful of context (that basically means “what can I get away with lol”). https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml

@alpha look up what nixtamalization is. maybe there's a little video for you

Regarding dairy, milks from common CAFO sources and mass produced cheese created using 'enzymes' are probably worse for the body than grass-fed milk and animal rennet made cheeses. Personally when I have the former, I will get acne breakouts. Also high fat in general, even if saturated, causes me acne. Extra zinc sometimes helps. Anecdotal of course, everyone handles these things differently, but something to consider.

It’s not something I’d take everyday

@LucH how do I sense that the liver is overburdened? Main problem with coconut oil is that I don't wanna eat it on its own. I was pondering making mashed potato to go with it, but I'm trying to exclude starch for the first streak without it in my life aside from fasting.

@Sippy Did you ever try more than 2 grams of thiamine hcl? I tried 2.5 grams one day and got some shooting electrical zapping pains in my thighs. I interpreted that response to mean I had taken too much so I backed it down to the 2 grams/day. How long did you take the 2 grams of thiamine hcl?

@nicgabhann sure thing!

Was sick Found an article on an obscure website: Raypeat dot com Didn’t understand it… Read his book Nutrition for Women Didn’t understand it…. Got sicker and sicker Started to understand! Experimented with his ideas Saw truth Never have looked back

@mikeyd post worded 10/10

You shouldn't be trying to blunt hunger. According to Broda Barnes, a loss of appetite was the one of the first signs that something has gone wrong for a person. Anything that inhibits those signals to eat are Anti-peat and probably going to wreck metabolism in the long term

@mikeyd How do babies survive with 0g of fiber for 2 years+?

rice potatotes cocoa /coffee mix throughout the day w sugar oats w almonds raisins and honey cereal w milk and gelatin cottagee cheese fried w broccoli and mushrooms, different vegetables every day and a few eggs here and there

@Ilias-Ant said in Glucose metabolism - Free Fatty Acids: actually now i m in low fat high carb diet.... but the most important thing for me is low energy.... that's why i m trying to lift weights etc for workout... i also grounding and I'm out in the sun (shade) for about 2.5-3 hours per day... Sun helps a lot i can feel the difference... Fine. As long you consume minimum 20 % fat and optimal protein ratio to weight, it's OK. For fats: 45 % SFA (coconut, butter, meat preferable free range) 45 % MUFA: e.g. avocado, olive oil (only for veggies), free range poultry, duck, etc. 10 % PUFA, but no need to target 10 gr every day. I target 1.5 w3 et 6 gr w6. original, not processed. See Kate Deering for useful info on energy metabolism.

Also, I wanted to thank everyone for sharing different experiences, resources, exercises and insights to improve this issue!