BIOHACKING by Nathan Hatch, "F*** Portion Control"
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@S-Holmes said in BIOHACKING by Nathan Hatch, "F*** Portion Control":
@zawisza I don't know the answer to that question. I'm testing it out now, but am only about 2 months in so far.
I have always been thin. Then, pufas, stress, and illness caught up with me and I started to gradually gain weight. (I'm still thinner than most women over 50, but I would feel better carrying around less.) If stress hormones are the primary cause of weight gain, then it makes sense to do everything possible to reduce them. When you haven't eaten in a while, your body compensates by releasing those hormones. That's why Nathan says eating something (organic and no pufas) every 2 to 3 hours is imperative. He also says if you wait until you're hungry, it's too late. The stress of hunger has already triggered their release.
The experiment continues.
Nathan treats his experience in his context as applicable to all, and in his advice to graze (is eat every 2-3 hours) does not apply at all to me. As well to a lot of people who have stable blood sugar maintained at optimal levels by the body. I eat only 3x a day, as tradition has determined long ago. And when I fast, I don't get stressed either. Normal and stable blood sugar is a key to that. But this state is the result of a body in balance.
Of course, to a certain extent I will be stressed when I fast beyond what my body can bear. At which point, I stop my fast. The body knows. We have to obey the body. When you are hungry, you can eat. But eating every 2 to 3 hours without any reason just because Nathan says so? No. He is just assuming everyone is like him, who gets stressed because likely his blood sugar is not stable and yoyos. If that is the case with you, you can do what he does as a temporary solution but you don't want to be in that state. You have to find out why your blood sugar is not stable and fix it.
I've been through that. And it has made a whole world of a difference. It isn't rocket science, as you will find out. It may be in some ways though, as sifting thru the piles of commercially-driven garbage research littering the landscape to find the truly helpful solutions can be mind-blowing. You hear one expert say this, and another say something totally contradictory, and you experience this day in and day out in a media barrage of YouTube videos from experts and social media posts,as well as books, newspapers, magazines - you can't go into a zen mode of seeking truth anymore.
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@yerrag I do nothing simply because a guru said to do it. I try things and if they work I continue. If they don't work, I move on. Our recovering metabolism proves this works for us. I can't speak for anyone else. Nothing else was helping and I suspect many others find themselves with swinging or low temperatures. My primary goal was to raise my temp/metabolism by any means possible. So far so good.
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@S-Holmes Great. I don't remember though specifically taegetting you for following a guru. If you had taken it that way, I apologize. Many people like gurus to do the thinking for them. In some ways, I can be like that. Especially when that guru has establishes a lot of credibility with me.
The reason I subscribe to Ray's newsletters is one example of that. But Ray has cleared the bar for me, though I acknowledge he is human and can be wrong.
But Ray isn't bellicose like the Garrett thug. But I needed to point out that grazing is not applicable to all people, and Nathan, according to you, recommend everyone practice grazing.
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@yerrag Many of Nathan's strategies are for the metabolically challenged. That would be many, if not most people. Some will not need to follow his advice, but I'm guessing most who are on health forums are looking for solutions to their health issues.
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His advice may be for the metabolically challenged, but am I wrong to think that he does little to disabuse the notion that the need to graze is merely a coping mechanism to deal with poor blood sugar regulation out of being in a metabolically challenged state? Many people would just be content to stay that way because they think they are naturally disposed to be that way, and so they don't seek a real solution anymore and stay sub-optimal where health is concerned. Thus, they are unaware of their own false helplessness.
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@yerrag People make a lot of assumptions about Nathan's advice. I can't explain everything in bits and pieces that took him 500 pages of writing to explain.
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@S-Holmes My bad. My mistake is to assume based on what you said about him. Since you've read him fully, you must know how to put his statements in the fully rounded context, and not in sound bites.
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@yerrag I started this thread to get feedback from others who have tried his methods. Not too interested in trying to sell people on them. I just really don't have time. I've spent all day (week actually) working to get petitions signed and people to commit to not signing leases turning my county into a wind turbine nightmare. I'll be working on this until we lose or they're run out of town. But that's another story
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I hope you can make things work out and get the wind turbines from destroying your way of life, especially when moving away from the city to get some peace and quiet is your goal.
Nathan doesn't get everything right. No one does, not even Ray. I don't want to troll anyone least of all you, nor keep you from your priorities, but I had to say something about what you shared about Nathan's view on grazing. I've also said enough about it. If you prefer not to be bothered about it, I will respect that.
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@S-Holmes said in BIOHACKING by Nathan Hatch, "F*** Portion Control":
I've spent all day (week actually) working to get petitions signed and people to commit to not signing leases turning my county into a wind turbine nightmare. I'll be working on this until we lose or they're run out of town.
Bullshit will only change form until the emperors balls are cut off. It's possible we all harbour an inherent subconscious aversion to doing this.
@ThinPicking said in New "Mission" of RPF:
(That's a campaign, not the campaign. Simply talking about it will probably do the trick.)
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@yerrag The turbines kill so many birds and bats. They're making people sick and causing farm animals to die. They shed pfas from blades that spin at speeds of 100 mph, and people need to learn about the dangers of "infrasound." NO ONE should be within 3 miles of those things. People want to move but their property values plummet so they're sick, broke, and stuck.
I do respect your opinions and experience, but will need to table theorizing about the viability of his strategies. I would however still like to hear from others who have read his book and tried out his recommendations.
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