My Experience With Different Carb Sources
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Whats up everyone,
Finding the right carb sources that work for you is pivotal in making a bioenergetic style diet work for you.
Some variables include...
- sugar vs starch
- FODMAPS
- food sensitivies
- blood sugar control
In this video I walk through my evolution of carb source intake and show my bloodwork to show my metabolic function. Check it out here!
https://youtu.be/W7H3oIlJkgo?si=Nu7d2TrHeZSA5SNC -
Great video, Mike!
It's great that you're able to debunk in your experience the myth about fructose causing high uric acid. Still, I have high uric acid, and I don't eat a lot of sugar, and I have no gout nor arthritis. My uric acid is high because the presence of toxins and infection internally requires the presence of more antioxidants, and uric acid is part of my primary antioxidant stores. I have good acid base balance, and that is the reason I do not experience arthritis nor gout due to uric acid not precipitating and causing crystals to irritate my joints.
Your fasting blood sugar at 83 is excellent. Still, I wonder what it would be if you ate white rice. Ray had written about diabetics doing well eating fructose, and I wonder if your not doing well on a starch not known for protein sensitivities had to do with your not being totally rid of PUFA. Have you made the cold turkey PUFA challenge of 4 years? Perhaps it's too long for you, and you can't afford to wait that long for something to bear fruit? But some things do take time, and many who have tried to circumvent the 4 years cold turkey fail. Just like making fine wine takes time.
Still, your going with eating a lot of white sugar works. And I can understand it if it would be virtually impossible to coach people to go on a 4yr cold turkey on PUFA. It would likely not sell well to a virtual tribe used to having much shorter gratification times.
I'm glad you debunked the Toxic Vitamin A crowd. That goes a long way. My experience with Vitamin A furthers that. I just ran with Ray's idea of eating a serving of liver once a week. Coincidence or not, it took at least 4 years of doing so that my eyesight so improved that I no longer am required to wear glasses to drive by our DMV here. Neither do I need glasses to read small type from my cellphone. My experience with retinol from beef liver would likely not be as impressive had I supplemented faithfully with the vitamin A of the supplement industry- beta carotene. I have a sister who takes supplements faithfully as she sells them for Shaklee. Her eyes are not doing well as her ophthalmologist tells her she may be due for a cataract surgery in a few years. Her go to Vitamin A is beta-carotene.
I have to add that it helps that I have a lot of endogenous CO2 (Ray mentions this) though, so together with retinol, gives good eyesight.
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@yerrag said in My Experience With Different Carb Sources:
eating a lot of white sugar
Aside from purity and sucrose content, what is the benefit of white sugar over other more "whole" sources such as molasses, rapadura (whole cane sugar) or other similar black/brown sources of sugar? Particularly in terms of the nutrients (vitamins, minerals, salicylates, polyphenols etc) which might be useful for supporting the respiration process amongst other things?
