Not sure why people are laughing at my comment. It is well established in the scientific literature that staring at screens and early reading for kids causes nearsightedness. Eating liver is not necessary for vision acuity. If it was we'd have a cure ! (far from it, ate plenty of liver in my life and still needed glasses)

The need for distance lenses has more to do with how much outdoor time you have and not staring at a screen for hours at a time. No matter your diet or supps you can regain distance vision through this. So we need to be careful ascribing vision acuity to vitamin A.

@yerrag Thanks for your reply!
Well you made it pretty far with that high of blood pressure! But the heart failure is definitely no bueno!

I've seen that blood pressure is a measure of hydration status. How many electrolytes there are. Have you ever tried drinking say 2-3 liters of water in a day and seeing what that does to your blood pressure? For my husband he never went above 150/90, but he always drinks lots of water.

@yerrag Thanks for the review. I'm glad to see you are still around! I know you dealt with high blood pressure so it's nice to see it not being a death sentence. What age group are you in? (of course the older you get the higher the likelihood of death! )

Yeah I was not pro-low carb, but.... my husband went carnivore after having clear signs of metabolic syndrome and he is losing a significant amount of weight. It is showing signs of harming his health though. But his liver has had to process all that fat which a lot of it was likely loaded with toxins. All without any bile acid binders. He is going to add back in carbs once he gets to a better weight. Unfortunately this will likely cause high blood sugar as he is now used to burning ketones.

I agree that we need cholesterol. I don't agree with using statins. I did not know what actually causes a heart attack or stroke, so I thought the video was useful in understanding what causes death in the vast majority of people in the world (including Ray Peat!).

My cholesterol numbers were getting pretty bad on a lot of ice cream. I am doing better now with less saturated fat and sugar and more starches and fibers. Which is also reversing a longstanding patch of psoriasis.

@sweetwaterpickle From what I know low cholesterol in someone with metabolic syndrome indicates liver problems, lack of bile. My husband was like this leading up to his obesity problems. You have to earn a low cholesterol number with good health.

Trigs over 110 indicate fatty liver.
You want trigs divided by HDL to be 2 or under.
If he is eating a lot of carbs and fats together this will cause bad cholesterol numbers.

This guy's videos have been super informative. I learned that strokes and heart attacks are caused by unstable uncalcified plaques: https://youtu.be/yYLym9PiJtA?si=DJqD3VtIk63KESRy

He goes over how he stabilized his plaques (we all have plaques when we get old, you want to stabilize them).

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy Salt

@LetTheRedeemed said in "Glucose Loading" protocol, a la Dr Stephens - A Critique:

@Janelle525 yes. I’m definitely at the pinnacle of my salt intake, haha.

I lowered my sugar consumption, or at least balanced it with spreading out my protein intake, and the headaches went away. That was a while ago. And I definitely still consume quite a bit of sugar: several sodas/juice/sweat teas per day, plus spoonfuls of honey with milk, and ice cream. I’ve definitely found my max sugar capacity

Haha okay!

@Razvan said in Low water intake actually helps:

@Janelle525 "InChristAlone"
How about Vitamin A?

I definitely don't like drinking too much water because I get lightheaded. Salt was the answer for me. Completely stopped a headache yesterday.

@LetTheRedeemed Have you tried salt for the headaches?