Wed, Mar-01-23, 06:52
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Senior Member
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Because I was getting my cortisol resistance under control, my appetite was hit and miss. Thanks to reading about JEY’s success with her plan, emphasizing nutrients, I added whey smoothies and got real improvement. (Thank you.)
I have dropped mixes, even Keto ones, in favor of Naked Whey and my homemade touches. This is what made me notice just how much of that mix wasn’t whey protein. Buying the whey protein myself was actually cheaper when we look at nutrition per dollar.
It looks like a bargain because it’s processed into something cheaper and easier, but it’s not the same thing. Even Aldi brand, which had the shortest ingredient list, used multiple sweeteners. I thought at the time it was for the synergistic effect. They could use less of each sweetener and save money. But I’ve since grown more cynical.
If the most expensive part is whey protein, they likely oversweeten with bulk stuff and it’s all “curb appeal.” Binders and emulsifiers, so it mixes up fast with no lumps. Such stuff is now blatantly linked to leaky gut, which the two most popular types were the worst in testing.
I’m convinced my autoimmune comes from leaky gut. Which will happen to anyone, anytime we eat too much stuff that isn’t food. Which might be why my body now has a zero tolerance policy. The way I was advised to eat was so WRONG I didn’t last as long as people who had some ability to get nutrients from it.
I think the US obession with monetizing everything down to the oxygen we breathe contributes greatly to how keto went from “know your macros” kind of low carb to the current festivals of cocoa and nuts and protein blends and artificial sweeteners, which I indulged in myself.
They were useful for DH, though. This approach did help him move to a better appreciation of whole foods that weren’t the bready/starchy stuff we all grew up with. It was worth it to get protein into him, and now it is the fresh foods which draw him.
Some cultures over millennia after millennia adapted to the local foods and can pull the most out of them. Others can’t neutralize the anti-nutrients in plants. I’ve even come to see my condition as one of oxalate overload, as so many autoimmune symptoms match up, and mine did not present or act like one for a long time.
The dose does make the poison. I grew up in a place and time when even a boxed or TV dinner probably held a fraction of the crazy stuff they have come up with. And are, without any sense of restraint, replacing our actual food with more and more of this literally crazy-making stuff.
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