How To
Six evidence-based principles for low-carbohydrate living. Focus on people and info that are evidence-based. Errors will slip in. Test for yourself.
1. Avoid (or drastically reduce) carbohydrates & seed oils
Rice, flour, bread, pasta, mealie meal, potatoes, etc. Seed oils are inflammatory, spike insulin, and increase frequent hunger.
Max 20g/day (net).
2. Prioritise animal protein and accompanying fat
Low insulin effect, complete, dense, bioavailable, evolution-indicated.
3. Minerals — salt and magnesium
When tired, eat more salt (if it has iodine, about 10g salt is the upper limit of iodine for a male). The medical salt advice is faulty — based on correlational studies, not causal. Don't blame salt for what sugar did. Solve the root cause. We should all take more magnesium, too.
4. Test it for yourself for a few months
Feel the difference. Slowly (not too slow, just the last tiny bits) taper transitions when foods are completely stopped.
5. Educate yourself
Human biochem and nutrition are complex and challenging — careful who you choose to trust. Go to the scientists who perform the research and who have scientific character (saying when they're wrong), first. Some doctors understand this. Some are scientific. Many aren't. If necessary, find a doc willing to learn and walk the journey. Always doubt and question.
6. Ask your doctor for evidence
Say: "Can you please provide me with the study evidence that this treatment which is relevant to me will reduce my all-cause mortality or improve my survival?"
No guidelines or opinions — rigorous, pertinent evidence only. Put this in writing and give them time — it is their obligation to do this. Ethical consent is obligatory. If they are evasive or dismissive, seek a doctor with scientific character and low carb or carnivore knowledge. You can also appoint such an international doctor as your primary doc to work with and inform your local doctor.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." — Mark Twain