Oddbean

After I buy a new car (not new, but, you know, new to me), I might be getting one, as I'm curious, though, I don't know if I need to since I now can tell when I'm in ketosis based on how my saliva tastes. (Look up "keto breath.")

I'm not exactly healthy enough metabolically to experiment yet, though, I am finally able to discern some signals my body is giving me, like I recently discovered that mozzarella cheese will kick me out of ketosis. Butter doesn't.

not that i know of. but in a fasted state the brain is running primarily, like <90% , on bhb. so if you fast and are not active it will be pure good shit. if you excersize while fasted you will be increasing the other ketone bodies.

basically, it balances your electrostatic charge to neutral and prevents absorption of radio frequency into your body (it just conducts over your skin to the earth) this diminishes the damage from oxidative and reductive free radicals as they are more likely to encounter their counterpart in the water of your body and be neutralised it does definitely have an effect on reducing inflammation, and it dialed back a problem i have that was getting worse just before i got my mat and bed sheet, quite bad double vision from type 2 diabetes, it almost immediately fully reverted at first, now it is stabilised and i am not having as much trouble reading or looking at details up close

also, in theory it should reduce the health damage from ionising radiation too, like X, gamma, cosmic rays, because most of what they do is adding electrons to free radicals that then penetrate to mess up DNA or proteins and with the earth connection it probably goes the other way as well, so if you get excess electrons they are dissipated

I really want to know what you find. A friend has accidentally done A-B-A testing when her mat got unplugged without her knowing it and she had a pretty bad night's sleep. Then it got way better after she plugged it back in.

Yeah, I had gotten this when it was on sale like it is now. I mostly just use the sleep mat now though. I forget I even still have the patches. https://www.earthing.com/collections/all/products/essentials-kit

with a sharp nose i notice immediately on the next visit to the toilet... just had mince for dinner tonight also, first time in a while, actual beef... so i'm gonna be curious to see how i am tonight and tomorrow... milk, cheese and wine i'm borderline but then i added earthing and i'm getting my visual convergence back in a big way and i'm quite tired of this dibeetus stuff, like, ok, about to go full retard on it

You can do it! But for me, Ifind adding in broccoli, brusselsprouts, cauliflower, asparagus, cheese, heavy cream, and pickled stuff makes it much more sustainable. Let us know how this goes tho! You have totally got this! 🏆

Holy shizz...34?! 🤯 mine has never been that low! Wow, thanks for sharing 🙏 were you at all worried of seizure? They say below 50 is seizure territoey, but with this anecdote, it seems that is only in the presence of no ketones...fuel is fuel.

"they" tend to not have an effing clue. If you're not keto adapted and your blood sugar drops very quickly (can happen if you bugger up an insulin dose), that's when you can have adverse effects. I've not heard of anyone on carnivore with very low blood glucose having seizures, and, in fact, that seems to eliminate or greatly reduce seizures.

Not at all, she was in deep ketosis so no worries. The brain actually functions great on ketones, of course there will always be a need for some glucose for proper brain function but we don't need as much glucose as most people think. There have been cases of people having their glucose as low as 20mg/dL while in deep ketosis.

Doc, if I may ask, what is your take on people (specifically women but I guess applies to males too) staying carnivore long term and any effect on estrogen levels? My understanding is the body processes excess estrogen from the liver and into fiber in the colon and out it goes. Is there is no fiber, then would it get recycled or broken down some other way? 🙏

Hey, no problem, ask away. There aren't any studies that I'm aware of that look into the effects of the carnivore diet long term in relation to sex hormones. But generally, ketogenic diets have shown to reduce the level of estrogens circulating in the blood, most likely due to the loss of adipose tissue (a source of estrogen production), therefore resulting in a lowering of aromatase activity in fat tissue (aromatase is an enzyme that converts androgens to estrogens). So it seems excess estrogen isn't a problem while on a carnivore diet, for both men and women, it's actually a way of reversing gynecomastia in men. The liver metabolizes estrogens into conjugated estrogens, making them more watersoluble and then eliminating them mainly through the kidneys but also through biliary excretion. Some of the conjugated estrogens in the bile can then be deconjugated by bacterial enzymes in the gut and reabsorbed. Fiber can help reduce some of this reabsorbtion, but that might be "helpful" for people on a SAD diet, where they might actually have excess estrogen. That doesn't seem to be the case on carnivore. Cheers! TLDR: It doesn't seem excess estrogen is a problem on a ketogenic diet, therefore it would probably be even less of a problem on carnivore. Also, most of estrogens are eliminated through the kidneys and not the bile, so no worries about reabsorption there.

I've watched plenty of videos with doctors explaining various estrogen-related topics in connection with low-carb diets, and what impresses me the most is the amount of symptoms and hardships connected with menopause and infertility that are reversed or alleviated. My overall take is that eating a proper human diet helps to bring estrogen and testosterone into balance, in both men and women. But I must admit, that was a great answer!

That is what always baffled me about what another practitioner warned me about estrogen and keto. My body does exceptionally well with low carb; my experience contradicted his info. But I thought, well maybe short term it is okay, but longer term, it would not be 🤔 It was very confirming and comforting to have Dr. Morales' explanation. 🙏🤙