Dec 26
Today is not a good day. I just got a call from the lab to let me know that one of the tests didn’t work out. As she opened with this statement, my mind immediately raced to the one test above all others that I cared about, “please don’t say the NMR, please don’t say …
Nov 29
Introduction As our resident Lean Mass Hyper-Responder (LMHR) on the site, I have been an outlier so far with my Lipids. Despite an additional 200g/day of fat, my LDL was effectively unchanged in the Ketofest experiment. I knew exercise was potentially a confounder given Dave’s experiments with distance running, but I had a full training schedule …
Nov 16
Back in January, I did The Marathon Experiment, where I took both glucose and ketone measurements at every five kilometers. It went a bit off the rails toward the end, but you can read about that in the post. Last weekend, I did a variation of this experiment while performing a half marathon. This time …
Oct 28
A couple months ago I showed how wildly different glucometers could be from each other and how this compared to lab results themselves in The Game of Glucose. At that time I wasn’t frequently taking glucose measurements within minutes of the actual blood draw for my lipid experiments. Fortunately, with my eye on the prize, …
Oct 23
As mentioned in Part I, I haven’t had the best time with this experiment. However, as I’ve said time and time again – mine is a journey of science, not of advocacy. So you might find it interesting that I’ll have a few more positive things than last time to say from Carbland… even if …
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