
#02: Zero-Carb and Carnivore Diet Critique with Ex-Carnivore Kyle Mamounis
2 hour 38 minutes Posted May 17, 2019 at 3:00 pm.
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Introduction
Kyle's brief background
Defining of terms (e.g., zero-carb, carnivore, raw primal)
Danny's motivation for talking to Kyle
Super chats donated to Ray Peat and please block people in the chat if they're bugging you
Kyle's background proper
The raw paleo forum and eating raw meat
When Kyle met Lex Rooker: https://zerocarbzen.com/2016/05/04/lex-rooker-the-unique-healing-power-of-an-all-raw-zero-carb-diet/
Kyle's work with The Ancestral Health Symposium
Mamounis, Kyle J. (2017) "The Dangers of Fat Metabolism and PUFA: Why You Don’t Want to be a Fat Burner," Journal of Evolution and Health: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 9. https://jevohealth.com/journal/vol2/iss1/9/
Kyle's transition away from the low-carb worldview
Vindicating sugar for the historical record
Danny's struggle with cognitive dissonance on the pro-obesity effects of sugar
Who's more "scientific" carnivores or vegans?
Entering the fat burning state
Gluconeogenesis - "For non-ketotic low carb dieting, this energy substrate production may account for much of the observed weight loss; the process of gluconeogenesis from amino acids costs approximately 33% of the energy obtained in the oxidation of the resulting glucose [12]. Additionally, if the saturable urea system [13] is overwhelmed by amino acid derived ammonia, symptoms of hyperammonemia, or “rabbit starvation,” follow [14]. Even at a subclinical level, greater ammonia is a burden on kidney nephrons [15,16]." Mamounis, K.J. The Dangers of Fat Metabolism and PUFA: Why You Don’t Want to be a Fat Burner. Journal of Evolution and Health 2017
Kyle's experience on forums ('sometimes the most immature voices are the loudest')
Danny thinks "extreme" diets can be motivated by the stress of an unsolved problem
The long-term physiology associated with fat burning (reduced carbon dioxide)
Vitamin K is used in proportion to the concentration of carbon dioxide
Using a preferred nutritional idea to justify any physiological event as positive
Carbon dioxide regulates the ion and water concentration inside and outside the cell
Active thyroid hormone (T3), carbon dioxide, temperature, and pulse
Is low thyroid good for longevity ("rate of living theory")?
Stress-induced "insulin resistance"
Low-carb metabolism is a "remix" of starvation and diabetes
PUFA is a mitochondrial toxin that is stored in a person's tissues
Are the "essential" fatty acids essential?
Question: what are practical ways to deplete the body of PUFA?
Question: what are your views on fasting and autophagy?
Question: what is your view on hormesis?
Question: what is your view on dairy?
Question: how can you reverse insulin resistance?
Question: what do you think about ketogenic/carnivore success stories?
Question: what is Kyle's food/supplement routine at the moment?
Question: what do you think about the sodium/potassium cellular pump idea?
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