Excellent post, but as it has been noted already, saturated fats aren't bad for you. My family and I eat a LOT of saturated fats and our health is amazing. Typical day is coffee with butter and salt for breakfast, pan fried trout with eggs and blueberries for lunch, and a BBQ'd ribeye topped with grilled shrimp and asparagus for dinner. …
Excellent post, but as it has been noted already, saturated fats aren't bad for you. My family and I eat a LOT of saturated fats and our health is amazing. Typical day is coffee with butter and salt for breakfast, pan fried trout with eggs and blueberries for lunch, and a BBQ'd ribeye topped with grilled shrimp and asparagus for dinner. Outside of the coffee I drink water. My kids still drink grassfed whole milk. In fact, we don't eat a very diverse diet. I have eaten exactly that three days last week. That is not a diet low in saturated fat and I've been eating this way in perfect health for over a decade now.
Saturated fat, butter, avocado and olive oils, and full fat pastured dairy are all healthy fats providing they are sourced from a clean environment. Avoid canola, rapeseed, soybean oils.
My diet is similarly unvaried. Butter-fried eggs, buttered toast, and coffee for breakfast. Whey powder and slonked eggs for lunch. Meat, veggies, potatoes for dinner. Repeat.
Curious: Do you notice a slight rise in body temp after slonking?
I never skimp on eggs in terms of cost ever since I was told by my MIL that eggshells used to be much harder to break. I used to get the pretty brown eggs just because I liked that their yolks looked richer and tasted better, so, luckily, I've almost always had high quality eggs in my diet. But ever since MIL pointed out the brittleness of some supermarket eggshells to me, idk I haven't looked at other options the same way again. I think I'd still eat them if I had no alternatives available to me, but there really is no comparing them to free-range/farm fresh eggs.
It isn't only the fragility of the shells. The yolks also have a less intense color, although they've started feeding the chickens dye to hide that. Less flavorful too. Battery chickens are malnourished.
Haven't noticed a body temperature change, as a lot of the time after slonking my energy levels crash and I pass out for a bit. Combination of fatigue from the gym catching up and that sudden infusion of protein puts me right out.
Something to watch out for, especially for the men in the audience: there are hormones
in dairy products. Natural hormones. Always have been.
But the levels have gone up because farmers are overoptimizing, forcing cows to get pregnant more often via artificial means. Studies are limited, but I have seen at least one indicating that the milk from pregnant cows contains far more estrogen than non-pregnant cows.
As as former micro-dairy farmer, I must say that it is true that the milk from pregnant cows contains more estrogen. And now cows are milked until 2 months before birth, typically, out of a nine month lactation, so that adds a lot of pregnant cow milk into the bulk tank at the dairy. On the other hand, cows produce by far the most milk per day shortly after birth, while they are not pregnant. If you know your farmer, you might be able to get milk from non-pregnant cows. In my own experience, I've been able to keep my T high and still consume a major portion of my calories from dairy. A key is to stay lean, as body fat turns T to E.
Excellent post, but as it has been noted already, saturated fats aren't bad for you. My family and I eat a LOT of saturated fats and our health is amazing. Typical day is coffee with butter and salt for breakfast, pan fried trout with eggs and blueberries for lunch, and a BBQ'd ribeye topped with grilled shrimp and asparagus for dinner. Outside of the coffee I drink water. My kids still drink grassfed whole milk. In fact, we don't eat a very diverse diet. I have eaten exactly that three days last week. That is not a diet low in saturated fat and I've been eating this way in perfect health for over a decade now.
Saturated fat, butter, avocado and olive oils, and full fat pastured dairy are all healthy fats providing they are sourced from a clean environment. Avoid canola, rapeseed, soybean oils.
My diet is similarly unvaried. Butter-fried eggs, buttered toast, and coffee for breakfast. Whey powder and slonked eggs for lunch. Meat, veggies, potatoes for dinner. Repeat.
This is high-t eating right here. Well done.
Curious: Do you notice a slight rise in body temp after slonking?
I never skimp on eggs in terms of cost ever since I was told by my MIL that eggshells used to be much harder to break. I used to get the pretty brown eggs just because I liked that their yolks looked richer and tasted better, so, luckily, I've almost always had high quality eggs in my diet. But ever since MIL pointed out the brittleness of some supermarket eggshells to me, idk I haven't looked at other options the same way again. I think I'd still eat them if I had no alternatives available to me, but there really is no comparing them to free-range/farm fresh eggs.
It isn't only the fragility of the shells. The yolks also have a less intense color, although they've started feeding the chickens dye to hide that. Less flavorful too. Battery chickens are malnourished.
Haven't noticed a body temperature change, as a lot of the time after slonking my energy levels crash and I pass out for a bit. Combination of fatigue from the gym catching up and that sudden infusion of protein puts me right out.
Oh definitely! The difference in color and taste is stark, too.
I do local homemade yogurt and local oats in addition to butter (real butter) fried eggs. And generally opt for rice over potatoes for carbs
Something to watch out for, especially for the men in the audience: there are hormones
in dairy products. Natural hormones. Always have been.
But the levels have gone up because farmers are overoptimizing, forcing cows to get pregnant more often via artificial means. Studies are limited, but I have seen at least one indicating that the milk from pregnant cows contains far more estrogen than non-pregnant cows.
As as former micro-dairy farmer, I must say that it is true that the milk from pregnant cows contains more estrogen. And now cows are milked until 2 months before birth, typically, out of a nine month lactation, so that adds a lot of pregnant cow milk into the bulk tank at the dairy. On the other hand, cows produce by far the most milk per day shortly after birth, while they are not pregnant. If you know your farmer, you might be able to get milk from non-pregnant cows. In my own experience, I've been able to keep my T high and still consume a major portion of my calories from dairy. A key is to stay lean, as body fat turns T to E.