Morsel #3 — A Metabolic Journey 🛣️
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We’ve just passed another long weekend here in Australia (Melbourne in particularly). With any long weekend it’s a chance to catch up with family, relax or stack on a few kilos with some dubious nutrition decisions — whatever your preference.
One thing I always love about seeing family is the gags, jokes and teasing that’s delivered in my family catch ups. The teasing of my serious old man, the prodding of my sisters sensitivities, the moral detective work I try to do like Louis CK . It seems though that my family don’t think I’m very funny — more just of a pain in the ass really.
In fairness, it’s always been my mother and my girlfriend who’ve laughed consistently at my jokes. So perhaps I’ve had a comedic veil pulled across my life for too long. Or perhaps it’s just the fact I just enjoy lambastic, morality pushing humour ( like Aunty Donna ) a bit too much.
Have you found crickets while telling a joke? Then you’ll probably enjoy this structure breakdown of how Louis CK tells a joke , and it’s even helped my writing.
A Metabolic Journey
Having now watched Peter Attia’s discussion & presentation on human performance , I’m absolutely convinced that it’s the most succinct and enlightening analysis of how low-carb to high-fat diets dramatically improve your physical performance.
The video is 70 mins, incredibly approachable, and highly informative for the following reasons:
- It gives context; Peter was a marathon runner & swimmer, yet had >20% body fat and was on his way to “metabolic syndrome”
- It provides education; Peter identifies how we metabolise food in the body, in a simple visual format, including how chemically we are suited to Ketones v Glucose
- It highlights chemistry; in particular, the analysis on how the body uses Ketones to our advantage over Glucose is fantastic. When you realise how detrimental glucose can be to muscle growth in particular, it’s super useful
- It provides a roadmap; through his own journey, Peter highlighted how he first quit sugar (over 1 year), how we swapped out high glycemic carbs for low glycemic carbs (> 1 year), and eventually went for full ketosis
For me, this is particularly useful as I’m at the stage of swapping out high glycemic carbs (mainly rice, root vegetables, etc) for low glycemic carbs. Quitting sugar was relatively easy as I don’t have much of it in my diet, but the difference in mental performance has been particularly useful. I think the moral of this story is you need to have a progressive long term change, and you’ll reap the long-term benefits of it.
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