(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best ayurveda medicine books

We found 86 Reddit comments discussing the best ayurveda medicine books. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 39 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

21. Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind

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22. The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness

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23. Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry

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24. The Gerson Therapy: The Proven Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses

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25. The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna

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26. The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies: 1,001 Doctor-Approved Health Fixes and Injury-Prevention Secrets for a Leaner, Fitter, More Athletic Body!

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28. Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care: A Complete Program for Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management

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30. The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior

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31. The Roots of Ayurveda (Penguin Classics)

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32. Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance

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33. Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment Options and Risk Assessment (Schaefer, Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation)

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34. Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy

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36. The Vital Psoas Muscle: Connecting Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being

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37. Reiki for Life (Updated Edition): The Complete Guide to Reiki Practice for Levels 1, 2 & 3

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38. 5-HTP: The Natural Way to Overcome Depression, Obesity, and Insomnia

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39. Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life: How to Harness the Power of Clock Genes to Lose Weight, Optimize Your Workout, and Finally Get a Good Night's Sleep

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u/WittyOriginalName · 1 pointr/entp

> Ok, so Mr. WittyOriginalName...you and Azdahak have a serious axe to grind apparently against Ayurveda. I noticed that nowhere in your post is there any mention of your actually having tried it for yourself though.

A great many things feel good. A great many things elicit a placebo or other response. This is why the scientific method is so helpful and has changed the course of history so very much in the last few centuries.

> First of all, you know nothing about Ayurveda from what I can tell. I have an Ayurvedic physician that I have been seeing for years now, and I've been using Ayurveda myself for far longer than that.

Cool! People rode horses for centuries to go hither and yon. Clearly horses and cars are just as good at getting people from here to there.

> Second of all, you say "science" is superior, and "we have the scientific method" and they didn't in the past. That's false. The scientific method is just empiricism in a nutshell.

No. And you may be a computer science researcher but computer science research doesn't employ the scientific method, with which you aren't familiar. To even present that you are a computer science researcher as though it imbues some air of authority regarding the scientific method is all the indication we need that you don't understand the latter. I may not be in research but I have bachelors in both comp sci and a field which does employ the scientific method... this also hardly makes me an expert but I know the difference between the two types of "science" well enough. The scientific method isn't just "measure stuff". It is precisely concerned with narrowing down EXACTLY what's causing an effect.

> But in reality, it is impossible to quantify the effect of food and herbs on the body.

Oh ok so how do you explain modern medicine then? How is it that we are now able to keep HIV positive people alive for decades for example? Are they rubbing oils on their feet? Eating herbs, with unknown concentrations of substances?

> There are thousands of different compounds in plants, and they interact in a synergistic fashion. That's why the effectiveness of vitamins when consumed in a whole food is almost always significantly higher than taking them in supplement form.

Point me to studies using large populations where this approach is more effective. Oh... that's awkward... Shouldn't there be an empirically quantifiable effect? Re vitamins in foods, why must it only be due to this synergy? Please point me to empirical data which clearly implicates this synergy in all cases, as opposed to simply activating metabolic processes activated by say fiber, or the act of eating itself. We do have some evidence that taking vitamins, and indeed many supplements with food slows down absorption and gets them around the body more. Perhaps you are aware that when you eat you increase bloodflow to the stomach, precisely to take those digested nutrients and spread them around the body.... among other things. Many drugs are more effective when taken with food.

This is exactly the problem with "empirical thinking" in the absence of controlled methods as employed in the execution of the scientific method: it's far too easy to make assumptions which seem to support ones world view. Especially when it is emotionally rewarding to support that worldview "Oh if I follow god/the universes will, I will live longer AND I get to believe that life is ultimately not meaningless?!?!!? Obviously the data points to that conclusion..." :-|

> The only way to observe what works and what doesn't is through generations of trial-and-error and observation, and that's all Ayurveda has done. It's accumulated wisdom.

Oh right that's why bloodletting persisted as a practice for so many centuries. That's why it was so hard to convince midwives to wash their hands before performing surgery. Accumulated wisdom.

> As I pointed out to Azdahak not too long ago, 80% of India uses Ayurveda in one way or another. The NIH spends about 1% of its budget on preventive medicine. Ayurveda is all about prevention. That's why it's called the science of longevity. Think about what you're saying here, because it's a very tall claim.

I mentioned in one of my posts ITT that western societies need to invest more in preventative medicine, and it is something I think most/all are working towards. The healthiest populations in the world rely primarily on western medicine AND preventative care.

People in the US, who isn't a top ranker, live about 12 years longer on average. How do we separate all the different factors? Is it parasitic diseases and the like from lack of sanitation which makes up the difference? Is it vaccines/antibiotics/anti-parasitics/chemotherapy/advanced surgical intervention/etc, which were created utilizing the principles of western medicine, as established and vetted via the scientific method? Is it a focus on preventative medicine (which we haven't even defined for the purposes of this conversation)? Should we wait generations to figure it out?

> You're essentially saying in characteristic skeptical ENTP fashion that for around 1500 years (that's how long Ayurveda has been codified, but it was probably being used for far longer than that simply as an oral tradition), every single generation was delusional and misguided in passing on what they knew to the next generation.

Not delusional. Ignorant. Ignorant as fuck. As I would have been were I not educated in the scientific method.

I was raised Jewish. In Judaism you aren't supposed to mix milk and meat. It turns out that using the same un coated dishes (wood/ceramic) for both breeds some serious super concentrations of life threatening bacteria. "God" told my people that mixing milk and meat was a bad idea. Now we know why and I can eat cheeseburgers afaic because that wisdom was trumped by actual understanding.

> I'm afraid that the burden of proof is on you to conclusively demonstrate that bioscience is more effective than Ayurveda in every respect.

No it really isn't. The cool thing about science is that things need to be "proven" to be accepted as true. It's not a contest of ideologies or traditions or national/cultural pride, or anything but "if you make a claim you have to prove it". As Ayurveda claims to heal people in various ways, every way that it claims to heal people needs to be proven. It also claims that bodies and medicine work along a theoretical framework which doesn't stand up to anything but the personal beliefs and claims of adherents and supporters. You are trying to make them equivalent but one system for understanding how shit works has proven to be far more effective. Western medicine grew out of that system. While there may be useful information and approaches in other systems, and while western medicine certainly doesn't have all the answers, the process for understanding the world (the sci method) is unarguably more effective.

> Do your homework. Do your research. It takes 8 years to become an Ayurvedic physician in India. It's very difficult to study the effectiveness of Ayurvedic therapies using RCTs. Science has only just begun to scratch the surface. Just because scam artists abound, especially here in America, does not mean you get to write off an entire body of knowledge as quackery.

It takes 8 years to learn all sorts of shit. What is an "RCT" by the way?

> Come back here when you know more.

Haha come back here when you can empirically prove that Ayurvedic therapies are more effective than science based approaches. Personally I'll go with whatever has the best evidence of efficacy. If you get cancer what are you going to go with?

> If you want to know what Ayurveda is really about, read this guy's book. He is one of the foremost western Sanskrit grammarians: https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Ayurveda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140448241 And this is a good summary of the concept of physical constitutions to get you started: http://aysnyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=165

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine




u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/running

Do you have a smartphone or an iPod Touch? If yes, get yourself one of the many 5k running apps. This is how I started a few years back after many failed starts, I found the app really kept me motivated. It'll start off very easy but don't be put off by that, stick with it and over time you'll build up your ability to run. Skip too many days and you can end up causing injuries.

If you want to improve muscle and lung performance then you should run hills, more hills, and then more hills! Running hills regularly is one of the best ways I've found to improve my speed and overall endurance. If you don't live near any hills at all then you could also try sprints or join a gym. But I would advise against any of this until you've completed a couch to 5k program.

Eat properly would be my next piece of advice. In the UK the Runner's World Complete Guide to Nutrition is a fairly good place to start for beginners, I'm sure there are many similar books out there since you're in Florida. This is the second change I made that had a noticeable impact on my running and general health. Remember food is a fuel, put higher quality fuel inside you (a wide variety of veg, fruit, nuts, pulses, etc, along with good quality meat) and your body will not only perform better but it'll also improve your muscles, skin, lungs, etc.

One last thing, people will say you don't really need to stretch and that stretching impedes running performance. If you live an active life and spend little time sitting down during the day then this may be true. But if you spend most days sitting and doing very little activity you must learn to stretch those muscles properly and most important you must warm up. But static stretching is not warming up, to warm up you may just need to do a 5 min walk, a short run, leg kicks or a short bike ride. Something to raise your heart rate and get your muscles into exercise mode.

Hope that helps. tldr version: 1) Use a couch to 5k program, 2) Run hills, 3) Eat well, 4) Warm up.

[edit] FWIW I also found The Runner's Body book useful when I was just starting. Once you get past all these points you'll find everything else you need to know naturally.

u/winnie_the_slayer · 2 pointsr/psychotherapy

You might like www.emotionallyvague.com, it seems inline with your question.

For more advanced ideas about this look into Bioenergetic Analysis.

Some free documents about that approach can be found here.

Bob Hilton has a nice book available on Kindle about "relational somatic therapy" here

In general somatic therapies like bioenergetics, hakomi, somatic experiencing work with embodied emotional experience. Note that bioenergetics and its descendants such as core energetics and hakomi come from a Freudian psychoanalysis perspective (by way of Wilhelm Reich, in particular his books "Character Analysis" and "The Function of the Orgasm"), while somatic experiencing comes from an ethological neurobiological perspective.

Embodied Cognition is also looking at this from a more cognitive perspective.

u/sadponyrunner · 1 pointr/running

I don't have a good answer for your question, but I'm able to self Diagnose and attempt to treat with home exercise using The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies by Jordan Metzl. Metzl is a doctor, so it isn't fake advice. Its just advice on how and what to strengthen to prevent and treat specific injury types. He also has information on when you should contact a doctor.

Its totally worth the $16. I've used it so often that some of the pages are starting to fall out and I've only had it for a few months! (on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Athletes-Book-Home-Remedies-Injury-Prevention/dp/1609612345/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348022956&sr=8-1&keywords=athletes+book+of+home+remedies)

u/Ivebeenstimulated · 2 pointsr/eldertrees

I recommend this book anytime someone mentions this question. Its very well written and thorough. Also. Endocannabinoids research group Italy ERG founder giving a talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXYWvyfZR8

u/emptynestingent · 1 pointr/trees

http://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Manifesto-New-Paradigm-Wellness/dp/1583949372/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442353366&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=the+cannabismanifesto

I am just finishing this book. Great read that goes into detail on what you are looking for with references. I'll try to remember to add a few in tomorrow.

http://cannabismanifestobook.com/trailer/

From the writer and founder of one of the greatest dispensaries in the country.

Finally, the web site has a lot of material on the subject as well.

http://www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/

u/DarkChasmofEmptyness · 1 pointr/schizophrenia

I don't have data on the success rate unfortunately. I learned however that he was able to identify the source of the symptoms for 90% of his patients and treated them accordingly. I read his book book linked here: https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Mental-Illness-Orthomolecular-Balancing/dp/0892812265 .It detailed the 3 main causes with schizophrenia. Depending on the cause, improvement can start between 2 to 4 weeks (overmethylation) or 6 to 12 months (undermethylation) I can't emphasis enough how incredible this book is. Here is a link to the doctor who did the studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pfeiffer_(pharmacologist) . The doctor I am seeing is near me. if you want to find one near you, they typically are listed under "functional medicine" . here is a link to a directory for drs who do functional medicine: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/

u/agent_of_entropy · 3 pointsr/keto

Read Fat for Fuel. Explains everything perfectly.

u/reddit_sobriquet · -11 pointsr/financialindependence

Boost your immune system to help with the fight.

u/magenta_mojo · 2 pointsr/AskWomenOver30

I like the idea of trying more natural methods to regulate hormones as well. A lot of our daily activities could be contributing to unbalanced hormones: the food we eat, lack of exercise, stressors in our lives... It just makes sense that whatever we input into our body affects how our body works.

I read this book when I was trying to get pregnant and it's got a lot of useful info, maybe give it a read: https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Your-Hormones-Life-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004ROT3WQ

u/Tangurena · 7 pointsr/AskReddit

OK. First things first, the theory behind those cleanses has been proven false in the modern era because of colonoscopy. Most of those books were written decades ago and have been reprinted for a half century or more.

My ex was a big fan of hosing out her insides, and she had all the books that dealt with that subject. She was also a big fan of hosing out my butt any time I'd come down with a cold or illness which personally added to my discomfort.

If you think your bowel movements are irregular, I recommend picking up a loaf of Ezekial 4:9 bread from the supermarket (look in the frozen health food area, but if your supermarket lacks it, pretty much any health food store large enough to have a freezer will carry it). Eat no more than 2 slices of bread, and do not toast it (that seems to burn the fiber). It is extremely high in fiber and will get you back to regular in less than 12 hours.

u/Patrick_ODobsky · 4 pointsr/pharmacy

As far as pregnancy books go I use Schaefer Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation and/or Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation.
Very useful sources but be aware that they are seldom definitive. You'll usually have to make a judgement call (or pass the buck to the patients Doctor since Obs & Gynae do their own thing).

u/The_Bad_thought · 8 pointsr/occult

Laying on of hands is laying on of hands is laying on of hands, and it does what it does. If you've felt it, you know. If you haven't, you wonder. It does something, anyway.

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Here you go, full initiation, $13.95

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https://www.amazon.com/Reiki-Life-Updated-Complete-Practice/dp/1101983264/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=reiki&qid=1572968402&sr=8-7

u/tuesdays_ · 1 pointr/IAmA

You should also ask him about 5-HTP

u/Harry_Covair · 2 pointsr/Psychonaut

There are bioenergetic exercises for body tensions.

u/mewanthoneycombnow · 0 pointsr/entp

Ok, so Mr. WittyOriginalName...you and Azdahak have a serious axe to grind apparently against Ayurveda. I noticed that nowhere in your post is there any mention of your actually having tried it for yourself though.

First of all, you know nothing about Ayurveda from what I can tell. I have an Ayurvedic physician that I have been seeing for years now, and I've been using Ayurveda myself for far longer than that.

Second of all, you say "science" is superior, and "we have the scientific method" and they didn't in the past. That's false. The scientific method is just empiricism in a nutshell. What you really mean to say is that we have reductionism and fancy instruments to analyze very small things. But in reality, it is impossible to quantify the effect of food and herbs on the body. I'm a computer science researcher, and this problem is intractable without quantum computing or some other paradigm shift in the field. There are thousands of different compounds in plants, and they interact in a synergistic fashion. That's why the effectiveness of vitamins when consumed in a whole food is almost always significantly higher than taking them in supplement form. The only way to observe what works and what doesn't is through generations of trial-and-error and observation, and that's all Ayurveda has done. It's accumulated wisdom.

As I pointed out to Azdahak not too long ago, 80% of India uses Ayurveda in one way or another. The NIH spends about 1% of its budget on preventive medicine. Ayurveda is all about prevention. That's why it's called the science of longevity. Think about what you're saying here, because it's a very tall claim. You're essentially saying in characteristic skeptical ENTP fashion that for around 1500 years (that's how long Ayurveda has been codified, but it was probably being used for far longer than that simply as an oral tradition), every single generation was delusional and misguided in passing on what they knew to the next generation. I'm afraid that the burden of proof is on you to conclusively demonstrate that bioscience is more effective than Ayurveda in every respect.

Do your homework. Do your research. It takes 8 years to become an Ayurvedic physician in India. It's very difficult to study the effectiveness of Ayurvedic therapies using RCTs. Science has only just begun to scratch the surface. Just because scam artists abound, especially here in America, does not mean you get to write off an entire body of knowledge as quackery. Come back here when you know more.

If you want to know what Ayurveda is really about, read this guy's book. He is one of the foremost western Sanskrit grammarians:
https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Ayurveda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140448241
And this is a good summary of the concept of physical constitutions to get you started:
http://aysnyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=165

u/thedevilstemperature · 1 pointr/PlantBasedDiet

Evening chronotype is a real trait, but it may not be innocuous for people who have it, like the more extreme delayed sleep phase disorder (Study) Evening chronotype tends to be associated with various negatives including metabolic syndrome and mood disorders (Circadian disorders; Google scholar). How much of this is due to living in an early-bird world? Unclear, but there are so many things linked up to circadian rhythm, melatonin, light exposure, etc that it seems unlikely that an evening chronotype has got all of it working perfectly just with a time delay. Depression is genetic too.

If you want to do more research, here are the other resources I know of that relate to this topic (plus the site above):

Can you change your chronotype

This guy's blog

Pop science book 1

Pop science book 2

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u/encinarus · 1 pointr/ProjectReddit

Don't let that stop you! A very large fraction of knee (and other joint) pain are that the wrong muscles are weak.

http://www.amazon.com/Athletes-Book-Home-Remedies-Injury-Prevention/dp/1609612345

Most knee pain that I and folks around me have had was resolved by some combination of front or side leg raises and squats.

Edit: Before I started running, I had a lot of knee pain and it was getting in the way of me doing short runs like this and skiing. After breaking down, I went to a doctor, the doc did some exams and found nothing fundamentally wrong with my knee. She prescribed physical therapy, I did the exercises and kept doing them after PT was over. Some time later some issues started coming back because I got lazy with the exercises (still running) and a friend pointed me at that book. The book somewhat has a recipe of "If this hurts, do that. If you want to prevent this from hurting, do this other thing". Totally totally worth it.

u/fbleagh · 1 pointr/running

Really, there is zero difference. The reason for gaps between workouts is so that the muscle damage that occurred during your training can be repaired. Whether you're running or lifting weights or cycling or rowing etc the principles are all the same.

  1. You train - causing muscle damage

  2. You rest that muscle group - Allowing muscle repair

  3. Repeat.

    Your new speed/endurance/power/explosiveness is acquired in step 2, as you body responds to the training stimulus.

    Also rest doesn't mean sitting on the couch. You could be at the gym doing some core/upper body work on your 'off' days.

    I think this misconception that running is 'different' and that cross training is not required is the reason so many runners get injured.


    EDIT: This is an incredible book on the science of running and the mechanisms of training - http://www.amazon.com/Runners-World-Body-Exercise-Stronger/dp/1605298611?ie=UTF8&tag=thesciofspo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969
u/SomeThinkingGuy · 1 pointr/mixo

> Probabilmente ti farà paura, ma io cerco di mangiare 1g di proteine per kg di peso corporeo

Anche io mangio circa quello però sto cercando di mettere qualche muscolo extra. In futuro ho intenzione di mangiare leggermente meno proteine. Poi in vecchiaia ho letto che ci vuole qualche proteina extra.

> e il resto delle calorie in grassi sani (olio di oliva, di cocco, noci, avocado, etc), limitando i carboidrati al massimo

Io mangio esattamente il contrario, carboidrati sani (cereali e legumi interi), limitando i grassi a quelli che ci sono nei semini. Ho anche comprato i flax seed (che ritengo dovrei mangiare tutti i giorni) ma non ho mai tempo di macinarli e sono in attesa di un frullatore nuovo per risolvere questo problema. Ogni tanto mi sono comprato le olive e me le sono mangiate con gusto anche se ho il sospetto che forse abbiano troppi grassi saturi. Ogni tanto mi mangio anche le noci che ho letto da qualche parte fanno bene. Devo comprare spaccanoci nuovo.

Ho indagato un pò su questo topic dei grassi vs carb e ti passo due link che ho trovato interessanti:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-coconut-oil-clog-arteries/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-atkins-diet/

L'autore è un vegano però come vedi è abbastanza onesto da riportare anche quei (pochi) studi che riportano risultati positivi sulle diete low carb. Sono andato anche a vedermi "fatty acid metabolism" su wikipedia però è tutto men che semplici specialmente se non sei un chimico!

Un altro interessante è questo che spiega come mai le piante non hanno molti grassi:

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/55632/why-do-plants-store-energy-as-carbohydrates-and-not-as-fats

Quindi, ad oggi, la mia opinione è questa:

Le diete low carb high protein non funzionano, non c'è niente da fare. Il motivo per cui non funzionano è ovvio. Il corpo deve eliminare prodotti di scarto. Però comunque le proteine vegetali sembrano meglio di quelle animali.

Le diete high fat (più di 30% di fat), low carb (meno di 40% di carb) e con una dose non eccessiva di proteine (diciamo 1 grammo per kilo di peso) possono anche funzionare, pur non essendo affatto naturali, a patto che le sorgenti di grassi e di proteine siano vegetali. Probabilmente è nettamente meglio un frutto intero come l'avocado oppure l'oliva invece che olio di un tipo o di un altro. L'oliva secondo me è salutare. Anche le noci andrebbero mangiate, concordo su questo.

Quindi, l'immagine di insieme è questa, che l'uomo è effettivamente un animale al 90+% erbivoro, come dicono i vegano moderati (tipo Greger), e inoltre non ha bisogno di molte proteine (come dicono tutti i nutrizionisti competenti), però il suo meccanismo per utilizzare i "fatty acids" come fonte di energia non è affatto difettoso come si riteneva in passato. In passato si riteneva che i saturated fat fossero maligni semplicemente perché i saturated fat sono associati ai prodotti animali. In effetti ho letto da qualche parte che l'uomo è uno dei pochi animali che può far andare il cervello quasi interamente con i fatty acids. Quindi, riassumendo, probabilmente l'uomo è ragionevolmente efficiente nel bruciare i grassi perchè questo meccanismo comunque era troppo importante e necessario per fare migrazioni oppure per sopravviere alle carestie.

La dieta che stai facendo tu secondo me si può definire una carestia/migrazione simulata. E' solo simulata perché ovviamente aggiungi per via orale sempre nuovi grassi e nuove proteine ogni giorno!

Ritengo anche che forse una dieta come la tua può avere un utilizzo per prepararsi ad un qualche tipo di maratona dove non è consentito assumere cibo (carb) durante il tragitto. Un altro possibile utilizzo sensato potrebbe essere quello di gestire alcune malattie (alcuni cancri, alcuni tipi di diabete, epilessia).

Di certo non è una dieta che consiglierei ad una persona sana. Come mai una persona sana dovrebbe fare una dieta cosi estrema e restrittiva? Solo perchè va di moda, come fosse un taglio di capelli oppure un vestito?!

> Non sono sicuro di capire cosa intendi. Una volta che la "polvere" è miscelata con acqua e olii diventa altro, una matrice complessa, con alcuni componenti in soluzione altri in sospensione, le fibre solubili formano gel etc... Non molto diverso dal cibo normale dopo che è stato masticato e ingoiato.

Credo che nello stomaco arrivino comunque pezzettini di roba, non liquidi. Però non sono esperto. Intuitivamente non mi fido dei liquidi. Ho letto da qualche parte che gli oli liquidi vanno abbastanza direttamente nel sangue.

Hai provato a farti le analisi del sangue e osservare il colesterolo e tutto il resto? Come spiega il primo link, c'è molta variabilità tra gli individui. Dovresti verificare se sei una persona adatta alle diete high fat, oppure no.

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Primo P.S:

> Per questo motivo non sono contento della maggioranza di soylent in commercio: troppi carboidrati, poche proteine, troppi compromessi per accontentare tutti, come accenni anche tu.

Su questo siamo daccordo. Hanno scelto una via di compromesso. Tra i big, Huel sembra quello più vicino ai low carb, però è "Paleo"/"Zone" (high protein) invece che nettamente "High fat". Comunque come spiegano anche sul loro sito puoi aggiustarlo verso quello che vuoi abbastanza facilmente:

https://huel.com/blogs/news/low-carb-huel-two-hacks

Loro usano coconut oil, io ti consiglierei olio di oliva oppure anche olive intere.

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Secondo P.S:

Se mi consenti, ti do due consigli:

  1. Mangia i grassi nei frutti interi (avocado intero, oliva intera, noce intera, cocco intero) per quanto possibile. Ovviamente la frutta fresca è più scomoda da conservare, mi rendo benissimo conto di questo problema. I semi di lino pure sono consigliatissimi però pare che vadano macinati.

  2. Mangia pure qualche carb, non è che siano tossici, sono una fonte completamente naturale di energia. Guarda, le molecole di grassi (i triglicelidi) sono composti da una molecola di glucosio (carb) e tre di fatty acids. Quindi qualche carb di fatto lo mangi comunque, anche se credi di mangiare zero carb.

    Tieni anche presente che alcune cellule (cervello, globuli rossi) hanno bisogno del glucosio per campare. In ogni caso, per tua fortuna, non c'è rischio di morire immediatamente a causa della mancanza di carb perché le proteine possono essere convertite in glucosio se c'è bisogno, e gli animali carnivori principalmente funzionano attraverso questo meccanismo. Se trovi un animale che utilizza principalmente i grassi, fammelo sapere.

    La conversione da proteine a glucosio crea un sacco di prodotti di scarto e quindi è sconsigliabilissima. Per questo ti dico le diete high protein sono del tutto insensate. La produzioni di grassi dai carb pure crea dei prodotti di scarto e quindi è sconsigliata pure questa. Quindi anche i vegani che non sono a dieta dovrebbero mangiare abbastanza grassi. Quelli che sono a dieta possono provare a compare con i grassi che hanno in corpo.

    La ketosis pure è sconsigliatissima. Ti consiglio davvero di mangiare qualche carb per essere sicuro di non andare in ketosis e per essere sicuro che il tuo corpo non bruci proteine per ottenere carb. E comunque, la frutta e verdura la devi mangiare comunque per i micronutrienti e pitochemicals, quindi rassegnati! ;)

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    Terzo P.S:

    Ti consiglio anche di verificare se sei "insulin resistant" oppure no. Credo sia sufficiente fare un pasto con abbastanza carb (che so, 40% carb, 40% fat e 20% proteine) e poi misurarti il glucosio nel sangue. Da quello che ho capito, già hai tutti gli strumenti necessari per fare questo? Sei diabetico?

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    Quarto P.S:

    Conosci qualche autore low-carb che mi puoi consigliare? Per adesso tutti i libri che trovo su amazon.com sembrano scritti da dei crank. Non voglio offendere nessuno però oggettivamente è cosi. Tutti consigliano high protein, prodotti animali e ketosis. Ti faccio alcuni esempi di libri che sembrano seri ma secondo me non lo sono affatto. Basta vedere con Amazon qualche pagina a caso per rendersi conto. Nella sostanza tutti sostengono che l'uomo è un animale carnivoro ma tutta la scienza nutrizionale dice esattamente il contrario.

    Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat Hardcover – December 11, 2012
    by Paul Jaminet Ph.D. (Author), Shou-Ching Jaminet Ph.D. (Author), Mark Sisson (Introduction)

    https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Health-Diet/dp/B007USA6MM/

    Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy Hardcover – May 16, 2017
    by Dr. Joseph Mercola (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Fuel-Revolutionary-Combat-Increase/dp/1401953778/

    The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable Paperback – May 19, 2011
    by Stephen D. Phinney (Author), Jeff S. Volek (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0983490708/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I1CH3F17VHBPNZ

    The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance Paperback – April 1, 2012
    by Jeff S. Volek (Author), Stephen D. Phinney (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0983490716/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3B55O32RBIIDW

    The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat Paperback – December 7, 2010
    by Loren Cordain (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Diet-Weight-Healthy-Designed/dp/0470913029/