I have some very early childhood
memories of insisting my mother make me tuna fish cakes, lamb chops
and mince rissoles for breakfast (not all at the same meal although
that would be awesome). I'm pretty sure such a nutrient (not to
mention) fat dense breakfast would have fueled me up for the day
ahead, but, sadly, that part I can't really remember. I do know that
I got side-tracked from this diet somewhere along the line and spent
the next 30 years in a carbohydrate induced haze. For a few years I
was even vegetarian (horror), during which time I consumed an
appalling amount of “healthy” soy.
Early morning, south coast, NSW
About five years ago, I quit eating
grains of any kind and, since then, I've gradually been eating less
and less carbohydrate. In the last few months, I've discovered that
I “look, feel and perform” best on a really low carbohydrate
diet. Of course, I wish it hadn't taken me over four decades to work
this out, but, I guess I can at least look forward to the next four
decades now being very healthful.
In paleo land, that amorphous place
where all us wackos who don't eat “bird seed” hang out a lot of
people are experimenting with nutritional ketosis, a condition
implicated in improvements in cancer, autoimmune conditions, and
neurological disorders (among other things). I've been naturally
slipping in and out of ketosis frequently over the last couple of
months without really trying and I've noticed that I sleep better,
but less, have no hunger but massive energy, can go hours or even all
day without eating yet have great strength, have great mental
clarity, and just generally feel pretty awesome. Skeptics will also
think I am also suffering from ego-mania, illusory superiority or
just some generalized narcissism.
Whatever the real truth is (if you
believe truth is relative you'll think there is no one truth), I am
going to enter the n=1 experimental realm of which paleo folks are so
fond, and try for the foreseeable future to stay in a state of
nutritional ketosis. I am not Jimmy Moore, or Peter Attia, so I
won't be measuring all kinds of blood levels and making copious notes
on my experience, but I will keep some rough notes of how I'm feeling
and how the experiment is working out. Either my illusory
superiority will become real, or I'll come crashing down. Stick
around and see how it turns out.
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