Tenacity
More than methods to the madness
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I keep delving deeper into the function of cholesterol and I don't have a clue how to control it beside dietary changes which are digested by the stomach before entering the blood stream, the conversion rate is like 10%. The science is incomplete or the perpetual myth surrounding cholesterol is just wrong.
I just want to see how long I can live off eggs and fish as my main form of animal protein.
If anyone can clarify before I go through another search let me know.
Watch out for mercury content in fish. I'm starting to having adverse effects from having salmon nearly every single day. So I'm creating a food cycling plan to minimize those effects to introduce some variance/balance. I wish I could have avocado but I'm allergic, at this rate leafy greens are some of the very few types of things I can eat without having reactions which is really, really fucking sad. Olive oil and nut butters are fine, or canola oil. Going to have to up my minimum carb intake by ~5g. I guess it's fine. I've been at the peak level of ketogenesis, I don't need keto sticks to tell me I'm doing the right thing for my body when intuitively I'm physiologically reacting oddly to the point where it affects my thinking.
As for eggs, I get that it's a good whole protein/fat source, though I've seen negative cardiovascular impacts of having too much (several eggs/day which a lot of bodybuilder types like to do). Haven't looked into it since I can't have eggs anyways, but I know lot of people who have validated this. It's better to take preventative measures. I have family who have gotten heart surgery from too much cholesterol + too much red meat (in their 40s to 60s) so it's really not something to take lightly. They had to stop working for months on end and borderline almost had to leave their jobs. It just is not worth taking the extra time/effort to optimize based on your own dietary restrictions or preferences. And, really, no one wants to deal with heart surgery.
So yeah:
Plant-based fats (avocado, canola/avocado oil, any non-hydrogentated oils) will do the trick if you're cholesterol-conscious. Making it actually palatable is insanely, insanely hard, but I can tell you for a fact that the food industry is already working on that, we can expect healthy fat keto meat substitutions probably within a year to a few years from now, maybe even earlier, Bezos and Mackey are definitely likely to be thinking about it.
I'm not in the food industry, but I've been mostly right about my food industry forecasts my entire life.
The diet change just never ends for me, if only I could stick to a handful of foods that were atomically nutritious (couldn't reduce those foods further), that'd be good. Yeah I've been eating a lot of fish and 95% is mackarel, I'll have to cut that out.
Eggs are a strange topic, so there's High Density Lipoproteins (HDL), Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) and Very Low Density Lipoproteins (VLDL). Cholesterol is produced by the liver in response to fat content particularly Omega-6s, so when eating highly saturated fats your body produces more cholesterol, while the dietary cholesterol associated with the processed meats/fats your eating plays a negligible role as digested lipoproteins don't make it to the bloodstream. The problem with cholesterol is it's a thick oily substance that can clog up arteries and vascular systems by blocking blood (which consists of water) from transporting. HDL and LDL are transporters of cholesterol, HDL is a better transporter of cholesterol in the bloodstream and thus it's less susceptible for cholesterol to leak out of the transport molecule into the bloodstream.
Still, I'm not eating good eggs. I got free range because the nutritional density, but I also got caged eggs for a protein source (15 caged eggs for £1.15, 10 free range eggs for £2.00 (discounted from £2.75)) when I get my next pay check I might have to start eating chicken or something, the horrors. But yeah I'm subsistence and making the best of the diet so far, I'm working out 2-3 times a day with 15-20 intervals, just a lot of push ups and sit ups to improve blood flow and utilise the protein.
Things that don't require cooking - for the keto college student (I swear I could write a book on this): turkey/chicken sausages/hotdogs and variants (microwave it), spinach salad with olive or canola oil (cost efficient but you might get hungry), certain vegan burgers, spinach
Meal prep: chicken cooked in a lot of canola or olive oil, cook it on Sunday, refrigerate or freeze surplus
If you do the above it'll be cost efficient - Spinach, canola oil, olives, poultry-based sausages. Boom - No cooking necessary. Minimize the chance of cardiovascular disease.I also found the keto diet was pretty expensive too.
Nope, my mental clarity is fucking epic. The only thing that ever holds me back is allergies when I try to introduce a new food.are you feeling fatigued/limited as the days go by?