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Eating more calories helps too.

i'm finding that just plain old milk is amazingly well balanced, i have just a nice amount of fat and the protein plus some good resistance exercise is increasing muscle mass. I dunno exactly how much muscle mass i've gained but by eye and the scale i'd guess i'm up 3kg muscle weight over my lifetime average.

the milk gives you a fair whack of carbs and that extra muscle is a little hidden under a reasonable fat layer, maybe a little more than i'm used to but according to BMI, puts me in the 'healthy' range where before i was just under.

it's carbs as calories that give you fat. the body simply does not absorb fats that it can't immediately use to make glycogen.

imo, the only carb that is not a disaster is lactose, because it doesn't make your mouth into an acid factory. it's been one of my favourite things about the milk diet, no more funky mouth, it's even resolved some serious nerve pain problems i had developed, i think i now have grown a little coating of enamel over a lot of broken exposed areas, i get no pain from cold or spices now. it was getting really bad because just malts were making my teeth get pain and my half dead wisdom tooth would get swelling under it and shift upwards with the pain.

literally doesn't happen anymore.

the other great thing about milk is it makes your skin all shiny and soft.

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₿itcoin 2y ago

Nice, I gotta try it out. Alsonote that humans have more fat under the skin than most other animals that live on the land. It is one of our features, probably because our body has adapted to staying and hunting deeper in the water when needed. It is pretty amazing, and single digit bodyfat might be cool, but not really good.

mleku 2y ago

the interesting thing is that when your main calorie source is fat, you basically end up with a very stable and healthy body fat ratio too... and i think that it bypasses the usual carb fat pathway stringing together sugars to make the fat, it's just basically absorbed directly.

i've always observed that the fats i consume rapidly alter the quality of fats on my skin. low fat diets dehydrate the skin, if 'hydration' is a correct word for lack of fat.