My house had a chicken week as well (at least my wife's cooking - then I came in with beef and pork).
There have been times in my life when I was obsessive about getting all the "data" I could about myself. Now isn't one of those times, I'm kind of opposite, figuring that anything I would gather would also be available for potentially anyone else to obtain, and I don't want the data out there to be shared with my friendly government or pharma institution (there isn't much separating those two right now). The standard blood tests are good enough to confirm any suspicions or point at any deficiencies. I believe I am aware of the boston hearth diagnostics tests - these are the tests looking at the size of the cholesterol molecules, rather than just the count, correct? As in, a high number of tiny cholesterol is way better than a much lower number of big cholesterol, if memory serves.
Right now I am considering the blood tests to be just a stopgap, really, making sure I'm not driving off a cliff, or at least letting there be some data for if things actually start going bad wrong. For my day to day, I'm much more interested in symptomology - how is my energy level, mood, and severity of any physical annoyances.
You asked about gall bladder and fats, and it was an early concern, but hasn't really been an issue. I can still need to find a bathroom quickly, but usually it can be traced to cheese/dairy, which is still an occasional issue, but has gotten better. I think the cheese thing is still a lingering post-Covid symptom, and cannot figure out what cheese(s) might be worse than others. Actually I don't think it really matters, because I can eat something with cheese one day, be fine, eat the same thing, same kind of cheese another day, and at least have some abdominal cramping. For now, I just enjoy cheese cautiously.
I don't know what "inflammation" really covers as far as symptoms and annoyances, but diet hasn't resolved all the things that I thought it might. However, nothing has gotten worse, except maybe some knee pain that may be due to actually straining something rather than just inflammation and eroded cartilage.
Interesting side effects - I am normally prone to sunburns. My sun resistance has gone way up. I think I've only used sunblock twice this summer, and haven't been painfully burnt. Second, body odor. I've never been a daily bather, and I know when I stink - but my sweat is not carrying the strong odor it once did. I think this is just the lack of salts, sugars, and yeasts in my body, as I don't really have any of that to sweat out. I may have to experiment with pillowcases, I've always been prone to turn them yellow over time, same with undershirts - and was told it was mostly a genetic thing. I'm wondering if it really has more of a basis in the chemistry of my sweat, which has certainly changed a bit.
I don't supplement. Actually, lies, I still take a multivitamin (Costco's daily multi, basically centrum), and a fish oil. And two blood pressure meds. I plan on stopping the multivitamin and fish oil for a while, once I run out, just to see how it goes. When I do that, I may decide it is time to eat more organ meats. I really haven't been, but I'm not against it.
I'm also considering trying to drop caffeine. I think that is still a long ways off, and just seems like more self-punishment than any benefit I would see at this point.
What did you consider as success when you were on the carnivore diet?
And I understand your skepticism; it probably doesn't help that there are many similar diets out there right now that are all low carb, each with its own reasoning about what is OK or necessary to ingest.
"Alone" is a reality series show on American television where 10 people are stationed outdoors, alone (in separate remote locations), and a prize is awarded to the person who survives the longest.
Many of the contestants will intentionally put on extra weight before starting the quest, so as to have additional fat reserves while surviving on whatever they can forage/hunt/fish.
The first was asking "why not eat more fat?". The second was asking WHY you said "I can't afford to burn too much fat". Both of which you've answered elsewhere now :)
Tried Organic Maps, that wasn't working for me. So safe enough to install GMaps with Aurora and live a little? This is actually one of the very few uses I haven't replicated since moving to Graphene.
As someone who at least owns a boat, and goes out on it often enough - it is one thing to be on the water to get a good view, but quite another to be the guy zipping around infuriating the harbormaster, the ship captain, etc. Those asshats ruin it for everyone else.
Fitness isn't necessarily muscle definition and tone. Fitness implies optimization to your environment. If your environment is a sofa, maybe your optimal body type is potato.
But seriously, look at those who live in polar regions; they tend to carry more fat, which they need for insulation and energy stores. Look at those who do hard manual labor, most also carry more fat for energy storage. Thin people tend to come from warm climates.
Is this where you pull your boat out into the middle of the harbor so you can get an even better view?
Then consume more fat? Also, why do you assume this?
Sounds existential. Now I will go read the comments. Cheer up, we all aged another day, today. Except those of us that died, of course. Those blokes just got one day smellier.
Penis (well, for poe).
My actual entry would be "kitten" (in the style of mojo jojo). It's what I call all the pusses around here.
But I really liked Finney.
Gn #nostr.
Still amazed at how efficiently satellite.earth allows me to focus on conversations and notes that interest me.
My biggest gripe right now is not having good relay control so I can eliminate most of the replybots. Soon, it is said.
No, I think we need more children.
I don't know or want to know who follows me. You'll make yourselves known if you want me to know, I guess.
Traded some time credits for cheap AF sats today. hbu?
My biggest limiting factor when syncing was storage speed. I started with a USB drive that was really slow (hadn't thought that through at the time), and took almost a month to sync. Then decided to go to a M.2, and I payed attention to speeds advertised. I was able to do a full sync including my electrum sync in about 2 days.
After that, I guess as long as it can validate a block in less than 10 minutes, we're good!