Diet and Nutrition Group

axeljonsson joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I want a place to test, explore and share best practices when it comes to food and healthy, functional eating.”

sigridjakob joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Understand optimal human diet using evolutionary biology as a means of generating testable hypotheses”

kirk joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Together we can crowd-source (self-) experimentation to help answer fundamental questions about nutrition. High-fat vs. low-fat? Paleo vs. vegetarian? Personal genomics may reveal that it depends...”

Luai_lashire joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I respond very dramatically to diet changes so I watch my intake very carefully! I'm looking to share experiences and learn how best to care for myself.”

dan.bolser joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Genetic markers of micronutrient metabolism / pharmacology.”

Carrieaherbert joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “the food - mood connection. How depression may be treated with food. the low down on the juice cleanse craze!”

drdelorenzo joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I am a geneticist interested in personal genomics and nutritional genomics. I mostly work in the interaction between food (nutrients) and genome to determine our health status (what is called Nutrigenomics). I am also interested in personal genomics, or better, in understanding what is in our personal genomes.”

Ramonaji joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “There is SO MUCH debate right now in the world of nutrition! I want to know the real truth, if it can be parsed... ”

fathomworks joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Hi Everyone. Just wanted to let you know about "The American Gut Project." They are looking for 10,000 volunteers to participate in their gut microbiome project. Hopefully we will be able to use our individual microbiome data from their study in future Genomera studies. Get on their email list if you would like to participate. http://humanfoodproject.com/american-gut/ ”

ehwang joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Interested in learning about how diet and nutrition affect health and wellness”

DinaRalt My most "nutritious" article on smart diet via greens: http://nettingno.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/does-no-metabolism-play-role-in-effects.html

napobo3 joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Diet and Nutrition and DNA combination is interesting to me.”

SanjaSimic joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Deep transformation through food”

jcbruin joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Improve my diet and feel healthier and more energetic!”

Halim joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Bodyhacker, Starting a 5-day fast right now”

twoutopias Welcome, Halim. I hope you find at least a little of what you are looking for.

symian joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I wish to find the optimal diet to maximize my quality of life. Currently I am following a modified Paleo with sporadic fasting protocol.”

EriGentry Would love to hear more about your fasting protocol? What's the motivation? How's it working?

Halim Same here. I fast everyday for 20 hours and keep it Paleo with higher carb on weight lifting days

gbiggers We are looking for a couple of people to help pilot a new butter study. @yoni, from the doctoral program at Stanford, is organizing a Butter Mind 3 study, using some new cognitive measurement instruments. It is a brand new study, and it is connecting to an external app for the instruments. So we would like to pilot the study with a small group before inviting more. If you would be up for helping replicate/test the results of butter mind with a follow on study, come join Butter Mind 3: http://genomera.com/studies/cognitive-effects-of-butter-or-butter-mind-3

Amazing TED talk by Dr. Terry Wahls about her Paleo Diet

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yoni joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I seek to optimize cognitive performance through lifestyle choices including diet.”

NickAnderson joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “determine how much of my biology determines my love of fish and chips and how to change that :-)”

gbiggers Welcome to the group! So you want to hack your biology, to make you love fish and chips more? :-)

bhussey joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Connections between diet and physical/mental performance; energy levels, endurance, recovery, sleep quality, etc. ”

bluenomad joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Healthy Food!”

China seeks to unlock secrets of herbs, roots

Reuters · posted by EriGentry

EriGentry "In the quest for better and newer drugs, scientists in China are re-examining traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) -- roots and herbs that have been used for thousands of years -- to find and reproduce the active ingredients so they may be made into drugs that can be easily manufactured and consumed. But unlike many Chinese drugmakers who already sell TCMs in powders and capsules, scientists are going a step further by putting these experimental medicines through rigorous clinical tests so that they may find wider acceptance globally."

aschorr joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I'm interested in how diet can impact disease treatment and prevention, particularly endocrine diseases, heart conditions, and mood disorders. Recently made some significant diet changes to address health issues related to a heart condition. I'm following a low sugar, low glycemic, reduced fat diet, with the eventual goal to move towards a predominantly plant-based whole foods diet.”

EriGentry Welcome, aschorr. Congrats on your life changes! Is the diet of your own design or do you follow a protocol?

aschorr Principally I'm following dietary guidelines created by the American Diabetes Association.

dshen Hey all, I'm a big fan of 4 Hour Body. Anyone here a convert?

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jzempel I'm pretty much a fanatic (guzzling water right now). What parts of 4HB are you tracking with?

dshen ha lots of things: 1. i started on his diet recommendation by taking PAG of his PAGG stack (couldn't take green tea, made me nauseous) and cutting all sugar and white starch out of my diet. i also upped my protein intake and eat more beans, esp for bkfast. lots of protein powder! fat % is the lowest i've been ever, and not only when i peak for a race. 2. then i tried out his deadlift/benchpress routine to increase strength for running and swimming (i'm an ironman triathlete). works great! 3. i also started doing asrspeed.com per his recommendation. really improved my speed greatly! 4. THEN

dshen oops hit the submit button! 4. i am also train total immersion for swimming. just got certified as a TI coach! what are you doing in 4HB?

EriGentry I was very intrigued by the results Tim showed in the book, so I tried the diet and exercise protocol for fat loss. It didn't my weight or body measurements, and after a couple months of lentils and high-protein, my blood showed elevated BUN (blood urea nitrogen) and creatinine, suggesting impaired kidney function. I stopped eating meat and legumes right away. From what I hear, men do great on Tim's plan ;). Any women here have feedback?

gbiggers Green tea makes my wife nauseous, too. I wonder if there is some bio marker for that trait.

dshen Re: eri gentry Thats interesting! Did your BUN and creatinine levels come back to normal? Was it the diet that caused impaired liver function or is there something going on witn your liver in general, meaning it doesnt react well to this type of diet or similar? Excuse me if im getting too private- no issue if youd rather not respond. Thx I didnt go full on 4HB diet. I only cut out all sugars, white starches, and ate natural foods as much as possible. I am down to taking AG in the morning and PAG at night and thats it. I think that once i reached a plateau i really didnt need much to maintain. But i also train heavily so the calorie output is constant and high too.

dshen Re: gbiggers Only green tea pills make me nauseous. I still drink green tea but obviously the concentration is significantly less. I just ordered a 23andme test so maybe we can figure out if my DNA shows some marker that makes me react to high doses of green tea extract...

jzempel @dshen - trying lot's of 4HB on this end, too. Actually, it's been long enough since I read portions of the book, that I've started to wonder if I'm incorporating non-ferriss-approved elements into my regimen. I try to stay close to the diet. I gulp 2 liters of ice-cold water within 30 minutes of waking and try to slam a breakfast of eggs within 1 hour of waking. Fruit is a treat reserved for cheat day. At night I have a couple teaspoons of almond or peanut butter to prevent overnight blood sugar lows. I try to stick with crossfit for workouts. There are some similarities with 4HB (kettlebell), but overall CF is probably more intense. I'll do cold showers, but I haven't gotten the nerve to try an ice bath. I started with the full PAGG stack, but haven't renewed my supplement supply. I saw really good results in both weight and fat mass that I haven't enjoyed since tailing off the PAGG. Maybe some time I'll sanitize my charted measurements and share them here.

dshen ha yeah i haven't done the ice pack altho i bought one just out of curiosity. i already sit in enough ice baths after my long runs! but i am not sure i need to drop my fat % further. crossfit is pretty intense. i'm not sure my bod could take it! i do kettlebells every now and then, and just got into indian club swinging. very much a gray cook and pavel fan when it comes to the latest theories in training and keeping mobility and strength. i would be very curious on tracking for 4HB - i have an Omron body monitor and write down my measurements every morning. I also have a withings scale. i would love to hear how others track their progress with something like 4HB. this is something somebody in the startup world should work on...!