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Dave Asprey and his Bulletproof coffee have officially gone mainstream. So many people are now adding butter and MCT oil or MCT powder to their morning coffee and singing the mind-clarifying benefits. I discovered a new twist on Keto-Coffee today that I had to share. Kegenix has introduced their first Keto-Meal Replacement Powder for people on-the-go who want to grab a Keto-friendly convenient meal. While making my coffee this morning I wondered how it would taste in my coffee instead of my usual butter+MCT oil + stevia. All I have to say is I won't be making my morning coffee without it tomorrow. I ran out of MCT oil this morning and was looking for an alternative. I remembered that I had a jug of Kegenix Meal Replacement Vanilla in my pantry so I grabbed it. After reading the label I decided that it was fine to use prior to training...

  I’ve read time and time again how unsustainable it is to continue to raise cows for beef due to their water consumption. The argument is, cows consume so much more water than it takes to grow a comparable amount of crop-derived calories, that its unsustainable to rasie beef to feed the population. Some of the numbers representing water consumption by cows were so large it made me question their accuracy. Those who claim this in their articles also never list their assumptions. How they arrive at the number of gallons of water that go into producing beef. They just throw a number out there – BAM! Most of these numbers are cited by those who would rid the world of the consumption of all animal proteins and make us eat the darling of the high protein plant world – soy. So I set out to see if these numbers were...

Howard, I applaud you for co-authoring the book Proteinaholic and approaching the Super Human Radio interview with a combination of open-mindedness, thoughtfulness, and skepticism. You were a joy to listen to and I believe that we need more individuals such as yourself promoting the diversity of thought that Proteinaholic brings to light. While the bulk of this letter addresses certain topics that we do not see eye-to-eye on, I want to start by highlighting the numerous points of agreement that were brought up throughout the hour interview. The irony with these, of course, is that they have little to nothing to do with protein. 1)      All humans in the world are the same species and we will therefore have a fundamental dietary pattern that best suits our needs. At the core, this will be a whole-foods, plant-based diet without all the processed crap (can I say that on here?). 2)      The...

More protein, more VAT? Abdominal obesity is a stronger risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases than whole-body obesity, and this is believed to be mediated by the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), which is basically fat that accumulates around organs rather than under the skin. Despite evidence suggesting VAT is predominately affected by the non-caloric qualitative aspects of diet, little is known about the association between macronutrient composition of diet and VAT. Moslehi et al from Iran sought to fill this knowledge gap. Using a cohort of 1254 participants, the researchers estimated the effects of substituting 5% of energy from one type of macronutrient by 5% of energy from another macronutrient on the change in VAT over 3-years. Surprisingly (at least to me), increased VAT was significantly associated with increased protein at the expense of any other macronutrient in women and increasing MUFA at the expense of protein and PUFAs in...

Considering that obesity is a disease of energy imbalance that promotes storage over expenditure, it is not surprising that treatment revolves around reversing this equation to promote weight loss. However, it is questionable whether weight loss is sufficient to reverse all metabolic changes induced by obesity. A great example of this is the Look AHEAD trial, in which over 5000 overweight-obese patients with type-2 diabetes were followed for an average of 10 years while undergoing an intensive lifestyle intervention that promoted weight loss through a decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity. Despite losing significantly more weight than a control group, resulting in greater reductions in all nearly all cardiovascular risk factors, there was no difference between the two groups in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Another related issue is that formerly obese individuals are prone to regaining their lost weight, leading to a rebound of cardiometabolic risk factors. Anyone can cut...