For him it's about the DHA in seafood.
Yes, and he discussed that in the video. That's what he was referring to with "pescetarian" ("pescetarian vegan" would be contradictory, so I think he meant pescetarian).
Am on an oyster experiment at the moment,, will let you know how it goes,, but so far I do notice changes..
Yes, oysters are well known to be a healthy food.
I did hear something that seemed a little eccentric to me. He mentioned where he astounded someone sitting next to him at a paleo conference by how much lamb he ate...
There you have hit the nail on the head, Van. That is why Dr. Kruse's description of his diet as effectively pescetarian is surprising. Since when are enormous quantities of lamb and the "chronic ketosis" he advocated in the video part of a pescetarian diet? Does he not know what the term means?
Also the last podcast I saw, his face/ neck was miserably overweight??
He explained it in the video. He is writing a book that will point out what he sees as the flaws born of ignorance in the books of two Paleo diet authors, and he said he put the weight on while eating the foods in their diet books, plus making himself hypoxic, by doing things like wear an oxygen-restricting mask to bed. Does that not sound risky and don't the makers of those masks normally warn to not wear them while sleeping?
Inger, if you can share more about your experiences following his guidelines, that would be great. Are you still daily cold river dunking? and what do you think the ideal time in the water is for you.
I also use cold showers and coldwater bathing/plunging (and also increase the contrast with quite warm water), and do find it beneficial, FWIW. I don't do it for nearly as long as Dr. Kruse reports and don't see the point of frequently doing such lengthy times beyond claiming superior cold tolerance (and it would help his credibility if he would demonstrate it publicly, monitored by objective observers, rather than just claim it).
He doesn't look exceptionally healthy, not young and taunt like raw foodists tend to.
Yes, I hope this doesn't come across as mean, but his hair is way more gray/pigment-reduced than mine and he's only a year older. Gray hair is not a purely cosmetic issue. Art De Vany has written some interesting stuff about how a low glutathione level contributes to gray hair (
http://tinyurl.com/kjtmd3c). Glutathione protects against the oxidative stress produced by hydrogen peroxidide.
Inger, in contrast, looks very young for her age (before someone brings up the old canard about appearances having nothing to do with actual health or physiological age, please note that Inger's youthful physiological age was confirmed with a measuring device developed in Europe, which she wrote about before). Maybe Jack could learn some things from our own lovely Inger? Perhaps Jack should try eating more of his foods raw, for example?
Prof. Chris Masterjohn wrote about how (cooked) chronic ketogenic diets may generate methylglyoxal (Where Do Most AGEs Come From? O Glycation, How Thy Name Hast Deceived Me! by Chris Masterjohn,
http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2011/10/where-do-most-ages-come-from-o.html)
When there is not enough glutathione available to offset it, methylglyoxal (MG) can act as a mediator to form Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) (see Methylglyoxal Modification of Protein,
http://www.jbc.org/content/274/26/18492.full ).
The following study found that in as little as 3 weeks, a (cooked) chronic ketogenic diet appeared to deplete liver glutathione in the same way as a daily dose of Tylenol: Acute oxidative stress and systemic Nrf2 activation by the ketogenic diet,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996110001920 It fits with the doubled MG levels that Beisswenger et al found in the most-compliant Atkins dieters in just a few weeks (
http://tinyurl.com/n5ggfpz; for more discussion, see also
http://freetheanimal.com/2014/11/hormesis-missing-glutathione.html).
