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  • U might as well just upload a movie fuck look how long it go's for

  • Good stuff

  • 50% crap, the anti hangover thing works though.

  • Who the fuck is gonna stop eating bread?

  • @makespeaches lol i know right?? not the Europeans,that's for sure.

  • WHAT???..."Go off of all milk product...all egg....dairy".....since when are eggs dairy? This is the biggest load of shit on youtube. I can't believe Google would host this nonsense.

  • Excellent lecture, exceptional information. Thank you Google for creating a space where people can share their life work. No hero worship in this space and no institutional faschisim either. .

  • Shame on you google for giving a platform to such a horrible speaker. Did you know that CERI, the organization the speaker belongs to, is listed in the Questionable Organizations page of the QuackWatch website?

    Also, the host says he got invited because he seemed to be the smartest person in smart life forum. Really?? How about checking his credentials!!

  • awesome lecture!

  • Fascinating lecture, you mentioned using a metronome to test for allergies.

    I understand the part about waiting for two weeks and then trying milk, I understand that the allergic reactions will show up better.

    But how does the metronome help does this show up changes in pulse rate? I never heard this before. Is it connected to the body?

  • @boundlesslife12 It's used to test if your time perception changes.

  • @Goldernie

    Thanks very much for that, that looks very interesting I must look in to this further.

  • What a terrible lecture. If you wanted a serious talk on nootropics, you should look elsewhere. He has a cursory understanding of most processes in the body. He repeatedly makes unsourced, questionable (e.g., ignoring amyloid buildup in Alzheimer's and claiming he knows how to "reverse Alzheimer's"), borderline folk wisdom, and downright pseudoscience (e.g., at 0:12:14, his slide suggests that "vaccinations cause autism," which was never a rigorously tested hypothesis and ended up being a hoax).

  • @bobstevefrank123 I've some sympathy with you there! Fowkes does need to provide citations, fortunately he does on the CERI website, though perhaps Fowkes needs to flag this page more often so researchers can look at it on CERI dot com On the "Reversing Alz." title Fowkes should make it clearer he's talking about reversing the collapse of the brains neuroprotective stages, not the damage, which tends to be permanent.

  • @bobstevefrank123 Thanks for the comment you made. Could you point me in the direction of a serious talk about nootropics (etc) if possible, thanks :)

  • @bobstevefrank123

    A typical observation from a delusional idiot.

    How much did you pay for your forged PHD ?

  • Hello there! Have you thought about intellectus 424 diet (google it)? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend lost crazy amounts of weight with it.

  • RAVE!

  • herbs? herbs that work are called medicine

  • Lol read the comments before watching. Decided NOT to watch....

  • He clearly doesn't know it all. He would like to position him self as an authoritativeness figure but he is not. What I can get over is, why so many of you take an defensive position to protect the current medical institutions, medical fraternities, that a lower down the food chain from Pharmaceutics companies that lobby and effectively control government medical regulator that dont do a good job of protecting you.

  • He admits he doesn't have a P.H.D and he's just making it up as he goes along. This guy is a con-artist. Don't bother wasting your time watching this trash.

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  • @ogrish84 Interesting trash though, nonetheless, eh? Incidentally I found citations on the Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute (CERI) website, alas this comment box appears not to support posting hyperlinks!

  • Read a book called "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre.It might help some of you develop better critical thinking skills because by the looks of these comments, most of you are lacking in common sense.

  • Dear , @ogrish84 , Look here Mr. "Smells Like B.S." ,What an irony it is that you respond with such a subjective opinionated commentary. Critical thinking?At least post us a link with an intelligent rebuttal?You haven't responded with any information falsifying ANY the claims! I'm here to learn! I find this subject fascinating.I will fact check it ! P.H.D's can sell snake oil too..Where is your PHD guy?I find much of this information to resonate with my limited first hand experience.

  • How can people fall for this garbage. Google, what were you thinking when you invited this guy to talk to your people?

  • A lot of this smells like bullshit.

  • Totally compelling. Dead tired, but I still couldn't switch this video off .  Such valuable information. So gladI found it. Thank you.

  • Two things: He has a very unfit appearance for someone purporting to know what fitness entails. Additionally, while he seems to have a common sense grasp of a good diet, much of his research is presented as anecdotal and conjecture. I know many very fit mentally healthy people who eat bread and drink milk. Adaptation is something he skims in the end, but I feel that is the rule.

  • His point was not to give you the research, it was to explain what he has learned. As an organic chemist, you can trust him to understand good verses bad information, and to understand the interworkings of food constituents. He will likely leave references in his book, however.

  • Quite brilliant.

  • are there any nutritional benefits of marijuana? i.e. mental state etc..?

  • @Userlamez Why do you ask? You know and I know : the answer is Yes.

  • The person with blue tops and spec....is he a german? cause he sounds like em'

  • @swfowkes lacks evidence because he rejects the scientific method at certain fundamental levels as he's shown in the comments. An hour long presentation is certainly long enough to lay at least some of the methodology and hard results on the table, but that's nowhere to be seen. Let concrete evidence speak for itself and don't give credibility to those who claim to have answers while lacking foundation. If the institutional science does it wrong, as Fowkes purports, no alternative is offered.

  • I was initially very impressed with this presentation, but there was something about it that just didn't seem right. I just couldn't put my finger on it. He makes a lot of remarkable claims, but he doesn't do it the way the typical "woo woo" artist does. He comes across in a way I would expect of a reputable scientist; no use of buzzwords like "energy", "harmony", "vibrations" or "natural"; he's not pitching any products, including his "best-selling book"; and nothing from Oprah. (cont.)

  • @Guitcad1 (cont) (Of course, there is the Larry King reference ) He doesn't claim to have discovered any one miraculous "key" to improving mental performance. Instead, he talks about a number of seemingly sensible strategies, urges moderation, That line "We cannot use Mother Nature as a guide..." (3:57) is the last thing I would expect to hear from a quack. I think there may well be some good advice here.

    That being said, several other commenters are correct in that he does not (cont.)

  • @Guitcad1 (cont.) ...back up these claims. I think it was when he talked about eliminating bread completely that I started wondering "where's he getting this stuff?" Others have pointed out that he provides no double-blind studies, or any other peer-reviewed studies in support of his claims. That makes me more than a little suspicious of Fowkes himself, although I certainly intend to look into some of this. But if this is all quackery then they are starting to get smarter. Watch Out!!!

  • @carolscabinas. You got a bachelor's by partying????

  • "The evidence is becoming overwhelming

    that cellular functions can be switched on and off

    through frequency specific electromagnetic radiation

    that induces nuclear magnetic resonance in the cell.

    We may find that many diseases can be caused or

    cured by frequency specific radiation that is ELF

    pulse modulated." >>Walonick

    This is already fully developed closely held

    technology as applied to health & it's opposite.

  • Overall, really not a bad presentation and he may be right about a lot of things, but as a person trained in biology and science generally, i have to say that i hear countless good stories about how metabolism and disease processes work, and no matter how much sense they make, most of them turn out not to be true because these things are so complicated.

  • His caffeine pharmacology needs work. Not irritant, adenosine agonist. Works for about 5 hours (depending on dose). Does not appear to have any affect on mammalian DNA. BTW i am not a coffee advocate or consumer.

  • Actually the predawn is is very blue.

  • My apologies for being away for so long. There were many comments that were so long ago that I wasn't sure if they were still current. maybe I should switch to sort-by-thread. If I neglected anybody, please feel free to e-mail your questions to me at fowkes2@ceri.com. I monitor that e-mail address on a near-daily basis.

  • @swfowkes resorting to an attack on 'institutional science' still doesn't show evidence for your case and in fact is a red herring. 'Institutional science' allows my life expectancy to be over 80 years last I checked. You've just sunk yourself by creating this false dichotomy. What is google doing with a self-proclaimed anti-science quack?

  • @brandoconnor It is not a false dichotomy. It is not a red herring. It is a simple statement that institutional science is not real science. It is politics or religion, depending on what your definitions might be. Another way to say it is that roughly half of what is taken as science is "rigged" by design, mistake, misinterpretation, preconception or other influence to mislead people about reality. How do you explain the falsification rate for double-blind, placebo-controlled studies?

  • @swfowkes No no you were perfectly clear and my comment stands. You have things to say but no evidence to back your claims. You're appealing to a non-scientific crowd using language the lay person doesn't understand. Shameful of you to spread a message that has potential to kill children.

  • @brandoconnor I have plenty of evidence to back my claims. Just because I do not offer it in the video is not evidence that it does not exist. What assumptions are you making here? As a scientist, can you identify them? Do you think that my 15 years of advocacy work for children with Down's syndrome can be dismissed by my stupidity, gullibility and evil motives re risks from vaccinations? Rather the opposite, I think. My objective was/is to save children's lives and minds.

  • @vermeergirl For what? I state more than a hundred things during the presentation. There is readily available citations for most of it, which should be a worthwile exercise for the curious who may be surprised by anything I say. However, some of the information on pH, for example, dates back to the 1930-1960 time period, which is definitely not indexed into any modern databases (as far as I know). So if you can be more specific?

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  • @swfowkes You do make hundreds of claims. You don't back up any of them with reference to data. Very little of what you say has any real scientific backing that I am aware of. I don't know if this is because it is my lack of understanding or that your claims are flawed. It is good practice to cite the literature upon which your presentation is based on, regardless of the audience. Your claims are far reaching and this presentation is not well based, hence, "Cite your sources". To every claim.

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  • Damn, the jew controlled un want to forbid nutrition!

  • You lose any and all credibility by suggesting that vaccines cause autism. Learn the science. Your anecdotes and observations don't make the cut.

  • @brandoconnor Thank you so much for the heads-up. I saw the title and figured I'd watch at least part of the video to see what kind of retarded bullshit lurked within, but now I don't have to!

  • @brandoconnor If I was not clear, let me correct myself. Vaccines can/do cause autism. So can/does eating wheat. The combination of oxidative stress and immune activation can overwhelm the brain-gut homeostatic mechanisms. Vaccines are such an influence. The antigen triggers the immune system, and the thimerosal burdens reduced glutathione. I only cite vaccines because they are mistakenly believed to be uninvolved. That's politics, not science.

  • @brandoconnor If institutional science was actually science, 50% of double-blind, placebo-controlled studies would not be later proven erroneous. Such studies are proposed as the gold standard for reliability. But just as it is true that a scientist with a paper bag over his/her head can truthfully say, I don't see any evidence that vaccines can cause autism, that doesn't make it true. The history of science is replete with similar authoritative declarations later proven 180 degrees out.

  • 5 stars!

  • Very nice presentation, thanks, love every word of it.

    So many lies go arround the world, and so much money is involved, it comes down to this, people 'generally can't think for themselves, they believe white coats and ties, instead they should believe themselves and feel what is good or bad

  • @MrTruth111 People need to believe. Even scientists. Even me. But to be a true scientist, one must be capable of considering the variable role of belief in ones conclusions. In a peer-reviewed study of tryptophan, 15 animals start out in the test group, then one by one, three of them die. And by the end of the study, all 15 are alive again. This was a collaboration between the NIH and FDA, so their agenda was not so hidden. Sometimes, it is well hidden.

  • Down toward the end there, the closed-captioner should have been sacked...

  • they are dumping all kinds of toxins into your water supply(they call it flouride) and have been doing nuclear testing for years,so we are all exposed to fallout....all kinds of chemicals in the food too.you basically need to live in a bubble to avoid getting sick

  • Amazing presentation!!

  • Go to Dr. Gabriel Cousens for the real deal on proper nutrition. The key is to choose more alkaline foods like dark leafy greens and less acidic foods like animal (meat, eggs, dairy) alcohol, caffeine, sugar and stress. Peoplebasically die of overacidification of the body. All cooked food turns acidic so add more raw food to your diet. I love Rod Rotundi, Natalie Rose, David Wolfe for great info and recipies.

  • @ArtsAlign While I also promote alkaline diets, I also see a huge downside. People with hypometabolism have impaired generation of acid, which balances the alkaline ash of vegetables. Without cellular acidity from healthy mitochondrial metabolism (oxidative phosphorylation), too much dietary alkalinity (i.e., tissue-level alkalinity) becomes disabling. By healthy, I mean aerobic. Cellular acidity from CO2 is quite different from "anaerobic" lactic acid.

  • @ArtsAlign I think I should try again. pH balance is a core health issue at multiple levels of the body. The health benefits of alkaline diets take place at the cellular membrane where the acidity from cells is balanced by alkaline ash from vegetables. If the cellular acidity is CO2 (carbonic acid, from aerobic energy systems), the pH balancing is efficient. If cellular acidity is lactic acid from anaerobic metabolism, the balancing may be spectacularly inefficient. Acid is not bad.

  • 1:00:00 i use Starcraft 2 as a test for this

  • @DARTAGNANS170 True.

  • so i cant really eat anything?

  • @sills84 my thoughts exactly! The lecturer says to stop eating grains altogether. That's harsh. What's wrong with eating the right amounts of normal food?

  • @vjGURU99 If you are not allergic to grains via immediate (IgE) and delayed (IgG, IgM and IgA) hypersensitivities, there is nothing wrong with eating grains. But the odds are not in your favor with wheat, milk and corn. If you don't know, or if you have doubts, how do you choose to resolve the risk? Is there a rational way to balance known and unknown risks with known and unknown benefits? My choice is: when in doubt, trust mother nature. That's not rational, but I do think its wise.

  • @swfowkes Let me play out a scenario here. You eat wheat. There is a small inflammatory effect that is created by the gluten in the wheat which localized to the lumen. This inflammation impairs gut healing. The intestine becomes more permeable. Inflammation increases. Sequestration of zinc impairs the integrity of tight junction gaps. More gluten leaks through. Now you have leaky gut syndrome. Inflammation increases. Other allergies arise. Gut healing is further compromised.  Ouch.

  • @sills84 as long as you dont masturbate its no problem. And Oh Yeah...I hate ur Family.

  • A MOST valuable lecture! If you care not only about brain function, but also your health in general, this is a MUST watch! The only thing I did not see in this was the valuable role of Omega-3 fatty acids to help the body improve physiological functions which impact so much in the human body and which are ESSENTIAL and must be taken every day in the diet. Aside that, this lecture is one of the best I have listened to!

  • @RoyalSnowbird I avoided the w3 fatty acids because the intricacies of the scientific evidence are daunting (e.g., flaws in the studies "proving" essentiality). There is a dark side: w3 fats also accelerate mitochondrial aging, suppress aspects of immunity and cause dermal aging (skin wrinkling). On the other side, the w3 fat content of breast milk is fundamental to brain development, and supplemental w3 (ALA, EPA, DHA) and w6 (GLA) can dramatically reduce inflammation. It's a can or worms.

  • @RoyalSnowbird I do deal with this topic in detail in my videos on reversing Alzheimer's disease (the swfowkes channel).  I think that discussion was more towards the end, maybe video #5 in the series.

  • @RoyalSnowbird

    I haven't seen this yet but I always thought that omega-3 where mostly is a gimmick by egg manufacturers to buy their product

    the kind of trick industry always does

  • @RoyalSnowbird Amazing!! thanks!!

  • @RoyalSnowbird oh I am so glad you dont have a PHD!! i see just from your voice and fluency the passion that you love your topic! there are lot of PHD people who just abuse thier degee to lie.

    6 years in an institution! what is that. i got a bachelors by partying, but passion and love of your topic is different

    you will be better than anyone!

  • @carolscabinas You don't get a Ph.D in science by partying. Ph.D means 60-100 hours a week in the lab,lecture hall and library 51 weeks a year. Been there.

  • 1:03:42 OoOoOoOoO

  • no- true, loss of semen is bad for the system

  • Very interessting!

  • There is a serious problem in this lecture.  Fowkes never provides us with any double blind randomized research (or any randomized researches at all) to support any of his claims.

  • Who will gonna finish this video?

  • apparently the only good thing to eat or drink is water O_O

  • this stupid fucker doesn't know shit if he can't protect himself from the flu...

  • @fadropblane , u do know the influenza virus is highly contagious and evolves quite rapidly? I won't call anyone name's but "stupid fucker" might be what your parents should call u

  • i dont believe in him some of it..

  • Animal protein causes cancer and a whole host of other diseases and disorders. Plant based diets completely reverse most diseases including cancer. Colloidal silver works for any diseases that are left...

    Check out the documentary Healing Cancer From Inside Out!

    electrobiotics . com

  • can testicular cancer be prevented in anyway

  • @Theroguesunit6 Yes, colloidal silver, blood electrification or change your diet to a plant based diet, no meat or dairy for 20 days and you'll be laughing!

  • most sites say testicular cancer is not preventable

  • @Theroguesunit6 I believe it can mate ive heard of tumors goin cancer cures an many others, am not clued up on it all but i 'd say Dr Bruce Lipton would be a good place to start.

  • I forgot to ask my doctor if testicular cancer is preventable

  • @speedrecovery proteins are generally reduced to amino acids in the GI tract.There is specific proportion of amino acids that drives tumor growth, regardless of whether those proteins are of plant or animal origin. Amino acids is amino acids, whether they come from wheat or cow.

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  • FFS, I thought I was watching a real scientist for the first 30 minutes. It was a Google tech talk. He is one of those multivitamin quacks. So do not drink milk and eat bread and take lots of pills.

  • @Mick0845 just keep drinking your fucking Donald Rumsfeld ASPERTAME YOU FUCKING PUPPET ABORTION ON TOAST!

  • @michalchik

    Just, wow.

    Anyways, most of the stuff in this talk makes perfect sense and is pretty damned helpful. MSM seems to be all about drugging, cutting and waiting until things are so bad we need to go to extremes to reverse them.

    I think the evidence for poisoning from vaccines has become overwhelmingly clear, anybody that would flat out deny it sounds a little half baked and appears to be biased to the max.

  • @N1k1mon The first step in dealing with bias is being able to ask the question, "how could [this truth] not be true." It is not hard to see that some of the posters here cannot ask this question. The complementary question is, "how could [something unbelievable] be true." I suggest that such question-asking separates the good scientists from the bad, and the open-minded from dogmatists.

  • How does an impairment of energy give more stamina. Don't you need energy to last longer at a strenuous task? He gave no actually reasoning behind why he said this. If I'm wrong please tell me how energy impairment makes your stamina go up

  • @AaL3XaNd3R09 I agree with your intuition and sensibilities. Impairment of energy pathways and capacities has negative effects on both strength and stamina.

  • i don't know if i agree with the juvenile detention study.

  • another point: nobody needs to eat meat; not even tiny amounts, that is insects. b12 can be easily supplemented (and should be anyway as b12 deficiency is common in elderly people)

  • @frische0uterspace Very true. But I think insects are animals and should be considered as meat. In typical grain, the insects are dead, so they don't scream and make an unpleasant scene when you try to eat them. But then again, supermarket meat is already dead, too. Joking aside, where are you going to get your dietary nucleic acids?

  • Masturbation does lead to mental problems

  • @computermaster SILLY!!

  • 12:09 -- "autism onset in vaccinated children"??? NEXT.

  • Awesome, thank you very much for the video....

  • Copy a dictionary and become ambidextrous, the amount of stuff you will gain will make you go back to the beginning. Seriously I've seen the light and it is in ambidexterity. You want to have total control over yourself, well you should get a grip with both hands so that in the end you will have control of both hemispheres to your brain. Literally put, fold a piece of paper and start in the middle out to get the the left side in sync. And the copying a lexicon, they say god is word, so OD on a G

  • Please disconnect the phone 10:44 from the video recording equipement.

  • US Holstein cows = mutated milk that is even worse than European milk

  • !!!DANGEROUS!!!

    much of that is true. But he makes it sound like everyone can just throw in some 5-HT and gain control over his serotonine. Or just-for-fun take sleeping drugs. UNTRUE AND DANGEROUS!

    Furhermore he says we all may take vitamins as we like. DANGEROUS! Many vitamins inflict heavy damages to liver,nervous system, a.s.o.. if taken in too large amounts (e.g. vit.D,Vit.E, a.s.o.).

    Especially in the U.S. many people take drugs and vitamins. This is unnatural and very dangerous.

  • Thanks so much for this video. I hope people will use the information for the good of themselves and others.

  • there are so many vitamins we are suppossed to take. what are the most important ones to take. sounds like we need 15 a day. thanks

  • i slang bread

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  • For cataracts maybe look in to sodium laureth sulphate from toiletries as a cause.

  • @js12347777 Please do not neglect the role that galactose and "milk solids" added to low-fat milk products may play. All milk has some galactose in it, but skim milk and low-fat milks (made by adding fat to skim milk) have higher levels than whole milk.

  • 23:10

    Would this mean that excessive iodine intake for a woman would be bad?

  • @amusingisthedawn High iodine could be bad for two reasons. One, which is immediate and catastrophic, is if you have a goiter. The iodine will cause massive increases in thyroid hormone, which can be very dangerous. So if you don't know, start slow. Two, if your estradiol is low, iodine-mediated conversion of estradiol might lower it enough to adversely effect your wellbeing. Inflammation increases estradiol, so most people have the opposite problem.

  • Very informative. I have just become aware of the impact actually having all your vitamins can make. I've been taking this powdered solution for a little over a month now along with increasing the amount of "super foods" I eat. Since about the third day I've just felt totally transformed. My cognitive response is better, I'm more clear and sharp, I have more energy, and generally am in a better mood. It's truly amazing. Now think if I actually started exercising too ;)

  • answered my own question:

    The problem isn't lactose or casein (a major allergen in milk) since they are both either removed or at significantly reduced levels in whey. However, the main protein fractions in whey (beta-lactoglobulin, alpha-lactalbumin, and bovine serum albumin) are all highly allergenic.

  • I have a question about Whey protein powders. If milk is bad for you, but whey has no lactose sugars in it...is whey bad for you? I would think raising glutathione levels would be positive enough to take it.

  • @amusingisthedawn Glutathione is another issue. I believe that the increase in glutathione from whey, L-cysteine, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), and glutathione itself is mostly temporary. Over the longer term, negative-feedback regulation of glutathione intervenes to return glutathione to baseline levels. And since the feedback system probably cannot distinguish glutathione from other sulfhydryl compounds, glutathione can go below baseline. This happens in Down's syndrome.

  • He says that autism rates have increased. This is misleading. What has changed is our ability to make diagnosis. That is, we are more successful at identifying the disorder. Also, he has on an early slide "vaccines cause autism". This is wrong. I attribute his error to the classic correlation-implies-causality fallacy: signs of autism arise just after most children take vaccines. It's easy to falsely assume the latter of causing the former. I suggest Wired 17.11 for further reading.

  • @Gaiden199 I completely disagree with you on the Autism........do you really think that 1 in every 150 kids for the past 50 to 100 years just slipped through elementary school and high school and no body noticed that they couldn't talk or read?........Give me a break!.........Or if you're a parent, if your kid is developing normally (talking, potty trained, etc.) then all of a sudden they stop talking and don't make eye contact with you, I think you'll notice......Autism is not a subtle thing!

  • Spending more than 6-8 hours in bed could be a sign of poor sleep quality. Most people know when they develop sleep deficit because they have been sleeping less than their usual amount. But poor sleep quality can be insidious. Waking up after 6-8 hours groggy, grumpy, lethargic, and dull might mean that your sleep architecture is being compromised by an underlying pathology. Then again, if you are happy, maybe you just want to bliss out.

  • Only if it is Sunday.

  • Note: There is a tonne of research on the ketogenic diet. Look it up.

  • I shouldn't see this. I am a fast food lover.

  • also, Nobody said Carbs consumption is bad but its about timing and knowing when and how much for short term energy because that is all carbs are but if you eat beyond what the body can use  for 4 days it stores glucose as fats. Americans eat carbs as though they are trying to get through 9 months of winter without food because its cheap. We are one of the few countries where poor people actually can get fat because this type of food is cheap and abundant and stacked with glucose calories.

  • No bread, no milk, vitamins sixty times above recommended doses .... This man is right. His diet will significantly improve your productivity..... You will have to work very hard to earn money for kidney stones surgery ....

  • Sorry but ketosis diets only require 1 gram per pound of Lean Body Mass, that is normal or below normal. The average American only eats 20% in proteins. 60% of their diet is carbs that is why Americans are so fat.

  • For everyone who doesn't know anything about ketosis, i would suggest reading Lyle McDonalds book, The Ketogenic Diet. It's 10yrs old but still sound today. there is more than enough scientific research to back up his book to keep someone busy for years confirming it.

  • @kudos2jen The ketogenic diet is the opposite of what one would want for better mental performance. The ketogenic diet was originally designed for children with epilepsy because it reduces brain function so much that it actually prevents seizures.

  • @AbsoluteZ3R0 I know what it was designed for....

    ...but your statement is false regarding the ketogenic diet being the "opposite" of what one would want if they want brain performance.

    Do you have some brain fog during the transition/adaptation (about a week) to ketosis? Yes, of course but the brain can run on ketones like it runs on glycogen. Also, your body can produce glycogen from protein.

  • @AbsoluteZ3R0 I think there is confusion about "ketogenic." The epileptic-control ketogenic diet is exceedingly high in fats, but one can restrict carbohydrates to a much lesser degree and still maintain ketosis. I think the mechanism for preventing seizures is entirely separate from the one you propose.

  • @kudos2jen can u gave the website plz tnx

  • @jc123372

    This is the Author's website.

    go to bodyrecomposition . com and search for "ketosis"

  • "The Food Pyramid is upside down"

    this ^

  • 32:30 really? i thought ketons are poison to the brain...perhaps this is like training a muscle?

  • I haven't reached that part of the vid yet, but I think can answer that question. It used to be thought that glucose was the only fuel that the brain could function on. It has been found that the brain can also utilize ketone bodies but it does not seem to function as well using them. Ketones are also generally not too healthy because they for schiff's bases and disrupt lipid membranes.

  • Interesting. So is his theory behind cycling ketosis to strengthen and evolve the body? Permanent ketosis is more or less...deadly, so I am trying to figure out why you would want to induce it at all.

  • You may not want to induce ketosis. Some stresses like exercise, immune challenges and hunger we evolved with and our physiology has become adapted to expect as part of its normal growth. Other stresses like blows to the head, uranium poisoning, and malaria are stresses we either did not evolve with or our body never became dependent on for healthy functioning. I do not know which category ketosis falls into. I would need to seethe actual scientific research and that is probably not definitive.

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  • I use the cycling option to prevent metabolic and neuroendocrine entrainment. I do not know that there is entrainment, but there is for carbohydrate (insulin resistance), growth hormone, thyroid hormone (reverse T3), and starvation. Nobody knows that permanent or sustained ketosis is not known to be deadly at all. I believe that the most graceful agers are pretty much in borderline ketosis most of the time.

  • I think what you are failing to appreciate here is how incredibly complicated biochemical pathways are and you are there-bye confusing plausible inference from part of what we know with what we know. If you say that the the brain adapts to ketosis and the cognitive decline reverse. FIne that is your hypothesis, but until you produce studies showing that is true you might as well be saying the moon is made out of cheese. I have seen people make arguments for almost anything based on extrapolation

  • Actually you still get glucose to feed the brain under ketosis because 58% of glucose comes from Protein intake and protein intake should be eaten at a little less than 1 gram per lean body weight. Most americans only eat 15% of their intake in proteins and 65% in carbs. Americans consume way too much glocose and as a result you see the weight problem and obesity in this country. A Keto diet doesn't create that problem because you eat what your body needs and uses.

  • It is pure supposition that the problem with obesity in America is due to Carbs. There are many explanations from adenovirus 36, chronic stress, hollow calories creating food cravings, lower dietary fiber, the shift from glucose to fructose carbs, sedentary lifestyle, endocrine disruptors, food companies making addictive foods, food advertisings, rushed meals, breakdown of regular meal times, etc... We really don't know the reasons and the Atkins people are just speculating.

  • No, the problem is caloric intake and the facts are that people can eat more carbs than they can do with fats and proteins. And the fact is that Americans use to eat on an average of 1900 calories a day in the 1970's than 2200 calories in the 1990's but now eat an excess of 3500 calories today is the result of increased consumption of carb intake given the fact that tthe human body can eat more of it than fats and proteins.

  • Though I think your calories figures are questionable and I doubt that the calorie increase has been exclusively carbs (i would appreciate a source) even if they are true, that does not answer the question of why we are eating more calories. Most of the factors I mentioned above, including the virus, stress, rushed meals, hollow calories and the

    change in fructose levels, affects appetites. Just because your idea makes sense does not mean in is right, that is why we do experiments.

  • @michalchik

    We are not talking about the Atkins diet, we are talking about the keto diet. There is a difference. Not much, but some.

    Before you put down the keto diet, research it. it's used on children for crying out loud.

  • The ketogenic diet is effective in treating epilepsy, even in children, but that does not mean that it is without risks and side-effects and it does not mean that it is the best diet or naturally healthy. In fact there are known problems with cognitive impairment associated withe the keto diet.

    It may be a good thing for people, but that simply has not been proven yet. There is a lot of research to be done and what has been done so far paints a mixed story. The brain works best with carbs.

  • Is it the best diet, for me yes, but i can't say that it will work for everyone. But when i read statements that "it's deadly" i can say for sure there is a lot of ignorance attached to it.

    As for been proven yet, i have to disagree with you. There are many studies to prove it is effective and safe. The only time the keto diet would need to be monitored is if there is an on-going medical issue and that can be said for any diet.

  • Sensible comment. The deadly connotations are an artifact of ketoacidosis in diabetics, which should scare pretty much anybody.

    The safety and efficacy are well established, but it has definitely not been studied as thoroughly as other diets and metabolic states. Medical prejudice has had a profound chilling effect on research in this area.