I haven’t been able to write new posts or respond to comments for the past few weeks because the BJJ Cavewife and I have been on a cruise to Antarctica, and the ship did not have any internet capability.
Now that we’ve returned back to civilization I can get back to posting and commenting.… Read More
Perhaps the most beautiful park we’ve ever been to. We felt so fortunate for the opportunity to hike and canoe here and were blessed with amazing weather. The area was so lush and verdant with crystal clear lakes and rivers. This was set along a backdrop of the snow-capped peaks of the Andes. It was a serene experience.… Read More
The BJJ Cavewife and I visited the Post Office at ‘The End of The World,’ in the Tierra Del Fuego National park in Argentina. It’s literally the southernmost post office on the entire planet.… Read More
While in Buenos Aires we took a cooking class that had an empanada making competition. This was the rose- empanada that the BJJ Cavewife submitted which she eventually won first prize for! She amazingly was able to make this out of gluten free dough which is much harder to shape compared to normal gluten-dough.
This shark-anada eating some beef was my entry… for which I didn’t win anything. I used conventional gluten-y flour… but stole some of the BJJ Cavewife’s gluten free flour for the side fin (you can tell because it’s a little whiter than the rest of the shark-anada.… Read More
Currently at the airport listening to Kiefer’s new podcast called Body IO FM where is first guest is Robb Wolf. One of the first thing Robb brings up is the topic of resistant starches. It’s something that he’s been experimenting with lately and he revealed that like me, he also has a sky high LDL-P while eating low carb and going in and out of ketosis. After doing the resistant starch thing he said that his LDL-P ‘plummeted.’
Much of the resistant starch information has been championed by Richard Nikoley on Free The Animal, but I first got interested when I heard about it from Mark Sisson, Dave Asprey, and Chris Kresser, all within the span of 1-2 months.… Read More
VO2 Max and Resting Metabolic Rate on a Cyclic Ketogenic Diet
In my never ending quest to learn more about my body (with n=1 experiments, blood tests, and a Dexa Scan) I came across the idea of metabolic testing as another way to provide insight into what my physiology is doing.
Luckily I live near the Cleveland Clinic where they offer metabolic testing for very reasonable prices. They charge $75 for the resting metabolic rate test and $125 for the VO2 Max test.
They were able to squeeze me in on November 18th, which as you can see fell 9 days after my prior carb up day, in the midst of my 10 week Carb Nite cyclic ketogenic diet experiment.… Read More