Are you listening Anon?
It's that simple.
High Carb -> then keep fats low
High Fat -> then keep carbs low
You're fat because all the tasties are a mix of carbs and fats.
Triple OG Nutrition Lore:
are you ready for it?
DO NOT MIX CARBS AND FATS TOGETHER
DO NOT MIX CARBS AND FATS TOGETHER
DO NOT MIX CARBS AND FATS TOGETHER
DO NOT MIX CARBS AND FATS TOGETHER
DO NOT MIX CARBS AND FATS TOGETHER
[for the majority of twitter audience, this will solve many of your problems, if you start leveraging this principle to your favor]
please no neurotic extremist thoughts:
but omg the digestion
but omg it'll slow down the glucose spike
but omg omg omg omg
Step 1 my friends - don't get fat-fat.
Once you have an idea of how to mix and when to mix... you can mix. Until then... drop the grilled cheese appetizer and your 80/20 burger with fresh glazed donut buns.
OH and since one of you might be reading this...
CICO is a facade; this is but one of the reasons.
The lipid disrespektors in the fitness space look like leather by 30... nah brah.
The tentacles of testosterone are more far-reaching than the common low-T denier cares to admit.
In 2016 I started reaching out to pain clinics.
Huge population base.
Their patients who were able to get on T basically cut their pain meds in half. Some could get off.
It's not only the objective findings we have associated between testosterone-opiates but the subjective relationship with pain; the deep-rooted psychological one that is more difficult to translate.
The fact that you not only can get out of bed with less pain but want to.
The likelihood that you see more and more illusions in the story that got you tied down in the first place.
Now flip the switch and that we know that stress leads to hypogonadism and that we know that long term pain opioid use leads to hypogonadism...
It should be basic practice to monitor as an HRT specialist would.
There is a local pain practice that does just this.
There are others who have woken up to these facts and refer out.
There is but one real issue here and that is that
Who controls the opiates? Who pays for that?
--> they currently have no interest in covering more than they need to cover AKA testosterone and everything that comes along with it
--> though if the goal is truly the wellness of a patient it would be the first thing they do; if their goal was to distribute less narcotics.
So this leaves us with
- providers who need to/ want to be/ have the audacity to be educated and to take action
- patients who get appropriately educated that there are pretty predictable risks, with really accessible solutions - which they can go about finding on their own
The TRT mills screen so they don't get sued
The opioid pill mills should be screening if they know what's good for them.
But the focus (of the clinics around here) seems to be on dispensing and on abuse/ tox screen $ while seeing as many patients as possible... not to blanket-statement because there are definitely good ones.
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Have this person read this thread and do a dive into the subject-matter - especially now that there are easy GPT's that can sum things up for everyone...
I'm no cardiologist
If he's interested, it’s definitely reasonable to bring up with the cardiologist, they’ll know whether the potential benefits outweigh the vascular-acting risks in his specific situation.