EricGunnerson

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@JulianMellentin Bring up the Minnesota coronary experiment!

They love that one...

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@ProfTimNoakes @BenBikmanPhD @CraigLiebenson The other issue is that we are training our aerobic systems to burn glucose, which depletes glycogen and makes us hungry. What we want is to train it to burn fat.
But that requires low glucose - ideally fasted - training.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@ScottAppliedSci I think if you eat in a way that improves metabolic health you will lose weight.
If it's about losing weight what do you do for the MONW folks?

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@ProfTimNoakes @CraigLiebenson So much bad exercise science was done by taking athletes who were poor fat burners and then assuming that was the only possible model.

High carb metabolism breaks down when you get above around 5 hours - it's really, really hard to get enough carbs to not run out of glycogen.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@OfficialADSOrg HOMA-IR is well validated against euglycemic clamp methods, but nobody bothers. Make pretty much zero sense.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@TyRBeal This is interesting because the US studies are almost hopelessly confounded by healthy user effect. China presumably doesn't have 40 years of telling people to eat low fat

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@zoeharcombe @JoeBiden @elonmusk Suni and Butch did 9 months, the other two crew members did 6 months. NASA could have brought them earlier *but* the new dragon capsule from SpaceX was not ready on schedule, so the mission went a bit long.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@zoeharcombe @JoeBiden @elonmusk None of this story is real...

The astronauts were never stranded; when NASA decided it was prudent not to bring them back on the starliner capsule, the next dragon capsule flew with only two crew members, so that Butch and Suni had a ride home.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@RDBijman @BenBikmanPhD High fasting insulin is a sign of insulin resistance. If you get carbs low enough, the fasting insulin goes down and you can burn fat - that is the point of keto - and if you get it that low, you can eat a lot of fat and burn it all.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@MX7P91 @BenBikmanPhD It's about insulin resistance. It's not the insulin levels after carbs, it's fasting insulin levels. If those are high, you cannot easily burn fat.

Not also that "lean" does not mean healthy. Some of us get insulin resistant without gaining much weight.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@bigfatsurprise Unfortunately, we don't see research trying this approach.
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[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@bigfatsurprise Traditional exercise nutrition is all about "eat carbs to fuel your workout", which is honestly the stupidest thing you can do if you want to lose fat mass. Zone 2 training without being full of glucose will build the fat burning engine and can lead to easy fat loss.
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[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@MichelleHurnRD There's no useful definition of "Balance". It just means "eat the way I think you should eat".

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@StephenClark1 Not a great idea if you have only one test flight before you plan to put humans on it and each flight costs about $4 billion

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@StephenClark1 Nice article, but I think you missed the lede...
NASA flew an apollo-style heatshield on EFT-1, but they weren't happy with how it performed and it cost too much so they pulled a spacex and threw out a design that is a little like crew dragon but used avcoat chunks.
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[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@realDaveFeldman Catching super heavy is arguably easier than landing Falcon 9 on a ship. Super heavy can hover so it can come is slowly and the chopsticks don't move. Falcon 9 can't hover and the drone ship isn't perfectly located and it's moving.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@DoctorTro There are protein overfeeding studies that show it is very hard to gain weight eating a lot of protein.

This is not surprising at all given that the pathway from protein to fat can't process many calories.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@sguyenet The problem I have with most exercise studies is that they don't control for fueling.
If you follow the "eat carbs to fuel your exercise", you will burn those carbs during your exercise. If you exercise in a low-carb state, you will build the ability to burn fat.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@bigfatsurprise @MattWalshBlog Exercise is an untapped source of weight loss. The problem is that the common prescription involves "eat carbs to fuel your exercise", which ensures that you will spend your time burning glucose rather than burning fat. Fasted exercise can be a decent fat burner.

[EricGunnerson @Eric_Gunnerson]

@realDaveFeldman It's so rarely worth it to discuss people who can't state your position.