Sian

Targeting the Fan Dance with MCAS | HSD | Migraine | Bipolar. 10 Years Keto-fueled 🥩. Documenting the climb from rock bottom to the summit.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

I’m starting a journey which may be impossible.

Complete the #FanDance, a 24km SAS-selection march over Pen y Fan. ⛰️

The problem? Right now, some days I struggle to walk short distances unaided due to #ChronicIllness

This is Day 0 of my #StableAscent. 🧵

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@KenDBerryMD Ssshhhhh there's a sardine shortage around here, don't encourage more people to eat them.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

About as graceful as me trying to get out of bed in the morning.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Still wondering how this species survive in the wild.. 😅

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Beef uses 15,000 liters of water per kilogram."

Right. Yes. Staggering number. Enormous. Cannot argue with the size of it.

One question though, if you'll permit it. Just one. Very small. Easily answered.

Where does the water come from?

Not philosophically. Not as a rhetorical exercise. Literally. Physically. Where does the water in that calculation come from?

It comes from the sky.

It is rain. British rain. The thing that has been falling on Britain continuously since before anyone thought to keep records and that, if you've spent more than forty minutes in this country, you will be aware is not exactly a limited resource we need to manage carefully. It is falling on a field. As it would whether or not a cow was standing in it. As it did before the cow arrived. As it will do long after everyone who has ever shared that statistic on social media has departed this planet for whatever comes next.

Here is the question nobody asks. If you removed every cow from that field tomorrow morning, every single one, gone, lorry comes, the lot, would it rain less?

No. Of course it wouldn't. The rain does not consult agricultural policy. The rain does not know about the infographic. The rain has one job and that job is to fall, and it performs that job with tremendous consistency regardless of what is standing beneath it.

The water does not get saved. The water still falls. It just has no root system to soak into, no grazed sward to slow its movement, no hoof-churned surface to increase infiltration. It runs off the compacted, ungrazed field into the nearest river, picks up whatever topsoil hasn't been fastened down, carries it downstream, and deposits it in someone else's flood plain.

The cow is not drinking your planet.

The cow is, if you want to be pedantic about it, one of the more useful things that could happen to that rainfall.

Go outside. It's probably raining. Have a think.

[Steve Bennett @SteveBennettMhP]

https://t.co/LuMKU6VwZ9 Breaking this morning: GPs will be paid £3,000 a year to prescribe weight loss drugs. Plus another £1,000 to refer patients to weight loss programmes.
Who said we don't have a pharmaceutical model?
Here's an idea. Take the £3k bonus, add the £3k annual drug cost, and give the patient a year of real food instead.
£6,000 buys a LOT of vegetables, protein and fibre.
But there's no pharmaceutical kickback for broccoli, is there?
#MetabolicHealth #NHS #WeightLoss

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@LegalizeRats So cute, and in my experience a rarity. All my rats have seemed to forget they have tails when it comes to cleaning.

[Iain Campbell, Ph.D. @IainCampbellPhD]

Absolutely tragic and unnecessary. People in vulnerable states like this need effective treatment and a strong affirmation of the value of their life.

[Metabolic Mind @Metabolic_Mind]

RFK Jr. sparked headlines about keto & schizophrenia. What does the science actually say? 🧠

Early trials suggest ketogenic therapy may help schizophrenia, bipolar disorder & depression as an add-on treatment. Metabolic psychiatry is gaining momentum—and research is accelerating.

[Ben Greenfield @bengreenfield]

Important nuance related to the idea that “you always eat more” if you’re eating ultraprocessed foods (e.g. cheetos) compared to whole foods (e.g., cheese) - research shows that if the ultraprocessed food is not something you consider tasty, you eat less of it compared to more whole food equivalents: https://t.co/EVksP5xwKK (kinda explains why I’m never going to gorge on fat-free, watery yogurt, even though it’s ultraprocessed)

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Hormones in beef cause cancer."
Farmer: "Which hormones? In British beef?"
Activist: "Estrogen."
Farmer: "Beef contains 1.5 nanograms per 100g. Cabbage contains 800 nanograms per 100g."
Activist: "That doesn't sound right."
Farmer: "Phytoestrogens. Plants produce them. Look it up."
Activist: "Those are different..."
Farmer: "They're estrogen-mimicking compounds. Often more potent than animal estrogens."
Activist: "I've never heard this."
Farmer: "Because it contradicts the narrative. Doesn't make it untrue."
Activist: "But added hormones..."
Farmer: "Are banned here. Have been for 35 years. And would still be less than the phytoestrogens in your soy latte."

[Dr David Unwin @lowcarbGP]

SGLTi drugs definitely help you wee out sugar Perhaps it’s sugar you would have been better off not eating in the first place? The effects of this medication are similar to going on a low carb diet We published on this here https://t.co/tcXGwKxW4i

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@slimegirlmarx2 I know that one, still have to resist the urge to shout hello to them as I walk through the front door. I only come on x to see the Ratty pics.

[Eckhart Tolle Quotes @EckTOLLEQuotes]

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@bengreenfield @mark7462eth @hubermanlab @tferriss @Mark_Sisson Also weight loss does not equal Fat loss .

For example, IF preserved muscle mass more than calorie restriction you'll be more likely to keep with weight of long term.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

Get curious.

Doesn't mean it will work for me. But it might.

Doesn't mean I want to do it. But I might.

Unless I investigate, I'll never know.

[Chris S. Cornell @BiggestComeback]

When you see someone succeeding where you’ve struggled, what’s your first instinct:
Explain why their strategy wouldn’t work for you…
or get curious about what you might learn from them?

[Chris S. Cornell @BiggestComeback]

When you see someone succeeding where you’ve struggled, what’s your first instinct:
Explain why their strategy wouldn’t work for you…
or get curious about what you might learn from them?

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

Don't have to image, lived it with Bipolar and Keto.

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Imagine suffering from chronic disease for decades, going to doctor after doctor, taking drug after drug without any real improvement, then discovering a carnivore diet, which after years of suffering, finally gives you relief and allows you to have a normal life and then a bunch of internet clowns tell you that you’re stupid or that you have to have fiber and carbs to be healthy.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@ngbarbour @IainCampbellPhD @AhmadRehanKhan Ditto!

[Nick Barbour @ngbarbour]

@AhmadRehanKhan Keto is not a cure for severe mental illness, but it has been a game changer for treating my bipolar disorder. Getting your life back should not be a political statement. The culture warriors need to find a new target.

[Sian @SADtoSuccess]

@SamaHoole @DrEades Got to love the community note. Is anyone actually stupid enough to think this is an actual conversation rather than an entertaining way to tackle a common misconception. If they are, clearly they need to eat more beef and feed their brain the nutrients and fat it needs.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Cattle farming is incredibly wasteful."
Farmer: "Is it? List the inputs."
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "For my farm. What goes in?"
Activist: "Feed, water, land..."
Farmer: "Rain, grass that grows for free, and land that won't grow anything else. Where's the waste?"
Activist: "But the resources..."
Farmer: "Are solar energy and rainfall. Both happen whether there's a cow here or not."
Activist: "You're oversimplifying."
Farmer: "I'm being accurate. Sunlight hits grass. Grass grows. Cow eats grass. Cow becomes beef. Which step wastes resources?"
Activist: "The land could grow crops."
Farmer: "This land? 30-degree slope, clay soil, 45 inches of rain? Show me the crop."