Ha, i have zero social media footprint other then lemmy… I’ve had identically named people cause some confusion with HR before…

You’re embarking on a very deep literature journey! I’m aware that the most common form of male and female infertility is rooted in insulin resistance. PCOS, and ED.

Ben Bikman covers female infertility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZCDl1NPk6g

And male infertility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH1qsZKZs8 I posted my notes from this lecture on Lemmy https://hackertalks.com/post/5634787

What to do about insulin resistance? The fastest way to resolve insulin resistance is to not eat any sugar or carbs (a ketogenic diet). Eat a nutritionally complete diet (use something like cronometer to map it out), and you should see fast improvements in a few weeks/months.

Happy to provide more references and guides on request, just let me know how technical you want them to be.

The defacto medical text on ketogenic ( The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health) has a chapter on the endocrine impact the intervention. You can see a abstract here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128216170000103 . The book is very dense

You can check your last lipid panel to see if you have insulin resistance, the TG/HDL ratio is strongly related to insulin resistance, you want it to be less then 1, the lower the better. If your annual checkup measured fasting glucose as well as fasting insulin (uncommon) you could compute your homa-ir.

Prevalence of Optimal Metabolic Health in American Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2016

Metabolically healthy Americans… at 12%

My data shows 88% metabolically unhealthy as of 2016, so I’m guessing it hasn’t improved since then. But the exact numbers are not so important, the trend and prevalence

The more recent paper on this has it at 8% but I don’t have that link handy.

In the bad days before password managers there was a password I could only type… I knew the rhythm but had totally forgotten the actual password…

Ground beef mixed with eggs, salt pepper etc. you can eat it Luke warm or heat it at the job site.

Or hard boiled eggs, easy to travel, easy to eat.

Both are good options providing good fats and protein for your job.

The big thing is the make sure you have enough electrolytes (sodium, potassium) thought the day

Some people think they need to carb load to do physical activity, that isn’t true. If you become fat adapted (ketogenic) you can tap into the tens of thousands of calories the human body stores as fat. The human body does not store sugar / carbs, you only have about 5g circulating in the blood stream at any time. The theory of carb loading is you try to replace that 5g of sugar as your using it in the blood stream, thats a hard game to play.

Bonus: if you go full carnivore you won’t have to poop at the job site

That is up to you!

Evolution has selected for people who want to continue, those who are happy to fade away don’t stay in the gene pool.

You play the hand you are dealt.

We are only here because a long unbroken line of ancestors were successful in reproducing, even in adverse conditions

You might want to investigate veggie keto for your mom, the most common cause of primary high blood pressure is elevated insulin levels.

https://hackertalks.com/post/5730540

Here is a very detailed post on why I chose to go carnivore, happy to discuss any of the specifics if you want to get into the minutiae

The best thing you can do is ensure you, and the people you care about, have excellent metabolic health! Make sure y’all are insulin sensitive.

I can’t speak for the political aspects.

CSIS has a interesting talk on the politics of global health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnErbYQ55kY

However, the global metabolic crisis is a huge risk factor for pandemics. People with compromised immune systems are far more likely to be affected by or disabled by global pandemics. In the USA something like 8% of adults have ideal metabolic health, that means 92% have a compromised immune system

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/camels-cactus-mouth-papillae-animals

They have always had them

Such joy, it’s wonderful to see

(don’t get me started on keto people)

Please! I want to know more

I havent seen the research showing that the body eats muscle when not consuming carbs.

That’s a great lecture, thanks for sharing

Make sure ur getting enough carbs

What do the carbs do for body builders? Force anabolism?

This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.

If you make a news article saying everything’s a kind of okay right now, nobody’s going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.

If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won’t believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything’s mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting…

Like 2 g/kg is near the target for bodybuilders.

Big difference between body builders and normal people is that the advice is for ideal body weight, where bodybuilders consume per current bodyweight. The advice has to be high to account for the highly variable metabolism, and diets of the general population. Some people simply don’t eat bioavailable complete proteins, at all.

“Because there appears to be a limited amount of protein that can be absorbed at a meal, it may be best to evenly space out your protein throughout the day, if possible.”

Here is there reference for that advice: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3197704/ Moderating the portion size of a protein-rich meal improves anabolic efficiency in young and elderly - Randomized Trial; Moderate evidence.

Second is the comment about vegetarians/vegans.

Here is their reference for that advice: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5521049/ Determination of the protein quality of cooked Canadian pulses - [mechanistic study; ungraded]

Although the quality of protein in different legumes varies, many appear to be about 20-50% less digestible than animal protein

They cited references and papers for each of their comments, which improves their credibility. I would have liked them to mention DIAAS scores, for completeness, rather then referring to a paper on pulses, but that doesn’t remove from their advice.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/food-policy/protein

2g per kg ideal body weight, look at citation 5 for references

Not all sources of protein are the same, you need ALL the essential amino acids to actually be able to use protein. Most food protein is based on a nitrogen estimate and not measured amino acids!!! (This is called crude protein)

A good way to see what food are bioavailable protein is to reference it’s DIAAS score.

https://www.diaas-calculator.com/

If you eat your daily target of protein but it’s missing amino acids, your body can’t use it, and you haven’t actually eaten your target protein.

You could also use a tool like cronometer to map out your food and amino acids as well