Tumgik
#this list would have been heavily alcohol specific in my 20s and 30s
millerflintstone · 2 years
Text
@onwingslikeseagulls tagged me for five drinks to get to know me
The first two I have every day
Water - I used to not be great but I'm genetically predisposed to kidney stones so I drink a lot of water
Coffee with half and half or heavy cream until it's about my skin tone or a bit darker depending on how much sun I've had
Lightly iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso - my current fave thing at Starbucks if I feel like splurging
Mango lassi
If I'm drinking, some kind of gin cocktail
20 notes · View notes
addictionfreedom · 6 years
Text
Dual Diagnosis Treatment Centers In New England
Contents
Outpatient programs for dual
And lure celebrities
And alcohol treatment centers. whether
Announced they’ll spend premier
Announced that the new
Business executive evaluation
In the New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), the DEA reported that heroin and opioid abuse and dependency accounted for almost three-quarters of all treatment admissions to public substance abuse treatment programs in 2009. As opioid abuse goes up, so may crime rates. The DEA reported that of …
Addiction specialists and mental health experts at a dual diagnosis treatment center provide treatment for both the mental illness as well as substance abuse. … MA provides outpatient counseling treatment, inpatient partial hospitalization/ day treatment/work programs, residential short-term inpatient treatment (30 days or …
Apr 18, 2013 … When you begin searching for dual-diagnosis rehab facilities, you'll find that doctors recommend a variety of treatment. The doctor will look at the … When making a decision, people new to treatment may want to examine a clinic's financial policies as well as its offerings. Changes in Preferences Pre- and …
Searching For Addiction Rehab? Get Results On Drug Alcohol Rehab Centers Now!
Suboxone Treatment Massachusetts Contents Treatment centers have been providing Urine toxicology testing Houston astros scored six story NORTH ANDOVER — A Superior Court judge has ordered a local drug treatment center to stop requiring patients to pay cash for services or opiate treatments that would otherwise be free to them under MassHealth. The office of … "Our office
Lighthouse Recovery Institute is a gender-specific drug, alcohol, and trauma treatment center. They are a state-licensed facility located in Delray Beach, FL. Services for adult men & women include: comprehensive addiction treatment, …
Twelve Step Education Program of New England, Inc., Safe & Sober Housing for Men & Women in Billerica, Quincy, Saugus, Woburn MA and Berwick ME. Managing life with … Be sure to inquire if they provide treatment for dual diagnosis – co-occurring disorders – mental illness and substance abuse. It's very important to …
Dual Diagnosis Program / Co-Occuring Treatment Programs in MA. Dual Diagnosis / Co-Occuring Treatment Directory for Massachusetts. … New England Aftercare …
Lighthouse Recovery Institute is a gender-specific drug, alcohol, and trauma treatment center. They are a state-licensed facility located in Delray Beach, FL. Services for adult men & women include: comprehensive addiction treatment, …
New England Rehab Billerica – Explore treatment options and professional care for addiction … Dual Diagnosis Treatment Centers In Alaska
the New England School of Acupuncture (www.nesa.edu) is the first accredited educational institution for acupuncture & Oriental medicine in the nation. NESA offers master’s degree programs in acupuncture and Chinese herbal …
A blinded review of cancer-related deaths identified an imbalance in the longer-term treatment arm (8 subjects versus 1 …
Our clinical and medical teams work together to deliver the highest quality treatment program in the New England and Atlantic states. These experts have decades of addiction treatment and counseling experience, and coupled with our experienced and highly-trained medical, recovery and direct care staff they create the …
Dual Diagnosis Program / Co-Occuring Treatment Programs in MA. Dual Diagnosis / Co-Occuring Treatment Directory for Massachusetts. Find a MA Dual Diagnosis Program or MA Co-Occuring Disorder Treament in your MA city.
New England Transitions Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center – Malden, MA
According to Dual Recovery … residential treatment programs with outpatient programs for dual Diagnosis … specializes in Dual Diagnosis treatment, …
Stylish California places seem to advertise heavily and lure celebrities with exotic services that blur the line between treatment and spa. In New England you have the … I visit one of the houses for “male dual-diagnosis patients.”
Northeast Region Drug and alcohol treatment centers. whether a person struggling with addiction lives in the Northeast in a New England … dual diagnosis treatment …
The concept of a dual diagnosis—alternatively referred to as co-occurring or comorbid disorders—is a clinical term that refers to the presence of both a
Dual Diagnosis Treatment Centers Washington Contents Decide another treatment center not Nationwide. most advanced dual diagnosis Drugs had high relapse Premier Inpatient Addiction Rehab. Free Insurance Verification. Let Us Help You. Within the state of Washington, there are just over 20 various forms of residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers that will offer a 90-day treatment program. Various forms of Addiction Treatment Centers In Nc Contents North carolina recently announced they’ll spend premier inpatient addiction Various addiction recovery centers white opened For healthcare providers. medical facilities Rehabs and alcohol addiction treatment centers Located in Franklin, North Carolina, Angel Medical Center is a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital offering … MRI, nuclear medicine, rehab therapy, as well as surgical and endoscopy
Everything You Want To Know About Alcohol Addiction Treatment. Discover Now!
today announced that the new England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published the results of the Phase 3 inTandem3 …
After the initiation of investigational medication, the rate of premature …
Apr 16, 2018 … Reach out to us now to find a drug rehab center in Massachusetts. We offer comprehensive listings of MA rehabs.
Doctors, nurses and a full support staff at Tufts Medical Center in Boston treat Dual Diagnosis. … 617-636-4852. Individual and couples psychotherapy, mental health services research, education, treatment of mood and personality disorders , business executive evaluation, consultation and treatment, primary care psychiatry.
New England RAW, Treatment Center, Concord, NH, … , New Hampshire 03301 Call New England Raw (856) 316 … Dual Diagnosis Treatment Centers in Concord, NH;
Serenity at Summit is home to two separate inpatient dual diagnosis treatment centers in Massachusetts and New Jersey, offering individualized programs.
Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement center in Georgetown, Kentucky, has announced that dual-classic winner War Emblem is back in the Bluegrass. Winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby and 2002 Preakness Stakes, War Emblem …
Patients with a dual diagnosis suffer from a … When you check into a dual-diagnosis recovery center, … people new to treatment may want to examine a …
Inc. announced that it has doubled the number of mental health care beds in its treatment center. The expansion will …
Inc. announced that it has doubled the number of mental health care beds in its treatment center. The expansion will …
"New England Recovery And Wellness accepts most major insurances and prides ourselves in offering a sliding scale for individuals without insurance. We pride ourselves in providing affordable care as there is no price tag on a human life." Dual Diagnosis. (856) 316‑4042. Verified. Concord, New Hampshire 03301 · View
These drug rehab centers in Massachusetts are varied and unique; some of them are sober living homes while others are quite comprehensive in their services, but … Their New Bedford complex is a treatment center for women complete with detoxification unit, 24-hour rehab program and transitional support services.
Rehab centers for substance abuse and mental illness are available. Get help finding the best dual diagnosis treatment center and rehab program by calling us today and start on the path to recovery today.
Define A New Path. Kind & Effective Dual Diagnosis Rehab Centers.
the timely applications for Medication-Assisted Treatment, MAT. Soul Surgery …
Serenity at Summit is home to two separate inpatient dual diagnosis treatment centers in Massachusetts and New Jersey, offering individualized programs.
Addiction treatment centers are available to … Regular outpatient treatment (38) Outpatient programs in New Hampshire provide regularly … dual diagnosis sufferers …
Our Facilities. Our Facility. Our brand new, state-of-the-art addiction treatment facility is located in Concord, New Hampshire. We service residents from the greater New England area as well as many other parts of the country. … Learn More …
Opiate Recovery Forum Contents Substances. discuss with others Families and city officials Spoke about his Earlier this year There are forums for The addiction policy forum My company (https://ift.tt/2JwuWTT) is a remote case-management/recovery coach app suit for people who are recovery from substance abuse, namely opioids and alcohol. One of our biggest blockers has been the existing recovery
Browse through our comprehensive directory of dual diagnosis drug treatment centers in MA.
Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement center in Georgetown, Kentucky, has announced that dual-classic winner War Emblem is back in the Bluegrass. Winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby and 2002 Preakness Stakes, War Emblem …
May 2, 2017 … With a peaceful setting, modern amenities, and an experienced staff, every visitor is in good hands during their stay. Some of the top services at High Point Treatment Center include: outpatient services, detoxification, and dual diagnosis. Address: 20 Meadowbrook Rd, Brockton, MA 02301. Phone:(508) …
Among dual diagnosis treatment centers, WestBridge excels in the successful treatment of men with co-occurring disorders. Our residential centers in Manchester, New …
The Dual Diagnosis Unit, or DDS, is a short term acute care unit, founded in 1999 , that focuses on serving individuals with both mental illness and substance abuse. The Medical Director is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with extensive substance abuse experience. The Program Director is a Board Certified Psychiatric …
today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published the results of the Phase 3 inTandem3 …
The post Dual Diagnosis Treatment Centers In New England appeared first on Freedom From Addiction II.
0 notes
cristinajourdanqp · 7 years
Text
Dear Mark: Alcohol and LDL, Liverwurst, Coffee and Milk, Kid Snacks, and High Carb Questions
For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering 14 questions. The first concerns the effect of alcohol intake on LDL. Does it increase it or lower it (or both)? Next, what’s the best liverwurst to eat? After that, I discuss whether drinking coffee with milk makes the coffee antioxidants useless, followed by a quick list of good snacks for kids. The last ten questions concern cycling high-carb feeds on low-carb diets. They all come from one reader, and they’re very specific and well-constructed.
Let’s go:
Mark, I truly appreciate the blog. I’d like to know your thoughts on the correlation, if any, between alcohol consumption and high cholesterol (particularly LDL). I’ve been following an 80-20 Primal lifestyle for about 4 years, but have had stubbornly high cholesterol levels to the point where my PCP wants to put me on a statin. Thanks again for all you do!
Full-on alcoholics tend to have shockingly low LDL levels. This isn’t good; LDL particles, remember, serve important immune functions. But the relationship seems to hold at more moderate levels of intake, too. In middle-aged Japanese men, for example, alcohol intake predicted lower LDL levels.
Alcohol also increases HDL levels, even acutely—just a single dose of alcohol increases it. 
This jibes with the usually protective association between alcohol intake and heart disease, whether it’s postmenopausal women, Spanish men, or German adults.
Of course, there’s evidence that your genetics determine the effect of alcohol on LDL. In folks with the ApoE2 gene, alcohol lowers LDL. In those with the ApoE4 gene, alcohol increases it.
Mark, I would like to know if liverwurst is an ok way to get some organ meat, is it primal? My wife and I can’t stand organs by themselves, so I thought this may be a way to get some and we like it. I would guess that there are varying qualities and types, so guidance on how to pick would be great. I also enjoy scrapple, same question, is it primal and how to choose the best.
Best liverwurst I’ve ever had comes from US Wellness. It’s 50% beef trim, 20% liver, 15% heart, 15% kidney. All grass-fed. They also have a braunschweiger that’s 60% trim and 40% liver.
Traditional scrapple was great: pig parts, buckwheat (not a grain, not wheat), and bone broth cooked down into sort of a pork polenta that’s chilled and pan-fried. These days, scrapple is more of a mixed bag, since you get it in restaurants and they’ve started using wheat flour and cornmeal instead of buckwheat. If you’re trying to avoid wheat flour—as you probably should—the trick is finding a place that makes scrapple with buckwheat and/or cornmeal.
Or just make your own.
Hi Mark, almost every month I hear new conflicting information about whether coffee is healthy or not. What are your current thoughts on coffee and is it true that the antioxidants in coffee lose their power when consumed with milk?
My stance on coffee is resolute: It is a public good. It’s fueled revolutions and scientific discoveries. Just imagine the wondrous developments that’d result if the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians had used coffee. Or what if the Mongols had adopted coffee drinking after sacking Baghdad—would we all be drinking fermented mare milk, eating saddle meat (or not), and getting around on horseback? Fun to think about.
As to milk binding the antioxidants and rendering them useless, I wouldn’t worry. A 2010 study found that only non-dairy creamer slowed the absorption of coffee polyphenols. Real milk added to coffee had no effect. Even then, the non-dairy creamer only delayed the appearance of the polyphenols in the blood. They still got there. It just took them awhile.
I would like to see more recipes for primal snacks for my kids…and me too!. It breaks my heart to see them devour a bag of Oreos and then deal with the resulting poor behaviour.
I can do a comprehensive post in the future, but for now, some easy grab-and-go options you might not have considered.
Jerky. A classic.
Epic Bars are pretty good. Great ingredients, almost exclusively grass-fed/pastured animals. They don’t shy away from fat. A mix of sweet-savory and savory flavors.
Aforementioned US Wellness liverwurst and braunschweiger. Get those kids to eat liver.
Hard boiled eggs.
Olives.
Cheese. Hard, aged ones travel well.
Yogurt.
Pork rinds. Make sure you get the ones cooked in their own fat. Beware vegetable oils in the ingredients list.
Apples.
Carrots.
Also, just trust your kids. They’re usually more adventurous than we assume. You’d be surprised what happens when you plop a cross section of a cow femur loaded with roasted marrow in front of a 5 year old.
Hey Mark, I would like to know know more about how to properly utilize carb-cycling (CC) while integrating intermittent fasting (IF). 1. With CC how do you determine which days to crank up carbs? Every day you lift? Only on Heavy lift days? 2. Do you lose the carb-feed benefits window if you lift in the morning, then fast until noon? 3. Carbs at night when training only in the mornings? Are they effective? 4. What about carb sources with high fat with carb cycling? 5. How many grams of fat allowed on a high carb day? 6. Are there better fat sources than other on high carb days? 7. Is there a specific time of day to eat the limited fat on high carb days? 8. How to determine which carbs are right for you? Sweet potatoes, white potatoes? Rice? Any experiments? 9. Should you have carbs on rest days while Carb Cycling? If so, how many grams? 10. Should fat ever be mixed with carbs? Why or Why not?
That was quite a series of questions. I’ll do a quick run through and maybe expand in the future.
Only on heavy/intense days. Long hike? Stay low-carb; you’re burning almost all fat (or that should be the goal). CrossFit WOD? Carb-up. Heavy squats? Carb-up. Short (5-10 second) sprints with plenty of rest in between, where you’re truly going all out and getting full recovery? Stay low-carb; you likely burned primarily ATP-PC, not glycogen. High-intensity intervals with shorter rest periods that leave you gasping? Carb-up.
You’ve got some time. Insulin-independent glucose uptake increases for around 2 hours after exercise. Insulin sensitivity increases for at least 16 hours after exercise.
Try “sleeping low.” This works best training in the afternoon or early evening. You go into the evening/early evening workout with carbs in your system. This should be a glycogen-depleting workout. You eat a low-carb or zero-carb (or fast) post-workout meal, then go to sleep. Wake up, and do some easy cardio without eating. A brisk hike, some easy cycling, maybe a short jog, always staying in your aerobic HR zone. You’ll get really good at burning fat this way. After the morning workout, eat some carbs.
Unless you’re just a workhorse, expending a ton of energy, training every day, veering close to burning out, you’ll have better luck with keeping your high-carb days relatively lower-fat.
Around 15-20% of total calories. Try for less. You may get better results that way.
PUFAs seem to have a more neutral effect on insulin resistance in the presence of carbs than other fats. Get a “balanced” intake, rather than leaning heavily toward one or the other. Butter, avocados (or avocado oil), almonds, and salmon is a better combo than butter, butter, butter, and butter.
No, it doesn’t matter if you keep it relatively low.
Robb Wolf has been pushing continuous glucose monitoring to track how different carb sources affect your blood glucose minute-to-minute. He’s getting great results. CGMs are prescription only, but I think that’s due to change in the near future. You could also do classic blood glucose prick tests at 1, 2, and 3 hours after your meals.
Keep carbs between 30-150 grams on rest days, depending on how low you enjoy going.
Fat and carbs are delicious together. That’s one reason to eat them—sheer pleasure. It’s also an argument against eating them: We’re liable to eat way too much. If you can keep from going crazy, you’re reasonably active, and you’re happy with your body composition (or its trajectory), fat and carbs are fine together. Fat and carbs become trouble when we eat too many of them at one time, like eating a half plate full of mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream.
That’s it for this week, folks. Thanks for reading and be sure to help out with your own input down below.
0 notes
fishermariawo · 7 years
Text
Dear Mark: Alcohol and LDL, Liverwurst, Coffee and Milk, Kid Snacks, and High Carb Questions
For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering 14 questions. The first concerns the effect of alcohol intake on LDL. Does it increase it or lower it (or both)? Next, what’s the best liverwurst to eat? After that, I discuss whether drinking coffee with milk makes the coffee antioxidants useless, followed by a quick list of good snacks for kids. The last ten questions concern cycling high-carb feeds on low-carb diets. They all come from one reader, and they’re very specific and well-constructed.
Let’s go:
Mark, I truly appreciate the blog. I’d like to know your thoughts on the correlation, if any, between alcohol consumption and high cholesterol (particularly LDL). I’ve been following an 80-20 Primal lifestyle for about 4 years, but have had stubbornly high cholesterol levels to the point where my PCP wants to put me on a statin. Thanks again for all you do!
Full-on alcoholics tend to have shockingly low LDL levels. This isn’t good; LDL particles, remember, serve important immune functions. But the relationship seems to hold at more moderate levels of intake, too. In middle-aged Japanese men, for example, alcohol intake predicted lower LDL levels.
Alcohol also increases HDL levels, even acutely—just a single dose of alcohol increases it. 
This jibes with the usually protective association between alcohol intake and heart disease, whether it’s postmenopausal women, Spanish men, or German adults.
Of course, there’s evidence that your genetics determine the effect of alcohol on LDL. In folks with the ApoE2 gene, alcohol lowers LDL. In those with the ApoE4 gene, alcohol increases it.
Mark, I would like to know if liverwurst is an ok way to get some organ meat, is it primal? My wife and I can’t stand organs by themselves, so I thought this may be a way to get some and we like it. I would guess that there are varying qualities and types, so guidance on how to pick would be great. I also enjoy scrapple, same question, is it primal and how to choose the best.
Best liverwurst I’ve ever had comes from US Wellness. It’s 50% beef trim, 20% liver, 15% heart, 15% kidney. All grass-fed. They also have a braunschweiger that’s 60% trim and 40% liver.
Traditional scrapple was great: pig parts, buckwheat (not a grain, not wheat), and bone broth cooked down into sort of a pork polenta that’s chilled and pan-fried. These days, scrapple is more of a mixed bag, since you get it in restaurants and they’ve started using wheat flour and cornmeal instead of buckwheat. If you’re trying to avoid wheat flour—as you probably should—the trick is finding a place that makes scrapple with buckwheat and/or cornmeal.
Or just make your own.
Hi Mark, almost every month I hear new conflicting information about whether coffee is healthy or not. What are your current thoughts on coffee and is it true that the antioxidants in coffee lose their power when consumed with milk?
My stance on coffee is resolute: It is a public good. It’s fueled revolutions and scientific discoveries. Just imagine the wondrous developments that’d result if the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians had used coffee. Or what if the Mongols had adopted coffee drinking after sacking Baghdad—would we all be drinking fermented mare milk, eating saddle meat (or not), and getting around on horseback? Fun to think about.
As to milk binding the antioxidants and rendering them useless, I wouldn’t worry. A 2010 study found that only non-dairy creamer slowed the absorption of coffee polyphenols. Real milk added to coffee had no effect. Even then, the non-dairy creamer only delayed the appearance of the polyphenols in the blood. They still got there. It just took them awhile.
I would like to see more recipes for primal snacks for my kids…and me too!. It breaks my heart to see them devour a bag of Oreos and then deal with the resulting poor behaviour.
I can do a comprehensive post in the future, but for now, some easy grab-and-go options you might not have considered.
Jerky. A classic.
Epic Bars are pretty good. Great ingredients, almost exclusively grass-fed/pastured animals. They don’t shy away from fat. A mix of sweet-savory and savory flavors.
Aforementioned US Wellness liverwurst and braunschweiger. Get those kids to eat liver.
Hard boiled eggs.
Olives.
Cheese. Hard, aged ones travel well.
Yogurt.
Pork rinds. Make sure you get the ones cooked in their own fat. Beware vegetable oils in the ingredients list.
Apples.
Carrots.
Also, just trust your kids. They’re usually more adventurous than we assume. You’d be surprised what happens when you plop a cross section of a cow femur loaded with roasted marrow in front of a 5 year old.
Hey Mark, I would like to know know more about how to properly utilize carb-cycling (CC) while integrating intermittent fasting (IF). 1. With CC how do you determine which days to crank up carbs? Every day you lift? Only on Heavy lift days? 2. Do you lose the carb-feed benefits window if you lift in the morning, then fast until noon? 3. Carbs at night when training only in the mornings? Are they effective? 4. What about carb sources with high fat with carb cycling? 5. How many grams of fat allowed on a high carb day? 6. Are there better fat sources than other on high carb days? 7. Is there a specific time of day to eat the limited fat on high carb days? 8. How to determine which carbs are right for you? Sweet potatoes, white potatoes? Rice? Any experiments? 9. Should you have carbs on rest days while Carb Cycling? If so, how many grams? 10. Should fat ever be mixed with carbs? Why or Why not?
That was quite a series of questions. I’ll do a quick run through and maybe expand in the future.
Only on heavy/intense days. Long hike? Stay low-carb; you’re burning almost all fat (or that should be the goal). CrossFit WOD? Carb-up. Heavy squats? Carb-up. Short (5-10 second) sprints with plenty of rest in between, where you’re truly going all out and getting full recovery? Stay low-carb; you likely burned primarily ATP-PC, not glycogen. High-intensity intervals with shorter rest periods that leave you gasping? Carb-up.
You’ve got some time. Insulin-independent glucose uptake increases for around 2 hours after exercise. Insulin sensitivity increases for at least 16 hours after exercise.
Try “sleeping low.” This works best training in the afternoon or early evening. You go into the evening/early evening workout with carbs in your system. This should be a glycogen-depleting workout. You eat a low-carb or zero-carb (or fast) post-workout meal, then go to sleep. Wake up, and do some easy cardio without eating. A brisk hike, some easy cycling, maybe a short jog, always staying in your aerobic HR zone. You’ll get really good at burning fat this way. After the morning workout, eat some carbs.
Unless you’re just a workhorse, expending a ton of energy, training every day, veering close to burning out, you’ll have better luck with keeping your high-carb days relatively lower-fat.
Around 15-20% of total calories. Try for less. You may get better results that way.
PUFAs seem to have a more neutral effect on insulin resistance in the presence of carbs than other fats. Get a “balanced” intake, rather than leaning heavily toward one or the other. Butter, avocados (or avocado oil), almonds, and salmon is a better combo than butter, butter, butter, and butter.
No, it doesn’t matter if you keep it relatively low.
Robb Wolf has been pushing continuous glucose monitoring to track how different carb sources affect your blood glucose minute-to-minute. He’s getting great results. CGMs are prescription only, but I think that’s due to change in the near future. You could also do classic blood glucose prick tests at 1, 2, and 3 hours after your meals.
Keep carbs between 30-150 grams on rest days, depending on how low you enjoy going.
Fat and carbs are delicious together. That’s one reason to eat them—sheer pleasure. It’s also an argument against eating them: We’re liable to eat way too much. If you can keep from going crazy, you’re reasonably active, and you’re happy with your body composition (or its trajectory), fat and carbs are fine together. Fat and carbs become trouble when we eat too many of them at one time, like eating a half plate full of mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream.
That’s it for this week, folks. Thanks for reading and be sure to help out with your own input down below.
0 notes
watsonrodriquezie · 7 years
Text
Dear Mark: Alcohol and LDL, Liverwurst, Coffee and Milk, Kid Snacks, and High Carb Questions
For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering 14 questions. The first concerns the effect of alcohol intake on LDL. Does it increase it or lower it (or both)? Next, what’s the best liverwurst to eat? After that, I discuss whether drinking coffee with milk makes the coffee antioxidants useless, followed by a quick list of good snacks for kids. The last ten questions concern cycling high-carb feeds on low-carb diets. They all come from one reader, and they’re very specific and well-constructed.
Let’s go:
Mark, I truly appreciate the blog. I’d like to know your thoughts on the correlation, if any, between alcohol consumption and high cholesterol (particularly LDL). I’ve been following an 80-20 Primal lifestyle for about 4 years, but have had stubbornly high cholesterol levels to the point where my PCP wants to put me on a statin. Thanks again for all you do!
Full-on alcoholics tend to have shockingly low LDL levels. This isn’t good; LDL particles, remember, serve important immune functions. But the relationship seems to hold at more moderate levels of intake, too. In middle-aged Japanese men, for example, alcohol intake predicted lower LDL levels.
Alcohol also increases HDL levels, even acutely—just a single dose of alcohol increases it. 
This jibes with the usually protective association between alcohol intake and heart disease, whether it’s postmenopausal women, Spanish men, or German adults.
Of course, there’s evidence that your genetics determine the effect of alcohol on LDL. In folks with the ApoE2 gene, alcohol lowers LDL. In those with the ApoE4 gene, alcohol increases it.
Mark, I would like to know if liverwurst is an ok way to get some organ meat, is it primal? My wife and I can’t stand organs by themselves, so I thought this may be a way to get some and we like it. I would guess that there are varying qualities and types, so guidance on how to pick would be great. I also enjoy scrapple, same question, is it primal and how to choose the best.
Best liverwurst I’ve ever had comes from US Wellness. It’s 50% beef trim, 20% liver, 15% heart, 15% kidney. All grass-fed. They also have a braunschweiger that’s 60% trim and 40% liver.
Traditional scrapple was great: pig parts, buckwheat (not a grain, not wheat), and bone broth cooked down into sort of a pork polenta that’s chilled and pan-fried. These days, scrapple is more of a mixed bag, since you get it in restaurants and they’ve started using wheat flour and cornmeal instead of buckwheat. If you’re trying to avoid wheat flour—as you probably should—the trick is finding a place that makes scrapple with buckwheat and/or cornmeal.
Or just make your own.
Hi Mark, almost every month I hear new conflicting information about whether coffee is healthy or not. What are your current thoughts on coffee and is it true that the antioxidants in coffee lose their power when consumed with milk?
My stance on coffee is resolute: It is a public good. It’s fueled revolutions and scientific discoveries. Just imagine the wondrous developments that’d result if the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians had used coffee. Or what if the Mongols had adopted coffee drinking after sacking Baghdad—would we all be drinking fermented mare milk, eating saddle meat (or not), and getting around on horseback? Fun to think about.
As to milk binding the antioxidants and rendering them useless, I wouldn’t worry. A 2010 study found that only non-dairy creamer slowed the absorption of coffee polyphenols. Real milk added to coffee had no effect. Even then, the non-dairy creamer only delayed the appearance of the polyphenols in the blood. They still got there. It just took them awhile.
I would like to see more recipes for primal snacks for my kids…and me too!. It breaks my heart to see them devour a bag of Oreos and then deal with the resulting poor behaviour.
I can do a comprehensive post in the future, but for now, some easy grab-and-go options you might not have considered.
Jerky. A classic.
Epic Bars are pretty good. Great ingredients, almost exclusively grass-fed/pastured animals. They don’t shy away from fat. A mix of sweet-savory and savory flavors.
Aforementioned US Wellness liverwurst and braunschweiger. Get those kids to eat liver.
Hard boiled eggs.
Olives.
Cheese. Hard, aged ones travel well.
Yogurt.
Pork rinds. Make sure you get the ones cooked in their own fat. Beware vegetable oils in the ingredients list.
Apples.
Carrots.
Also, just trust your kids. They’re usually more adventurous than we assume. You’d be surprised what happens when you plop a cross section of a cow femur loaded with roasted marrow in front of a 5 year old.
Hey Mark, I would like to know know more about how to properly utilize carb-cycling (CC) while integrating intermittent fasting (IF). 1. With CC how do you determine which days to crank up carbs? Every day you lift? Only on Heavy lift days? 2. Do you lose the carb-feed benefits window if you lift in the morning, then fast until noon? 3. Carbs at night when training only in the mornings? Are they effective? 4. What about carb sources with high fat with carb cycling? 5. How many grams of fat allowed on a high carb day? 6. Are there better fat sources than other on high carb days? 7. Is there a specific time of day to eat the limited fat on high carb days? 8. How to determine which carbs are right for you? Sweet potatoes, white potatoes? Rice? Any experiments? 9. Should you have carbs on rest days while Carb Cycling? If so, how many grams? 10. Should fat ever be mixed with carbs? Why or Why not?
That was quite a series of questions. I’ll do a quick run through and maybe expand in the future.
Only on heavy/intense days. Long hike? Stay low-carb; you’re burning almost all fat (or that should be the goal). CrossFit WOD? Carb-up. Heavy squats? Carb-up. Short (5-10 second) sprints with plenty of rest in between, where you’re truly going all out and getting full recovery? Stay low-carb; you likely burned primarily ATP-PC, not glycogen. High-intensity intervals with shorter rest periods that leave you gasping? Carb-up.
You’ve got some time. Insulin-independent glucose uptake increases for around 2 hours after exercise. Insulin sensitivity increases for at least 16 hours after exercise.
Try “sleeping low.” This works best training in the afternoon or early evening. You go into the evening/early evening workout with carbs in your system. This should be a glycogen-depleting workout. You eat a low-carb or zero-carb (or fast) post-workout meal, then go to sleep. Wake up, and do some easy cardio without eating. A brisk hike, some easy cycling, maybe a short jog, always staying in your aerobic HR zone. You’ll get really good at burning fat this way. After the morning workout, eat some carbs.
Unless you’re just a workhorse, expending a ton of energy, training every day, veering close to burning out, you’ll have better luck with keeping your high-carb days relatively lower-fat.
Around 15-20% of total calories. Try for less. You may get better results that way.
PUFAs seem to have a more neutral effect on insulin resistance in the presence of carbs than other fats. Get a “balanced” intake, rather than leaning heavily toward one or the other. Butter, avocados (or avocado oil), almonds, and salmon is a better combo than butter, butter, butter, and butter.
No, it doesn’t matter if you keep it relatively low.
Robb Wolf has been pushing continuous glucose monitoring to track how different carb sources affect your blood glucose minute-to-minute. He’s getting great results. CGMs are prescription only, but I think that’s due to change in the near future. You could also do classic blood glucose prick tests at 1, 2, and 3 hours after your meals.
Keep carbs between 30-150 grams on rest days, depending on how low you enjoy going.
Fat and carbs are delicious together. That’s one reason to eat them—sheer pleasure. It’s also an argument against eating them: We’re liable to eat way too much. If you can keep from going crazy, you’re reasonably active, and you’re happy with your body composition (or its trajectory), fat and carbs are fine together. Fat and carbs become trouble when we eat too many of them at one time, like eating a half plate full of mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream.
That’s it for this week, folks. Thanks for reading and be sure to help out with your own input down below.
0 notes
milenasanchezmk · 7 years
Text
Dear Mark: Alcohol and LDL, Liverwurst, Coffee and Milk, Kid Snacks, and High Carb Questions
For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering 14 questions. The first concerns the effect of alcohol intake on LDL. Does it increase it or lower it (or both)? Next, what’s the best liverwurst to eat? After that, I discuss whether drinking coffee with milk makes the coffee antioxidants useless, followed by a quick list of good snacks for kids. The last ten questions concern cycling high-carb feeds on low-carb diets. They all come from one reader, and they’re very specific and well-constructed.
Let’s go:
Mark, I truly appreciate the blog. I’d like to know your thoughts on the correlation, if any, between alcohol consumption and high cholesterol (particularly LDL). I’ve been following an 80-20 Primal lifestyle for about 4 years, but have had stubbornly high cholesterol levels to the point where my PCP wants to put me on a statin. Thanks again for all you do!
Full-on alcoholics tend to have shockingly low LDL levels. This isn’t good; LDL particles, remember, serve important immune functions. But the relationship seems to hold at more moderate levels of intake, too. In middle-aged Japanese men, for example, alcohol intake predicted lower LDL levels.
Alcohol also increases HDL levels, even acutely—just a single dose of alcohol increases it. 
This jibes with the usually protective association between alcohol intake and heart disease, whether it’s postmenopausal women, Spanish men, or German adults.
Of course, there’s evidence that your genetics determine the effect of alcohol on LDL. In folks with the ApoE2 gene, alcohol lowers LDL. In those with the ApoE4 gene, alcohol increases it.
Mark, I would like to know if liverwurst is an ok way to get some organ meat, is it primal? My wife and I can’t stand organs by themselves, so I thought this may be a way to get some and we like it. I would guess that there are varying qualities and types, so guidance on how to pick would be great. I also enjoy scrapple, same question, is it primal and how to choose the best.
Best liverwurst I’ve ever had comes from US Wellness. It’s 50% beef trim, 20% liver, 15% heart, 15% kidney. All grass-fed. They also have a braunschweiger that’s 60% trim and 40% liver.
Traditional scrapple was great: pig parts, buckwheat (not a grain, not wheat), and bone broth cooked down into sort of a pork polenta that’s chilled and pan-fried. These days, scrapple is more of a mixed bag, since you get it in restaurants and they’ve started using wheat flour and cornmeal instead of buckwheat. If you’re trying to avoid wheat flour—as you probably should—the trick is finding a place that makes scrapple with buckwheat and/or cornmeal.
Or just make your own.
Hi Mark, almost every month I hear new conflicting information about whether coffee is healthy or not. What are your current thoughts on coffee and is it true that the antioxidants in coffee lose their power when consumed with milk?
My stance on coffee is resolute: It is a public good. It’s fueled revolutions and scientific discoveries. Just imagine the wondrous developments that’d result if the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians had used coffee. Or what if the Mongols had adopted coffee drinking after sacking Baghdad—would we all be drinking fermented mare milk, eating saddle meat (or not), and getting around on horseback? Fun to think about.
As to milk binding the antioxidants and rendering them useless, I wouldn’t worry. A 2010 study found that only non-dairy creamer slowed the absorption of coffee polyphenols. Real milk added to coffee had no effect. Even then, the non-dairy creamer only delayed the appearance of the polyphenols in the blood. They still got there. It just took them awhile.
I would like to see more recipes for primal snacks for my kids…and me too!. It breaks my heart to see them devour a bag of Oreos and then deal with the resulting poor behaviour.
I can do a comprehensive post in the future, but for now, some easy grab-and-go options you might not have considered.
Jerky. A classic.
Epic Bars are pretty good. Great ingredients, almost exclusively grass-fed/pastured animals. They don’t shy away from fat. A mix of sweet-savory and savory flavors.
Aforementioned US Wellness liverwurst and braunschweiger. Get those kids to eat liver.
Hard boiled eggs.
Olives.
Cheese. Hard, aged ones travel well.
Yogurt.
Pork rinds. Make sure you get the ones cooked in their own fat. Beware vegetable oils in the ingredients list.
Apples.
Carrots.
Also, just trust your kids. They’re usually more adventurous than we assume. You’d be surprised what happens when you plop a cross section of a cow femur loaded with roasted marrow in front of a 5 year old.
Hey Mark, I would like to know know more about how to properly utilize carb-cycling (CC) while integrating intermittent fasting (IF). 1. With CC how do you determine which days to crank up carbs? Every day you lift? Only on Heavy lift days? 2. Do you lose the carb-feed benefits window if you lift in the morning, then fast until noon? 3. Carbs at night when training only in the mornings? Are they effective? 4. What about carb sources with high fat with carb cycling? 5. How many grams of fat allowed on a high carb day? 6. Are there better fat sources than other on high carb days? 7. Is there a specific time of day to eat the limited fat on high carb days? 8. How to determine which carbs are right for you? Sweet potatoes, white potatoes? Rice? Any experiments? 9. Should you have carbs on rest days while Carb Cycling? If so, how many grams? 10. Should fat ever be mixed with carbs? Why or Why not?
That was quite a series of questions. I’ll do a quick run through and maybe expand in the future.
Only on heavy/intense days. Long hike? Stay low-carb; you’re burning almost all fat (or that should be the goal). CrossFit WOD? Carb-up. Heavy squats? Carb-up. Short (5-10 second) sprints with plenty of rest in between, where you’re truly going all out and getting full recovery? Stay low-carb; you likely burned primarily ATP-PC, not glycogen. High-intensity intervals with shorter rest periods that leave you gasping? Carb-up.
You’ve got some time. Insulin-independent glucose uptake increases for around 2 hours after exercise. Insulin sensitivity increases for at least 16 hours after exercise.
Try “sleeping low.” This works best training in the afternoon or early evening. You go into the evening/early evening workout with carbs in your system. This should be a glycogen-depleting workout. You eat a low-carb or zero-carb (or fast) post-workout meal, then go to sleep. Wake up, and do some easy cardio without eating. A brisk hike, some easy cycling, maybe a short jog, always staying in your aerobic HR zone. You’ll get really good at burning fat this way. After the morning workout, eat some carbs.
Unless you’re just a workhorse, expending a ton of energy, training every day, veering close to burning out, you’ll have better luck with keeping your high-carb days relatively lower-fat.
Around 15-20% of total calories. Try for less. You may get better results that way.
PUFAs seem to have a more neutral effect on insulin resistance in the presence of carbs than other fats. Get a “balanced” intake, rather than leaning heavily toward one or the other. Butter, avocados (or avocado oil), almonds, and salmon is a better combo than butter, butter, butter, and butter.
No, it doesn’t matter if you keep it relatively low.
Robb Wolf has been pushing continuous glucose monitoring to track how different carb sources affect your blood glucose minute-to-minute. He’s getting great results. CGMs are prescription only, but I think that’s due to change in the near future. You could also do classic blood glucose prick tests at 1, 2, and 3 hours after your meals.
Keep carbs between 30-150 grams on rest days, depending on how low you enjoy going.
Fat and carbs are delicious together. That’s one reason to eat them—sheer pleasure. It’s also an argument against eating them: We’re liable to eat way too much. If you can keep from going crazy, you’re reasonably active, and you’re happy with your body composition (or its trajectory), fat and carbs are fine together. Fat and carbs become trouble when we eat too many of them at one time, like eating a half plate full of mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream.
That’s it for this week, folks. Thanks for reading and be sure to help out with your own input down below.
0 notes