flicknut said:Has anyone read the book Natural Hormonal Enhancement by Rob Faigin? The
book explains how to manipulate your body's hormones (such as lowering
insulin) through a low carb diet and exercise.
If it works for you, by all means keep on doing it.
It may not be for everybody, however.
Someone said that "
"The human body is amzing. It can survive well on almost anything.
Therefore, it is really quite diffucult to learn much by simple study of
what people eat and what happens."
Good luck.
Why didn't you post:
1) Actual weight and loss and
2) body fat decrease data?
Quoted message said:
The diet is less than 60 carbs a day, but you have two "carb load"
meals per week where you can eat as many carbs as you want, but at
least 70% of your carb intake must consist of starchy carbs. The
purpose of the carb load meal is to make sure your metabolism doesn't
decrease:"...a thyroid hormone called triiodothyronine (T3) is a key regulator
of metabolic rate, and calorie restriction causes a decline in T3.
Studies have also shown that diets that continuously restrict
carbohydrate (like the Atkins diet, for instance) cause a reduction in
T3, and that administering carbohydrate can restore T3 levels after
they have declined."I've been on the plan for about two months now, and I've lowered my
bodyfat percentage and significantly increased my muscle mass by
working out.Here are the studies that support an occasional starchy meal during a
low-carb diet:1. Otten MH. The Role of Dietary Fat in Peripheral Thyroid Hormone
Metabolism. -Metabolism- 1980;29:930.2. Madsen M, et al. Effects of Portal Glucose Infusion on Thyroid
Hormone Concentration in Serum after High Energy Trauma in Pigs. -Acta
Chir Scand- 1986;152:487.3. Glade MJ, Luba NK. Serum Triiodothyronine and Thyroxine
Concentration in Weanling Horses Fed Carbohydrate by Direct Gastric
Infusion. -Am J Vet Res- 1987;48:578.4. Spaulding SW, et al. Effect of Calorie Restriction and Dietary
Composition of Serum T3 and Reverse T3 in Man. -J Clin Endocrinal
Metab- 1976;42:197.5. Mathieson RA, et al. The Effect of Varying Carbohydrate Content of a
Very-Low-Caloric Diet on Resting Metabolic Rate and Thyroid Hormones.
-Metabolism- 1986;35:394.6. Serog P, et al. Effects of Slimming and Composition of Diets on VO2
and Thyroid Hormones in Healthy Subjects. -Am J Clin Nutr- 1982;35:24.7. Danforth E Jr, Burger AG, Wimpfheimer C. Nutritionally-Induced
Alterations in Thyroid Hormone Metabolism and Thermogenesis.
-Experientia Suppl- 1978;32:213.8. Johannessen A, Hagen C, Galbo H. Prolactin, Growth Hormone,
Thyrotropin, 3,5,3'-Triiodothyronine, and Thyroxine Responses to
Exercise after Fat- and Carbohydrate-Enriched Diet. -J Clin Endocrinol
Metab- 1981;52:56.9. Glass AR, et al. Serum Triiodothyronine in Undernourished Rats:
Dependence on Dietary Composition Rather than Total Calorie or Protein
Intake. -Endocrinology- 1978;102:1925.10. Biolo G, et al. Physiologic Hyperinsulinemia Stimulates Protein
Synthesis and Enhances Transport of Selected Amino Acids in Human
Skeletal Muscle. J Clin Invest 1995;95:811.Rob Faigin's site is located here:
'http://www.extique.com' (http://www.extique.com/)Check out the guy's body...he's pure muscle.
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