Tom Woods Goes Primal!

[Feeding the Abscess]

Thanks for that link and info.. hubby has it in his head that grass fed is going to be lean .. tough and dry. *goes to check the site out now*

The grassfed beef I eat is so tender that I cook it on the stove - I do this so I can use the melted fat (and whatever garlic and pepper comes off the steak) in place of butter or olive oil for my eggs. I'd say the steak fat is even tastier for eggs than bacon fat.

 

[opal]

not that it's relevant for primal.. but the best fries ever are the ones deep fried twice in beef fat

 

[specsaregood]

not that it's relevant for primal.. but the best fries ever are the ones deep fried twice in beef fat

potatoes are acceptable on the primal blueprint -- just restricted if you are trying to lose weight. And fried in beef fat is as well. I generally make homefries out of sweet potatoes and bacon grease.

As to the grassfed beef, if your husband is not familiar with it; I'd try a limited amount first. The taste IS different. Not bad, just different.

 

[opal]

it would be awesome of the commissary would carry it.. their beef has been pissing him off for a year or so now.. all the fat trimming regs - can't even get an unpeeled knuckle anymore. He doesn't like angus at all.. calls it propaganda shoe leather.

 

[specsaregood]

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[BamaAla]

"breaded" some chicken breasts with pork rinds tonight. the picky eater at the table said it was "ok" and didn't make any faces of disgust (win!), the toddler devoured it.

put pork rinds in a ziplock, crushed them finely with a rolling pin, rinsed the breasts, sliced into strips, patted real dry, shook them in the bag of rinds, then baked in the oven for 20 min.

Thanks. Doing this within the next week! What did you have with them?

 

[specsaregood]

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[specsaregood]

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[muzzled dogg]

Tom Woods AND paleo blogger Steve Cooksey (http://diabetes-warrior.net/) is speaking at the Free State Project's Liberty Forum next month.

Cooksey made national news a while back when he was threatened with arrest for blogging on diet and nutrition without a license http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/29/is-advocating-the-paleo-diet-against-the

Anyways, use discount code: "2013NHLF". It's good for 10% off Full and 3 day speeches pass. Purchase your tickets here: http://freestateproject.org/libertyforum

 

[KrokHead]

Tom Woods Goes Primal!

About time!

 

[wetroof]

I've eaten Paleo for a year. Now I mostly stick to an Ethiopian dish which tastes great. I never get tired of it. Basically you mix raw ground beef with butter that you render with spices. you also add in other spices. Had to order spices online - my Mom has an ethiopian friend who taught me. In a week I would consume about 5 lb grass fed beef 80/20 and 2 lb butter. Also I have oysters and beef liver every now and then.

An Awesome blog is : jackkruse.com. His writing is very entertaining. this is a good series he did: _jackkruse.com/brain-gut-1-who-are-we-really/

 

[specsaregood]

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[opal]

Awesome news! the 8% body fat scares me a little though.

I wonder what happens to thyroid levels if one already has a hyperactive thyroid

 

[dannno]

I've eaten Paleo for a year. Now I mostly stick to an Ethiopian dish which tastes great. I never get tired of it. Basically you mix raw ground beef with butter that you render with spices. you also add in other spices. Had to order spices online - my Mom has an ethiopian friend who taught me. In a week I would consume about 5 lb grass fed beef 80/20 and 2 lb butter. Also I have oysters and beef liver every now and then.

An Awesome blog is : jackkruse.com. His writing is very entertaining. this is a good series he did: _jackkruse.com/brain-gut-1-who-are-we-really/

Can you go more in depth on these spices?

 

[dannno]

Awesome news! the 8% body fat scares me a little though.

7-10% is pretty good.

I wonder what happens to thyroid levels if one already has a hyperactive thyroid

I'm guessing, if anything, it would help balance it back out.

 

[trey4sports]

So I took some blood tests about 6 months ago after about 3 months of gradually going primal. I took them again recently to compare and see how this fat-based diet was effecting me -- besides the about 65lbs lost.

The numbers are VERY positive. I only came to post this as to further encourage any of my fellow paul supporters who have considered trying the primal blueprint out but might be afraid of the dreaded cholesterol, oogabooga.

THYROID
8/12: TSH SCREEN 6.00 H uIU/mL 0.35-5.50
3/13: TSH SCREEN 3.20 uIU/mL 0.35-5.50
-2.8! This might be the BEST result of all. From a very underactive thyroid to a near ideal thyroid range.

8/12: CHOLESTEROL 249 H mg/dL 130-200
3/13: CHOLESTEROL 205 H mg/dL 130-200
-44

8/12: TRIGLYCERIDE 237 H mg/dL 25-160
3/13: TRIGLYCERIDE 197 H mg/dL 25-160
-40 --Still a little high; most likely because I still love my beer but still getting better.

8/12: HDL DIRECT 48 mg/dL 40-90
3/13: HDL DIRECT 65 mg/dL 40-90
+17 -- very good.

8/12: VLDL(CALC) 47.40 H mg/dL 5.0-32.0
3/13: VLDL(CALC) 39.40 H mg/dL 5.0-32.0
-8

8/12: LDL(CALC) 153.60 H mg/dL 0-130
3/13: LDL(CALC) 100.60 mg/dL 0-130
-53 -- From borderline risk to desirable

8/12: CHOL/HDL RATIO 5.19 Ratio 0-5.60
3/13: CHOL/HDL RATIO 3.15 Ratio 0-5.60
-2.04 -- from risk to near ideal

Screw oatmeal or statins, I'll take steak and eggs. And that my friends is the tale of the tape. cheers!

way to go specs! You have made some huge strides my friend! My only caution would be to tell you that you're trig's are super high. LabCorp reference is 0 -114 as normal and most paleo foodies are around 30 - 70 mg/dl. From what I understand trigs are a pretty good indicated of oxidized cholesterol so i'd definitely keep monitoring that.

 

[jj-]

THYROID
8/12: TSH SCREEN 6.00 H uIU/mL 0.35-5.50
3/13: TSH SCREEN 3.20 uIU/mL 0.35-5.50
-2.8! This might be the BEST result of all. From a very underactive thyroid to a near ideal thyroid range.

Congrats, everything looks like an improvement. Some natural practitioners though say that they rarely see a comfortably healthy person with TSH above 2, but you seem to be heading in that direction. Also, 9 months doesn't seem like a long time, so maybe you'll see further improvements just by giving your body more time to improve further.