@Aleksandr What I really don't like on that program is that starvation diet. I see practitioners all over the internet recommending really crash/starvation diet on around 1500kcal for everyone. I mean how you can heal your body when you don't have literally enough energy from calories? They completely ignore the work of pro metabolic people or for example this amazing study Minnesota Starvation Experiment - Wikipedia where they clearly showed that people were not recovering even with supplements for all minerals/vitamins if they didn't have enough calories..
The funny(or sad) part is that they recommend basically the same or even less calories that they used in that study to starve people.. You put someone with adrenal burnout on that diet and what you think will happen.. Even the average fitness/gym person knows that that is just stupid and will just lead to crash and JoJo effect. Btw when I think about what Helen was saying in terms of diet what he recommends or he was eating or people eat etc.. I think that he was eating in some buffet style of restaurants like when he was living in Cyprus or whatever and had no idea how much he was eating. THat he was never measuring and cooking for himself etc.. I think he was that guy who had decent money so he could eat out and so his recommendations were just eyeballing stuff. SO he was probably eating way more and way different macros than his "50% protein, 30% carbs, 20% fats" etc.. I am tracking every calorie due to my bodybuilding passion for at least 20 years and I know what is and what is not realistic.. That's why i also think that most people are not following ARL diet program 100%. They would be skin and bones within 3 months eating nothing but lean meat, veggies and here and there some strach like blue corn chips.. Regular people think they are eating 1500kcal if you ask them what they eat, but in reality they would eat that amount in just 1 meal easily.. Everything swims in fats/oils, they snack all day nonstop etc.. I did many extreme diets. Following calorie restrictions on cutting diets. Normal person couldn't handle that hunger. Maybe for couple of days and than they binge like crazy. I think that is what most people do on ARL diet program.. They follow it 6 days a week and on sunday they say to themselves "i was good the whole week. Today I can go out and eat some good food" heh..
Anyways monday I will do my first vit A serum blood test ever after 7 years of low vit A diet.. I have no idea how my retinol status in the liver looks like. I am low or still high. Low from low zinc so the body can't make RBP or low like real deficiency who knows.. I just want to see if it's not high. If it's low I think I will consider some beef liver like 10g a day. That would make sure that I have some retinol and copper so I don't have to supplement there and I can safely increase zinc to like 30mg and start some manganese as well.. Manganese should increase estrogen a bit and that should help increase ceruloplasmin right... I would add some boron probably as well. Wonder what role boron plays. THere recommend it to slow oxidizers as well. But boron lowers manganese and if manganese is already probably lower duet to higher copper..
The funny(or sad) part is that they recommend basically the same or even less calories that they used in that study to starve people.. You put someone with adrenal burnout on that diet and what you think will happen.. Even the average fitness/gym person knows that that is just stupid and will just lead to crash and JoJo effect. Btw when I think about what Helen was saying in terms of diet what he recommends or he was eating or people eat etc.. I think that he was eating in some buffet style of restaurants like when he was living in Cyprus or whatever and had no idea how much he was eating. THat he was never measuring and cooking for himself etc.. I think he was that guy who had decent money so he could eat out and so his recommendations were just eyeballing stuff. SO he was probably eating way more and way different macros than his "50% protein, 30% carbs, 20% fats" etc.. I am tracking every calorie due to my bodybuilding passion for at least 20 years and I know what is and what is not realistic.. That's why i also think that most people are not following ARL diet program 100%. They would be skin and bones within 3 months eating nothing but lean meat, veggies and here and there some strach like blue corn chips.. Regular people think they are eating 1500kcal if you ask them what they eat, but in reality they would eat that amount in just 1 meal easily.. Everything swims in fats/oils, they snack all day nonstop etc.. I did many extreme diets. Following calorie restrictions on cutting diets. Normal person couldn't handle that hunger. Maybe for couple of days and than they binge like crazy. I think that is what most people do on ARL diet program.. They follow it 6 days a week and on sunday they say to themselves "i was good the whole week. Today I can go out and eat some good food" heh..
Anyways monday I will do my first vit A serum blood test ever after 7 years of low vit A diet.. I have no idea how my retinol status in the liver looks like. I am low or still high. Low from low zinc so the body can't make RBP or low like real deficiency who knows.. I just want to see if it's not high. If it's low I think I will consider some beef liver like 10g a day. That would make sure that I have some retinol and copper so I don't have to supplement there and I can safely increase zinc to like 30mg and start some manganese as well.. Manganese should increase estrogen a bit and that should help increase ceruloplasmin right... I would add some boron probably as well. Wonder what role boron plays. THere recommend it to slow oxidizers as well. But boron lowers manganese and if manganese is already probably lower duet to higher copper..
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