Bioenergetic Eating with Mike Fave
With 6 years in the hospital trenches as an RN, Mike’s true passion has always been independent health research. Years before ever working in the hospital he had his head inside a Pubmed article or physiology textbook, and his heart in some type of crazy diet or supplement experiment. Mike has prolifically published on both his Youtube channel @MikeFaveScience and with friend and podcaster Jay Feldman on the Energy Balance Podcast.
Here are the interview highlights
In most cases, peoples health issues can be fixed by a eating micro-nutrient dense, balanced macro, high calorie diet
The way to construct your diet is to first figure out how many calories you need per day. Then how many grams of protein you need. Then how many grams of carbs you need to optimize the hormones and fill in the rest of the calories with fat. Typically you want 20-30% of your calories from fat.
Choose carbs that don’t have high fodmap content and 1:1 fructose to glucose ratio (not apples)
If a person has hereditary fructose intolerance, they’ll need to rely on starches for their glucose
If a person doesn’t do well with starches because of bacterial overgrowth or lack of amylase production, they’ll need to eat primarily fruit, maple syrup and honey.
If moving from low carb to high carb you will healhily gain 5-10 lbs of water weight and glycogen over 1-2 weeks (because you were depleted). Every gram of glycogen stored comes with 3 grams of water
Ideal body fat for men is 10-20%, for women 16-24%
The Randle Cycle is a fuel source mechanism whereby the mitochondria can only burn one type of fuel at a time. If there is too much fat, metabolism will slow down and inhibit glucose oxidation, which then leads to a build up of sugar in the blood, decreased ATP production, increased ROS and decreased CO2.
Check out Mike’s exhaustive video on the Randle Cycle here
You can eat both fat and carbs together so low as your fat is less than 30% of your total calories/day.
PUFA, endotoxin, micronutrient deficiencies, xenoestrogens, heavy metals and plant defense chems are major inhibitors of metabolism
Ray Peat called estrogen “the hormone of new beginnings”. It is a growth hormone and too much leads to unchecked growth. Progesterone’s job is to stabilize and differentiate growth. In today’s environment (stress, micro plastics and Xenoestrogens), women are losing progesterone to estrogen. So supporting progesterone or supplementing are most important.
The entire hormonal system is linked to food macros, especially carbs. Too little and your body senses famine and scarcity adjusting appropriately.
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