And so it is revealed, my girlfriend’s very clever Halloween costume idea ? Swine Flew. No, you won’t catch me getting vaccinated. Sleep well, eat well, spend some time on your feet out in the sun ? and you’ve got little to worry about. Then you can make fun of the paranoid mask-wearers and H1N1 vaccine-beggars and the Pepsi-guzzling chip eaters that actually get this disease and have trouble shaking it off.
?When pigeons fed on [a nutrient-deficient diet] were congregated together, the organism (bacillus suipestifer) spread to every one of them, causing polyneuritis and death? The control birds, on the other hand, similarly confined in one large cage and equally exposed to infection, almost completely escaped its effects ? only one out of 24 dying in consequence of it. While, therefore, the deficient food greatly favoured the spread of the organism, good food hindered its spread as effectually as did segregation or immunization.
-Sir Robert McCarrison
Hey Matt,
So I just wanted to run this by you. I started following your HED approach last Monday and I started taking my temperature in the morning a couple of days ago. I don't know what my calorie count is, I eat a good amount but probably not much more than 3,000 calories I'd guess. My carbs are potatoes, rice, and sprouted bread (Food For Life brand) as I'm avoiding fruit for at least the first month and veggies are just here and there. My fats are lots of butter and heavy cream for the most part. I eat protein as it comes, some days are low while others are higher. In the effort to repair my metabolism after years of different diets and lots of low-carbing/lower calories, my goal should be to eat to satiety of these foods while working to get my morning temperature up to 98.6 degrees orally or 97.8 degrees armpit? I haven't started weighing myself yet but I know have put on some weight with the added carbs and fats. I'm working hard on thinking long-term though. The past couple of morning temps have been 96.7 and 97.1 orally. Is this any indication of how messed up my metabolism is? I workout 2 to 3 times a week using heavy weights and a short met-con/Crossfit workout. Thanks for your time and for your blog. It has been very refreshing to look at health from this point of view.
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks Mark. I think you get the gist of what we're getting at here. It's really a diet reversal, and yes, there probably will be weight gain at first – but it typically plateaus within a month.
And yes, keep that end destination in sight. You want to free yourself from having to live in deprivation to keep from gaining weight.
Don't focus too much on calories, or fats, or carbs or whatever. Just eat. Try to keep it wholesome, eating mostly homecooked food, unrefined carbohydrates, and so on. Don't push yourself too hard physically either. Although exercise is healthy, too much stress in this way can impede adrenal restoration.
And get plenty of sleep. Be good to yourself. Be persistent.
Best of luck and let us know how it's coming along.
Hey Matt, thanks for the response. Just wanted to make sure that 98.6 degrees orally upon wakening is the goal as a sign of a good metabolism? Are they directly related or just part of the equation? Thanks!
Orally, 98.6 is excellent upon waking. 97.8 in the armpit. I think those ear thermometers may prove to be more reliable though. I'm looking into it and how ear temp relates to armpit and oral temps.