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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Löwenherz on October 23, 2011, 07:20:53 pm
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Here is a nice lecture about human brains and dietary fats from Nora Gedgaudas:
"Primal mind: nutrition & mental health" by Nora Gedgaudas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhLhqZjddg#)
Löwenherz
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Thanks for sharing this video. It is outstanding. I'm going to kidnap my daughter and her husband, duct tape them to a chair, and make them watch it. They know all this stuff, but this video makes it clear how important and urgent it is to eat in the way we know is right.
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Does anyone have a link to Cordain's lecture at this Ancestral Health Symposium? Nora mentioned that he recanted his past somewhat negative portrayal of saturated-fats, which she said she found rather heartening and would be interesting to see. I didn't find it at the Vimeo or symposium websites.
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Does anyone have a link to Cordain's lecture at this Ancestral Health Symposium? Nora mentioned that he recanted his past somewhat negative portrayal of saturated-fats, which she said she found rather heartening and would be interesting to see. I didn't find it at the Vimeo or symposium websites.
Oh yes, that would be interesting. If I remember correctly, Cordain warned again saturated fats in his first book.
I'm still not 100% convinced that animal fats from DOMESTICATED animals are 110% healthy. But I have no doubt that coconut fat and wild boar fat are everything else than unhealthy.
Incomprehensibly most well eduacted health advocates still don't differentiate between so called 'saturated fats'. Nobody can convince me that long-term consumption of butter (or even worse: ghee) is healthy, for example.
Löwenherz
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For those of you who do not have time to watch it all here are my notes (sorry for typos)
Your body is your unconsciouss mind
Surges of blood pressure are cause of million of diseases
Addressing it is crucial for our health
Brain systems are damaged (even irreversibly) on vegan diets
Gluten sensivity and coeliac are huge issues
Coeliac It is not diagnosable until it fully “crashes”
Anxiety issues are more popular than everything else combined
Fats and cholerestol are essential for nervous system and brain
Low fat diets should never be promoted in this population
She gives examples how all primitive cultures eat lots of fat
Consuming variety of fats is important for optimal health
Ketones (definition: the by-product of using body fat for energy instead of glucose from the foods eaten.) are crucial source of energy for brain and other systems
People say you are dependent on glucose, she strongly disagrees
She got interested in neurofeedback because she was depressed for many years and it liberated her
If you chronical eat carbohadrates to temporary elevate your mood you are depleting your brain of serotonine
70% of children with untreated gluten sensivity or celiac shows same brian patterns like ADD/ADHD
She cities studies where 100% of ADHD patients improved on gluten free diet. (“100%!? can you imagine if drug could do that?“)
Our ancestors did not necessary ate what is most healthy for them, they just looked for survival
It is especially important in this difficult times (ironed water, mineral deficient soils..) to eat healthy, she says that people ate healthy in paleo times and we eating this way will be way ahead of others, but this diet could also evolve and be optimized to current circumstances (she talks more about it in her book). Paleo is not the end point.
Restirction of carbs and proteins. We need proteins to be efficient (sufficient) but we do not need to eat slabs and slabs and slabs of meat. Our ancestors did not do it either. We do it because we have abundance of food now.
Point is not to eat high fat diet but “high percentage diet”. It does not take much fat to satisfy your diet but it is important to get enough!
Study that lasted 20 years. 2 groups monkeys. One was allowed to eat as much as they wanted. The other was fed with sufficiently dense nutrition diet (Caloric restircion of proteins and carbs) (30% fewer calories of what they could consume). After 20 years 37% from first group died on diseases (heart disease, cancer, diabetes/…). The other group only 13% died. They got better result In all health markers that were measured, including brain health. They maintained greater brain volume which normaly shrinks with age.They had superior cognitive function.
Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesnora-gedgaudas (http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesnora-gedgaudas)
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Great video - Thanks!
This is worth the time to watch - the notes (although well-meaning and kind for those who think they do not have time) do not do it justice and I remember different things as most important that are not in the above notes. This lecture gave me so much to think about!
I sent this video out to people I care about. Like Eve - I'll tie them to their chairs if necessary. ;)