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EventsYour brain on fast-acting carbs
Fast-acting carbs – like regular bread – light up the addiction centers in your brain like a Christmas tree:
Medium.com: Your Brain on Fast Acting Carbs
To avoid this problem, eat mainly slow-acting unprocessed carbs, like vegetables. Plus protein and fat. Also called real food.
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(BTW, is there some way I can communicate directly with you.)
Absolutely, let's communicate directly, maybe Dietdoctor can give us our respective e-mails incognito?.
Epilepsia. 2011 Mar;52(3):e7-11. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.02981.x. Epub 2011 Mar 3.
The ketogenic diet inhibits the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway.
McDaniel SS1, Rensing NR, Thio LL, Yamada KA, Wong M.
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The ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment for epilepsy, but its mechanisms of action are poorly understood. We investigated the hypothesis that the KD inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway signaling. The expression of pS6 and pAkt, markers of mTOR pathway activation, was reduced in hippocampus and liver of rats fed KD. In the kainate model of epilepsy, KD blocked the hippocampal pS6 elevation that occurs after status epilepticus. Because mTOR signaling has been implicated in epileptogenesis, these results suggest that the KD may have anticonvulsant or antiepileptogenic actions via mTOR pathway inhibition.
I take Dr. Rosedale's invocation of evolution as more big-picture heuristic and rhetoric.