Eat Rich, Live Long: Use the Power of Low-Carb and Keto for Weight Loss and Great Health Paperback – Illustrated, February 27, 2018

I think this book provides excellent advice. I have that opinion because in one book it contains a summary and expansion on good, accurate, improved dietary advice and the history of why we have been given bad advice for so long based on flawed research, forceful personalities, and suppressed / ignored research that disagreed with the so-called "experts" that I have read about in many other books over the past couple of years. Books by; Gary Taubes, John Yudkin, Robert Lustig, Jason Fung, Nina Teicholz, Timothy Noakes, and several others. And this book mostly agrees with those books and condenses the information into one volume.In fact I liked this book so much I have purchased three copies thus far. One filled with my notes, one to loan to friends, one donated to my local library. And may purchase one more. The book does use a lot of acronyms, and list various units for blood test with no explanation of what they mean. mmol/L or mg/dL for example, and how to convert the numbers between the two. The first is mostly used in Europe, the latter in the USA. An acronym list and unit of measure list addition to the book would have been useful as you can lose track from chapter to chapter what an acronym meant. With several re-reading you may finally remember what MIRS or HOMA means.I am only uncertain about one bit of advice given in the book. (And in the video Widowmaker) ;The advice to have a CAC, coronary artery calcium scan done to find your CAS Score. I have been a radiation worker for forty years, six years with nuclear reactors, and 34 years working on diagnostic imaging equipment, X-ray machines. X-rays are not harmless, the more people who receive more exposure than absolutely necessary the more people who may suffer health issues caused by the radiation exposure.The general rule that has been followed for decades has been to allow the whole society to benefit from the good things ionizing radiation provides society by minimizing average excess radiation exposure to the general public. Higher radiation exposure is permitted for radiation workers, at the risk they will have a higher probability of getting cancer, and extra steps were to be taken to lower exposure to everyone else. That last part is violated by having higher numbers of people exposed to radiation that they need not be exposed to.Years ago when breast cancer was a hot topic, many hospitals advocated women have mammogram x-ray exams done, but studies believed there was a chance the x-ray exposures from the mammogram exams might cause more breast cancers than the exam finds. In healthcare these kind of things, for drugs or radiation exposure medical exams etc., are rated by NNT, Numbers Needed to be Treated, iow how many people needed to be treated by a drug to help one person. For example I think the NNT for the cholesterol statin drugs is 104, only 1 person in 104 is helped by taking a statin drug. Within that group several instead of being helped will suffer from the negative side effects. That number is calculated by the NNH, Number Needed to be Harmed. [do an internet search for NNT for statins and NNH for statins] Besides we now know high LDL cholesterol is not a real concern, and it should have never been declared as 'bad cholesterol', nor should we have been sent charging down the path to eat low health fats, or low dietary cholesterol foods. Medicine and the food industry have for various reason, good and bad, paved the way going in the wrong direction to find better health.Anyway, I think the rule to keep radiation exposure as low as possible to the general public is also violated by the x-ray exposes in security machines used at airports. A bad idea. A CAC score may not be as essential as advocated. If your triglyceride/HDL is high, and your total cholesterol/ HDL is high, you already know you need to do something to improve those numbers, and those changes would also slow or reverse the trend in your CAC Score.They write in the book about the work done by Dr Joseph Kraft, in finding at an earlier stage if you are IR, insulin resistant. That more people than suspected are IR and suffering harm from it. Not written about in the book (that I recall) is where to do a test that may be as important or more important than the CAC scan is to have a Kraft blood spot glucose tolerance insulin resistance test done. Do an internet search for - Kraft BS GTIR test. This test is done by Meridian Valley Labs in Calif. (perhaps other places too) Cost about $200. They mail you the kit, follow the directions, either yourself or assisted by your local clinic, mail the kit back. Get your test results back in a week or so. Also you can look for MValleyLab youtube channel to learn more, or visit their website.Two and a half years ago by chance I discovered Dr Bert Herring's advice about Fast 5 diet, intermittent fasting. I've lost 40 lbs. Mostly do OMAD, Feel better physically and mentally, have cut way back on sugary highly refined carb foods, and the use of vegetable / seed oils or eating foods in restaurants that use them. Eat a healthier diet. And have read a large stack of books about the history of why we have been given bad dietary advice for so long [look at any graph showing the rate of increase of people being overweight or obese or increase in people with T2DM and the rapid increase started in the early 1980s. Probably due to bad advice, plus many other factors too]Eat Rich Live Long summarizes and updates the information found in those books with the latest thinking about diet as health preserver or destroyer. Reading and following their advice may help you too. Though I never give any expert full faith. Read it, try it out yourself, find out first hand if it works for you. My bet is most of you will find it does.

I watched many of Ivor's videos and just finished reading his new book, “Eat Rich, Live Long”. His and Jeff's book is the most impressive and valuable that I have seen in the field of health assessment and improvement because it not only explains what and when to eat, but the “why”, i.e., the mechanisms behind the great advantages of a low carb diet. As a scientist, I greatly appreciate that you delved so deeply into this topic. I bought multiple copies of your book to give to my Medical Doctor and my friends and family. I have never bought multiple copies of any book before; I think it is that good.I hold a Ph.D. in Biology, and worked for 20 years as Quality Assurance Officer at the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency dealing with complex problems and processes and getting to the root causes in order to correct them. At the IEPA I worked more with engineers than biologists so I believe Ivor and I have similar, data driven approaches to getting to root causes and solving complex problems. About three years ago, at the age of 69, I got interested in achieving optimum heart health since I spend a considerable amount of time in a rather remote area of the Philippines where people with heart attacks simply die from lack of medical facilities and transportation to those substandard facilities. I did not want to be one of those people that looked healthy, but died from a sudden, “unexpected” heart attack or stroke. Luckily, there happened to be in my town a physician that was aware of diet to reverse diabetes and was helping his patients to achieve optimum health. I was impressed that although my physician orders the usual complete blood chemistry, including inflammation markers and lipid particle size counts, he also uses two totally noninvasive assessment methods that the authors do not mention in and of which maybe Ivor and Jeff may not be aware. The first assessment method is the carotid intimate-media thickness (CIMT) ultrasound scan which directly shows the degree of atherosclerosis (CVD for short) - cost $200. This test gauges arterial health by measuring the thickness of the intimate-media layer in the carotid arteries, and based on this measurement, gives arterial age compared to chronological age. CIMT also visualizes and measures soft plaque (before calcification), which gives an earlier warning signal than CAC which can only detect calcium. CIMT does not expose a person to any harmful radiation as does CAC. The obvious disadvantage is that CIMT does not specifically asses the degree of CVD in the coronary arteries. This is the reason that although I have been getting a CIMT every six to twelve months to track the results of my efforts to improve my diet and lifestyle, I did have one CAC to see the actual degree of CVD in my coronary arteries. The results could not have matched more closely; both the CIMT and CAC showed I had an arterial age of 45-46 years at the chronological age of 72. While the advantages of CAC are obvious, it seems preferable that folks have one or more broadly spaced CACs, but monitor their progress over shorter time periods using CIMT. CIMT catches CVD earlier than CAC and does not pose any radiation hazard. Another advantage of CIMT is that it can track reversal of CVD much faster than CAC (which depends on reabsorption of calcium to show progress (which may not happen). For example, my wife’s CIMT arterial age dropped by ten years over the course of one year of eating a low carb diet; I am pretty sure this improvement would not have been measurable using CAC. The second assessment method utilizes the InBody 570 Body Composition Analyzer, which not only gives general body composition (fat to lean muscle mass, etc.), but the all-important visceral fat level which is linked directly to hyperinsulinemia. This test takes five minutes and costs $20. It is the main method used by members of our local CrossFit gym and my physician to measure their progress toward improved or optimum health. Admittedly, this is not measuring the root causes of visceral fat deposition, actual high insulin levels and insulin resistance, but it does directly and easily measure the deleterious results of hyperinsulinemia, the bottom line. Some of our gym members get this measurement on a monthly basis early in their journey to health which provides a very strong incentive to stick with the program. I learned so much new material from your Ivor's videos and book that I just wanted to share some knowledge that I have that others could consider.

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