How can we not feel cold in the hands and feet?
During the winter, and when I'm tired, I'll often feel much colder in my hands and feet than anywhere else in my body. I wonder if there's anything that can be done about that. I started to regularly do Zone 2 and use the sauna since March of this year, and so far my cold tolerance has improved for this cold season so far (I think) but I'm wondering if there is anything else to do.
What is the mechanism of Elimination Diets?
I wonder if your team has done any research on why people may benefit from elimination diets. Some people have anecdotes about increased energy when they cut certain foods out. While I generally take anecdotes with a grain of salt, I see it often enough to believe there is some merit. I wonder if eliminating certain foods somehow reduces inflammation in some way. If yes, can you explain what the inflammation is? What cytokines are released, in what amount, where from, how do they travel, where do they go, and what impact do they have? Inflammation is a term egregiously abused in online health discussions, so if that's an important factor in nutrition, I'd love to understand more. In general, I guess whenever we see improvements in energy or mood from reducing certain foods in a diet, what bad signals are we eliminating? Or what good signals are we promoting? Thanks!
High intensity training and rises on blood glucose levels
Peter and team, I would really appreciate this topic be addressed in one podcast: For people with insulin resistance starting high intensity training: w is Is there evidence showing that the increases in glicemia during and right after exercise are deleterious? What is your take: give up high intensity training sticking to zone 2 aerobic exercise (which immediate lowers glicemia) or insist until a more trained body will overcome insulin resistance on its own? If one search official recs, like from ADA and others, there's nothing sufficient granular in this regard
Recent Study re: Protein Consumption
I would really like to hear Dr. Attia's comments on this study: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00540-2. "The belief that the anabolic response to feeding during postexercise recovery is transient and has an upper limit and that excess amino acids are being oxidized lacks scientific proof. Using a comprehensive quadruple isotope tracer feeding-infusion approach, we show that the ingestion of 100 g protein results in a greater and more prolonged (>12 h) anabolic response when compared to the ingestion of 25 g protein. We demonstrate a dose-response increase in dietary-protein-derived plasma amino acid availability and subsequent incorporation into muscle protein. Ingestion of a large bolus of protein further increases whole-body protein net balance, mixed-muscle, myofibrillar, muscle connective, and plasma protein synthesis rates. Protein ingestion has a negligible impact on whole-body protein breakdown rates or amino acid oxidation rates. These findings demonstrate that the magnitude and duration of the anabolic response to protein ingestion is not restricted and has previously been underestimated in vivo in humans." Thanks.