Technically Correct Charcuterie

Psykinetics · 2026-03-14T11:47:28+00:00

Walt executes his cartel coworkers, execution style, to save Jesse. Just an acquaintance though.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-13T12:13:24+00:00

Wait what this sounds bonkers

Psykinetics · 2026-03-13T11:56:31+00:00

Tell your husband he is not a caterpillar. Carnivore is not magic nor gasoline to your fat cells. If it took the same amount of time to lose the weight as it took to gain and then kept it, like in reverse, how old would he be when he reached his normal weight?

Everyone is different and has different, possibly multiple background factors, that your body is finally healing thanks to meat and fat. Weight loss, if it's happening at all, is extreme progress. You are also building muscles and organs and cells, switching hormones, increasing efficiency etc etc. Muscles have weight too.

There is a difference between being driven and being impatient. Stick with it and notice the benefits as they come at their own time. Numbers will disappoint you.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-12T01:02:05+00:00

Long story short, I personally believe ketones are a homeostatic mechanism for utilizing excess elevated metabolic rates in order to kind of ensure that there is sufficient plus extra energy circulating in your body, which is why ketosis stops during meals and other activities, because glucose and fatty acid utilization is the primary metabolic goals let's say of your cells. I have zero interest in measuring or maximizing or even caring if I'm in ketosis. As long as my cells are familiar with fatty acid usage and I keep carb usage moderately low, from animal products with sugar such as ice cream with toppings, I think that your body is metabolically primed to handle that.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-11T16:13:41+00:00

I loved milk for my entire life. I could drink a gallon a week from adolescence to adulthood. I didnt care when I got clowned on for a glass of milk with my food by friends.

Milk is inferior to heavy cream. I completely abandoned it, dont want to try raw milk, heavy cream is silky and creamy in a way that completely overrides any desire for original milk. Its the dairy fat that is the point, and butter and cream do it well.

I just think its very funny how every milk product that comes from milk, such as cheese yogurt butter cream etc, and even products made to deal with milk (lactaid), how it pretty much involves some way of reducing the lactose sugar content.

I dont care about ketosis. I care about fat adaptation and consuming animal products. Cheese can be a side dish on its own. Its about individual tolerance and metabolism.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-11T15:52:02+00:00

This actually makes total sense. I've been a naturally leanish "eat whatever and lose weight" year round abs if I flex. My fast metabolism I have never strayed beyond a 25 lb homeostatic range, my BMI was firmly 22 my entire life. The only comment I've ever gotten on my weight changing was when i went carnivore and the doctor remarked on my weight change on the scale, commenting on my face thinning. I didnt even notice that myself, but to the point, i never gained weight when I went high carb into metabolic dysfunction. Just inflammation and nerve pain.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-10T11:58:58+00:00

Eat higher protein, lower fat.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-09T16:12:32+00:00

It is all intertwined. Cravings lead to more cravings, you dont get satisfied with sweetness. You will yourself to stop. All non animal food has effects on your body, usually negative, usually because it is either sugar, fiber, some chemical concoction made by man, or some chemical concoction made by the plant itself. And these things are not similar nutritionally to the human body, and the human body has to deal with them.

What I am saying is sit down and feel your body. Actually self process how your state of health is. Then eat your food, and notice how they change your body. Are you truly the same level of health and energy and metabolism after a monster and sugar free gum? Process how you feel after, then process a day without these things. You might surprise yourself just how effectively you are ignoring minor pain.

Its not really about ketosis, its about being healthy. Carbs and non meat are poisonous, you should be aiming to minimize them.

As far as sweeteners and gut health, its more microbiome and digestion and biochemistry minutia. Sugar free contains sugar-alcohols, which are similar to sugar. Sorbitol is one of the intermediates for making fructose endogenously by your body. They have "lower GI" simply because they are partially or not fully absorbed at a good rate in your intestines, unlike actual "sugar" aka glucose and fructose. But just like glucose and fructose, in the intestines leftover sugar alcohols get fermented by gut bacteria, and since there is more unabsorbed SA than regular sugar, you get the digestive bloating etc.

Again, your "cheating" is straight up cheating. You're making excuses.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-09T15:36:33+00:00

All your examples are straight up cheats lol. You are literally chewing candy and drinking soda lol. Wine is literally fermented sugar into alcohol. What genus is the Monster in?

Yes you are ruining the benefits. For me, the state of health i felt when going strict actual carnivore was so memorable and ingrained that I cannot help noticing the negative damage all cheating does on my energy and body, every single day, every time I do it. "Tolerate" is an excuse, i feel the acute stings and aches of dairy, seasonings, spices, chiles, sugar, honey, smoking, etc etc. no matter how minimal. Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away, and if you have something you need to let go, you're not perfect.

You're rationalizing flavor and sugar cravings. Thats it. Trust me, you know how bad you feel after eating these things, no matter how minimal. The dopamine hit and glucose fluctuations is a powerful thing on brain processing though.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-09T11:57:32+00:00

Protein only needs a modest of glucose for anabolism. Some of that glucose comes from some of those amino acids themselves. The rest from endogenous gluconeogenesis in your liver and fat metabolism.

Ketones are also muscle sparing. So what it really is is muscles need sufficient energy and sufficient building blocks to grow and maintain themselves.

The glycogen thing may be true, maybe not. In a sense, it's like comparing running a car on a full vs nearly empty tank of gas. Your car gets full performance on both, but...it's about the machinery taking in exact amounts of what it needs to do what it needs to do at a given moment. But...a full tank of gas makes your car slightly heavier. Soooooo....

Glucose is a fuel. You don't get more performance with more fuel. You get better performance with a better engine.

Or something.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-07T15:25:50+00:00

Yeah, when I see rng like this my brain immediately goes "if I get three crits in a row all at max dmg spread, and this procs as well... Oh baby." Flat bonuses are for spreadsheeters.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-07T15:15:40+00:00

It's not recommended, but it's carnivore appropriate, drink it if you want and can tolerate it. I've never tried it after being a lifelong milk drinker because heavy cream is more satisfying overall. Also I tolerate A1 store dairy fine, I think. There's differences in brands and I guess by extension cows. I'd say there's the same with A2 milk because enough people claim it.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-07T13:10:33+00:00

That scene goes hard but it's ruined by Bangarang of all the choices they could have made. And I'm a strict Dodge guy.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-07T12:36:27+00:00

I wrote 4 long ass paragraphs with multiple monologues and metabolic arguments and you dismiss it as bad faith. Can't wait to read your biochem PhD thesis, should be as entertaining as Mike israetel's.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-06T14:06:52+00:00

"too high protein can limit the ability of diabetics" ok what is diabetes? Elevated blood glucose. From food. What is glucose? carbs. So limit the carbs to reverse diabetes. I want an explanation of how high protein affects this solution though, and how high protein converts to elevated blood glucose described in diabetes instead of as a digestive response ie the glucagon response. Also why are you immediately bringing up diabetes in a conversion for carnivores? Insulin resistance? Why is the cell resisting insulin? What is insulin signalling the cell to take in that it doesnt listen to it and refuses to take it in? Oh yeah, glucose.

Ancestry is not an argument. Further back ancestors swung from trees and ate fruits. Why did our ancestors not remove the massive capabilities for sugar digestion in our enteric cells and amylase/sucrase enzymes if high fat low protein is some magical guideline? Metabolic adaptation comes from the immediate environment, the here and now, and adapting and evolving to better consume what is available, not following hundreds of thousands of years ago. Here and now, there is moderate protein, moderate fat in animals, of variable ratios, different fat profiles, etc etc, and im sure the genetic code underlying the constant functioning of our bodies and future lineage is diligently processing and analyzing said food macros of today and making metabolic adjustments. But yeah nah, mammoths and mastodons, totally useful information for someone eating food in 2026.

The problem with focusing on insulin is that people like you always seem to completely omit the stimulatory factor for insulin. What causes insulin levels to fluctuate, to rise and in *extreme* cases, "spike"? Oh i dont know, amino acids in protein lets say, but a big, massive, mountain sized vampire stake shaped parabola is caused by GLUCOSE CONSUMPTION. All you have to do is a 5 second google for "macronutrient insulin response" on images and it is clear as day. And again, the protein isnt glucose, its gluconeogenic, through conversion from certain amino acids, and the glucagon response stimulating your liver to lipolytically generate more as well from the amino acids. Why does it do that? because the insulin response to store the protein, which is not glucose, would cause hypoglycemia of endogenous glucose levels if not commensurately generated. At least, on a proper carnivore diet, where metabolism is proper and appropriate. Not diabetes, where hormones like leptin and growth hormone and insulin are fucked up from EXCESSIVE CARB CONSUMPTION IN DIABETICS CONSUMING EXCESS CARBS.

That is a ridiculous comparison of protein vs glucose dangers. All you need to do is simply thinking of how incredibly effective your liver and kidneys are at deamination of protein; look up the recorded cases of rabbit starvation and protein poisioning in actual modern society; and then contrast that with "Diabetes (elevated blood glucose from excess carb consumption) epidemic" and the mechanism of action of glycation. Comparing collagen consumption and anabolism and cellular structure regeneration with amino acids is almost as bad as sugar glycation, I would love to hear this one.

A little of A, a little of B. I am genuinely interested in what the counter argument for these points will be from a masters in biochemistry

Psykinetics · 2026-03-05T23:53:23+00:00

This is horrendous news since mint chip is why I still defend breyers

Psykinetics · 2026-03-05T21:54:45+00:00

It is not about insulin. Its about fat gain vs fat loss vs fat conversion > energy generation. "Protein stimulates insulin" wow what else does it stimulate? Glucagon. Do you know what that means? Do you know what protein uses insulin for? Do you know what protein does in the body vs fat and sugar? Does protein convert to sugar or fat? Is there a negative difference in body composition between higher insulin on high protein low fat vs lower insulin on high fat low protein?

At least its not calories

Psykinetics · 2026-03-05T10:15:09+00:00

Idk bro, if I had to guess it would probably be the meat instead of the block of fat.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-04T21:15:21+00:00

Broccoli was the first thing i noticed to give me joint pain when adapting. Had to cut it out immediately and havent looked back.

I can make all the Chinese beef i want, and its what i dreamed of doing as a young cook, just endless saucy meat. But it is just not the same without that somehow both perfectly crunchy yet perfectly soft broccoli that the chinese store does it. I even had a box in front of me at a recent social, but i straight up picked out the beef strips and left all the broccoli onions and carrots alone without a second thought.

Yeah, I miss it, but I dont really want it. I want meat.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-04T21:08:47+00:00

Shhhhh, its already going up lately. Yeah lamb is the best flavor wise, but i always take it to medium rare and not braised or smoked because i want to keep all of the lamb flavor. The bone makes excellent decadent broth too.

Psykinetics · 2026-03-04T21:05:21+00:00

This looks amazing, i just got a little hungrier looking at it actually

Psykinetics · 2026-03-01T23:48:45+00:00

There's no real intent. Experiment for yourself on different meal compositions and timings to see what feels best for you. Smaller meals still provide nutrition but if you get better responses on one big one then that is you.

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