14-10-2011, 07:36 PM
Quite a few people ask me about my NBE diet. I only follow the general guidelines of:
low carb (certainly no "fast" ones like sugar, white rice and pasta, white flour products, but I'm also careful with potatoes and even fructose from fruits)
high protein (usually meat and eggs)
lots of dark green leafy vegetables (usually lettuce, spinach, broccoli)
Your diet and multivitamin combined should have
25 mg iron, if you menstruate regularly, and lose iron with the blood
> 50 mcg vitamin B12 (meat, or added to soy milk)
vitamin B6 between 2 and 10 mg a day (added to soy milk too)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=35070&highlight=vitamin+B6#pid35070
400 mcg folic acid (vitamin B9 or B11) or folates (dark green leafy vegetables)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29912#pid29912
between 12 and 35 mg zinc (oysters or other seafood, meat, chicken, dairy, oats. Never skip a day: the body can't store zinc)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29783#pid29783
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29907#pid29907
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29955#pid29955
Use the http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/ to add up vitamins and minerals in your diet.
Waist size increases if your insulin level (from eating carbs) and/or your cortisol level (from stress or long, strenuous exercise) are too high.
I don't supplement MSM, gelatin, or collagen. I trust my body to synthesize collagen from aminoacids and silicic acid. Aminoacids are available from the digestion of proteins. Silicic acid has become rare in a modern western diet. It used to be in millet porridge and in oats, but who eats that nowadays? I eat my apples with the core, because that contains silicic acid. Horse tail (equisetum arvense) too, and that's in my hair skin nails multivitamin.
You need enzymes to make one steroid from another. Enzymes are in fresh vegetables and fruit, especially mango. Forget 90% of the supermarket for enzymes: they are not in processed foods, and certainly not in jars or cardboard boxes. Enzymes decrease from the moment the vegetable or fruit is picked, cut, or uprooted. If it's kept for too long, enzymes will ultimately start eating each other: they are just simple biochemical machines that facilitate one specific chemical reaction each, on whatever raw materials they find. Most diet gurus emphasize the importance of fresh produce nowadays, but I read large parts of the US have to do without. That is why I often give directions for finding herbs and foods in their unprocessed forms, as fresh as possible.
low carb (certainly no "fast" ones like sugar, white rice and pasta, white flour products, but I'm also careful with potatoes and even fructose from fruits)
high protein (usually meat and eggs)
lots of dark green leafy vegetables (usually lettuce, spinach, broccoli)
Your diet and multivitamin combined should have
25 mg iron, if you menstruate regularly, and lose iron with the blood
> 50 mcg vitamin B12 (meat, or added to soy milk)
vitamin B6 between 2 and 10 mg a day (added to soy milk too)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=35070&highlight=vitamin+B6#pid35070
400 mcg folic acid (vitamin B9 or B11) or folates (dark green leafy vegetables)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29912#pid29912
between 12 and 35 mg zinc (oysters or other seafood, meat, chicken, dairy, oats. Never skip a day: the body can't store zinc)
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29783#pid29783
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29907#pid29907
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=29955#pid29955
Use the http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/ to add up vitamins and minerals in your diet.
Waist size increases if your insulin level (from eating carbs) and/or your cortisol level (from stress or long, strenuous exercise) are too high.
I don't supplement MSM, gelatin, or collagen. I trust my body to synthesize collagen from aminoacids and silicic acid. Aminoacids are available from the digestion of proteins. Silicic acid has become rare in a modern western diet. It used to be in millet porridge and in oats, but who eats that nowadays? I eat my apples with the core, because that contains silicic acid. Horse tail (equisetum arvense) too, and that's in my hair skin nails multivitamin.
You need enzymes to make one steroid from another. Enzymes are in fresh vegetables and fruit, especially mango. Forget 90% of the supermarket for enzymes: they are not in processed foods, and certainly not in jars or cardboard boxes. Enzymes decrease from the moment the vegetable or fruit is picked, cut, or uprooted. If it's kept for too long, enzymes will ultimately start eating each other: they are just simple biochemical machines that facilitate one specific chemical reaction each, on whatever raw materials they find. Most diet gurus emphasize the importance of fresh produce nowadays, but I read large parts of the US have to do without. That is why I often give directions for finding herbs and foods in their unprocessed forms, as fresh as possible.