Hi GorgeousBlonde,
Thanks for the link. My diet is centered around avoiding fast carbs, meaning the ones that cause a rapid rise in blood sugar: sugar, white bread, white rice, white pasta, even potatoes, fructose (most fruit!), and honey. I do eat fresh apples from the microwave with fresh cornus berries, cinnamon, and a little honey. That's because the apple cores contain silicic acid, like horse tail, and almost nothing else does. Silicic acid is necessary for hair growth and for collagen synthesis.
My reason for avoiding those carbs is that high insulin deposits visceral fat. In addition, insulin binds to SHBG, which releases free testosterone to make room for the insulin.
Other than that, I eat a lot of protein from meat, eggs, and cheese, and I get folates from lettuce and my multivitamins. Getting 400 mcg folates a day without supplementing is the hard part. It can be done with frozen spinach.
I eat no other fat than from the meat and the cheese, and some olive oil if the meat is fried. I take the maca in water, the FG in milk or cottage cheese, and the hops in water sweetened with some lemonade syrup. Just enough to make the bitterness of the hops bearable. I hate myself for the sugar and the artificial sweetener, but I can't get the hops down without something sweet. Sometimes I make porridge with honey and cereals.
If I fall off the wagon on carbs, I eat some broken flax seed to increase SHBG. Sometimes I eat oats for libido, but always follow that by flaxseed too, because oats decrease SHBG. SHBG is not a big problem for me, because it increases naturally in older men.
I alternate multi's for > 50 mcg vitamin B12, between 2 and 10 mg vitamin B6, between 12 and 35 mg zinc, and > 400 mcg folates (folic acid, vitamin B9).
I have lost 10 lbs in two months on this, so it's not a lifetime diet. Note that it does not really deviate much from the lists you posted above. I use the cottage cheese to get FG to the liver (yogurt is even better). I haven't eaten asparagus this summer, but I don't think it would do any harm. I have been careful with tomatoes, like only one every two days, but I don't understand why they would be bad for NBE.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the link. My diet is centered around avoiding fast carbs, meaning the ones that cause a rapid rise in blood sugar: sugar, white bread, white rice, white pasta, even potatoes, fructose (most fruit!), and honey. I do eat fresh apples from the microwave with fresh cornus berries, cinnamon, and a little honey. That's because the apple cores contain silicic acid, like horse tail, and almost nothing else does. Silicic acid is necessary for hair growth and for collagen synthesis.
My reason for avoiding those carbs is that high insulin deposits visceral fat. In addition, insulin binds to SHBG, which releases free testosterone to make room for the insulin.
Other than that, I eat a lot of protein from meat, eggs, and cheese, and I get folates from lettuce and my multivitamins. Getting 400 mcg folates a day without supplementing is the hard part. It can be done with frozen spinach.
I eat no other fat than from the meat and the cheese, and some olive oil if the meat is fried. I take the maca in water, the FG in milk or cottage cheese, and the hops in water sweetened with some lemonade syrup. Just enough to make the bitterness of the hops bearable. I hate myself for the sugar and the artificial sweetener, but I can't get the hops down without something sweet. Sometimes I make porridge with honey and cereals.
If I fall off the wagon on carbs, I eat some broken flax seed to increase SHBG. Sometimes I eat oats for libido, but always follow that by flaxseed too, because oats decrease SHBG. SHBG is not a big problem for me, because it increases naturally in older men.
I alternate multi's for > 50 mcg vitamin B12, between 2 and 10 mg vitamin B6, between 12 and 35 mg zinc, and > 400 mcg folates (folic acid, vitamin B9).
I have lost 10 lbs in two months on this, so it's not a lifetime diet. Note that it does not really deviate much from the lists you posted above. I use the cottage cheese to get FG to the liver (yogurt is even better). I haven't eaten asparagus this summer, but I don't think it would do any harm. I have been careful with tomatoes, like only one every two days, but I don't understand why they would be bad for NBE.
Hope this helps.