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Matt Stone's ongoing asthma vs night blindness
That man is not well. I made it 30 seconds into his video entitled "What I Eat in a Day Hiking with CFS: Fatigue to Fitness Episode 3" <-- awful title - and I determined that he is a pig. How could a body detox anything when eating so much crap? It can't, so the fat piles on.
To this video, I'm not surprised he cured his night blindness by binging. He forced his body to attempt to store all circuling retinoids, in line with Grant's theory. He believes it is because he was deficient - he said the binge was needed because his "tank was running low". Really, dude?
With ambassadors like this.. .
hmmm... I wonder if there are sulfites or other chemicals in his diet causing his asthma. You at least have to hand it to him, he does him... and I'm at a strange point in my life at which I kind of admire that. I guess I do advertise my bad example here, just as he does on his blog. I'm currently off the daily alcohol drink again. Back on the wagon, for the umpteenth time... it's so hard to change and harder as you get older.
Another thing I think about him, and me, and other people like us, is that we are not perfect--we're damaged by the vitamin A-- (and age too). and even if we were eating perfectly we may be fat or covered with a rash or whatever. Life is short, if he enjoys cereal, the happiness factor will perhaps help.
My grandmother's diet didn't appear to be especially nutritious, and she lived to 99.
Dr. G believes Matt Stone is zinc deficient because he's had a very high sugar diet for yrs. He showed studies to back up his points. We need zinc for retinol binding protein to protect us from vit A.
Something about his writing and videos flips all the trustworthiness alarms. He speaks and writes smoothly and authoritatively - just like the large language models / artificial intelligence systems. These are not intelligent systems. They are mimics of intelligent systems. Feels like Matt is doing the same thing. His opinions sound well thought out and researched. He threads enough of his personal life into his productions that it feels mean to confront him with his faulty logic. Meanwhile I remember seeing a video he made long ago explaining his mea culpa and temporary exit from health coaching and youtube.
If memory serves he came from a wealthy family via his Dad's commercial airline work when airlines were profitable. Sounds like he had an adventurous life and experimented alot and learned alot. As we all do, he failed to grok what he missed. I took issue when I learned that he health coached via youtube for a long time while keeping his own unhealthy image and condition hidden. Regardless of the vice or virtue in that, he clearly felt he was wrong to do that and that guilt only eventually made him stop. While it is commendable that he stopped and admitted it, his trustworthiness none the less is more in question not less.
Case in point.
From all my research and my experience, Calories In Calories Out is a deeply flawed model. Toxins are much more determinant in cases of excess weight and poor health. That said, every overweight case I have seen required liquid calories to gain that much weight let alone keep that weight on. It takes refined foods - dense with calories, hence stripped of nutrients and usually loaded with toxins. Have seen it time and again. When liquid calories are eliminated, everything changes - usually appetite first. Liquid calories are the first step. Junk - completely entertaining- foods are next.
With all that said, stopped clocks are right twice a day. With as many videos as Matt has made, it is impossible to dismiss him out of hand. The man has produced many stopped clocks.
He probably is very zinc depleted. He probably is right that he eats enough beef for a normal healthy person to get enough zinc (and other nutrients he is short on). He apparently under rates how much damage he incurs from years of poison laden nutrient stripped carbohydrate entertainment foods that he feels he "needs." All that excess calories and toxins require crazy high levels of nutrients to process out of the system.
Any one willing to bet whether Matt increases intake of what he thinks are the nutrients depleted or if he will cut down the junk taken in that is depleting the nutrients? To rephrase the question - anyone care to wager if he will take Grant's approach or the megadosing / junk stuffing approach. Can not count how many times I have talked with people new to low vA who wanted to know what were the best supplements to take so they could eat all the vA that they wanted to eat.
I've been noticing lately that I'm actually loosing interest in sugar without trying. How much of sugar urge is actually pre-diabetes (or diabetes?). Or adrenal insufficiency or some such? Does this sugar lack/need result in things like chronic fatigue?
The devil's advocate might ask: are there benefits to listening to your body?
I wonder if I'm becoming more replete with b1. Even alcohol doesn't have the lure it used to. Perhaps this is what sugar urge is about (b1 deficiency?)
I don't know. The body is pretty smart, but then again, maybe a sick body isn't as smart.
One of my loved ones was a real sugar person, and she lived almost to 90. She did end up with dementia, but there were lots of other reasons she could have ended up there, medical interventions etc. She was pretty healthy body-wise.
I don't think sugar kills anyone, we need glucose to run oxidative metabolism. It's when we overstuff ourselves with sugar AND fats like in cookies and donuts and other very high comfort foods that the body then becomes resistant to insulin and all the disease processes start from blood glucose going too high. I think Matt just loves comfort food. My husband was like that and was on his way to heart disease. He could easily eat 3,000 calories like it was nothing.
@janelle525 I think if he was eating mainly glucose from grains, legumes etc.. and some fruit it would be ok, but he is drinking a lot of apple juice, a lot of sugar from sports drinks, candy etc.. That is a lot of fructose and we know fructose is problematic for metabolically unhealthy people..
Butyou are right he eats a lot of fat with that sugar as well.. If he started with Grant prison diet/bodybuilding type of diet basically lean meat and starches as main source of macronutrients he would start burning that body fat fast.. But he keeps eating a lot of sugar and fat. It is the worst combination. I don't understand why he is doing it. He should have this basic knowledge by now.. Maybe simply food addiction to comfort foods like you said..
Basic cake frosting is sugar and butter. "Comfort food" is a carefully vague term for addictive junk that inflicts more harm than good. It is comfortable to stay in bed all day. A few of us know what comes of preserving comfort excessively. Agree that "no pain no gain" is every bit as destructive a term in the opposite direction. Both terms denote excesses that damage us in ambiguous pleasant sounding neurolinguistics.
Eating zone diet - 40/30/30 carbs/ protein / fat at basic quantity of calories for 15 years got me weight and muscle gains that other diets failed. That basic quantity of calories was 1500 to 2500 depending on size and activity level. 14 years of Dave Scott's diet did not do that. Dave Scott converted to Zone after he retired and put up crazy impressive numbers.
Dave Scott's diet was 25k to 30k calories daily while he did a triathalon a day. He contined to train a triathalon a day on zone at 2500 to 3000 calories a day and improved. My experience was similar.
Excess calories are a burden. They become a toxin that requires removal. That is why and how excess sugar depletes B1 and zinc. Sugar is not poison. Excess sugar is. Impossible to not get excess sugar when drinking 1000 calories a day of sugar. At least that is what Matt admits. As a long experienced sugar addict, I feel confident he is getting way more than 1000 calories daily of sugar - expecially HFCS.
Matt's take on all nutrition is similarly suspect.
I still find it interesting that the high vitamin A cheat meals clear him up so fast.
Could pulsing fresh vitamin a be how vitamin A detox problems cleared up "in the wild"?
Sweep everything to the liver now and then?
There are many more Matt Stones in the world (I'm one of them) than Grant Genereuxs or Joe2s.