#225 Why Does Cholesterol Rise While Fasting, Sleep Problems on Carnivore, Best Time to Start Eating - Live Q&A

Siim Land (0:01)

All right, is the audio good, can you hear it? Some said it's off, but it looks like it's back. Yeah, been reading your book, interesting stuff. Well, thanks, which one? Which one? It's been quite a few books, like the Metabolic Autophagy book is gonna have like a second year anniversary in February, like the first few weeks of February. And yeah, it's essentially I think still pretty relevant or up to date in terms of the research we currently have about autophagy and dinner fasting. So I haven't changed my mind about it almost at all. Like last year I did do like an update into it where I kinda went through some of the research, but this year I haven't seen like any additional research that would like, you know, change a lot of the claims in that and the recommendations. So it's actually was something that I'm doing still, the kind of the metabolic autophagy kind of routine or the protocol. So the main idea is behind it is to kind of, like on a daily basis and like an annual basis to kind of maximize the benefits of this time received eating as well as also do resistance training and eat a diet that facilitates like muscle growth and strength gains. So you don't want to become like frail and lose your muscle because of doing intermittent fasting, because that's actually a bad thing for longevity and anti-aging, because muscle is very beneficial and useful for aging and also just metabolic health and body composition. So you do need muscle and for muscle, you need to essentially lift heavy weights and eat a higher protein diet. So that's why some research in longevity and lifespan kind of finds that the high protein diets shorten lifespan, but that's why you do it with intermittent fasting and time-precise eating. So you don't want to be spending an entire day in this high protein fed state. And confining your eating window and confining your protein intake in a smaller time frame with either one-meter day or 16 and 8, you can sidestep that and you avoid the consequences of high protein.

Boron and Borax questions, is it good to digest? Well, boron is not an essential nutrient, but it is a nutrient with quite important roles in the body. And it helps with testosterone and also kind of prolongs the half-life of vitamin D. So it is very useful to a certain extent. It's not considered like an essential nutrient, although it might be revised in the future. But you get boron, it's very hard to become boron deficient unless you eat like a very processed food diet. So you get boron from primarily like, you know, plant foods, different kinds of these, you know, fibers and vegetables, legumes, lentils, as well as some like, you know, animal foods, but more often in plant foods. Borax, borax is like a different kind of thing. It's like a detergent used for that. Yeah, you wouldn't want to be taking like chemical borax, but yeah, getting adequate amounts of boron from a diet is a good. We actually have a chapter about boron in the upcoming book that I'm writing with Dr. James, Dr. Antonio, and we do talk about it quite a lot, especially like an entire chapter about it. So yeah, you can look forward for that. It's going to come out maybe like in a few months or something. It's, you know, that's what I've been doing the entire time, this past few months writing the next book, and it's kind of takes a lot of just resources and time for just focusing on that, but it's a really good book. It's a really comprehensive one. It's going to be at least like 600 pages, at least 600, 700 pages, and we're going to cover all the minerals, all the essential minerals, all the trace minerals, and all the like semi-essential minerals that aren't essential, but you do need them. And yeah, the chapter by chapter, all the research, how much you need, what's the role of the mineral, and how does it interact with the other ones, and what are the ratios. So it's a really interesting book and kind of very eye-opening. What are your thoughts on Lion's Mane? I just took some for the first time today. I've heard lots of good stuff.

Well, Lion's Mane is like an adaptogenic mushroom, and I do take it myself as well, Lion's Mane. The reported benefits of it, mostly like the biggest benefit of it has to do with neurogenesis. So it helps with the brain, cognition helps with brain neuroplasticity, and that sort of thing. I would imagine that it also helps with maybe traumas or something. Although I'm not sure, I haven't fully looked into that. But it does help with cognition or brain performance. And what I do is I take it in the morning, not in the morning, but in the afternoon when I drink some coffee. So I just mix it into my coffee and it's a really good thing. All these medicinal mushrooms tend to also have a beneficial effect on lipids. It helps with triglycerides and also helps with stimulating some autophagy. So these different mushrooms, reishi chaga, they tend to have similar benefits on the lipids.