Perfect Health Diet
by Paul Jaminet, Shou-Ching Jaminet, Mark Sisson · first published 2010
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Evidence-based nutrition guide surveying the research on fats, supplements and micronutrients. It serves as a well-sourced starting point for understanding diet science.
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Explains simply and clearly how to optimize your diet for a lifetime of great health.
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You may enjoy reading Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet's book _The Perfect Health Diet_. It includes an approachable survey of results for many supplements, as well as a considered take on why multivitamins seem less crucial than advertised. One reason: metabolic interactions mean that…
on “Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data” ↗…Weights, especially compound moves like squats, will build test levels. And helps with sleep. Check out stronglifts.com if you want a good starting point. Second I fixed my diet. Check out the book The Perfect Health Diet. I learned I was not eating enough good fat. I started using more olive oil, coconut, ghee (butter), and quality rumen meat. It made a huge difference. Finally I cut out the stress. The startup ended…
on “Testosterone is the drug of the future” ↗…diet would argue in favor of calories from the coconut oil over sugar any day. Another great nutrition book for the analytically-minded among us (not actually a prescriptive "diet" despite the title): Perfect Health Diet http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/
on “The Hacker's Diet (2005)” ↗…the foods our ancestors have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years. One great example is wild seafood, especially salmon. For those wanting an introduction to the literature on this stuff, "Perfect Health Diet" is a great read. http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2010/09/saturated-fat-reduces-r...
on “Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor” ↗Check out the book Perfect Health Diet, a nutrition book written by an ex-Astrophysicist (Harvard, MIT, ... ) . Plural of anecdote etc., but I am a very satisfied customer.
on “The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic” ↗…monounsaturated fat and that there isn't much worse for you than "vegetable" (industrial seed) oils because of their high (especially omega-6) polyunsaturated fat content. Two books I would really recommend are "Perfect Health Diet" by the Jaminets and "The Paleo Manifesto" by John Durant. "The Paleo Manifesto" is a 30,000ft view of health from an ancestral perspective. The "Perfect Health Diet" delves into the chemistry of metabolism…
on “Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?” ↗You might look at a book called "The Perfect Health Diet" which advocates, through nutrition science, for a diet much like this.
on “Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood” ↗Perfect Health Diet is the best I've read, but the authors seem to be overemphasizing a bit the effect of their diet plans. Diet alone won't cure all your illnesses completely. The sentiment reflected in the book is the…
on “Ask HN: Which is the best book on nutrition?” ↗…to refute it. I haven't looked up the references, but this is covered in several nutrition books I have read, including: The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, and The Perfect Health Diet by Paul Jaminet. The observation is always the same: Cancer is one of the "western diseases" that starts appearing in native populations when they are exposed to colonists. And it's not just because…
on “Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?” ↗Now, I can't conclusively assert that it has changed my life, but I've been roughly following the guidelines given in "Perfect Health Diet" and I've experienced some general improvements in physical and mental health (although I wouldn't say they are groundbreaking, there could be lots of confounding variables). But lots and lots of people…
on “Ask HN: What is the one habit that you adopted and it changed your life?” ↗…persistence and changes in iron metabolism that have arisen in the last 10,000 years. Succesful inclusion of dietary grains however, requires fundamental changes in our digestive tract. From Paul Jaminet's "The Perfect Health Diet" pg 196: "Grasses evolved in concert with grazing mammals: both originated at the same and they became common together. [...] To reproduce successfully despite being regularly eaten, grasses evolved…
on “It’s a part of my paleo fantasy, it’s a part of my paleo dream” ↗A diet described in a book titled "Perfect Health Diet" has been reported to help with allergies.
on “Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]” ↗…weary of mega dosing vitamin D to 8000 IU as recommended in the article. I am currently taking a bit less than 3000 IU a day and don't plan to increase it unless more research is made. From the book 'The Perfect Health Diet' : > 25OHD levels after abundant summer sun exposure, as in lifeguards, peak between 45 and 80 nanograms per milliliter. Outdoor workers in the tropics typically have 25OHD levels between 48 and 80 nanograms…
on “Necessary Vitamin D intake is 10x higher than currently recommended by the NIH” ↗