Comments on: The Dean Karnazes diet

By: Fri Feb 19th

Fri Feb 19th — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:51:42 +0000

[...] The Dean Karnazes Diet. [...]

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:41:03 +0000

@chainey 27. August 2008

I’m guessing that a) Dean Karnazes passed you on a trail or b) you are a former patient of doctor Eades, unhappy about something. Either way, you are vindictive and asinine, full of half-assumptions and vitriol.
There are so many ridiculous assumptions in your post that I feel like handing this over to my daughter to refute while I go ponder something worthwhile. But I’m here, so I’ll suffer you for a few minutes.

Dean was married. That’s why a good-looking girl in a bar while he was drunk is a bad idea. If you missed that part, maybe Eades can direct you to an optometrist.

You say Dean’s 50 in 50 was ’superficial’. I mean, come on, Chainey. All you had to do was open another window and look on google and you would have read that Dean was running to raise awareness about obesity. How unbelievably shallow of him.

You also attack doctor Eades, saying that he was trying to come off as ‘hard-bitten’ (what?) and sardonic (huh?). Did we read the same article? Do you have access to a dictionary? Because those terms just don’t apply. Doctor Eades comes across as a humble, curious and passionate doctor with an abiding interest in athletic nutrition. You call him a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe. Really? Do you think he made the wrong career choice and just sits home, lamenting his usefulness and life-saving abilities?

I think I’ll hand this over to my daughter now.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:34:34 +0000

Dr. Eades, is the “slow-carb” eating style the same as “clean eating”?

I haven’t a clue. I’ve never heard the term “clean eating.” Anyone out there know?

By: Shaun Pearson

Shaun Pearson — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:02:41 +0000

Dr. Eades, this is a well written and fascinating article on endurance and low carb diets.

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/2

By: Shaun Pearson

Shaun Pearson — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:04:29 +0000

I’ve recently started on this low-carb lifestyle, thanks to this blog, and so far so good. I’ve lost weight and I feel surprisingly good. Now I want to start running again like I used to do when I was not 40 pounds overweight. I have been, as per your advice, keeping my carb intake for the day to 50 grams and less; however, I found that I cannot run doing this as I have no energy. I’ve tried having almost all of my day’s carbs all at once just before I run and this has helped a bit. So what should I take from this thread? That, as long as I’m running that day I can eat more than 50 grams? I’m glad I found this article because I was doubting this low carb thing, at least for a person who wants to run. It makes sense though, a “caveman” would not have been running a lot. S/he would have done plenty of walking with the occasional short burst of speed.

OOps. This thread is a year old. Well, I typed it so I’ll post it. Thanks for this site Dr. Eades.

By: Andr�

Andr� — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:09:05 +0000

Alcohol makes you dehydrated. Starting to run in a dehydrated state is insane. He made it but you better don’t try. I can’t respect people that do stupid things that I wouldn’t do, just because they do it. Sorry.

By: Joi

Joi — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:52:47 +0000

I can appreciate the grilled salmon – but so much of it? I think I’d grow sick of it pretty fast. I know I couldn’t do without fruit – I eat more berries than any robin I know.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:14:25 +0000

Let’s hope he doesn’t end up like Jim Fixx. Here’s an interesting study on heart disease risk among “master” marathoners:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548311

By: ItsTheWooo

ItsTheWooo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:17:01 +0000

Paul B- yea, when your brain is shooting out stimulatory chemicals it’s hard to sit still, or rest lol. My mood is pretty unstable, I have a few days when I’m very “up” and then a few days when I can be so low I”m comatose. I know on the apex of the up days, it’s very difficult not to run screaming down the street… the energy is overwhelming, and you’ve far less inhibitions, so why not run down the street dancing, right?
IMO the guy is a nutter! This guy is hitting all the marks for mania:

a) getting piss drunk (big sign of mania/hypomania BTW is substance use)
b) forgoing sleeping (people in mania stop sleeping)
c) nudity/inappropriate dress
d) expending tremendous energy in pointless and inappropriate activity (people in mania will pace, race, fiddle their hands, run around, dance, sing… they’re very hyperactive).
e) claiming to have experienced a religious like conversion, to be a superhuman (delusions of grandeur and religious awakenings are big signs of mania).

The only chance this guy has of being sane is if he has greatly embellished or lied about some details (e.g. the extent of his running, his “religious” feelings, his lack of sleep). If this story is true to word, poor guy sounds like he’s gonna crash hard (either that, or he’s a psychotic episode away from the nut house).

By: Bruce Kleisner

Bruce Kleisner — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:33:31 +0000

uoftchem, read Charles’s posts on the Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb discussion board. He is running long distance races (10k, half-marathon, and marathon I think) on a zero-carb diet. The only thing he eats is meat. No eggs. Little or no cheese. Maybe some butter and coconut oil and things like that. But he mainly eats fatty meats apparently.

Zero Carb / Meat and Water
http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/showthread.php?tid=334

Zero-Carb Running Journal
http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/showthread.php?tid=367

Question for Charles….the super meat eating moderator
http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/showthread.php?tid=475