I know I do a lot more farting and belching when I eat carby foods. Maybe there should be a carbon tax on those.

Indeed!

I’m pretty sure that the animals DO NOT do it. At list grass fed cows don’t. In my teen years, I spend many summers at the farm around cows helping with milking and feeding.
Someone should challenge EPA requesting to prove this “fact”.

About the coconut milk – got to be careful with Thai kitchen to get the actual Thailand product, not the Indonesian, as the Indonesian is loaded with soy lecithin and is grainy and awful. My favorite brand is Natural Value Organic, which has a nice texture without emulsifiers.

Question – I’ve never tried MCT oil – why would one use it instead of coconut oil?

MD says she needs both tenors and altos. Come audition in August.

I don’t know why one would use MCT instead of coconut oil. Maybe the taste.

We get our coconut milk at the grocery store. Most grocery stores have either an Asian food or an ethnic food section. That’s where it usually is. The can we have now is Thai Kitchen Organic Coconut Milk (unsweetened, premium, not light). MD says you want the premium not the light (lite?).

This makes perfect sense. I suspect that IF LC would in some ways be even more beneficial that LC alone. Since switching to low carb eating I take 60 day courses of Milk Thistle at 600 mg of the active ingredient a few times a year. I am just guessing that this will be of benefit because it is next to impossible to find any medical professional in my area who could even begin to see any logic in my being concerned about fatty liver.

On another matter, I want to start buying as many things as I can through your web site. I assume that if go through your Amazon link it will allow me to jump to their Canadian branch where I have an account set up.

Where is the link for the supplements? Maybe I am missing something obvious. But I don’t see it.

Thanks again for all you do.

I don’t know if going through the portal on the blog then to the Canadian site would work or not. Give it a try. Problem is we won’t know unless I know what you purchase and when. If you want to send me the title of a book you purchased and the date, I can look it up on one of the Amazon reports to see.

I’m not sure I know what you mean by the link for supplements. If it is the link to the supplements we have on our website, it’s here.

Some people use a little sugar, but MD uses only Kosher salt.

What are your thoughts on artificial sweeteners on insulin levels? Some think that simply the sweet taste (be it sugar or what-have-you) can stimulate insulin production.

I surmise you do not subscribe to this hypothesis, but I would love any insight from you.

Thanks in advance.

I’m going to paste my response to another commenter a few days ago:

There is some evidence that the taste of sweetness [even from an artificial sweetener] can prompt a little squirt of insulin – the so-called first phase insulin response. As long as the sweet taste is followed by a little carb or protein, it doesn’t much matter because the insulin will have something to act on. If it isn’t followed by carb or protein, then there is some evidence that the little pulse of insulin may drop blood sugar, which sends a hunger signal to the brain. There are studies on both sides of this issue, so it’s either an individual thing or the jury is still out.

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” is good, as is “Reilly, Ace of Spies.” I also recommend “Keen Eddie,” an offbeat, failed comedy/drama set in London.

And if you haven’t seen it, you really should try “Deadwood.” Makes the Sopranos look like Little House on the Prairie. But in a good way.

Thanks for the recommendations. I’ve not seen any of these, including Deadwood and the Sopranos. I know, I know, I’m probably the only person living in America who hasn’t watched the Sopranos, but I haven’t. MD and I aren’t TV watchers. We like to watch DVDs of older shows that we can watch on our own schedule. We don’t keep up with what’s new and hot on TV, so we aren’t even aware of most of these shows until they have run their course. The only show we’ve ever watched near the time of its actual broadcast was The Wire, which we thought excellent. We started getting the DVDs for the first four seasons during the 5th season. We finally watched the 5th season a month or two ago after it finally came out on DVD. Great, great series if you haven’t seen it.

thanks for posting these. I just need to find a wife who will cook like MD.

I originally acquired MD through a rent-with-option-to-purchase program. Perhaps I could sublease her out.

Just for you I added MRM All Natural Whey to our site:
http://www.priceplow.com/general_supplement_display/1527/MRM_All-Natural-Whey

Not too many stores that I work with have it, but maybe you can get a decent deal!

Nice price, too. We pay $23 for ours at the natural food grocer we use.