Came across your blog last week when I did a Yahoo! search for “Leptin & hunger”, which led to your 2006 post on leptin. Which led me to devour your blog. Which led me, at my very next meal, to eat LC. And have been LC for about a week, which has led to a 2-lb. weight loss and a total reduction in carb cravings (said the self-proclaimed Queen of the Carboholics).

Drove straight to Borders and purchased PPLP; have devoured it as well.

Questions, though, about site links:
–Have attempted to view archived posts, but when I click on a random month from the drop-down in archives, it brings me back to the home page.

–Have attempted to view posts through “Site Map”, but when I click past the 1st page, brings me to the post on “2010 Nutritional Guidelines”.

Any chance of getting these fixed, so I can get my fix? Of blog posts, that is?

Thank you for your non-conformist, ever-vigilant questioning of the very medical establishment that you’re a part of. For being a free thinker and not a sheeple (can’t remember who wrote that in their comments, but it was brilliant!). And for your constant attempts at dissecting what is truth from what is hysteria. Your credentials plus your scrutiny puts you worlds above your peers. About time.

First, welcome aboard. I’m glad to have you as a reader.

Third, I checked, and you are right. The blog archives are messed up. I just upgraded to the newer blog software, which is probably the cause of the problem. I’ll get in touch with my web guy and have him get to work on it. Thanks for the heads up.

A quick update on my last post – my doctor did ask me to start taking iron tablets to get my low ferritin up. I’m also hypothyroid and starting taking levothyroxine (T4) to see if I can get my free T4 and free T3 levels up (both are low) and my slightly high TSH of 4.1 down. Both the ferritin and the thyroid issues are likely contributing to my constant tiredness.

Dr Mike, what is it about dairy that halts weight loss for some people?
Like simon fellows, I find that when I’m scrupulous about eliminating dairy, then I lose weight, but the minute I eat cheese, it’s over. I’m talking about a slice that you put over a tuna melt, without the bread! In other words, very little, sometimes less than an ounce. Also, it’s real cheese, not the cheese food you find being used in restaurants nowadays.

I don’t know what it is that halts weight loss for some when they consume dairy products. Most of the medical studies I’ve read seem to show the opposite – people who consume dairy as part of their weight-loss regimen lose more. I suppose some folks could have allergies to one or more of the proteins found in dairy, and that could somehow halt weight loss.

The educated among the Buddhist world have always maintained it as atheistic. It’s the lower classes who never gave up the gods and demons of their local culture and incorporated them into their regional Buddhist traditions.

Michael

PS, perhaps you are familiar with this brilliant dissertation on the space-time continuum by Professors Spike Milligan and Peter Sellars:
http://www.zwartekat.demon.nl/what_time_is_it_eccles.mp3

In your experience is 23 okay or should I consider an iron supplement? I don’t want to quit giving blood because I actually LIKE it, but I’m wondering if a ferritin of 23 would make me tired, or if I should look elsewhere for the cause. My CBC panel is so far okay, which is why it was never picked up before this.

Thanks for any insight you can give me. I’m in need of a lot of basic information about low iron. Your book does a wonderful job of tackling the high iron question.

A ferritin of 23 is pretty low and probably does indicate a low iron level. I don’t think it would hurt in your case to take an iron supplement or eat plenty of red meat, which contains heme iron, the most easily absorbable variety. But, run all this by your doc who knows you a lot better than I do.

Probs is the folks who defiy the Dalia Lamu and others will never take his suggestion as well he should know as that ways he’d be like every other oik sans his robes and such like.

I’ve seen it with Thera monks after disrobing some 20 or more vassas under their belts;ardest thing they’ve ever done is becoming, no buddhist quip intentional there !, a person ordinaire.

Mr Robey should stick to fixing his rolexs and pateks and shooting around birds.
The great irony for me about the perennial wisdom when compared to evol biology par example is that the perennial wisdom doesn’t , by comparison, seem very wise.
And as have lived in Thera, Zen and Benedictine enclaves for 2.5 yrs i have some experience.

Remember these 3 words and these 3 words will imply all else in the universe and after i’d divinated you thus you’ll be, with a LC diet of course..goes without saying, in the ‘pure land’ henceforth..or at least a few seconds.
You ready…

See Buddha and the God Idea

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/God-idea.htm