Nice success. I'm jealous that apparently you can just eat "normally" after a bout of ex150ish and still lose weight (at least for a while). Sort of an afterburner effect?
Yes I think it must be the low protein thing. I think I probably get some sort of protein deficit going during ex150ish bouts, and since between bouts I'm eating lots of carbs for calories it maybe takes a while to get back into the sort of protein excess state that starts interfering with PUFA burning. So the PUFA clearance and associated good things carry on for a bit and then peter out.
But obviously I am just totally making this up because it sounds plausible to me.
It could be that the BCAA effect isn't (just?) immediate, as in "how many BCAAs did you eat the last 24h." For example, on the CGM, my blood glucose would slide down over weeks, almost months. So I'd start out averaging high 90s, and then a month later it'd be down low 70s. Eating high protein (during a refeed) for a few days would reset it up to 90s/high 80s, and it'd take weeks again to come down.
But not entirely sure this is related. Could be though, as the mice also experienced dramatic improvement in glucose control, besides weight loss.
That said, the weight loss does seem to set in pretty much immediately for most people, so..
I'm wondering if there's a protein store somewhere, like there is for glucose and fat.
When you're short protein, then you can carry on functioning for a while by using stores, but none is getting used for fuel so it's not interfering with PUFA metabolism.
When you start eating excess protein again, it first goes into the stores, and maybe maintenance backlog, until everything is ok again, and PUFA metabolism continues at full speed, but once there's enough in the stores the spare protein starts getting used for fuel again.
My understanding is that there is no global protein store in the body, like adipose tissue for (lots of) fat and blood stream/liver for (a tiny bit of) glucose. But maybe some of the individual amino acids can stick around longer than it'd take to clear them out of the blood stream? Cause that would be only maybe 12h.
It could also be that protein is very immediate in its blockage/clearance, but it blocking the gears causes a backlog in the more storeable substrates. So when you take the protein stick out of the gears, it will still take quite a while to go back to normal levels of flux.
Nice success. I'm jealous that apparently you can just eat "normally" after a bout of ex150ish and still lose weight (at least for a while). Sort of an afterburner effect?
Yes I think it must be the low protein thing. I think I probably get some sort of protein deficit going during ex150ish bouts, and since between bouts I'm eating lots of carbs for calories it maybe takes a while to get back into the sort of protein excess state that starts interfering with PUFA burning. So the PUFA clearance and associated good things carry on for a bit and then peter out.
But obviously I am just totally making this up because it sounds plausible to me.
It could be that the BCAA effect isn't (just?) immediate, as in "how many BCAAs did you eat the last 24h." For example, on the CGM, my blood glucose would slide down over weeks, almost months. So I'd start out averaging high 90s, and then a month later it'd be down low 70s. Eating high protein (during a refeed) for a few days would reset it up to 90s/high 80s, and it'd take weeks again to come down.
But not entirely sure this is related. Could be though, as the mice also experienced dramatic improvement in glucose control, besides weight loss.
That said, the weight loss does seem to set in pretty much immediately for most people, so..
I'm wondering if there's a protein store somewhere, like there is for glucose and fat.
When you're short protein, then you can carry on functioning for a while by using stores, but none is getting used for fuel so it's not interfering with PUFA metabolism.
When you start eating excess protein again, it first goes into the stores, and maybe maintenance backlog, until everything is ok again, and PUFA metabolism continues at full speed, but once there's enough in the stores the spare protein starts getting used for fuel again.
Of course that store may just be your muscles.
My understanding is that there is no global protein store in the body, like adipose tissue for (lots of) fat and blood stream/liver for (a tiny bit of) glucose. But maybe some of the individual amino acids can stick around longer than it'd take to clear them out of the blood stream? Cause that would be only maybe 12h.
It could also be that protein is very immediate in its blockage/clearance, but it blocking the gears causes a backlog in the more storeable substrates. So when you take the protein stick out of the gears, it will still take quite a while to go back to normal levels of flux.