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James Horton, PhD.'s avatar

When you traveled, where were you, and what was the altitude difference between there and where you live normally?

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

Normally I live in Cambridge UK, which is roughly at sea level. I've lived there since I was twenty, give or take.

In the red periods on the graph I was visiting my parents in the Pennines where I grew up. I'm told that our house is two hundred meters above sea level.

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UROŠ's avatar

PUFA stays elevated for years from the moment you stop consummation. And since they impact metabolism, mitochondria efficacy, this might be a possible reason.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Came for the swamp, stayed for the Palin.

If anything, I'd expect that mixing (saturated) fat & carbs produces the highest energy vs. just fat or just carbs.

There definitely seems to be some more complexity and weight loss isn't a stable, super linear, predictable affair. I wish I knew why.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

> There definitely seems to be some more complexity and weight loss isn't a stable, super linear, predictable affair. I wish I knew why.

Indeed. If we can't predict, we don't understand.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

> If anything, I'd expect that mixing (saturated) fat & carbs produces the highest energy vs. just fat or just carbs.

I'd expect you'd generate energy just fine from any source. Except that without glycogen stores you'd have trouble getting to full power. But you'd only notice that if you were an athlete.

Unless glycolysis is blocked. In which case pure fat should be fine, mixed should be a bit crap, and pure carbs might produce plenty of energy, but at the cost of having far too much glucose around, causing collateral damage. Uncontrolled glucose is dangerous. If it's flooding down the polyol pathway as an emergency clearance measure because it's in excess it may be bypassing the blockage but it's probably causing chaos as it does.

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