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Low-tech wellness.

Apple Cider Vinegar instead of acid reducers (Tums, Zantac, Prilosec) for heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion.

Water Fasting instead of caloric restriction, weight loss pills, and diet fads for curing metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, mid-section fat buildup, inflammation, diabetes).

Kettlebell, mace, stretching, and sprinting instead of a gym membership with classes and steady state cardio (or a Peloton).

Barefoot foot strength and 0-drop shoes instead of surgery and lift-pads for fasciitis and tendonitis.

A whole food, conservative, omnivorous diet of your ancestors instead of becoming vegan or carnivore.

Journaling (#bujo), practicing meditation, and studying stoicism instead of counseling and medicating.

Reading books and leaving your devices “default off” instead of aimlessly scrolling all day.

Cast iron and glass for cooking/storing instead of Teflon and plastic.

[fyfy18]

> Cast iron and glass for cooking/storing instead of Teflon and plastic.

How do the "mineral stone" [0] pans compare? Is it just a Teflon equivalent with a new name?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FXPXSC6/

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I wouldn’t bother.

If you’re after non-stick, learn how to use a carbon steel. One will last forever, and they’ve been used in France to cook delicate food like eggs and crepe for ages.

[simonebrunozzi]

This list makes me think that I'd love if you could elaborate with a few sentences for each item. I somehow perceive a lot of quality and study behind these things, and it makes me curious to hear more.

e.g. most notable things I am very curious about: 0-drop shoes, apple cider vinegar, glass for cooking

[cm2012]

My wife used to have to throw up every day, sometimes multiple times, for years. It was miserable. Doctors, including a gastroenterologist, prescribed antacids which made it worse. We read an article online that said her acid might be low, and it recommended apple cider vinegar. It literally cured her daily vomiting overnight.

[egypturnash]

first page of duck duck go for "0-drop shoes": https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20824813/whats-the-de...

[jangstrom]

> Water Fasting instead of caloric restriction...

Water fasting, by definition, is a type of caloric restriction.

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I thought that at first too, until I went deep into the literature.

Dieting through caloric restriction is closer to starving than water fasting. When you reduce calories, the body adapts by reducing your metabolism and producing hunger hormone. This explains why we stop losing weight, and then rebound hard with eventual binge eating. Our bodies are aware that food is around because we continue to eat. It signals through cravings and hunger to seek out highly glycemic calories (sugar).

Water fasting is different. After day 2, autophagy is induced through prolonged ketosis. At this point glycogen stores from the liver is depleted, and the body switches to ketone bodies (fat) as fuel instead of glucose (carbs). The metabolism is actually increased, which makes breaking through fat plateaus seem effortless.

This mechanism produces growth hormone which preserves muscle mass and increases the metabolism. The average person tends to consume about one pound of body fat off the body a day.

Water fasting produces stem cells. You can literally give yourself stem cell treatment.

Fat is fuel, and water fasting is not the same starving. I can go on, but instead I suggest consuming the available studies yourself and forming your own opinion.

Source: I’ve gone deep into the fasting rabbit hole and am convinced Americans need to know about it. I’ve fasted many times, including 20 days on water alone (no calories). A few years ago I felt like hell and even looking at a cheeseburger put the pounds on. Now I can eat a whole pizza in one sitting again like when I was a kid. Am ripped.

[sushid]

Semantically yes but the way it affects your biological functions, no.

[neuroticfish]

>A whole food, conservative, omnivorous diet of your ancestors instead of becoming vegan or carnivore.

Not sure how that's low tech or ancestral. Veganism is quite sustainable and many peoples of the past have practiced it.

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It’s true that I find the data to be compelling that our species is, when you consider the entire known history of homo sapiens eating habits, omnivores. That makes sense to me: eating what was generally available is pragmatic, and our bodies have opportunistically evolved to leverage proteins, fats, and amino acids available in animals, as well as nutrients from plants.

And that’s how I live: eat and respect animals that led natural lives, eat whole veg void of pesticides, drink mineral water. Fast by default (never snack) and don’t drink your calories. Think intermittent eating instead of intermittent fasting.

All this being said: I have lots of carnivore and vegan friends. Even if I do find those diets to be dogmatic and unnecessarily politicized, I say ‘you do you’ and embrace them all the same. Variety of viewpoints is what it is to be human.

Our bodies are incredibly adaptive, I’ve seen peeps geek out on veganism successfully and it’s quite impressive. Seen people go years on carnivorism with seemingly no problems.