Lumifer comments on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity - Less Wrong

120 Post author: RomeoStevens 28 February 2014 06:28AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 February 2014 08:57:58PM *  2 points [-]

As far as I know going VLC will (typically) push both your LDL and HDL numbers up and will drastically lower your trigs. CRP is an inflammation measure, not part of the lipid panel.

We see pretty much every hunter gatherer group

You mean "We see pretty much every tropical hunter gatherer group". The Inuit/Eskimos obviously don't.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 01 March 2014 12:54:40AM 0 points [-]

The Inuit are a fairly large outlier in dietary makeup.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 March 2014 10:34:57AM 1 point [-]

Then it is all the more important to see how well or badly they do on their diet.