For Greg Pomerantz everything is a science experiment. He takes citizen science to a personal level by biohacking his blood pressure and detailing his data. He blogged about his self-experiment research on salt clarifying some misnomers he had about salt’s effect on the body. He determined what his salt type is, either one is salt sensitive, or one that isn’t affected much by increases in salt. He discusses how to do that in today’s podcast.
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What We Cover
- 1:15 – Greg, tell us, what did you do?
- 2:40 – How did you set up your experiment to determine how sensitive you were to salt?
- 3:45 – How many grams a day are we talking for salt loading phase of the experiment?
- 4:25 – Inquiring minds want to know! Did the salt loading phase give you the runs?
- 5:05 – What did you learn in your experiment? What were your final results?
- 5:52 – What did you learn in the salt restrictive phase?
- 7:10 – What was your cognitive experience when you were on a low sodium diet? Could you feel a difference in how you thought or how you felt your energy levels?
- 7:32 – It didn’t drop your blood pressure enough for you to have less brain activity?
- 7:50 – Was there a cortisol level change?
- 8:05 – It’s weird too that you took the sodium at night and didn’t have a particular effect from that?
- 8:55 – Timing your Salt intake vs potassium and magnesium
- 11:29 – History and importance of Salt
- 14:02 – What about renin?
- 16:18 – What did you do with respect to Magnesium and Potassium and Calcium?
- 18:17 – Theory about the ratio of sodium to Potassium and Magnesium
- 19:58 – Have you heard of the aquatic ape theory and how it might affect sodium retention?
- 24:50 – Renin and Uric Acid
- 25:50 – Research on renin, the long term effect of salt, and a call to any kidney surgeons listening(27:10)!
- 28:57 – Lab cholesterol tests
- 32:00 – How old are you?
- 34:35 – Greg’s next experiment!
Bonus Client Review with Jonathan Kos
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Jonathan Kos is an IT professional and a recent follower of the Bulletproof Diet. He is a 44 year old IT professional . He is a former college athlete that played football, and competitive ice hockey up until the age of 25. At 6’3” he was an extremely fit 220 lbs and his coaches wanted him to weigh in at 275 to play the defensive line so he was eating literally non stop to put weight on. After college he dropped down to around 200 lbs and eventually settled at a healthy 235. As he got older and more settled in his job, his weight climbed and he couldn’t keep it in check with exercise alone. He started to diet and was up to 300 lbs- he was exercising more than ever but the weight didn’t come off.
After he met his wife, exercise went out the window, a carb heavy diet was in, and his weight ballooned up to 365lbs. He was about to give up until he heard Tait Fletcher on Joe Rogan’s podcast mentioning Bulletproof® Coffee and he gave it a shot.
He lost 45lbs in 45 days, and is here to share his experience with you.
What We Cover
- 1:02 Finding out about the Bulletproof Diet and losing 45lbs in 45 days?
- 2:20 How Jonathan felt the first 3-4 days of the diet?
- 3:30 Jonathan’s hunger cravings disappeared
- 4:15 Tim Ferriss’ “slow carb diet”
- 5:30 Do cheat days work?
- 6:45 Clarity and Stress levels on the Bulletproof Diet
- 7:45 Jonathan and Bulletproof Coffee
- 10:05 Words of Advice for Starting the Bulletproof Diet
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