Undercooked chicken, if I’m being honest. I ate it with wasabi, so it tasted mostly of that.

It’s also entirely possible that mixing all three results in excess. Our bodies have satiety signals that can be dysregulated.

You are absolutely right, and your grasp of the nuance is well appreciated. Our bodies seem to function best on either, in no particular order

1. carbs and protein
2. fats and protein

Mixing all three seems to cause problems.

Yes, but since Diabetes Type 2 is chronically elevated blood sugar, cutting out carbs does seem highly logical.

I’ve tried it! I’m still here! But I don’t think it is worth it except for the ‘hold on is this raw?’ value.

I will only eat raw fish and eggs in Japan. Nowhere else, I just don’t trust it enough to do so. Never ever eat raw chicken…

Currently on 3.2.2, Pathophysiology. I agree, maybe we could do a post on each section.

I’m working my way through this but it is very dense and slow going.

I am going to start by doing a small writeup of my own experiences in Japanese. This should allow me to elucidate myself better if asked. I hope to one day be as well spoken as Dr Mason or Dr Chaffee, (or even Dr Kay? haha) but this will be a start at least. Plus I could always use the practice!

Yes, this is one of the great things about Japan, although usage of industrially refined oils is on the uptrend, particularly rice bran. Also I’ve noticed more metabolically unhealthy people walking around. I would love to help friends here find out more about metabolic health but don’t know how to start. Most resources only exist in English !

The barefoot shoes definitely helped me figure out the strike. Am also full convert.

Planar Magnetic headphones. Can’t go back.

Not as far as I’m aware.

There is the GFCI in the switch box, but yeah, both gfci+grounded would be preferable.

You’d think so, but the ground will either be at the bottom of the outlet, requiring a separate cable, or Type-B.

Yup. Japan also has grounded outlets, though, although they are comparatively rarer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

Preferences are fair enough! There’s no accounting for taste.

I also think social norms are also important to consider. Pufferfish is a delicacy here, and I won’t turn it down if it’s offered at a social event. It’s just not polite. Likewise, I won’t refuse a cup of alcohol, since here it signals a lack of willingness to be open and friendly. We don’t live in isolation.

Considering that we’ve yet to properly understand most of the processes in our body, I think it’s very hubristic to just think that we’ve “designed crops that don’t kill us.” The operating principle is “as far as we know,” which isn’t much to go by.

What’s worse, the people behind these “designer crops” are purely profit-driven. Their sole motivation is the accumulation of capital above all else. They are only concerned about human health when the effects are too obvious to ignore. This is a failing of modern society, but that’s a whole other discussion.

For an example, does eating modern refined flour kill us? Not immediately… So I think I’ll take 2.5m years over 10,000, just to be on the safe side.