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Remember, it’s only a coup if it comes from the coup d’état region of France. Otherwise, it’s just...

Remember, it’s only a coup if it comes from the coup d’état region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling domestic terrorism.

rominatrix:Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch filming...

rominatrix:

Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch filming Sherlock’s s3 TSOT

The grooms and their pretty gay friends

Hey hey, my story The Book of Silence just reached 20,000 hits...

Hey hey, my story The Book of Silence just reached 20,000 hits today! So cool! This one was meant to be a “hey, what if it just happened easily for them for once?” kind of story. That said, it’s also my only fic where I wrote John’s POV in first person, which means that it’s jam-packed with his endless internal profanity and horniness, lol. But it’s generally very soft, with some cases, a slowly-unfurling new relationship and a crap ton of domesticity and food and quiet moments between the cases. I loved writing it. :)

It also has an arrangement wherein Rosie’s primary caregivers are Sherlock’s parents (aka, her grandparents by the end of this story), and naturally people always like to challenge it any time a fic writer decides against active parentlock for whatever (IMO, sensible) opinion (lol), so I started speculating more deeply about what her life might look like, growing up with that kind of custody & family arrangement, to the point that I wrote a sequel, Rosa Felicia, about her. At that point, Rose (as she goes by at this point) is 19, in university, and it’s basically a coming-of-age story. It shows a good bit of her relationships with all of the various parental figures in her life - her grandparents, her fathers, her aunts (Harry and her partner) and - naturally - her overbearing Uncle Mycroft. I actually really enjoyed writing that one, too, and while it’s a bit off-piste for me to write a story that’s not more specifically about Sherlock and John, this was a nice revisit of their relationship 18 years down the road, too. :)

Thanks to any and all of you who have read The Book of Silence and for liking it! <333333333333333

ibelieveinfreebatch:consultingdads-deactivated20200:❝Just...

ibelieveinfreebatch:

consultingdads-deactivated20200:

❝Just the two of us against the rest of the world.❞

“t’s always you, John Watson you keep me right”

I love them

hi! this is about the metabolic health post. hacking my metabolism is just what I'm trying to do. I'm a biology student so I have some notions about how the human body works but I would be very interested in learning more about it. are there any authors

Hey! So actually, the doctor whose methodology I follow is a Chinese Canadian, if that works for you! He’s a nephrologist who sort of accidentally became an expert in obesity and type 2 diabetes, since they so often go with kidney disease. His name is Jason Fung and he’s based in Toronto. He has several books now, but the first and best place to start is The Obesity Code. Basically he started by asking a question that the medical community didn’t have an answer for: why anyone would treat type 2 diabetes, wherein the body has become resistant to the effects of insulin, by prescribing more insulin and making the resistance problem progressively worse and worse. Insulin’s job is to take eaten energy (aka food) and convert it into blood glucose. If there’s already too much glucose in the blood cells, or the insulin has lost its effectiveness because there’s already too much of it, it won’t be able to perform the conversion and will be forced to store the food as fat (aka long-term energy storage rather than immediate-use energy) instead. So then type 2 diabetics typically already have a massive insulin resistance problem which has almost always already led to obesity and all of the related health problems/co-morbidities (hypertension, PCOS, heart disease, sleep apnea, asthma, plus all the other things like sore joints and generally lower body function, etc). To “treat” this by giving them MORE insulin and making all of these problems worse, is… not a great solution. Type 2 diabetics get told that their condition is progressive and irreversible. Dr. Fung basically said, “but what if we don’t treat an excess of insulin with more insulin?” and people scoffed at that completely. Metabolic problems aren’t a result of “calorie” imbalance, which is a meaningless way of measuring food and its effects on a body - metabolic problems are the result of hormone imbalance. 

When insulin is too high, it produces more of a hormone called ghrelin, which produces the sensation of hunger. Note that ghrelin can make you feel hungry regardless of how empty or full you are. It’s a signal that says “feed me”, whether or not you need to be fed. It’s that gnawing, irritating sensation of your stomach complaining about how it hasn’t been fed in 12 years, like a petulant cat. High insulin also suppresses a hormone called leptin, which regulates how satisfied or full we feel after eating. So in summation, if your insulin is too high, you’re: 1) not getting the ready energy you need, because your eaten energy is being stored as fat instead of glucose, 2) you’re hungry all the time, and 3) you’re not feeling satisfied when you do eat. It’s a lose-lose situation. A person with insulin resistance has low energy, so doing anything takes a lot more work than it would for another person. It’s easy for another person to say “just go for a walk!” or “I always feel so much more energized when I work out!”, without having any clue that it simply takes a LOT more energy for a person who is insulin resistant to do anything in the first place. Going through life in this condition costs a person more energy, period. AND then you can add the stigma of being overweight, the added cost of buying larger clothes, the fact that refined carbs are cheaper and poorer in nutrition in the first place (there’s a reason why poverty and obesity are STRONGLY linked!), that sugars (which includes anything that metabolizes as a sugar, aka all carbs, refined and unrefined) are an addictive substance (a 2019 study posited that sugar is actually more addictive than cocaine and heroin), etc etc. It’s REALLY hard to get out of the trap. 

But it’s possible, and Dr. Fung’s entire strategy is to control metabolic problems through how you eat, aka by eating fewer foods than produce a high insulin response. It seems almost too simple to work. It was my own GP who put me onto his work, back in late 2017. He said then that five years earlier, the medical community thought that Jason Fung was a nut for thinking you could control diabetes through diet alone (aka food, not “being on a diet”, which I reject wholesale), but five years later, he had all the clinical evidence, having reversed diabetes and obesity and all the assorted, related issues, in thousands of people. My GP had just come back from a conference on obesity and type 2 diabetes where Jason Fung had been the keynote speaker. I’m the sort of person who needs to know why something works, not just that it does, and my doctor knows that, so he suggested I read The Obesity Code and see if it resonated with me, and it did. Dr. Fung is also big into fasting, both intermittent and extended, and talks a lot about that, too. It’s the other, big prong in terms of allowing insulin levels to die down and eventually reprogram the hypothalamus, which is what regulates how much insulin is being produced in the first place, to reset itself. It’s hugely effective. I used to be one of the moderators for Jason’s facebook group and I’ve seen literally thousands of people’s journeys over the past three years now, obviously not from an up-close medical perspective, but yeah - it works. I get a full blood panel done every so often and I can easily say that I’m in better health now that I’ve been in since literal childhood, because I managed to fix my hormone imbalance. Dr. Fung also has heaps of youtube videos and such, which I’m just mentioning for anyone reading this who might not be a biology student and want something shorter/more accessible, but I will say that his writing is very accessible to the general public. You don’t need a medical degree to get what he’s talking about, at all! 

This is super long, but hit me up if you have more questions about any of it! (That goes for anyone reading this!)

So, I had been working on a trauma/bed-sharing story before I interrupted it to write a Christmas...

So, I had been working on a trauma/bed-sharing story before I interrupted it to write a Christmas fic instead, which is something I rarely, but very occasionally do. The danger is always that I’ll lose steam or the thread of where it was going or even just my interest in writing the first story when I do that, but I’m happy to say that I’ve picked that one up again and it’s in progress again! It’s at 17,900 words, so it’s well underway! :)

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the-sunshine-cult:capfalcon:whenever i see “low in calories” im just like??? u mean. low...

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whenever i see “low in calories” im just like??? u mean. low in energy?? low in energy. that is what u r promoting to me??

a calorie is a literal unit of measurement for how much energy something gives u, so when a product is like “low in calories” im like. great. so the exact opposite I’m looking for in food.

I want you to know that this post has genuinely helped me feel better about eating, even if I’m not eating “”healthy”” things. When I start feeling bad, I remember that I’m fueling my body to get through the day and so it’s okay if the food is high in calories!!

Very genuinely, you helped at least one person with an ED feel better about the food they eat.

So, okay: I saw this post earlier and I just wanted to set it aside to come back to, because there is so, SO much misinformation out there about nutrition and food’s effects on our bodies. One of my side-gigs is that I coach people in weight loss, specifically for the sake of improving metabolic health (rather than “correcting” some arbitrary notion of how a person “should” look or something!).

Here’s the thing: what the OP said is exactly right: calories = energy. No one should focus on getting less energy in terms of how they eat. If you’re concerned about weight or health in general, but particularly if you have type 2 diabetes, liver disease, metabolic conditions like PCOS, etc, the thing to look at is not “how much energy does this food contain”, but “what kind of metabolic response is this specific type of food going to produce in my body?” A calorie is essentially a meaningless way to measure food. 100 calories of cake is going to have a very different effect on your body than 100 calories of broccoli - and how an individual body will respond will also vary. It’s intensely unfair, but a heavier person’s body is going to respond worse (in the sense of metabolic health and weight) than a lighter person’s body will. There’s not really any such thing as a universally “healthy” food in the first place; it depends on your own body and what its needs are. 

I don’t talk about this here on tumblr much at all, but I say this as someone who has hacked her own metabolism and reversed a lot of health problems that were becoming rather large, and I did it specifically through how I eat. And I never for a second considered lowering my caloric intake, because calories are energy and everyone needs energy. I just changed what sort of foods I get my energy from to change my body’s metabolic response. 

I’ll shut up now, but given that it’s early January and it’s a time when a lot of people typically want to make changes to their health, hit me up if you have questions. I’m always down to help other people their way when it comes to this stuff. 

Tl;dr: “calories” are a useless way of measuring food. Also: food is good. 

elennemigo:Benedict during the unexpected press tour for The...

elennemigo:

Benedict during the unexpected press tour for The Current War 2019.