Twohandsondeck
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My understanding is that flying puts us in an environment that afflicts us with gamma radiation.
Gamma radiation damages tissues directly and immediately causing oxidative damage/free radical release. I assume this falls under the umbrella term, "stress" that is often used on this forum.
Dr. Joseph Mercola recommends fasting before flight as a fasted state gives the body the greatest antioxidant capacity to prevent the aforementioned oxidative damage.
When enacting the dietary version of, "no pain, no gain" as keto and carnivore in the past, I always made a point to fly fasted under this recommendation by Mercola as it seemed to make the most sense. If you've no food to digest, then the body can redirect that energy towards the immunity. Fasting is known to cure every disease except tuberculosis, so continues the rationale of fasting while flying.
As I'm writing this now I'm in midair. My diet averages 200-300g of carbohydrate compared to past flights in which I was dieting on 30g of carbohydrate with the energy being replaced by fat, mostly as meat, nuts, and raw cheese.
Compared to past experiences, this time my extremities aren't cold, my ears didn't pop much on the ascension to altitude, my thoughts can be calmed on my command, and most importantly I can remember to breathe.
Lol, I used to hit black coffee in between connecting flights to get my adrenals to numb the experience and bring back some sense of groundedness... Like an internal novacaine, treating my adrenals like some sort of endogenous drug dealer. Cringe.
Anyways, now I don't have much of a strategy for flying other than eating fruit before and throughout... And basically just maintaining carbohydrates throughout the day as it's tenable. Also for whatever that's worth, Atom Bergstrom says that we should fly in an acidic state.
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+What do you guys do for airline flights? Do you have any rituals, lifestyle or dietary prerequisites, etc?
Gamma radiation damages tissues directly and immediately causing oxidative damage/free radical release. I assume this falls under the umbrella term, "stress" that is often used on this forum.
Dr. Joseph Mercola recommends fasting before flight as a fasted state gives the body the greatest antioxidant capacity to prevent the aforementioned oxidative damage.
When enacting the dietary version of, "no pain, no gain" as keto and carnivore in the past, I always made a point to fly fasted under this recommendation by Mercola as it seemed to make the most sense. If you've no food to digest, then the body can redirect that energy towards the immunity. Fasting is known to cure every disease except tuberculosis, so continues the rationale of fasting while flying.
As I'm writing this now I'm in midair. My diet averages 200-300g of carbohydrate compared to past flights in which I was dieting on 30g of carbohydrate with the energy being replaced by fat, mostly as meat, nuts, and raw cheese.
Compared to past experiences, this time my extremities aren't cold, my ears didn't pop much on the ascension to altitude, my thoughts can be calmed on my command, and most importantly I can remember to breathe.
Lol, I used to hit black coffee in between connecting flights to get my adrenals to numb the experience and bring back some sense of groundedness... Like an internal novacaine, treating my adrenals like some sort of endogenous drug dealer. Cringe.
Anyways, now I don't have much of a strategy for flying other than eating fruit before and throughout... And basically just maintaining carbohydrates throughout the day as it's tenable. Also for whatever that's worth, Atom Bergstrom says that we should fly in an acidic state.
*****
+What do you guys do for airline flights? Do you have any rituals, lifestyle or dietary prerequisites, etc?