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.... during the Extremely Low Fat experiment, based on current day values for skim milk.
Ever since Haidut mentioned the "Bioenergetic Burger," I've been thinking more about the importance of the Calcium to Phosphorus ratio. I realized that the Ca:P ratio in the WIlliam Brown experiment would be favorable pretty consistently. Peat himself thinks the drop in serum phosphorus was important-
It's almost a bit odd that Peat doesn't cite the Calcium to Phosphate ratio. I think the other factors he mentioned may have indeed contributed (especially the high sucrose intake). The cottage cheese meal might have lowered the ratio a bit, but if the cows weren't fed grains, that might have raised the overall ratio. Regardless, 1.25:1 is still a pretty good estimate, and likely better than most people eat today, and even in Brown's day.
4g of Phosphorus a day is pretty high, but the higher Calcium itself likely did a lot to offset it. Calcium Carbonate has been studied as a "Phosphate Binder," and in this experiment, it was almost as effective as Aluminum Hydroxide-
Some of the improvements noted in William Brown have an overlap with testimonials I was reading about Parathyroid Surgery-
Especially the disappearance of Fatigue, and normalizing of Blood Pressure and Blood Lipids. The Brown diet certainly lowered serum phosphate, and likely Parathyroid Hormone as well.
Maybe you don't have to eliminate every last dietary gram of PUFA to reap a lot of the benefits of the experiment. Maybe just keep sugar high, fat low-ish (maybe higher with CO), PUFA pretty low, and Calcium above Phosphate, and maybe closer to that 5g a day level.
Ever since Haidut mentioned the "Bioenergetic Burger," I've been thinking more about the importance of the Calcium to Phosphorus ratio. I realized that the Ca:P ratio in the WIlliam Brown experiment would be favorable pretty consistently. Peat himself thinks the drop in serum phosphorus was important-
Phosphate, activation, and aging.
Recent publications are showing that excess phosphate can increase inflammation, tissue atrophy, calcification of blood vessels, cancer, dementia, and, in general, the processes of aging. This is especially important, because of the increasing use of phosphates as food additives.
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In a 1938 experiment (Brown, et al.) that intended to show the essentiality of unsaturated fats, a man, William Brown, lived for six months on a 2500 calorie diet consisting of sucrose syrup, a gallon of milk (some of it in the form of cottage cheese), and the juice of half an orange, besides some vitamins and minerals. The experimenters remarked about the surprising disappearance of the normal fatigue after a day's work, as well as the normalization of his high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and the permanent disappearance of his frequent life-long migraine headaches. His respiratory quotient increased (producing more carbon dioxide), as well as his rate of resting metabolism. I think the most interesting part of the experiment was that his blood phosphate decreased. In two measurements during the experimental diet, his fasting plasma inorganic phosphorus was 3.43 and 2.64 mg. per 100 ml. of plasma, and six month after he had returned to a normal diet the number was 4.2 mg/100 ml. Both the deficiency of the "essential" unsaturated fatty acids, and the high sucrose intake probably contributed to lowering the phosphate.
It's almost a bit odd that Peat doesn't cite the Calcium to Phosphate ratio. I think the other factors he mentioned may have indeed contributed (especially the high sucrose intake). The cottage cheese meal might have lowered the ratio a bit, but if the cows weren't fed grains, that might have raised the overall ratio. Regardless, 1.25:1 is still a pretty good estimate, and likely better than most people eat today, and even in Brown's day.
4g of Phosphorus a day is pretty high, but the higher Calcium itself likely did a lot to offset it. Calcium Carbonate has been studied as a "Phosphate Binder," and in this experiment, it was almost as effective as Aluminum Hydroxide-
Some of the improvements noted in William Brown have an overlap with testimonials I was reading about Parathyroid Surgery-
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Especially the disappearance of Fatigue, and normalizing of Blood Pressure and Blood Lipids. The Brown diet certainly lowered serum phosphate, and likely Parathyroid Hormone as well.
Maybe you don't have to eliminate every last dietary gram of PUFA to reap a lot of the benefits of the experiment. Maybe just keep sugar high, fat low-ish (maybe higher with CO), PUFA pretty low, and Calcium above Phosphate, and maybe closer to that 5g a day level.