My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Not as such, I am just making a point about evolutionary adaptation.

For a large part of human evolutionary history, evolution has essentially been done with us once we have bred and raised the next generation, so the adaptations are mostly to ensure success in reproduction, most modern illnesses become problematic in later life after evolution is essentially done with us.

Now we could argue that factors like success and accumulation of wealth could be getting selected for now as part of human evolution, as could other factors and they could be selecting for longevity if that supports the fecundity of the next generation so it might not be as simple a picture as I paint, but I have a feeling that the main driving factor, historically, of evolution basically excluded most modern gerontic illnesses.

I watched the Dr Chris van Tulleken documentary on iPlayer it was excellent and I felt I could agree with all of his conclusions, I felt a lot more comfortable with that than with the notion that the Palaeolithic diet is in some sense ideal, it may well be ideal to reach reproductive age and to breed and I accept that it works for people with illnesses like diabetes but I am not sure that we can generalise it across the entire world and all age groups at this point in time.

The Hadza and other early humans likely had many hard times regarding food which is probably why our ancestors developed the fat storage mechanisms, indeed I would guess that goes back millions of years, there is also evidence that overall low energy diets extend life, but for early humans and modern hunter gatherers the overall availability of food might play a major role in their longevity.

I got measured the other week at my Echo-Cardiogram appointment as 5' 11" but I was wearing trainers, I reckon I am 5' 10" which means I have slightly shrunk since my early twenties.

I will say again that I have read articles that suggest that plenty of evolution can happen in 10,000 years, I can't find the original one but this first one is interesting in that it points out specific adaptations in the last 10,000 years even though it is talking about future evolution

What Will Humans Look Like 100,000 Years From Now? (forbes.com)

This second article is more interesting as it provide more general information on Hunter Gatherer societies and includes a lot of good observations about diet going back a lot further, worth reading all of it in my view.

The Evolution of Diet - National Geographic

None of this would put me off the course I am on John, I'm only raising these points as I have always thought that diet is not as clear cut as gets made out.

16st 3lbs this morning, that is now lower than I reached in 2005, 16 years ago and I don't think I had been that light since 1995 or 1996, that's 39lbs in 125 days.

If I get under 15 stone that will be my best since early 1993 I remember my weight as I remember myself at the start of various life events like new jobs and I started work with a Glasgow based consultancy in Jan 1993 at about 14st 12lbs.

Prior to that last time I was truly thin was 1990 at about 11st 7lbs when I still had quite a manual job and was fairly active.

It's been a bit slower this last month but I know why, going to try to get back to getting rid of 2lbs a week it's a fraction less than that just now, and we are potentially going back to the office soon which will increase my activity levels.

I haven't been saying otherwise

But I do have a lot of observations and opinions on how and why it works, but right now I don't have time to write it up or get into a discussion about it as work is a nightmare right now.

Blood pressure last month and this month so far, and slightly surprisingly I hit 16st 2lbs this morning, validly not just an out of the ordinary reading.



I had my roundup visit with my cardiologist after the 24 hour ECG monitor and the echocardiogram appointment, net result there's nothing wrong with my heart, valves and chambers look fine as does the blood flow, so the sinus tachycardia episodes remain unexplained although I still suspect they are connected to the rectal fistula and ongoing infections.

I have a follow up appointment coming up with the hospital regards my operation last year although to be honest I don't really want them poking around down there any more, the Seton they installed is a fix although life is less pleasant with the Seton than it was without it as the frequency of infections is greater than before but the overall severity of each infection is less.