Thoughts? At least the podcast seemed pretty interesting.
PE diet Ted Naiman: thoughts?
Wahinewanders
(Brandy)
#2
Naiman is my primary care physician. I gave the P:E diet the ol’ college try but it just didn’t work for me. In the end, I kept the strength training he recommended and reverted back to a standardized keto with higher fat and lower protein. That is not to say however that it doesn’t work for folks. And by folks, I mean men and women who aren’t aging into a “hormonally challenging” era. Many people thrive running a PE protocol. In fact, I suspect it’s possible that my own negative experience is a minority one.
FrankoBear
#5
Dr Naiman’s protein energy approach has a lot of good aspects. I think it would be a good approach for body composition improvement once people are closer to their goals.
His personal experience is never being over weight but despite being a slim vegetarian, he had minor health issues then improved by eating more animal based whole foods.
Typically, as a doctor who does not have a shared health experience, for example seeking body fat loss after years of obesity, he found the higher fat ketogenic diet illogical. Especially when keto WOE people were drinking their energy source as dietary fat in their drinks, or adding extra fats to meals.
I found that the low carb high fat, high blood ketone approach worked well for me for body fat loss getting me in a zone where physical activity became a joy and a daily need. At the same time the dynamic keto WOE I was following moved toward higher protein and closer to whole foods carnivore. Whole foods carnivore is closer to Naiman’s approach. But my experience is that I enjoy and feel better on the higher ketogenic higher fat WOE, as Naiman approach reduces my standard ketogenic state. I also do not find the higher protein satiating as much as standard keto.
Meerkatsandy
#6
I’m testing out his theory now 
I eat OMAD, so I usually don’t get to 160 g of protein, but I beef, leaner cuts of chicken and pork, only add 15g of butter to my eggs (I eat the whole egg), carbs around 10g total and fat around 80g. So far, I’ve been feeling fine, no heaviness in my belly…
I’ll switch back to keto rations in about a month and see the difference then.
I always thought that fat satied me, but I think protein does its job well here.
atomicspacebunny
(Bunny)
#7
I like Ted for his brilliance and infographics, but he still has the wrong idea about metabolism.
The next evil genius that can make an app with the hardware to go with it that measures the entire individual metabolism will be the next billionaire.
Right now it’s narrowed down to a tech by state and a location to meet.
It would look like this:
If you could get that kind of personal biometric data onto an app and more, you would know exactly what to eat, when to eat it and amount to eat and type of exercise needed and when to exercise…
Hockeylady
(Barbara M)
#8
Good morning, I just found this older post about. The PE diet and wondered if you completed that month and what results you had? Did you post an update on your month? Are you still working on it!? Thanks for any update.