My cocoa butter wafers arrived Wednesday, and I’m starting my N=1. So far this morning, I’m having 40 grams of cocoa butter in my coffee, which is around 12 or 13 grams of stearic acid (as I understand). I’ll probably aim for 20g of stearic, just because Kristen @kaclp offered some numbers. I get into questions like not just if that’s a good number, but whether it’s better to have 20g once in the morning, or spread throughout the day.
For years, our menu has tended to be more “fowl or fish” than beef. Even now, we’ll have beef two or three days a week and chicken four or five. One thing I’ve noticed in the last six months that seems a little strange is that I’m more likely to get heartburn on chicken than on beef. Keto and fasting got me off the prilosec I was hooked on for 10 years, it would really ironic if the prilosec was really caused by the Heart Association-approved, high PUFA diet.
I find myself having no idea of what to measure to see if it’s having a positive effect, but here we go…