My personal experience eating paleo and Atkins type diets was one of misery.
For over a year, I restricted severely my non-fruit and non-vegetable carb
intake for a year and suffered easy fatigue, difficulty sleeping and low
body mass.

It's only when I allowed rice and some other carbs back into the diet that I
feel good again.

The NHE made me feel lousy too.  The Warrior Diet worked pretty good, except
I was truly eating one meal instead of Hofmekler's closely timed two or
three.  I felt great but lost a lot of weight on an already lean frame.

My question to the people here is, how much variation can we expect in the
efficiency of biochemical pathways, say gluconeogenesis from amino acids,
between people?  And how much does genetic imprinting based on one's early
diet affect one's metabolism later in life?

Just because some Intuits in time lived off whale meat and caribou alone
doesn't mean everyone else can.

Ming

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