Intuitive nutrition case studies
For what I mean by “intuitive nutrition”, see this fairly introductory post (see also here). On this page, I try to collect case studies of people eating in this way and the ways in which it’s helped (or harmed!) them.
- Elizabeth Van Nostrand’s thread about MealSquares and V8
- Qiaochu Yuan on electrolytes, see here for instance but he’s talked about this in a bunch of places.
- I used to get a lot of cravings for sweets (especially chocolate) in the evenings. At the time, I attributed this to some combination of “lol I guess I am addicted to sugar huh” and “I guess I have low willpower at night or something??”. Then when I started eating 1–2 tbsp butter every day (not specifically to stop the cravings – it was recommended to me because it seemed like I wasn’t getting enough saturated fat), I noticed that the cravings stopped. Now whenever I don’t eat butter for a few days the cravings return (for some reason, the cravings are still specifically for chocolate, not for butter), but otherwise I basically don’t crave sweets anymore (aside from very rare occasions, like once every two months or so, for reasons I haven’t yet figured out). I still keep chocolate on the dresser in my room for whenever I feel like eating it, and it just doesn’t feel like it takes any willpower at all to prevent myself from eating it. I haven’t tested yet whether it’s specifically saturated fat or fat in general that I need (I’d like to try substituting olive oil maybe).
- Mikhaila Peterson on eating liver: https://youtu.be/_H7UsyLAQ3Q?t=716 (need to go back a bit from that timestamp), liver tasting “sweet” when your body needs it.
- Case study of a baby who took cod liver oil until he healed himself of rickets, then stopped taking it.