Low Carb Down Under: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'", hN commenters repeatedly recommend it as a free, evidence-citing overview of fasting that counters worries about muscle loss and safety.
- 7 HN recommenders 8 months 2017–2022talkHN commenters repeatedly recommend it as a free, evidence-citing overview of fasting that counters worries about muscle loss and safety.
- 3 HN recommenders 6 months 2018–2023talkSeveral HN commenters say it was memorable or life-changing and use it to argue against seed oils.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2017–2023talkHN commenters recommend it as a research-heavy introduction to how food type and hormones affect fat storage.
- 1 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2023lectureHN people recommend it for its interesting, if contested, theory of cancer's root cause, noting the content matters more than the delivery.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2021–2023talkHN commenters point to it in nutrition threads as the strongest case against seed oils, though it is a contested claim.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2023talkHN commenters point to it in threads on fasting, cancer and Alzheimer's as a clinician's overview of metabolic therapy.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2022lectureHN commenters recommend it as a Lustig lecture on sugar and metabolic disease, and as a source for claims about metabolic causes of weight gain.
Questions
Which Low Carb Down Under video does Hacker News recommend most?
Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem': recommended in 8 different months by 7 HN users between 2017 and 2022.
Is this every Low Carb Down Under video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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