Recovering quite nicely from a cold. Yesterday afternoon some fatigue was evident as a made my way across the park. Lying down in the not quite dry grass atop a small hill, I tried to read (Prager Tagblatt) but my eyes were sore and the effort seemed not to be worth it. I recall having slept a little while under the low cloud covered sky. I came back around three to a darkening house. Tried to read again (Austen's Emma) without much success or feeling any strong desire to go on reading. I had a small supper and went to bed early. Slightly feverish.

Feeling fatigue while consuming a high carbohydrate diet, with the carb portion consisting of mostly non starchy dried or fresh fruit, is an indication not such much of insulin resistance, as dietary intake of fat is way down and I have little body fat, but rather of glycolysis. Being sick might account for the fatigue but the recent diminution in palmitate among other things (lack of light, etc) might inhibit oxidation of glucose, the preferred kind of energy production. So a bit more coconut oil would seem indicated. However, prior to being sick I had good energy level on this diet. Protein migh be somewhat low as I only eat some duck's eggs and my regular farm cheese of which I eat only a little at a time owing to its high fat content(32%) Coffee intake is on the rise, a fact which might lower iron, a good thing to be sure.

My calorie intake is still within upper CR limits for my height and weight, roughly 1900-2000. As I said before this is by force of habit. I am attempting to increase calorie intake in the form of carbs in the hopes of capitalizing on four years of efforts to lower disruptive dietary substances (iron, dietary lactate but especially PUFA despite a short period of fish oil) and by promoting fuel production in the form of glucose oxidation. Since phospholipids must after 4 years be tending to greater saturation the chances of free radical injury must be lower.