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Even though I look Caucasian I have several Inuit genes from the Sami people, passed down from my mothers side. Will check later if I have these polymorphisms b
by FollowingTheDao 5y ago
Even though I look Caucasian I have several Inuit genes from the Sami people, passed down from my mothers side. Will check later if I have these polymorphisms but I already carry the CPT1A gene changes linking me to the Inuit.
Finding this in my genome changed my diet and changed my life.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoFinding this in my genome changed my diet and changed my life. I would be interested in hearing more on that if you are willing to share. (You can email me if you don't want to say it here.)
- wilkommen 5y agoI would also be interested to know more about that.
- tuomasj 5y agoYes, as a Sámi, I'd be interested to know more, desperately ;-)
- darebak 5y agoProbably some kind of keto/carnivore diet if I had to guess.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoYes, but mostly all seafood and I eat berries as well. So it is not really either. I do not aim for ketosis of anything like that, mostly becasue my genetics protects me from it.
- golemiprague 5y ago
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoHello!!! :) Are you full Sami or part? I am 1/4 Italian and 1/4 Hungarian as well. But it seems these dietary genes come from the maternal side.
- tuomasj 5y agoHi! Yes, I am. All my grandparents were Sámi, herding reindeer in northern Finland and Norway.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoI eat all fish and shellfish (oysters, mussles), no other fats, but for some lean meats, game meats like venison and bison. And only olive oil if any oil. Very low carbohydrates but a lot of berries, and a lot of seaweed and mushrooms (I am a FUT2 non-secretor and these are high in Fucose). Basically I eat like the Sami. Before this, at around 45 years old I was a vegan (a good vegan) and my cholesterol was VERY high and HDL too low, hypertensive, IBS-D, and mood instability and they did a brain scan at one point because it looked like I was getting MS. Note I have a family history of hyperlipidemia. My cholesterol totally corrected and reversed, IBS is gone, BP is much better, still some mood issues but no need for meds anymore. Basically the gene polymorphisms I saw that were relevant to my diet were FADS1, FADS2, FUT2 (non-secretor) CPT1A, BTD, PNP, and GCH1 among some others. But yes, the CPT1A polymorphisms protects me from ketosis.
- depressedpanda 5y agoWhat do you mean when you say you are protected from ketosis? Ketosis is a metabolic state that provides the brain with an extra energy source -- ketones -- when glucose is levels are low. As such being unable to go into ketosis seems like a bad thing.
- astrange 5y agoHe might be thinking of ketoacidosis, but that doesn't sound right either.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoPolymoprphisms in the CPT1A gene control the amount of fatty acids that enter the cell to be broken down into ketones. Since the Inuit eat so much fat, after generations this gene has selected to be slower so they are not in a constant state of ketosis and therefore save glucose. The Inuit have a very low glucose diet so this makes sense that they need to try to hoard glucose. You will notice in kids with full CPT1A deficiency that they have an almost total inability to make ketones and suffer hypoglycemia when fasting. The problem is that you are thinking like a Caucasian when it comes to ketosis and you all think ketosis is always good. It is not always good, it should be balanced. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32088118/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32088118/ The role that Omega 3 plays in all of this, for people like me who need it, is so underestimated it is depressing. I had to lower my Omega 6 fats so drastically before I saw any change sin my lipids. It was amazing honestly. You see, only the Inuit and people with these genetics should be eating a very low carbohydrate diet. All you "Farmers", stick to your oily grains, nuts and seeds.
- qiskit 5y agoAre there any Sami still left? The genocide of the sami and their culture is truly tragic and sadly ignored.
- BurningFrog 5y agoThere are plenty. Börje Salming is in the NHL Hall Of Fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming
- samatman 5y agoWikipedia suggests around 100,000. Which doesn't sound like a lot, and maybe it isn't, but two useful comparisons are the 300,000 Icelanders and the 50,000 Faroese. If they're dying out that isn't clear from the numbers.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoThe Sami are assimilating rapidly though. They have been intermarrying for generations (previously often by force, these days quite voluntarily), and unlike Icelandic and Faroese, the Sami languages are dying fast since they've been replaced by Norwegian, Swedish etc.
- samatman 5y agoSure, whatever. I don't care about this conversation anymore because I was downvoted by the latest and greatest Europeans with sticks up their asses. Why? We'll never know. Participating in this site is not worth it sometimes.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoI didn't downvote you, but comparing the Sami, thinly stretched across remote regions in four countries, to the independent island nation of Iceland is, uhh, naive.
- FollowingTheDao 5y ago
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoSami and Inuit are two entirely disjoint population groups. Different language groups, different genetics.
- astrange 5y agoI believe the people in the Arctic before the Inuit also had a completely different genetic adaptation to the area.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoYes, I was being simplistic so people could make the genetic connection. They share genetic similarities because of diet and environment. Both are arctic indigenous peoples.