Dear Mark: Gender and Retirement Mortality, Muscle-Sparing Keto, Freezing Keto Recipes, Net Carbs, and Carb Timing
For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’m answering 5 questions from readers. First, are there differential mortality effects of mortality on men and women? What role do social networks play? Second, is ketosis muscle-sparing? Yes, and here’s why. Third, which of the recipes in Keto Reset can be made ahead of time and frozen? We’ve got some busy parents here, after all. For the fourth question, I clarify my stance on net carbs and whether or not to count vegetables. And last, I explain how is is not necessarily ought. Let’s go: Sheila asked: I noticed that the retirement paragraph was about men. I’m betting that women do better in retirement than men. Perhaps because women often have a better social network?? Great question. Turns out that you’re right—women suffer no hits to mortality with early retirement, whereas men do. In one study of blue collar workers, each additional year of early retirement increased the risk of early death by 2.4 points in men. Women were unaffecte