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Originally Posted by Dirk Hofman
All cause mortality increases on a paleo diet versus higher carb diets. The study references several diets that are meant to induce ketosis.
https://www.mdlinx.com/gastroenterology/article/2973
There are several recent similar findings. Yep, people lose weight on them in the short term, and realize the benefits of weight loss, such as initial lowering of many health markers. Over time it’s not the answer.
Not what people want to hear. Not what I want to hear, as I do love meat and seafood. But if you eat this way you significantly increase your chances of dying sooner. People can make whatever choices they want, but the facts are clear. Thinking its a healthy diet is simply incorrect.
More: https://link.medium.com/ptz6IKN7pT
Not really surprising. Eat real food. Mostly plants. Eschew fad diets. Pay attention to results, not theories.
That and your brain runs on carbs. |
I do pay attention to results. You think that my belief of the ketogenic diet is because I’m falling for a fad diet theory? I’ve tried many diets for most of my life, from low fat high vegetables and grains and very restricted meat intake, to low carb and ketogenic diets. All those diets made me lose weight when combined with exercise, but were impossible to keep up. Every single one of them. It wasn’t until mid 2015 or so when I gave the ketogenic diet a shot. By that time I was very fit, training combat sports, and eating a fairly balanced low fat diet. But my weight loss had reached a plateau, and I had a very stubborn pouch of belly fat that would not go down. I also had limited energy and was reliant on pre and post workout supplements to keep up.
So I started the keto diet after my wife bought this dietary supplement kit that was designed to kick-start ketosis, by introducing exogenous ketones to the body. It all sounded like the latest rapid weight loss cleanse fad, but the money was spent and I figured why not. It was almost like a drug. By the third day or so I experienced very high levels of energy, I didn’t need those pre and post workout supplements anymore, and that was from the exogenous ketones. Once my body went into full on ketosis about two weeks later, I was a machine. I started to lift weights at 8am for about an hour, and then hit the mats from 9:30 until noon. I then had to get ready to go to work by 2:30pm. It was not a problem, because I wasn’t only full of energy, my mind was more focused too. Never experienced a crash, I was never starving, and didn’t have any food cravings. Oh yeah and I lost 25 pounds in less than two months (on top of 30 pounds I’ve already lost with previous diets in the course of about a year). I was back to what I used to weight when I was 21 years old, but much healthier and stronger. I then started to introduce carbs to my diet, effectively switching from keto to low carb, and was able to maintain that for about a year and a half.
Like I said earlier, no diet can be kept up for the long run, but of all the diets I’ve tried, it was the keto and low carb diets I not only had the very best results, but I was able to keep them up for much longer.
As for the brain running on carbs, that’s a well debunked myth. When you’re on ketosis, ketones can fuel up to 70% of the brain, the rest is fueled by glucose that’s processed by the liver by converting fatty amino acids. Our ancestors survived with very low carb diets, so our bodies evolved to be fat-processing machines. Grains are a relatively new addition to the human diet.