I wouldn’t ask my dr about anything diet related. He’s watched me lose 50-60 lbs over the last couple years and has zero understanding about keto/ low carb.
He wasn’t to happy about me dropping the Lipitor either.
Same with me. After congratulating me on the weight loss, my doc pulled the food pyramid. The food pyramid is wrong. It is carb/grain heavy!
“He wasn’t to happy about me dropping the Lipitor either.”
Please don’t get me started on Statins, but I am started.
Statins have a funny role in medicine. Virtually everyone who takes them says there are side effects, most relatively minor (leg cramps and some memory problems), but also some very serious (including diabetes and cataracts, which they finally admitted to last year). Yet EVERY DOCTOR who pushes them says that VERY FEW people have any side effects.
To put it another way, we’re being played here.
I had a similar experience with my doctor back in 2003. I told him I was considering a low-carb diet and he immediately tried to discourage me, telling me that I just needed to eat less and follow the "heart healthy" food pyramid. At the time, I weighed over 300 pounds (I'm 6'3" but still 300+ pounds is very heavy) and was eating large amounts of carbs. In fact, one of my favorite meals used to be "spaghetti sandwiches" in which I would tuck spaghetti into a slice of Italian bread, fold it over and eat it like pizza.
So I went ahead anyway with my low carb diet and proceeded to lose over 100 pounds, eventually getting down to 197 (within a year). My doctor was not surprised to see that all my blood work improved tremendously, HDL, LDL, Triglycerides, etc.
I say not surprised because he knew all along that low carb would work. However, because the prevailing medical opinion is that high-carb (food pyramid) diet is "heart healthy", he could not prescribe a low carb diet - which would open himself up to a malpractice suit should I have had a heart attack or something during the diet. So I understood that he was protecting himself and his own career. Just like many scientists today are afraid to speak against the global warming lunacy as they know it would damage their careers to do so.
Bottom line, people need to educate themselves and take charge of their own health. Doctors are going to do what is in the best interests of their careers and go with the flow.