Bull.
Every OTHER study has shown that a keto diet reduces inflammation and electrical instability in the nervous system (which would be a cause of afib)
Can cutting carbs help with ones diabetes?
Carbs (starches/sugars) are the triggers for inflammation and putting stress on your arteries. your body has to go into overdrive to deal with the massive amount of sugars being dumped into your blood so fast otherwise it could kill you, thats why your body dumps out a bunch of insulin to turn the sugar into fats quickly because your muscles get saturated with glucose but they can hardly take it all in in the necessary timeframe to keep you alive. so it stores it in fat to deal with at a later date.
there has to be more to it than this because sugars/starxhes are inflammatory and artery damaging.
I just was hearing this from a friend who said her Vet said same thing for dogs on dog food with low/no carbs. They switch their dog to different food (grain based) and it’ doing better.
I know someone who had this happen - has been dealing with a-fib for many years now. He was doing extreme low carb diet when the a-fib started, and his doctor told him they were likely related.
Everything in moderation......we are all different and you have to do what works for you.
It causes diarrhea and constipation too.
This is such crap. More and more people are adopting the Keto way of eating and it’s probaby already cutting into the bottom line for the food industry and the medical establishment. This is a sick joke
Interesting. Weak conclusion. Confusing. Low carbs means high electrolytes and health. Afib is genetic and easily managed by kepo diet.
We already know that yo-yo dieting puts a strain on the heart so this is plausible, but the focus is on the weight loss not the cutting out carbs.
More junk science.
I Cor. 15:32: If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
BS study! AFib is a result of too little magnesium, L-taurine and L-arginine over a long period of time. As long as you are eating quality proteins and ample amounts of a variety of vegetables, you will be hard pressed to a deficiency, providing you do not have a gut issue. Grains, sugars and various other starches are full of calories and void of nutrients.
If you have something that affects the veins then that can spread to the heart. This was explained to me on Friday in detail by an expert doctor with detailed pictures who was recommended to me by an expert doctor who was recommended to me by a doctor.
Then the expert doctor, who I was told is the best in Berlin, prescribed for me to wear a compression bandage on my right leg because of a collapse of a main vein that is sending my blood in the wrong direction.
So I kind of cut him short because really, I don’t like listening and looking at this kind of medical details and asked if we could skip the compression bandage (for 8 weeks to see how that helps) and go straight to surgery to remove the bad vein.
Then he went into detail with more pictures of the risks with the surgery. So to cut him off again I agreed to the compression bandage.
The next day, yesterday, I was riding my bicycle and chashing a ball with my daughter and her toy poodle in the park. I told my wife look at me active in the park when I am supposed to be getting a bandage for my leg.
The expert doctor even told me, before I cut him off, the compression bandage is to be worn during activity. It’s like I am too stupid to live or something. I’ll get it this week.
I've been a runner for more than 50 years, which also puts me at higher risk for A-Fib.
A 16%-18% increased risk because of low carbs really does not sound that important.
If 10% of people have A-Fib, an 18% increase is just 1.8 persons per hundred.
On the flip side, high carb intake had a definite impact on the severity of my A-Fib.
In hot weather, I used to drink as much as one gallon of orange juice per day (I love grove fresh OJ!).
Five years ago, my A-Fib suddenly became much worse. I completely cut OJ out of my diet and replaced it with water.
My A-Fib dramatically improved. I now go as long as a month with no symptoms at all.
I could spend a lot of time debunking this crap, but why bother? I’ll just point out a few things:
1) “...said the study’s lead author Xiaodong Zhuang, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at the hospital affiliated with Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China” [speaks for itself]
2) Who paid for the study? Not stated, but usually it’s Big Carb. The stakes are absolutely HUGE here. If low carb catches on, millions of jobs get displaced, and Soy Boys become REAL MEN. Lots of reasons to try to nip this ‘fad’ in the bud.
3) If you do read into it, the controls on the ‘test subjects’ are probably the worst of just about any study. They looked at what they said they ate, over many years, and turned that into average daily carb counts. Sorry, but that’s simply a BS way to do it.
I’ll leave it at that and let Dr. Berry take it from there on YouTube.
Was this study sponsored by the Bread Industry?!
900+ calories a day from carbs (45%) is NOT low carb. Bogus study. Low carb is no more than 2.5% of your calories coming from carbs.
I ate low carb for years. I also lifted weights and jogged for most of my life. On 12/26/18 I had a massive heart attack. EMTs did 6 minutes of CPR and shocked me twice. I am only here because 3 things went exactly right. What got me? Genetics. My father died of a heart attack one year younger than I am now. Low carb may work for you, maybe it won’t. All the studies in the world can’t say what will work for YOU. I believe you will lose weight eating low carb, but I don’t have a clue as to how it will affect your long term health, and no one else does either.
The study analyzed the health records and dietary intake of nearly 14,000 people from 1985 to 2016. At the beginning of the study, none of the participants had AFib. Nearly 1,900 were diagnosed with the condition over the course of 22 years.
Nothing was stated as to how the population and the sample was taken. Was it taken from purely athletes or a combination of athletes and non-athletes. Nor were ages specified. The older one gets, the less athletic they are thus the higher chance to go into afib. Also what about hereditary factors. Heart disease-prone individuals are more likely to show heart disease in the family. This study is incomplete until more factors are taken into consideration and is repeatable. As low carb diets have, through more than one study, to be more beneficial due to the diet intake. Athletes who want to lose weight and go on a low carb diet may possibly not getting enough carbs to fuel their activities. Depending on the level of activity determines how much carbs one should take in. Bicyclists are said to need to replace certain things in their bodies, carbs being one if their activity is high and goes on longer than the amount of energy stored in their body. (trying to keep this simple.) This research is in serious doubt as it is another attack on low-carb/high protein diets. What is the alternative? McDonald’s? The food pyramid? The food pyramid is what makes people fat just by looking at it. What about diabetics? They need a low-carb high protein diet to maintain their glucose levels. Are some of these people not athletes as well? Carbs (mostly starches) are processed into glucose in the body. Ever see the results of a diabetic eat egg pasta or a baked potato? Their levels spike! Again this research is highly questionable.
Some carbs are necessary. My carbs come mostly from short grain brown rice, and some whole grain breads. Most calories are from protein and fats. My total cholesterol is under 140, blood sugar is controlled at about 125, liver numbers are great, and kidney numbers are decent. All this with having metastatic prostate cancer, which affects all those numbers because of the androgens deprivation drugs I take to keep it under control.