Recommended reading for anyone on or considering the Keto diet. Also recommended reading for anyone with elevated A1c.
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Lost 25# in first 2 months, then plateaued
Waiting for repeat Hgb A1C studies
I could have sworn there was an article here in the past few days that talked about how bad the Keto plan was for one’s health. I guess it all depends on who is paying the researchers and scientists, huh...
I’ve read, you could actually reverse type 2 diabetes with keto diet. Keto diet is actually the proper human diet. Sugar is slow poison
Best to eat animals whole. Just hold them up by the tail.
Recent research suggests that high fat, very-low carb diets have another benefit: They may help control glucose, triglycerides, insulin, and body weight in people with diabetes.
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Uhm, yeah! Hello, McFly!
Insulin has one primary function with two purposes; Converting excess blood glucose into fat helps lower the toxicity of the glucose as well as creates an energy store in body fat for any future lack of food.
The former purpose (lowering blood glucose toxicity) is not naturally a common problem for humans in their traditional pre-agrarian diet. The exception primarily being when high sugar fruit plants were available and when ripe. The latter (fat stores) is a condition that used to be highly beneficial to survival. Not it is on the whole a health liability.
People were not meant to pound carbs daily.
May very well be a good thing for people. But here in Southern California, it comes off as just another first-world, indulgent, irritating hipster trend. Like another iPhone app. Oh America: where masculinity, literacy, morals, and genuine occupations of the soul are in short supply... but we are so spoiled we can pick our diets, pick our genders...
Instead of building cathedrals and planning walks to the moon.
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My husband started low carb in March. He is not following strict Keto, but his A1C has decreased from 13 to 8, much to the delight of his endocrinologist.
I concluded this while in line at a Blaze Pizza which offers a Keto crust...and...i dunno all these perfectly healthy young people requesting it like it were some new flashy item at a store...and one just wonders what it was like in the simple days of fresh baked bread at home in the village and milk straight from the cow, etc...
I only eat 1x daily, and not a yuge meal.
No booze, no soda, no grains knowingly, no breads.
Doing great, so far.
I don’t have to wake up to pee, not even one time —ever.
Lots of other benefits. I went through Keto Flu and my lifts went down for a time but now they’re back to normal.
I went on Atkins in the late 80s, lost 62 pounds and easily maintain 50 of them. Prime rib and a Caesar salad (without croutons) is my personal favorite dinner. Ribs and coleslaw (Splenda instead of sugar) ain’t half bad either.
I eat all the candy I want on Hallowoeen and as much carbs as I want on Thanksgiving, Christmas and my birthday. Oh yeah... Frito’s Scoops with onion dip on New Year’s Eve.
I know a woman who went on a strange diet, for Lent if I recall. Ate just chicken, eggs, spinach, water. Started feeling good, kept it up, lost weight fast. Given such results she decided to stay as close to that regimen as possible. Worked for her. I’ve seen her eat pizza so she’s not a fanatic about it.
Moderation seems to be a big hurdle for most people.
It’s a balanced way of eating. But it’s not for everyone. I have Gastropresis ‘Slow Digestion or Motility’ which can only be diet controlled, by eliminating as much fiber as you can from your diet. You don’t digest it at all. It is painful, bringing puking, diarrhea and a hernia. You can get dehydrated easy, end up in the ER more than you’d like to do.
The worse part is it pushes you toward Type 2 Diabetes.
A diabetic diet is high in fiber and doesn’t go well with a GP diet. 5-6 small meals a day. It takes me 4 hrs+ to digest 2 slices of toast and 2 eggs and it’s painful. No way you can handle the multiple small meal plan. In fact most dieticians don’t understand what GP is.
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Keto may produce quick results by it’s not a healthy diet for the long term.. unless you want to lose your kidneys.
Lost? Watch this video for some Keto background. https://youtu.be/Zk9N7ERNtmg
Best book i’ve ever read about this subject is the age defying diet by Dr atkins. He discusses in depth ketogenesis and its benefits. Also talks about some very useful supplements necessary for burning fat as your bodies main fuel. He was light years ahead of the rest of the dietary world. Most people think the atkins diet is no carbs but that is not true. It is no carbs for two weeks then slowly increasing carbs until you find the number of carbs you can eat without losing or gaining weight. Then if you want to lose eat less. If you want to maintain eat that number.
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It should be noted that some in the medical community also call Alzheimer’s “Type 3 diabetes”, given its apparent close relationship to diabetes.