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Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

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Re: Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

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Post by dhimes »

tvjunky wrote: post #171
dhimes wrote: post #90

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As an N of one, I present my situation: Since mid-January this year I have been fasting intemittently. I have zero calories before 5PM, and I am usually in bed by 10. I exercise most weeks between 4 and six days, but only two or so are "vigorous" for me. My workouts are mid-day. When I eat, I eat normally for me, which is lower carb and higher protein, but not (knowingly) keto or anything. I have lost about 10 pounds…

Curious about your food choices. I've been experimenting with IF. More specifically I'd call it more like timed eating because the bulk of my fasting hours and during sleep. I'm down 20 lbs with solid numbers. As a side note I have some genetic factors as well and trying to counter those.

A lot of lean protein and vegetables; eggs (3 egg-whites + 1 whole egg is a common combination for me), chicken, fish, broccoli, etc. I wasn't trying for low-carb, but low-carb made it easier to stave off cravings. I was paying attention to calories more than anything else.

I do drink, however, straight liquor. Rarely to excess, but also rarely fewer than 2 drinks (almost always 2-3 drinks an evening).

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Post by dhimes »

ypcx wrote: post #247
dhimes wrote: post #90

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As an N of one, I present my situation: Since mid-January this year I have been fasting intemittently. I have zero calories before 5PM, and I am usually in bed by 10. I exercise most weeks between 4 and six days, but only two or so are "vigorous" for me. My workouts are mid-day. When I eat, I eat normally for me, which is lower carb and higher protein, but not (knowingly) keto or anything. I have lost about 10 pounds…

>Since mid-January this year That's a sample too short, a lot of that can be the momentum carried over from whatever you have been doing previously. You have to understand that as a carb/sugar eater, you may have effectively destroyed your body to the point when it's much harder for it to digest nutrients from food (e.g. fatty liver). And/or you may have a starting diabetes. Before jumping into the meds death spiral,…

Thank you. I'll do it.

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Post by 5cott0 »

rofo1 wrote: post #268
hoka-one-one wrote: post #129

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Many of us suffer from autism or anxiety or some other mental issue and hope to cure it with some strange diet. That's why despite being some of the most intelligent people on the internet people here will latch on to some singular model of human metabolism that's being promoted by the Russians or the Chinese right now (kidding, but only partly) and use it to justify a new "experiment". Imposter syndrome fits in ther…

What the hell did I just read. Intermittent fasting works. Talk to people that can show you results. Enough with the "theory". I've heard many theories from obese people and it's always bullshit. Everyone can find far fetched theories for anything on this planet. That's why results talk. You know how they say "money talks"? Same here: results talk. I, on the other hand, can tell you what works 100%, based on results…

Intermittent Fasting is an eating disorder. Ketosis (unless you are an epileptic) is an eating disorder.

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Post by johnkpaul »

uberduper wrote: post #261
letharion wrote: post #94

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While several people refer to gluconeogenesis, to the best of my knowledge we _can_ make glucose from protein, but rarely do in practice. I have yet to see anyone convincingly show that we do. Also check out diet doctors take on it which refers to actual studies. "Does protein adversely affect blood sugar?" https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/protein

Anyone on a zero/near zero carb diet should be proof enough. We can't survive with _no_ glucose.

This is so so true but so many people don’t believe this is possible. I wish there was a way to formally study this. Once my children are out of the house, I’m going 0 carb. I’m already pretty close to carnivore.

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Post by tokamak-teapot »

florin0x01 wrote: post #262
tokamak-teapot wrote: post #258

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Yep working fine here on ‘full’ keto (not sure what other kind there is) Depends what you want from your weight training. I enjoy it but I’m not trying to get massive gains.

Can you detail on this and what type of training you do? Also what type of gains you experienced? Sure you can do full keto and weight train but I am interested in the gains versus low carb / medium carb diets. As for me, I'm on a low carb diet mostly, although I do enjoy some days of high carb as well.

I’ve recently restarted weight training after a few years off due to injury.

I already do plenty of other exercise (martial arts, swimming, yoga, a decent amount of fast paced walking, circuit training) and I used to weight train so my form’s okay and I haven’t experienced anything unusual in terms of soreness.

I’ve been from light weights (~70% of my previous max) slowly up to my previous max from a few years back and not experienced any problems. I feel like I’m close to the limit on each exercise but I’m already at my previous max weights.

And... since I used to do this, I’ve gone keto. So being on keto doesn’t seem to have any observable negative effect on my weight training.

I can’t say what I’m going to hit because I’m moving slowly and carefully. For some real stats you’ll need to find studies. I could just be lucky.

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Post by agumonkey »

wnmurphy wrote: post #252
PaulHoule wrote: post #41

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People confuse it with ketoacidosis, which is very dangerous. Ketosis is benign.

Had a doctor tell me ketosis was very dangerous (she was confusing it with ketoacidosis). I couldn't help but completely stop listening to her after that.

Did you give her a hint about the mistake ?

if she just slipped it sucks (let's say doctors have a lot to worry so this is not bad)

if she did truly misunderstand, it's tough to tell

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

nickbauman wrote: post #123

A lot of folks here are using the term "intermittent fasting". This is a term that can make people struggling with eating disorders kinda lose their minds. May suggest to replace this term with what's probably a better way of saying it anyway, because it's more accurate to what people are really doing when they say IF: Call it "time-restricted eating" . You're eating the food you eat for a day in a smaller window. No…

A popular split on Intermittent Fasting is alternate day eating.

So on one day you eat nothing, and the other days you eat a normal amount of food. So it is Fasting. Also the 4-3 split is popular.

But I agree with you people who just skip breakfast and have lunch and dinner should probably just call it an "eating window".

A diet that has worked for 50 years is just, stop snacking after dinner and go to bed. But it's much cooler to say "I'm Intermittent Fasting" than "I just don't bring a bag of Oreos to bed anymore".

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Post by tracker1 »

bad_user wrote: post #149
throwaway_tech wrote: post #17

The title is terrible, it should read ketosis/ketones may prevent, reverse age-related effects within the brain. "Low carb" as the title currently reads does not necessarily result in ketosis and your body/brain running on ketones, which appears to be the scope of this study. There is more to dietary ketosis than low carb, just as an example carnivore or paleo diets are low carb, but those will generally not result i…

> If you have never entered ketosis and experienced your brain running on ketones, I would suggest you experiment for yourself. I would say a minimum 2-3 months which should be enough time for your microbiome to change and your body/brain to adapt primarily running on ketones. I've been on Keto for about 8 months (before giving up), measuring my blood ketones and being in deep ketosis between meals (over 2 mmol/L). I…

It's also a large part electrolyte imbalance from some dehydration... drinking more water with salts can help a lot. It isn't magic, but can help with glucose control without medication, or without as much... eating enough protein, which keto people tend to get plenty, also has higher satiety, which can lead to eating less. Going to 1-2 meals a day will have mostly the same effects.

I think keto and carnivore are really better depending on one's specific metabolic and/or autoimmune issues. For most people, eating less processed crap (junk/fast food and trans fats particularly), less modern grains, less seed oils. Instead, having a well balanced diet which imho should include at least eggs, butter and fish is a great starting point.

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