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Yes you will feel like you have no energy during workouts. The primary fuel for muscles is glycogen. Cells use glucose by default. And fats are 9 cal/g, so they’re so easy to overeat. I don’t understand why limiting carbs makes any sense.
> I don’t understand why limiting carbs makes any sense. Then why go around saying things like: > Yes you will feel like you have no energy during workouts. The primary fuel for muscles is glycogen. Cells use glucose by default. And fats are 9 cal/g, so they’re so easy to overeat.
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
#312I have been on Keto for about 8 months, felt terrible and interrupted the diet, only to later find that a lot of the theory behind it (the CIM model) is complete bullshit. And whenever seeing claims of the effects of low carb or keto diets, most claims are confounded by the diet being hypocaloric, or with a significant variance in protein when compared with control, with its proponents constantly shifting the goal po…
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Yes you will feel like you have no energy during workouts. The primary fuel for muscles is glycogen. Cells use glucose by default. And fats are 9 cal/g, so they’re so easy to overeat. I don’t understand why limiting carbs makes any sense.
Fats are easy to overeat? I can easily eat 4000 kcal in carbs in one sitting, I’d be nauseous reaching the same amount with either proteins or fats or a combination of both. In fact, since going low carb I have a new mental awareness when I’ve eaten enough: I eat until a switch flicks in my head mid chew and says “that is enough”. It’s mental, not that physical feeling of the stomach being full. This is completely ne…
Typical foods you could eat 4000 calories of combine fat and carbs into a delicious combination: french fries, pizza, cookies, milkshakes. I don't look at those foods and think individually carbs or fat is at fault. But on the other hand, carbs are what the body uses for energy, so to avoid them doesn't make sense to me. I'd rather skip out on fat.
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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.
Intermittent fasting is basically skipping breakfast for most people. Wake up late or sleep in a little extra, maybe make some coffee, go to work or school. Something most teenagers and college students do or have been doing for years. My self included as I much prefer extra sleep. I've some how been doing fasting since grade school and didn't even know it was controversial, disordered, or even called fasting until recently. My dad, who has done multiples of marathons and even Iron Man triathlons never ate breakfast and usually not lunch either. He seems fine and no one ever mentioned he had disordered eating.
Eating real food, having a preference towards certain real foods you like (some people just like more meat or eggs instead of fruit or potatoes or rice) and not being overly gluttonous is some how disordered eating. I don't buy that.
Re: Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
#315Results have been very impressive for me.
Not just in weight management, but also for fitness/performance.
Anecdotally, cognitive performance/output feels like I’ve moved the needle in the right direction.
Not sure if related, but multiple tests on telomere measurement(associated with cellular ageing) show “genetic age” well below my chronological age.
Despite all of this, I really don’t know.
The low carb and no sugar diet really seems to work for me.
If I had to guess, I’d say there is no single overwhelming factor to increasing longevity.
I think brain health is a mix of:
Healthy nutrition Hydration Fitness/activity level Sufficient sleep Low stress(but not no stress) Purpose People in your life Traumatic brain injury prevention Life long education Reading as a hobby No smoking
But in terms of mental agility(if not brain aging), I have a feeling that some low level of hunger is a positive indicator of short term mental agility.
I reckon there’s a high performance zone for brain health/performance for both short-term and long-term.
I look forward to more quantifiable research in this space.
Just my amateur 0.02c
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Fats are easy to overeat? I can easily eat 4000 kcal in carbs in one sitting, I’d be nauseous reaching the same amount with either proteins or fats or a combination of both. In fact, since going low carb I have a new mental awareness when I’ve eaten enough: I eat until a switch flicks in my head mid chew and says “that is enough”. It’s mental, not that physical feeling of the stomach being full. This is completely ne…
Anything calorie dense (and therefore hyperpalatable) is easy to over eat. Fat is twice as energy dense as carbs or protein, so it adds a lot of calories. Put a tablespoon of olive oil into the skillet, and you're adding an empty 120 calories. Typical foods you could eat 4000 calories of combine fat and carbs into a delicious combination: french fries, pizza, cookies, milkshakes. I don't look at those foods and think…
The rule of thumb is proteins and fats are essential, carbs are not. How much of each is still up for debate.
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> " Placebo effect caused me to not want a nap in the afternoon? " No, it was probably the adrenaline being pumped due to the caloric deficit — without which you wouldn't have lost weight — or at the very least your diet being eucaloric, because eating too much does make one sleepy ;-) > " Not being hungry until meal time? " This can be attributed to — (1) extra proteins compared with your regular diet and (2) eating…
> eating foods that aren't highly palatable. The keto community has recently learned how to make good meals, it was pretty bad for awhile, but I'd like to note that nearly all Indian curry dishes are keto friendly. And while ymmv, I consider them rather palatable. Lots of Chinese dishes as well, obv. not noodle and rice dishes, but a large swath of Chinese cuisine is perfectly keto friendly. Heck my local ramen shop…
Long term all weight loss diets are equally disappointing, because appetite does come back and compliance becomes an issue. At maintenance we can actually tolerate a lot, esp if we are lightly active, but if you want to lose weight, striving for better tasting food is a poor strategy.
An excelent book on this subject is "The Hungry Brain" by Stephan Guyenet:
https://www.stephanguyenet.com/thehungrybrain/
This guy's blog is awesome too and if you're interested for example into why the "carbohydrate insulin model" is wrong, checkout this list of references produced by him:
https://www.stephanguyenet.com/references-for-my-debate-with...
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We have a brain hard-wired to seek foods high in calories and salt and we also prefer diversity. People on keto when looking at sweets, like brownies, they see the carbs, however the bigger problem is the fat + refined carbs combination. All junk food is a combination of fat + refined carbs, because this is a recipe for making the food hyper-palatable. This goes for French fries too, it's not the actual potato, because potatoes have a lot of water, a lot of volume and if you eat them boiled, few things are as satiating. Combine potatoes with fat by deep frying, then add some salt and both calories and palatability goes through the roof.
How can you make veggies and greens, like spinach or brocoly, tasty? You add some fat. Incidentally this is how you can trick your brain to like greens.
Most people have issues losing weight while eating brownies, not because you can't lose weight when eaten in moderation, but because it's so hard to not binge on brownies, especially if you have emotional issues too (and many overweight people have emotional issues), foods like brownies being perfect as a comfort food. You can binge on fruits, veggies, lean meat or beans of course, but it doesn't have the same impact.
(N.b. I love brownies, brownies are awesome, they just aren't good to have around when losing weight)
People in the keto community talk about carb cravings, however there is such a thing as craving fat or any food high in calories too, because it's not really about any particular macro nutrient. When I was on keto, I used to binge eat plain full fat butter. I also used to eat 1 Kg of grilled pork chops in a single seating and then I was hungry again at the next meal.
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On the whole however, both low carb diets and low fat diets lead to a spontaneous loss in appetite in many people. It's why they work short term.
This doesn't necessarily last for long, because you get used to what you eat and because we tend to diversify our meals in our search for better tasting food. Then the dreaded plateau appears, which can happen pretty fast on keto, esp due to the propaganda that calories don't matter.
Such diets are still better than the SAD, but you'd get a similar bang for the buck in terms of satiety and healthfulness ... if you just stuck with whole foods at least 80% of the time.
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I have always had very normal cholesterol numbers. It gives you a better HDL (good chol) to LDL(bad chol, maybe) ratio and is good for lowering triglycerides (definitely bad chol) which is the worst type of cholesterol. Your information is not true and is a common misconception about the diet.
In my observation there are many contradicting studies about LDL and keto, for example this study's results show significant increase in LDL while on keto: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31067015
this could be pubmed
the more you dig the less certain
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I have always had very normal cholesterol numbers. It gives you a better HDL (good chol) to LDL(bad chol, maybe) ratio and is good for lowering triglycerides (definitely bad chol) which is the worst type of cholesterol. Your information is not true and is a common misconception about the diet.
In my observation there are many contradicting studies about LDL and keto, for example this study's results show significant increase in LDL while on keto: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31067015
n=17, so who knows.
Re: Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
#320The 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…
Afaik there is no top athlete on keto when performing: they are all on high-carb. Keto is the "burn your body fat" mode. Staying in keto by eating high fat low carb is a trick. Humans never had such easy access to fats as today. Before we made settlements we got a large part of our calories from fruits (which contain short carbs), not unlike the other primates.
Athletes in sports favoring fast-twitch muscle presumably wouldn't do keto, but endurance athletes, sure.
The SF Giants' Hunter Pence is a vocal keto practitioner.