Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
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Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
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Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#2It's been used to treat diabetes and seizure victims for a while so, yes. Personally I lost over 70 pounds (from 295 to 225 -- I'm 6'5") at one point using keto. My main concern is whether one who is on the diet for weight loss will become overly sensitive to carbs if/when they start eating them again causing the body to immediately store them away as far instead of burning them (and if so, how long would it take to "return to status quo ante" with regard to carbohydrate metabolism).
Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#3It's been used to treat diabetes and seizure victims for a while so, yes. Personally I lost over 70 pounds (from 295 to 225 -- I'm 6'5") at one point using keto. My main concern is whether one who is on the diet for weight loss will become overly sensitive to carbs if/when they start eating them again causing the body to immediately store them away as far instead of burning them (and if so, how long would it take to…
Yes, in my personal experience. However, I suspect my body is just desperate to hold on to carbs and pack those bastards around my liver anyway, regardless of previous Keto periods or not. When I stick to Keto, I feel better, think better, poop better, I don't get headaches and I don't have acne. Is it magic? I dunno. The chemistry seems to support it.
Years ago we called it Atkins (yes, I am older) and it worked great for me, but chips and salsa are my kryptonite. Unfortunately, as I age, I must rely more and more on my diet for control I am not but a humble nerd who now sits behind a glowing screen toiling away as a PHB, but I can offer this: Keto works for me and I would recommend it to anyone.
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#4My dog Toby was recently diagnosed with stage 2 splenic hemangiosarcoma and given 30-60 days. Opting against doxorubicin chemo we are working with the Keto Pet Sanctuary to make a new diet and hopefully start HBOT soon.
Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#5Yes. And it has been used to cure some things you wouldn't believe. Here is the shortlist of the more serious illness that the PaleoMedicina group in Hungary have shown to effectively treat using their low-carb PKD protocol
https://www.paleomedicina.com/en/paleolithic_ketogenic_diet_...
Here are testimonies of even more people healing their serious diseases on a purely carnivore and zero-carb diet
Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#6I'm going to go with a corollary to Murphy's law. Since anything that can go wrong will, every activity or substance is going to be the problem for somebody.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that dieticians are consistently against is sugar in large doses.
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#7Well the ketogenic diet was designed specifically to treat intractable epilepsy ... so yeah ...
Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#8It's been used to treat diabetes and seizure victims for a while so, yes. Personally I lost over 70 pounds (from 295 to 225 -- I'm 6'5") at one point using keto. My main concern is whether one who is on the diet for weight loss will become overly sensitive to carbs if/when they start eating them again causing the body to immediately store them away as far instead of burning them (and if so, how long would it take to…
Yes, in my personal experience. However, I suspect my body is just desperate to hold on to carbs and pack those bastards around my liver anyway, regardless of previous Keto periods or not. When I stick to Keto, I feel better, think better, poop better, I don't get headaches and I don't have acne. Is it magic? I dunno. The chemistry seems to support it. Years ago we called it Atkins (yes, I am older) and it worked gre…
I think the Atkins diet was low carbohydrate but not low enough to induce ketogenesis.
Re: Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
#9Yes. And it has been used to cure some things you wouldn't believe. Here is the shortlist of the more serious illness that the PaleoMedicina group in Hungary have shown to effectively treat using their low-carb PKD protocol https://justmeat.co/wiki/pkd/ https://www.paleomedicina.com/en/paleolithic_ketogenic_diet_... Here are testimonies of even more people healing their serious diseases on a purely carnivore and zero…
With URLs like that, it makes me wonder if they are telling the whole story.
I don't understand why people make science "pointed"? Do people get extra credit for not being the status quo?
Heck all I want in Nutrition is some objective data. Someone be that scientist.
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#10Can someone explain why ketosis is the secondary energy system in the body and not the primary?