Of course it does! And they don't NEED the meds, but at least they have an exit strategy.

This would be great if only the medical community would support low-carb eating as being healthy.

The ones who can eat even remotely LC while on those drugs are few and far between, because any fats and most proteins sit like lead in their stomachs, way too difficult to digest, and often making them throw up. So it seems most of them are living primarily on carbs while on those meds.

They haven't had to exercise any self control while on those drugs - the drugs create the control.

But because they've been on a mostly carb based diet for months, when the go off of the drugs, their taste buds and body are still screaming for carbs, carbs, carbs, which means that with no more drug induced control over how MUCH they're eating, they continue to eat carbs, carbs, carbs, and the weight piles back on faster than it came off.

It's just like any other diet in that respect - once you go off of it, you regain the weight, usually with interest.

So then the choice is to either go back on the same drugs, or on to the next drug in the weight loss genre - because eating LC is just too hard to do.

I will stick to keto! No drug costs. No Ozempic. And no side effects.

Why cant the medical establishment accept low carb and keto options?

Apparently Oprah has a special on Ozempic etc. on ABC on March 18th. I doubt she'll mention muscle loss as a side effect.

Apparently they do when someone is about to enter chemotherapy. And yet this is not splashed across the entire internet as a breakthrough. And not considered for prevention.



I've long wondered if people have increasing trouble digesting actual food, since they eat so much which has been essentially "pre-chewed" and already broken down. Digestive aids are a giant part of prescription drug use.

DH had been on proton pump inhibitors with his illness, and as they reported more side effects with it, we switched him to Betaine HCL, digestive supplements, and pro-biotics. He's lost weight and his high blood pressure meds.

But his stomach needed a lot of help to get back to actual normal; able to digest larger portions of meat and fat. I'm sure he's not the only one.

I think that many people are addicted to eating out of a drive-thru bag/box and have no idea how to prepare a meal from scratch.

WB----
Yes, some oncologists accept keto for enhancing chemo but not all. My mother has been treated 5x for different cancers at Dana Farber, and not once was keto used. The last treatment caused her fingernails such damage that her nails didn't grow for a full year .




Too true!

I taught both my boys how to cook. My DH cooks. His brothers cook. His dad cooked. His mom is a terrible cook! 😂

I've tried to teach my son's past girlfriend but it's hard to compete with a restaurant. He took her out 2-3-4 times a week.....

I knew two people back in the 00's who died from cancer - both had been put on a raw food diet to supposedly stop the cancer.

The one said she was allowed some foods that were slightly heated - basically just enough to take the chill off, not enough to actually cook them.

The other was consuming mostly juiced vegetables and fruits (she had a juicer - went through about 50 lbs of organic carrots a couple of times weekly, in addition to whatever other organic fruits and veggies they could obtain). The rationale behind the juice diet was that it was supposedly easier to absorb the nutrients from fruits and vegetables without needing to actually digest any other parts of the food. (That one was also on coffee enemas - supposedly to remove toxins that were causing the cancer)

Either way, both were getting nothing but carbs, and neither was eating any meat at all - these diets were the opposite of low carb - they were both nothing but carbs, and the juice diet in the simplest form of carbs.

They might have fared better on a ketogenic diet... or perhaps not, because in both cases, the cancer had already metastasized all through their bodies, and was into all their organs by the time they discovered they had cancer or received any treatment at all.



Basically, our collective digestion is a mess - the proton pump inhibitors are dealing with a problem that starts in the stomach. They used to tell people to make sure they don't recline or lie down for a certain amount of time after eating, and to stop eating foods that caused acid reflux. Now there's a drug to take care of that problem.

There's two opposite forces in the food industry to deal with the other end of the digestive tract - the push for more and more fiber in your diet to keep you "regular", while at the same time more and more junk food devoid of any fiber so that you need a fiber supplement or a laxative - there's always coupons available for Miralax and Metamucil - opposite treatments of the irregularity spectrum, both with their own problems.

And let's not forget the foods that are also geared towards correcting these problems, such as Activia yogurts.

Agree - or the ones who do know how to cook are just too wiped out after a day at work to even take on standing in the kitchen long enough to prepare a meal.

Which I understand all too well - when I was on my feet all day in the grocery store, I'd reached the limit of my ability to be on my feet doing... anything.

I ended up cooking on my day(s) off and eating from what I'd prepared that day the rest of the week.

You need to resign yourself to not much food variety in those instances though - you need to prepare foods that will keep all week, reheat easily, and can't spend half the day just deciding what to cook, or even make several different meals - gotta just do enough of a couple of recipes to last until the next days off, and be done with it, because there's a million other things you need to accomplish on those days off too - grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning - everything that you didn't have the time or stamina to do on work days.