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Old Fri, Jul-08-22, 14:05
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Default This is what the keto diet does to your body

I've been part of the ZOE Covid Study for the past couple of years.

The latest ZOE podcast focuses on the keto diet so thought I'd share it here.

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Keto has been promoted as a magic bullet for weight loss by its supporters and slammed as dangerous by its opponents. It's no surprise - completely removing almost all carbohydrates is not what most people consider ‘a balanced diet’.

With carbs off the table, Keto diets involve a dramatically increased fat intake. At the same time, drastically reducing carbs means starving our gut microbes of the fiber that feeds them.

Nonetheless, doctors prescribe keto diets to treat people with severe diabetes and see dramatic improvements, and many healthy people swear by keto for weight loss. On top of this, removing carbohydrates prevents blood sugar spikes and crashes linked to inflammation and disease.

In today’s episode, Jonathan speaks to a leading nutritional researcher to understand whether or not keto diets are a crazy fad:

Christopher Gardner is a professor at Stanford University and a member of ZOE’s scientific advisory board who’s produced a clinical trial of keto diets, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Effect of a ketogenic diet versus Mediterranean diet on glycated hemoglobin in individuals with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The interventional Keto-Med randomized crossover trial

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advan...nqac154/6596279

Click on the link to listen to the podcast: https://zoe_science_and_nutrition.captivate.fm/listen
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Thank you, will listen to this. Interestingly, I ate more fibre on keto than on a carb-heavy diet as all the carbs come from veg rather than white foods so the negative comment about gut microbes doesn’t quite wash in my case (although YMMV as ever).
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Thank you, will listen to this. Interestingly, I ate more fibre on keto than on a carb-heavy diet as all the carbs come from veg rather than white foods so the negative comment about gut microbes doesn’t quite wash in my case (although YMMV as ever).

Agree, I get most of my carbs from vegetables and a few berries. No shortage of fiber. While I'm not fearful of fat, I heartily eat the fat that comes with healthy protein. The issue I have with the "keto" term is the belief that emphasizes replacing carbs with fats. I've never done that, so I'm able to run on and alternate between fat and glucose as fuels on a daily basis. While strict keto diets are excellent for treating health issues like seizures and resolving BG issues, I don't believe in a strict keto formula; rather, I like the simplicity of eating healthy proteins and vegetables to enable endogenous fat burning as energy for maintaining health.

I've come to the conclusion that over the years since the beginning of the low fat craze, any amount of dietary fat today is perceived as too much. The bar has been set so low, that what in the past was considered normal fat consumption is now defined as abnormally high. It's a distortion borne from the mistaken tendency to treat any fat consumption as unhealthy.
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It's a distortion borne from the mistaken tendency to treat any fat consumption as unhealthy.


Like the way people are certain red meat is dangerous and they only eat it once a week.
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Like the way people are certain red meat is dangerous and they only eat it once a week.

Exactly, and unfortunately, to their detriment in avoiding such a nutrient dense food.
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