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  • Sure, but keto says it totally fine to eat a steak and a stick of butter and nothing else. That doesn’t seem sustainable.

    Yet it is, we only need to look at the documented human populations that only had access to animal food before westernization. They sustained, even thrived.

    Also I’ve never met anyone that does keto that allows any carbs.

    Keto is just metabolic ketosis, any biological state while the body is producing detectable levels of blood ketones. Anyone can achieve it <20g carbs per day, and many people have higher tolerances (age, muscle mass, resting metabolic rate etc).

    Just trying to offer insight into the down votes. I don’t think it’s the IF crew doing it. It’s probably people who are anti-keto.

    Which includes you… https://lemvotes.org/comment/sh.itjust.works/comment/23819049



  • You need fiber, friend. You. Need. Fiber.

    Citation please. As far as I’ve read fibre does two things:

    1. Anti-nutrient, when people eat terrible food fibre blunts it so it isn’t as terrible by preventing some of the bad food absorption

    2. Fibre is digested by the gut into short-chain fatty acids (SCA / BHB) which get absorbed through the gut, and has a boost to health in the area of absorption. However, in a ketogenic context the liver is making Ketones (BHB) all the time which gets deposited into the blood stream being available to the entire body including the gut… so this benefit is only seen in a carbohydrate metabolism, and not in keto.








  • I have lots of biases in the area the paper is talking about. I’ve acquired the actual paper and on first pass they don’t define what low carb means… really, they don’t, anywhere… including the supplemental material. Making best effort inferences on how they make the category cohorts, it seems 40% of energy from carbs is the cutoff. 40% of a 1800 calorie diet is about 200g of carbs per day.

    Currently my smells on this paper

    • Who : Harvard nutrition, a org with a history of heavy plant based bias
    • What they said : PBF beats ABF in a 200g “low carb” diet using intermediate health metrics
    • On the basis of what : Epidemiology, on food frequency questionaries, using major assume corrective factors
    • In what context : 200g/day carb diet, not controlling for processed foods (so healthy user bias the unprocessed abf group isn’t represented at all)… they explicitly say this paper doesn’t apply to keto “evidence from our study regarding the LCD and LFD patterns cannot be directly generalized to diets with much lower carbohydrates or fats intake, such as the ketogenic diet.”

    The bias is really evident in that they defined healthy and unhealthy LCD in terms of animal products… that is presupposing the outcomes in their healthy fat ranking system!

    When I have more time I’ll do a full post on this paper after I’ve had time to read it and figure out what the actual data is. I’m gobsmacked a paper on low carb doesn’t even define what % of carbs is low carb explicitly… why make that so indirect and hidden!!!

    The good news is harvard is finally acknowledging the tsunami of low carb and keto research in their own way, but they are going to do it kicking and screaming on the pbf hill the entire time… but progress is progress.











  • Almost all checkups do a lipid panel. You just have to look at your triglycerides and your HDL, take the ratio of them TG over HDL. You want that to be less than two, and for bonus points you want that to be less than one. Anything above two you have room for improvement. This ratio is a fairly good analog for insulin sensitivity and metabolic health.

    Signs of poor metabolic health:

    • obesity
    • high blood pressure
    • Ed
    • snoring
    • fatty liver
    • skin tags
    • diabetes