Keto diet

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Keto Diet

The ketogenic diet, often simply called the keto diet, is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that has been shown to help some people lose weight. The keto diet involves dramatically reducing your carbohydrate intake and substituting fat instead. This reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis, where fat, from your diet and from your body, is burned for energy.

Category
Diet
Molecular Formula
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Mechanism of Action
The ketogenic diet works by depleting the body of its sugar reserves. As a result, it will start to break down fat for energy. This causes the production of molecules called ketones, which the body uses for fuel. When the body burns fat, it results in weight loss.
Evidence Grade
B

Other Names

  • Ketogenic Diet
  • Low Carb High Fat (LCHF)
  • Low Carb Diet

Primary Benefits

  • Weight loss
  • Improved insulin sensitivity
  • Potential reduction in neurodegenerative conditions
  • Improved energy levels
  • Improved mental clarity

Recommended Dosage

Description Varies based on individual dietary needs, but generally consists of 70-75% fat, 20% protein, and 5-10% carbohydrates

Side Effects

  • 'Keto flu' symptoms like headache, fatigue, and irritability
  • Nutrient deficiencies
  • Constipation

Precautions

  • Not suitable for people with certain medical conditions like pancreatitis, liver failure, disorders of fat metabolism
  • Requires careful monitoring if on medication for diabetes
  • May affect performance in endurance sports

Interactions

  • Can interact with anti-epileptic drugs
  • May affect the way the body processes certain medications

Key References

  • 'Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.' - British Journal of Nutrition (2013)
  • 'Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets' - European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2013)
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“i will eat for eight hours and you can obviously make that window narrow and narrow and then there's the dietary restriction you and i use these terms a little differently although i know what you're meaning when you say it when i refer to dietary restriction i mean no attempt at reducing the content but rather changing the mixture or quality so dietary restriction which is probably what most people think of when they think of a diet like a paleo diet a vegan diet a keto diet a low carb diet they're not explicitly telling you to eat less they're just telling you to not eat in certain things”

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“you know even the quote unquote best diet if it's in excess of energy balance will produce poor metabolic health so regardless of what you think the best diet is if you think it's a keto diet or a paleo diet or a low carb diet or a Mediterranean diet or a vegan diet take any version of those and consume them to excess to the point where you are no longer in energy balance and you are accumulating adipose tissue that leaks out of the subcutaneous space and you know gets into the liver gets into the viscera you're going to be unhealthy”

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“the keto diet allowed you to get into a calorie deficit so powerfully that you didn't even need to track calories.”

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“if you follow any type of a diet there's always a natural limit so say here you want to lose weight and so you say I'm going to do a keto diet or a paleo diet or a vegetarian diet so you do a vegetarian diet and you lose you know a few pounds but not as much as you want well you can't go more vegetarian than vegetarian right exactly so what else are you gonna do there's nowhere else you or you can't go more keto or you can't go more paleo whereas there's no actual upper limit to what you can do in terms of fasting and it's powerful because you're eating zero which means that it is by definition for weight loss the most powerful diet there is like absolutely you cannot lose more than if you put any calories in your body no matter what diet you're on you're not going to lose as much as if you had zero calories”

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“nobody knows what's going on or causing all of that so then you know hey wait a minute but there was a paid for study saying that it's really good for me and my doctor recommended them because it's a great protein Source let me just eat them and then try to do my keto diet with eggs let me try to do this diet maybe stay away from gluten but in the end and have total respect for everybody that's trying to experiment and you know you'll see it on YouTube too you'll see like a few years ago people being like okay I'm doing this and then all of a sudden they're getting sick like it's showcasing now because we have a documented record we've never had before with people with symptoms it's showcasing things now like on social media we're seeing it now where someone's like okay I'm loving my eggs I'm doing it for like you know a year or whatever and then a year later you know they're getting eczema and psoriasis and they don't know why it's like things are we're seeing it now when we never even could see it before because you…”

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“In Denmark, first they educate the woman about the metabolic ties to the PCOS and do a government subsidized keto diet which is the most effective intervention ever studied to reverse the symptoms of PCOS and increase fertility.”

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“Should I be on a keto diet then here's what we did okay uh we developed the glucose Ketone index calculator at Boston College all right my students and I because we were trying to uh work with cancer patients blood sugar and ketones.”

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“you need to have a balance of the macro and micronutrients so you mentioned the keto diet that basically you don't have enough carb and assume that you miss other micronutrients so it's very important at the end of the day our food is broken down to macro and micronutrient”

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