Low Carb High Fat - Ketogenic

The state of nutritional ketosis is not only safe but may be optimal in pregnancy. Women with 'morning sickness' have better pregnancy and health outcomes for their babies than the 'norm' and significantly better than those women affected by diabetes through the pregnancy.

• 1:10 Proving the Safety of Intervention
• 2:06 Pregnancy/Newborn/Infant - Ketosis
• 4:54 Pregnancy Keto vs Diabetes - Safety
• 6:54 Proving the Safety of #Keto
• 7:17 Conclusions - Safety of #Keto
• 8:24 References

Dave Aspray is a little out there, but this is absolutely delightful interview focusing on Ben Bikman and his research. The energy and excitement they share during this interview is infectious.

I would say this is a good interview for someone to get started and see a high level tour of the ketogenic landscape.

If you’ve been told calories in, calories out is the key to preventing weight gain, think again. The truth is, blood sugar levels, insulin sensitivity, and mitochondrial performance play a far greater role in how your body stores and burns fat. You’ll learn how intermittent fasting, keto diets, fat fasting, and protein fasting can fix your blood sugar, optimize metabolic function, and even contribute to Alzheimer’s prevention. Dr. Bikman also reveals why ketones outperform glucose for brain function, how nasal insulin spray acts as a cognitive enhancer, and the shocking impact of environmental toxins on metabolic dysfunction. Plus, why some people can eat 400 grams of carbs and never gain fat—and what that means for your own metabolism. What You’ll Learn: • How to fix your blood sugar and reverse insulin resistance for lasting energy and health • The real science behind ketones in brain function and why ketones outperform glucose • Why fat fasting can help prevent weight gain and improve metabolic health • The hidden impact of environmental toxins on metabolic dysfunction and diabetes • How nasal insulin spray enhances cognition and its link to Alzheimer’s prevention • The role of intermittent fasting, keto diets, and metabolic flexibility in longevity • The truth about calories in, calories out—and why hormones control your metabolism This episode will challenge everything you’ve been told about food, fat storage, and longevity—and give you the tools to take control of your health today.

Self insured company works with metabolic researchers to use TCF (total carbohydrate restriction / keto) and IF (intermittent fasting) to reduce their health care cost of chronic metabolic issues.

41 completed the one-year intervention. Mean weight loss for the 50 subjects in the intention-to-treat analysis was 19.5 ± 11.4 kg, corresponding to 15.5% total body weight loss with concomitant deprescription of 96 medications, while starting only 8 medications. In patients who discontinued GLP-1 receptor agonists, weight loss continued or was maintained. Annualized cost savings from the TOWARD approach were approximately -$1700 per patient, as compared to an annualized cost burden of roughly +$13000 per patient for a GLP-1 receptor agonist.

Full Paper https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2025.1548609

I've noticed I don't smell much at all after being strict for 5 months. I used to have overwhelming foot stink, that is gone too.

What are your experiences?

Wok cooking at its finest.

Two modifications I would recommend to her cooking style:

• Swap out the cooking oil for real fat
• Choose a shrimp, tamarind paste that is low carb

Ingredients:

• salted eggs
• diced pork (or beef)
• cooking fat (she uses veggie oil, but I don't recommend)
• lettuce
• fresh chilis
• shrimp paste
• tamarind paste
• diced garlic
• fish sauce
• brown sugar (obviously you skip this on LCHF!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_phrik_long_ruea

Basically its a traditional dish to get rid of leftovers, so you can't go wrong.

Short Answer: No

Long Answer: Academic Fraud

Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.

Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.

Prof. Brukner is the founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving Australia’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. The profits from Peter's book 'A Fat Lot Of Good' will help to fund the campaign sugarbyhalf.com

Peter is also the founder of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.

Sibio sells a CKM sensor you can buy today! Costs about $75 for 14 days, so its pricy... but this is the first one commercially available I've seen

Price will come down with time.

https://www.sibiosensor.com/

I checked ali express, no knockoff options yet.

I bought a AiDEX GCM and the values are little all over the place, its only been 4 hours or so, but how long until I can trust the values its giving?

For reference finger prick was reading 5.4 at start when the GCM was reading 7.5, but now its taken quite the random walk

As browsing aliexpress, as one does, and found this little toy.

https://www.sejoy.com/5-in-1-panel-cholesterol-meter-lipid-analyzer-test-glucose-meter-for-total-cholesterol-product/

Picked it up for $50 usd with 10 test strips. No idea how accurate or precise it is.

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer offers an innovative, metabolic-focused nutrition protocol that works. Naturopathic, integrative oncologist and cancer survivor Dr. Nasha Winters and nutrition therapist Jess Higgins Kelley have identified the ten key elements of a person’s “terrain” (think of it as a topographical map of our body) that are crucial to preventing and managing cancer. Each of the terrain ten elements―including epigenetics, the microbiome, the immune system, toxin exposures, and blood sugar balance―is illuminated as it relates to the cancer process, then given a heavily researched and tested, non-toxic and metabolic, focused nutrition prescription.

The ketogenic diet―which relies on the body’s production of ketones as fuel―is the centerpiece of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer. Further, Winters and Kelley explain how to harness the anticancer potential of phytonutrients abundant in low-glycemic plant and animal foods to address the 10 hallmarks of cancer―an approach Western medicine does with drug-based therapies.

The optimized, genetically-tuned diet shuns:

    Grains
    Legumes
    Sugar
    Genetically modified foods
    Pesticides
    Synthetic ingredients

The optimized, genetically-tuned diet emphasizes:

    Whole, wild foods
    Local
    Organic
    Ferments
    Heirloom
    Low-glycemic

Other components of their approach include harm-reductive herbal therapies like mistletoe (considered the original immunotherapy and common in European cancer care centers) and cannabinoids (which shrink tumors and increase quality of life, yet are illegal in more than half of the United States). Through addressing the ten root causes of cancer and approaching the disease from a nutrition-focused standpoint, we can slow cancer’s endemic spread and live optimized lives.

https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Approach-Cancer-Integrating-Bio-Individualized/dp/1603586865

Book is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/metabolicapproac0000wint

also on annas archive

A nice chat between researchers and doctors, a bit of history that was interesting as well.

Trevor Connor is the CEO of the Paleo Diet. He inherited the company from Dr Loren Cordain who is the founder of the diet. Mark Smith is the company's Chief Science Officer. Both Mark and Trevor were graduate students of Dr Cordain.

Favorite quote

"Somewhere out there, there is somebody who is going to live a long healthy life eating nothing but McDonalds. But they are way on the outside of that bell shaped curve. If your that 1 in 10M person, I wish I was you, that would be alot of fun. Thats not the way most of us are. There is no one perfect diet for everybody, everyone has to modify it"

Timestamps:
00:00 Trailer and introduction
08:12 Hunter-gatherer diet insights
11:16 Anthropology challenges paleo diet claims
17:13 Paleo certification integrity initiative
23:27 Whey protein
29:41 Carnivore diet
34:51 Simple dietary guidance for success
37:25 Longevity claims vs paleo diet
47:05 Diet and exercise impact on longevity
48:49 Genetics, lifestyle, and longevity debate
57:33 Incomplete puzzle of paleo diet
01:00:29 Focus on natural foods
01:04:42 Where to find Trevor and Mark

And if the Vegan guide is interesting, they have a breakout for nutritional requirements too! https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegan-nutrition

G'day - sit back, put your feet up, and listen to 40 minutes of dietary politics!

Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a Specialist Sports Medicine and Exercise Physician.

Dr Mason developed an interest in low carbohydrate diets in 2011. Since then he has spent hundreds of hours reading and analysing the scientific literature. For a number of years Dr. Mason has been applying this knowledge in treating metabolic and arthritis patients who have achieved dramatic and sustained weight loss and reductions in joint pain.

Dr. Mason is also the Chief Medical Officer of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses.

Dr. Brewer gives a lay lecture on Alzheimers, covers the current research, and the term type 3 diabetes

Papers referenced:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38955264/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34540446/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05245-7

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21531226/

cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/6068328

A very informative conversation between a researcher and a practicing clinician.

Dr. Matthew Phillips is a clinical and research neurologist and the director of neurology at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. His foremost passion is to explore the potential feasibility, safety, and efficacy of metabolic strategies, particularly fasting and ketogenic diets, in creating alternate metabolic states that may benefit people with a variety of neurological disorders. His team conducted the world’s first randomized trials involving a ketogenic diet in people with both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the first published application of a fasting and ketogenic diet protocol in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. He is currently conducting a clinical trial in glioblastoma, which combines standard treatments with the most intensive fasting and ketogenic diet protocol ever applied to a group of patients with advanced cancer.

metabolicneurologist.com x.com/drmclphillips

the paper they talk about https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35656107/

This is a exceptionally well written, and cited, review of medical literature - the strength of research, and everything! It has references!

If your interested in the food cancer link, here is a great place to start.

TLDR - Sugar is pretty bad for you, Fructose is pretty bad for you, Seed oils are pretty bad for you... ASF and Fat has been vilified for the evil sugar and processed food have done.

The article was written by a MD, and reviewed by another MD. Every claim cites direct papers. Please feel free to be skeptical and verify everything, just don't be dismissive.

• Modern medicine, diet, fat, and cancer
• Dietary fat
• Red Meat
• Do any foods cause cancer?
• How could foods cause cancer?
• Fruits and vegetables
• Bottom Line

Coca Cola spends $20m a year on Nutrition research. Lancet

The NIH spends $2m a year on Nutrition research. NIH

Coca Cola is a famous health food and well-being organization.

This is a medical lecture, with references and citations throughout, from a doctor talking to other doctors at a conference.

Its a compelling presentation outlining the case for low carb, and contextualizing it with food and nutrition policies in the 1900s

Low Carb VIRAL SNACKS - Popular KETO Snack Recipes!

Today, we test two popular keto snack recipes that quickly went viral. These low carb snack recipes have only three ingredients, and pack a high protein punch. Are these snack options as good as their reputation? Let's find out! #KetoSnacks #LowCarbSnacks #HighProteinSnacks

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RECIPES IN THIS VIDEO

Keto Pizza Bites
by: Meggan Greene
Link: tiktok.com/@meggangreene/video/7433224624214789418

Keto Chicken Fries
by: KetoSnackz
Link: tiktok.com/@iricksnacks/video/7367769722542132523

TLDR : The entire scientific basis of LCHF was put on literal trial in South Africa and WON.

Great article https://www.nmsociety.org/the-scene/noakestrial

Very reminiscent of Galileo, where the repeatable science is put in a back seat to tradition, vested interests, and "consensus", Noakes a pioneer of ketogenic nutrition was put on trail in south africa for a tweet.

The video is worth a watch, if you have any interest in LCHF/Ketogenic metabolism.

This article presents the position of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners (SMHP) regarding therapeutic carbohydrate reduction (TCR) nutrition interventions for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). A modified Delphi methodology was used to arrive at a consensus consisting of several focus groups, multiple rounds, and an anonymous survey. The field of endocrinology has seen many new advances for the treatment of T1DM including hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems and continuous glucose monitors for better glycaemic control, monoclonal antibodies to delay the onset of disease and increased access to paediatric endocrinologists, among many other noteworthy achievements. Despite these advancements, standard of care approaches to T1DM result in higher than acceptable morbidity and mortality, with a high prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular complications. Insulin resistance in type 1 diabetes is an independent risk factor for adverse outcomes even in well controlled type 1 diabetes. In 2021, only 21% of adults with T1DM in the United States achieved the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) target haemoglobin A1C goal of < 7.0%, while data in the paediatric and adolescent population have demonstrated worse glycaemic control. Supported by observational and interventional evidence, the SMHP advocates for the reevaluation of the prevailing nutritional therapy for T1DM with more broad consideration for TCR. The SMHP recommends open access and clinical support for TCR nutrition interventions for individuals with T1DM of all ages and calls upon the medical community to help foster more attention and research on TCR for T1DM.

In conclusion, this consensus statement conducted by the SMHP advocates for open access and clinical support for TCR nutrition interventions for individuals with T1DM across all age groups. As a component of diabetes-focused MNT, TCR nutrition therapy exhibits promising results supported by emerging evidence. It is imperative that individuals diagnosed with T1DM, along with their families, receive comprehensive information, education, and support from their entire healthcare team regarding the option of TCR nutrition interventions. This proactive approach ensures that every patient can make well- informed decisions about the nutrition component of their treatment plan, with TCR being presented as a viable therapeutic option from the outset of diagnosis

Position statements from medical organizations are a good view of changing zeitgeists, and are good references for those in practice. The fact that Total Carbohydrate restriction is a useful option for those treating T1D is documented here.

Do you need to measure ketones? No, probably not.

Is it helpful to have data? Yes, it helps to debug, and especially when your just getting started, or when your pushing your carbohydrates up to see what your limit is.

While Lauren does a great job reviewing all the options, I think the keto mojo is the easiest, cheapest, and most accurate method. https://keto-mojo.com/

If you do decide to track your ketones, try to do it at the same time every day, a few hours after you have woken up, but before you have eaten.

I've extensively used this site for cooking ideas when I'm in a rut.

I really enjoy the lamb roast https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/lamb-roast-filled-with-herbs-and-cream-cheese

Unlike other cooking resources, they just give you the recipe right at the top, no mountain of LLM garbage to sift through.

• Shirataki noodles
• Vegan Miso Soup Mix
• Wakame
• Soy Sauce
• Garlic Powder
• Veggies to taste

Full Recipe https://victoriasketokitchen.net/entrees/f/keto-savory-pecans

I cannot recommend Victoria's Keto Kitchen enough, she has epilepsy, and MUST maintain Ketosis - She has created hands down the best keto flour/bread recipe you will ever find. SUBSCRIBE TO HER CHANNEL

It's possible to swap out the Butter for a plant based option! As long as it melts very well and is shelf stable