Is Keto Contributing to You Aging?
Cellular Senescence may be an unexpected bi-product of your Keto Diet.
This is an interesting article and another valuable contribution to the discussion around diet.
For a long time I have struggled to understand what seems to be an obsession with ketosis. I get that it is a valuable tool in weight loss, but I never understood it's value as a lifestyle.
For a number of years, people have been telling me about the "magic" of the carnivore diet, a diet that includes only animal flesh as food. As a vegetarian, sometimes vegan, of 43 years, I found this challenging so I dived in to learn what was being said. I listened to podcasts and discovered a brilliant interview with one of the worlds leading medical experts in the use of the carnivore diet and he stated clearly that it should be used as a therapeutic tool only and never as a lifestyle.
I had wondered about how the microbiome could be nourished on a diet that contained no plant fibres, let along a diverse variety of plant fibres. I also wondered about a diet lacking almost completely in glucose.
At the time I stayed right away from the incredible similarities between human anatomy and that of herbivores and the stark differences between humans and carnivores.
This following article published by Joe Mercola raised an issue I had not considered and it is telling.
What is interesting for me is that people vary and respond differently to foods. I would suggest this is perhaps largely due not to our anatomy, physiology or even our biochemistry but to the structure and make up of our microbiome. The permutations and combinations are pretty much unlimited.
Some years ago I had a good friend who lost over 100kg using a keto diet and he became highly enthusiastic about promoting it. He became so entrenched in his belief that he concluded that it is how all people should eat. So I agreed to try it and I get fat very quickly.
Growing up in a pub, we drank copious amounts of soft drink every day. I was chubby as a younger kid and never experienced leanness till I got heavily into training in my late teens. I put on weight very easily. Whenever I’ve wished to lose weight, I go low fat, almost no fat, and the weight falls off.
So this article, as I noted in the first paragraph, is another helpful perspective to consider when choosing how you might like to eat.
I was on Keto low carb diet for several years. Didn’t do a thing for my IBS.
Things got really really bad. I was a bloody mess. I kept adding the fiber and kept getting worse and worse. It’s not a situation anyone would want to be in.
I prayed for relief. I searched the internet.
I found a book titled “Fiber Menace”
And everything clicked. It was the fiber! The fiber was tearing my colon up. Bulking up my stools.
Then, I searched YouTube and found Dr Ken Berry.
I went carnivore and my IBS is gone! No more blood on my stools. Arthritis is gone! Completely gone.
My complexion is fantastic. I look much younger and people are taking notice. My loose skin is not so lose anymore.
I’ll never go back to consuming fiber. My life literally depends on not doing that.
Also, google Maggie White. She 85 and looks fifty. She’s been carnivore for 65 years.
It’s a hard paradigm shift. But unless you try it for ninety days… you’ll never believe it.
Before transitioning is suggest folks break their sugar addiction first. It’s a hard transition from the standard American diet.