Please look into Keto diet as a treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encefalomyelitis . Some doctors are treating CFS/ME that way, and it would be really interesting to know if there's at least anectodal evidence that it helps.

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I appreciate hearing your survey of the sum total of existing evidence regarding the ketogenic diet. I just want to arrive at the truth, no matter what it is. The work of Warburg, Seyfried, and now many others, in the application of the ketogenic diet for cancer is very exciting and potentially ground-breaking and life-saving, if true. What is the truth? Do ketones also fuel some forms of cancer?

Hitler breathes oxygen. So avoid oxygen. Cancer eats glucose. So avoid glucose. So does healthy cells do to need glucose. It was only the 1900s that we eat more sugar that every food product contains. Veggies aren't plain glucose. Ketones can't feed Hitler and Cancer though. At least not all Cancer.

What about the vegan keto diet?

I'm glad your brother is better. He is what is called anecdotal evidence, though.

@@tamcon72 hearsay is not taking a 5 mm piece of cancer and shrinking it to nothing in your prostate. Also taking a 20 mm piece of cancer in your hip bone and it reducing Down to 11 mm in 6 months. This is not antidotal these are facts. In fact the bone cancer has been shrinking every single MRI he's taken and soon he will be cancer-free. Checking your ketones two or three times a week and checking your glucose levels is very important while fighting cancer.

Scott Gabelman -- anecdotal doesn't mean non-factual. It just means that it's a single case without control for other confounding factors. People do go into remission spontaneously. Maybe it was the ketogenic diet, maybe it was coincidence. Studies typically require at least 50 people, and if the effects are subtle, sometimes hundreds or even thousands. One, ten, 20 reports like yours are interesting, and perhaps an indication that a controlled study is warranted. But they don't qualify as scientific evidence.

@@broddr honestly, I think it's only a matter of time before it's widely accepted that clean keto along with intermittent fasting is very helpful in fighting cancer (among other things)

Brian Parsons -- it may turn out that a ketogenic diet can help fight some cancers. But both my parents died of cancer, and in the process I met many other cancer patients. I have also had a dog die of liver cancer. In almost all cases in late stage cancer people (and dogs) lose their appetite and become ketogenic. You can smell the ketones on their breath. But it does nothing to slow down the cancer. Perhaps it's too late by that point, but if ketosis had any impact, I would expect that impact to be fairly consistent, regardless of what stage the cancer was at.

Thanks for this comment. Very levelheaded and informative. 👍🏾

Keto is good if you already have underlying problems.

No such thing as clean keto. We aren't flesh eaters

Exactly. I truly don't understand why people keep pushing the standard American diet. It's absolutely ass-backward. The ONLY they get right is to not eat processed foods and sugar. But then tell people that 50% of their daily caloric intake should come from carbs, even thought they KNOW that carbs cause a huge spike in glucose every time it's eaten. And then we wonder why Americans are so fat and sick.

When people don't understand something, they tend to ridicule it. That's what this video is doing. Sad really

There's also tons of work that fruit, herbs, saunas, & fasting will cure cancer. Like, almost always.

@@saszablaze1 please tell me more, I need to help someone. Thank you in advance.

Exactly

Because Keto is healthy and Chemo is literally poisoning your body? WTF

@Mrs. Roper You should read more.

Keto=🥩🧀🥛 chemo= 🤮☠️

@Mrs. Roper nope by a long shot

That was probably the worst line in the video... hey instead of changing your diet just nuke your body and kill off healthy cells, this is Dr Gregor showing his vegan bias quite strongly

Lander Hendrickx sameeee

Ikr

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LOL same here 😂

It's debatable whether any cancer can in fact use ketones as a source of fuel; but if they can, there is no question and no debate that cancer cells don't crave ketones like they do glucose. Likewise the video is disingenuous in insinuating that it's no big deal that cancer cells need to metabolize glucose because all cells need to metabolize glucose. Whoever scripted this obviously knows nothing about The Warburg Effect (bottom line is that cancer cells have an insane craving for glucose that's wildly disproportionate to what normal cells require).

Wait what? Muh bacon isn't helping my cancer? I better add some more beef lard! That will help my heart cancer!

@@rynecollies361 🤣🤣🤣

Ketards

A few seizures a month is far from normal... Put her on carnivore for a month and she'll be healed completely. At least try if you care for her in instead of forcing your ideology on her

MemoFromEssex - looks like five ketards checked in as of my writing this

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They were too busy blending butter into coffee

@@RedPillVegan 😆😆😆😆

Maybe the fad has lost momentum. Vote now for what will be the next low carb movement name!

It sure saved the animals at least!

But do you really believe that Eating cheap plant foods is better than expensive high-qualty meats?

Swiss Lady Driver He doesn’t have to “believe” anything, that is what the best science we have says.

@@Nice-sm5hr Everything is all about belief. He believed that Keto would be good for him and he wanted to try it, but gave up because he believed that he couldn't afford it. He also believes that he is broke and appears to be plant-based not because he believes that it is better, but a last resort economically.

Of course you couldn't afford it. They want the pleb to be on a plant based aka slave diet lol.

Of course it does. When youre fasting over 18 hours your body is using ketones and is in autophagy.

Sharon's poetry Corner #Enjoy! Saw the word “poetry” and had to sub! 👍🌱

@@livthedream91 Thank you so much! 😊

I hope you get better and beat this thing whichever you decide. God bless.

Watch Forks Over Knives, get pumped up, and adopt the kind of diet they talk about in that. Whole food plant based. All the best to you!

After my experience with certain people who prayed for me I think you have a point on that one.

Ketones also appear to feed cancer cells. Plant based fats such as the ones in avocados don't though

Sure, but that's not all it turns to. According to one of the earlier videos on this channel avocados has naturally occurring substances that kills cancer cells also. As Dr. Greger would say look at the whole food as it is a package deal. More to food than just calories and macros. Your sources matter too.

Yep, the pseudoscience is sound.

The last batch of Keto people already died or have organ failure.

Flaky Amanda Fae I am doing a higher plant consumption/ plant based approach to keto, have been for 4 years. Total 120 cholesterol, perfectly healthy in blood markers, and I reversed my hereditary liver disease. Have been skinny all my life and until now gained a lot of lean mass. This is how I will eat for as long as I’m alive. I don’t consume dairy or butter

Yall are still herbivores?

Yes! It's super popular right now

CeliaXx99 my dad’s wife had aggressive breast cancer and had both breasts removed and went through chemotherapy. Her doctors told her that she needed to be on a very low fat diet like what Dr. Greger cited and she has carefully stuck with that. My mom on the other hand continues to do a Keto diet after breast cancer because she wasn’t given any nutritional advice and she’s just following a popular diet. The medical community really needs to be in the same page about this.

Did you ask for citations to research? You are within your rights to ask for verification. I can't imagine my mother's oncologist years ago recommending that. This was before the latest keto/carnivore insanity, mind you.

tamcon72 the low fat diet recommended for my dad’s wife is the same one cited by Dr. Greger in this video from the American Cancer Society and Oncology. My mom didn’t have any diet recommended to her; she is following the Keto diet of her own accord because she thinks it will help her lose weight. She lost weight but then gained it back, lost weight then gained it back...

@@kathivy That's such a shame. I can't imagine how hard this is. Please keep trying to get through to you mom.

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@@twn5858 I get worked up when people who consume animal products destroy the planet with their lifestyle that's "so hard to give up".

@@twn5858 Here is one example of thousands. You just have to look and you will see it everywhere. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/taking-big-agribusiness-court-how-we%E2%80%99re-fighting-back Amazon rain forest being slashed and burned to raise livestock is a big one.

@@twn5858 I care about my friends and family that have recently got hooked on this deadly diet. I also care about really everyone. I also care about other earthlings like the animals that are force bred into existence only to be tortured and slaughter. And I care about the environment that is grossly destroyed at unbelievable rates by the unsustainable practice of animal agriculture. You mention monocrops, over 80 percent of cropland is used for animal agriculture for housing and feeding. Those are the monocrops. My whole food plant based diet consists of a large variety of beans, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, spices, herbs, and teas. If you look at the land usage chart by the intergovernmental panel on climate change you'll see how land use is divided. It's astounding how much land is used for animal agriculture. The waste alone is 2 gigatons and humans only consume 1.54 GT's of food. We already mostly eat plant based worldwide. We're running out of viable, rainfed cropland. And now the Amazon is being burnt down for cattle. Yet, if we transition to a plant based diet globally we could easily feed 118 billion more people, over 20 fold more on the same amount of land. And that's not even factoring in more advance plant agricultural practices. So, yes I care about human health, health care cost, the animals, and the world.

@@twn5858 Those places where animals graze and it's good for the land, those animals obviously don't need to be eaten for that to happen, lol.

@@twn5858 Watch Earthlings. It should give you some perspective on how we treat animals for food/clothing, etc. www.nationearth.com/

Good points.

@@twn5858 There are different levels of "logic" and I could have been more clear, but Nutritionfacts viewers will know that I meant scientific research, not "stories". No shade - we all like things that make intuitive sense - but a story is just a hypothesis. I don't think keto as a long-term diet is going to prove out to be healthy. Short-term for weight loss maybe, but it's not looking good as a way of life.

Coffee and animal saturation and naturally occurring trans FAT for the win! wash down with yummy bone broth very palatable

@@twn5858 That's awesome. I know it's used for seizures too. I think the video acknowledged that there are some known medical benefits to a keto diet, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily "healthy" or optimum. As this seems to be the first in a series, I'm guessing future videos will expand on that.

@@andrewclancy2511 science vs stories. "A friend of mine drinks everyday. She has been drinking and driving most days for the last 30 years. And you know what, she has never been in an accident or been pulled over or died. So drinking and driving has worked great for her and I'm going to keep on doing it too!"

@@amyhaen1 Great analogy!

This is the series on keto diet. There will be 7 videos total. This one was the first. They'll get progressively better.

@@GregVidua you made me read the description and it sounds good 😉

turns out rice only has arsenic content when grown in watered rice fields. they do this to maximise profit. if rice is grown in dry fields, and watered just like regular veggies (watered only when needed and not too much), rice tends to have ZERO arsenic.

@@ImprovingAbility do you have any links to share?

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That's tough, but she may need to bottom out before listening to reason. Some people are just too biased to look at evidence or even what's happening to their own body. FWIW, I had acne and poor digestion for most of my life and although going vegan helped, it didn't completely clear the problem, until I went Starch Solution (by Dr McDougall). Within 24 hours my acne cleared up and my digestion is so much better. Maybe she's clinging to keto because she doesn't think there's a better alternative and if she knew there was, she might listen? It makes no sense that keto would be good for digestion -- you're literally starving the good bacteria in your gut by depriving them of fiber. The halitosis is probably from all the bad bacteria proliferating. High fat is really hard on your gall bladder and animal protein is hard on your kidneys. Neither will show symptoms for years.

Since she still believes in inflammation, have her get a HS-CRP test (highly sensitive C-reactive protein test).

She is brainwashed. All you can do is set a fine example and when her health begins to fail hope she will use reason and adopt a better lifestyle.

My mom has been doing Atkins and now Keto for many years trying to lose weight but her weight goes down then just goes back up again. Breast cancer and now a hip replacement for arthritis, and this diet is exactly what she should not be doing. It’s really sad because I love her terribly and I’ve talked with her about this being a fad diet not backed by science but I think that a lot of people believe that popularity = credibility. It’s really too bad that it’s legal for people to promote these snake oil diets.

This is classic cognitive dissonance and happened to all of us. When you invested so much energy, money and time to a particular matter (in this case a diet), it is very difficult and painful to admit that your diet is wrong even if the facts (e.g. the evidence presented here by Dr Greger) are in front of you and you will seek out keto advocates who will reinforce your belief.

Then try a plant-based Keto. It does exist. These people have no idea what they're talking about. It's NOT all about eating tons of animal fats. Can you? Absolutely. Is that what most people on Keto do? Yup. But, you can still stay within the macros of a Ketogenic diet while being plant-based. Just stay away from processed garbage, sugar, and eat all low-carb veggies. If you make a big salad, put plenty of cut up avocado in it and then use plenty of olive oil as a dressing. And yeah, there is NOTHING wrong with having meat if you're feeling up for it. Some argue that you need fatty meats, but I think there needs to be a balance. SOME fatty meats but also some lean meats where you control the fat by adding your own healthy sources such as avocado, coconut, MCT, Macadamia Nut, or EV Olive oil. Certain fish like salmon, trout, sardines, etc., actually have a lot of omega 3s which are very heart healthy and exactly the kinds of fats that you want in your diet. So, if anybody ever tries to tell you that Keto is all about eating tons of protein and fatty meat like beef, bacon, cheese, etc., they are either lying to you or just don't know what they're talking about. You CAN, but the optimal way of doing Keto is NOT that.

Maybe the keto guys would be ROFL 😂.

You're nuts! Ketocon speakers have walked the walk. Doctors who treat their patients with keto, and researchers who do real unbiased science. Dr. Greger would be humiliated.

@@dario2rnr Send me the link of your keto people "debunking" this video. I'll watch it unbiased and see who is right. I'm a vegan for ethical reasons but would like to see it anyway

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9ihis1y1qixfo0.html, try Garth Davis vs Bart kay or Bart kay vs vegan doctor on KZfaq, or vegan gains debates. Those debates show how plants are our species specific diet.

Marcelo Ribeiro Simões “dr Berg” lmao. He’s a chiropractor you dummy. Everything he says is complete nonsense. He’s selling you something and you like it because he says eggs bacon and grass fed meat are health foods no doubt.

Justin setting I’m 100% vegan and I have to say our species never ate just plants. We must’ve eaten s little fish eggs bugs occasional meat in most populations as well. So for credibility we must admit that. Look at apes- they almost al eat insects and some eat a little meat. Still, these were a tiny part of our dietary heritage and nothing like the eggs and bacon. Real fast chicken for lunch and steak for dinner of the SAD. Thunder gatherer thing is quite overrated- mostly gathering, and if one thinks the males were bringing back the kill for the females and sharing equally, well, that’s patently false. So half our genetic contributors probably ate 1/10 what the other half ate. I’ve never heard this argument against exaggerated hunter gatherer conclusions but must assume it’s been made many times before.

@@kbkesq Hehehehe... ...you're on plants alone and I am the dummy... ...ok, ok... Blood tests and my doctor with a wide smile asking me what am I doing to get those so beautiful results. Sadly, you plant alone eaters are following a messy New Era Movement ideology...

@@kbkesq - Are you an evoluted ape? ...'cause I am not.

We cannot store unused proteins in the body, so protein that is not used as a building material is broken down into amino acids. Half is stored as fat and the other half is converted to glucose.

Potatoes tho

@Steven L. 😂🐷

Keto is not high in protein, only fat. The brain needs fat

But... the video pointed out that keto is not good at starving cancer cells, and some cancers spread faster during ketosis. I wouldn't have chemo either. Those are not the only 2 options, thankfully.

The Rebalancer what about raw vegan for healing?

@@spartanshred I haven't done raw myself, but have known people who do juice fasts for a while to lose weight and they generally feel good from that. I think cooked starches are important for health/energy, but if people feel great on raw, and their bloods are good, then all power to them.

@@therebalancer7445 And there are articles suggesting that Keto may help to slow down cancer. Whoever thinks they know the answer to whether keto works for answer is fooling themselves. There isn't enough evidence to confidently suggest anything yet

actually keto can make you feel awful as well. And chemo doesn't have to make you feel awful at all if you get IPT

@@StillTrustNo1 Yes for a short period while you shift to ketone burning but it doesnt happen to everyone and its not as prolonged and doesnt damage other parts of your system. It may poison the cancer but chemo is poison.

@@clintrichardsonclintfromny203 Wrong. If you have a variation in your LPL, CETP, APOC3 or APOE SNP(Snip) then you can have REALLY dire outcomes from a fat based diet. You need to dig A LOT deeper my friend if you want to claim to know nutrition. Consider starting a free audible account and get the book "dirty genes" to get you started with the wonderful science of SNP's - then maybe after that consider an education. Best of luck

And just to add - chemo is only "poison" to the cells that "eats" it - hence IPT: You can learn more here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mt9ylKyb2qy7fac.html

Are you so sure about that?

im not an expert but its still carbs and calories

Alcohol is the only bad thing in beer. A-free beer is a good fermented drink with some benefits. Nothing special. Better than coke for sure.

There's an equal number of PubMed journals that still support this diet for Cancer patients. The journals that Dr. Gregor has presented are not all there is about keto.

@@kayondothomas7343 Can you respond with some links. I'd love to look at them.

@@RabbitFoodFitness kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sL-TndF4zpvHf6c.html

@@kayondothomas7343 Thank you. I will check this out. Maybe I'll make a response video on my channel.

He’s amazing!!! Just not all of us can do grains though due to autoimmune diseases! Other than that he’s 💯

you are so full of glucose yay!

Raul-Beniamin Tătar, yes we’ve been reducing unhealthy fats and processed foods and boosting our intake of veggies, fruit, nuts and seeds, wild caught fish, hormone free chicken, and organic yogurt. We still eat some grains too but have greatly reduced the amount. I think our diet is closest to a “Mediterranean diet” than keto or anything else. We’ve been trying to eat a greater proportion of plant foods with smaller portions of poultry, meat, and fish.

You don't have to add unhealthy fats, look at Dr berg...so much good info, I have breast cancer too. It sucks. Good luck to you

@@Candlewick14 Thank you, and all the best to you as well!

@@ladyaero8424 we can do it! X

​@Raul-Beniamin Tătar exactly

@@twn5858 Meat tax will be here before you know it. :)

@@twn5858 Government to ban what you eat? Government artificially makes animal products cheaper via subsidies and is in bed with the meat industry. Cool story bro, enjoy your heart disease, cancer, obesity, ect etc.

Yup! Keto really allows for going long periods in between meals. It's why that diet *truly* goes hand and hand with intermittent fasting (At this point I think all sides of the diet wars so-to-speak agree that there are definitely health benefits to intermittent fasting). It gets you out of the glucose / insulin cycling where you get hyopglycemic and have to keep eating frequently. Vegan diet is great and all, but it's not *near* as good as keto for allowing for intermittent fasting. It's proven to reverse insulin resistance and even type 2 diabetes (look up the clinical trial by Sarah Hallberg)

Same here and I switched to a whole food plant-based diet (not low carb) and intermittent fasting (1 meal per day) 4 months ago. I have finally broken my addiction to food and sugar. I have lost a lot of weight and I do not feel like I am on a diet.

Keto and intermittent fasting really works. It's amazing how people can't mentally and emotionally come to grips with keto.

It sounds unscientific and biased.

Han Boetes I searched for the title and cannot find it any longer. Sorry. It was a fascinating show that discussed the religious origins of fasting, then visited a Russian clinic that treated patients with various diseases with fasting, then visited a German clinic that did the same thing and finally interviewed someone in California that did an experiment subjecting mice to chemo with half the mice on a normal diet and the other half fasting. Of the mice on a normal diet almost all died as a result of the chemo therapy. The mice which were fasting all survived and acted as if nothing happened. The woman with breast cancer knew of this experiment and wanted to try fasting during her chemo therapy and did much better while fasting.

@@joem5639 That's interesting. From what I recall radiation damages cells that are reproducing and cells need energy to reproduce. It could be that fasting simply reduces the number of cells that will be vulnerable to radiation damage. It certainly seems plausible to me.

odizzido yes, that is another way to look at it. The hypothesis reached at the end of the program is that during fasting the cells go into a protective/defensive state while the cancer cells not being able to thrive in a low glucose environment are more vulnerable to chemo radiation.

Keto for most people means high meat and animal products, do you think there’s no big money power behind that?

Nicecore , I’m not sure about most people but Keto to me means about 70% vegetables and low sugar fruits and 30% fats and proteins. The Atkins diet is what you’re describing.

Lol I was vegan and I never felt more depressed in my life. What's your point?

@@twn5858 It begins rotting long before you even bite into it.

@@twn5858 Your intestinal peristalsis or movement would still allow the passage of a small rock or piece of plastic, and eating a rotten apple would raise your blood sugar as well so I'm not sure why those things you stated are relevant. All foods are certainly not rotting. Especially as is the case with live foods - fruits and veggies - their enymatic activity keeps going long after they're picked from the soil. Contrarily, when an animal's body becomes a corpse or carcass, the decomposition process begins quite quickly. Ask any police officer, coroner or anyone in animal control and they'll back that up. Putrescine and cadaverine are organic endproducts of this amino acid breakdown, and their names are quite telling as to what animal flesh is - putrefying cadaver.

@@twn5858 Wrong! Fruits and vegetables are certainly alive if eaten fresh. Many in my fridge continue to try to grow, such as carrots, onions, garlic, sprouts, etc. Top food researchers observed white blood cell-like activity from the phytonutrients in vegetables attacking fungus/bacteria. Most fruits/veggies stay fine when left at room temperature for days. Try that with meat.

@@twn5858 Also keep in mind today's meat and most other food is full of toxins. Even our pets get sick eating the garbage the pet food industry is putting out now. Our planet is polluted pole to pole. Best to grow your own as much as possible.

I would be surprised if a study existed on such a niche interest, but am nonetheless also interested!

You're still making ketones, so those benefits/problems would be the same. But eating healthier fats, in my opinion, is a good thing.

@@Trevormartens Why are ketones a problem? He never claimed so. Only criticized the Sat. Fat content.

@@mora2k 4:34 until 5:17 is all about keto diets in general, not about animal products.

@@mora2k don't worry, this is part of a seven episode series about the ketosis diet, it will be explained no doubt for you in the rest

The answer to the success of your diet is that you've become primarily whole foods plant-based. To reach ketosis, you would need to drop your carbs to 20-50 g a day maximum or you're not actually in ketosis. You've also cut out the refined carbs - which is also a part of the whole foods plant based diet - and replaced it would a whole grain such as oats.

To add... she lived less than 14 months from diagnosis!! Thanks keto!!

Mike B 👀

High PSA led to some prostate cancer 5 years ago ,I have always been a pretty good eater ,never processed or fast food always made my own ,I work out ,have a high metabolism ,I consider myself in good shape ,so for 5 years I never use sugar ,went from 3 beers a day to glass or 2 of wine a week,, no dairy cept a little in my morning coffee ,got off meat ,ate more fish ,veggies ,{not as much as you } also make my own S K , and the last 4 years my blood work sucks ,cholesterol is up ,glucose why up ,triglycerides up ,,,frustrating ,,meantime my brother started keto and his numbers all came down ,wtf

Carnivore Diet: “Hold my beer.”

@@megavegan5791 hahahah tou·ché

@@megavegan5791 you win the internet today.🤣🤣🤣

Except it's not.

@@megavegan5791 Haha, it's all the same though. Keto, low-carb, atkins, paleo, carnivore, etc. All about running on ketones and thinking high cholesterol and saturated fat is healthy. They also all love to exploit and kill animals.

I believe this is only first of a series of videos about the keto diet

these people are a joke at best.......... millions are getting cancer and heart attacks from this Atkins= Keto cult of fools.

@jim young lol@ even funnier - Dairy Fairy

You ever been to the farm mr blob ?

@@s7r49 My comment was not blasting the people doing the keto diet. My excitement is because I am studying for my masters in nutrition and I respect Dr. Greger's opinion greatly. I have been waiting for his keto videos for a long time to hear and contemplate his opinion to further my knowledge in my field of expertise. Thanks for sharing your story, depression and Crohns are two very serious afflictions and I am happy that you have turned your life around. No matter what dietary pattern we follow, we can respect each other and wish each other well. Good luck on your proposal! My finacee and I are getting married next month. :)

In case you didn't know, Dr Greger is doing a series of videos (4 if i can remember correctly) on the keto diet, be on the lookout for those because it's impossible to do a thorough analysis in one video.

Miguel Mora probably because the majority of people aren’t vegan and aren’t keto, and the majority of the people who are vegan, are also not keto. But the people who are keto consume lots of animal products, which is why when discussing keto the focus is on the regular animal based keto diet.

Well it did say that cancers feed on ketones, a vegan ketosis is making ketones all the same, as energy, which feeds cancer all the same I would assume. However you aren't consuming carcinogenic substances that would cause the molecular damage that leads to cancers.

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@@80slimshadys Can't wait for the others, lol. Been on the keto bandwagon a few years ago, wasn't a fun ride i'm afraid.

I have had a nearly identical effect and came about it by accident. Around my last birthday I finally went for a checkup which I dreaded because so many aspects of my health were just plummeting. I got the lecture about diet and exercise from my doctor and a whole list of issues coming back from my blood panels and other metrics. High BP, high heart rate, peripheral neuropathy, sleep apnea, severe allergies, massive weight gain, and so on. That very day I sat down and started taking notes about myself and how my health has changed over the years. I focused on being more sedentary, drinking too much beer, and always feeling hungry despite being able to chow down on a full 1lbs. box of pasta whenever I felt like it. It came to me and without any research on dieting or nutrition that one particular food that I enjoyed eating and made semi-regularly was chili. It is something I can eat on repeat, keeps me full, and I love spicy food. At that point I focused on maintaining a calorie deficit (again, I didn't think of diets or nutrition but purely the physical reality of eating less than I am expending.) Chili also worked out great because I could make big pots of it and just measure out a consistent portion that I would have each day. (Chili w/o beans btw.) Almost immediately I started noticing changes. I didn't have a scale. I didn't check my BP or pulse. I didn't take notes about myself. I felt that just keeping up with my own personal chili diet will let me know based on how I feel. I can literally write pages of little things that I had already started to notice: more energy, better sleep, no vertigo, reduced allergies, not feeling cold and clamy when hungry, ... the list goes on. I *needed* to know why and started doing the very things that I originally felt I didn't need to do: research on dieting and nutrition. I immediately learned that I had inadvertently put my body in a state of ketosis. That was eight months ago and from that point and through today (which is why I even found this channel) I have been researching non-stop. I am 46 and have been on a rather strict keto/whole food diet (around 10-15g/day of carbs or less.) I feel *amazing*. During the holidays I saw friends and family that I hadn't seen in awhile and nearly everyone at some point told me that I look healthier, happier, stronger, etc. and not just because I looked like I had lost some (a lot) of weight. It was around this time too that I even had cashiers at some of the local markets comment or ask me about what I was doing differently. That really started to motivate me so I said screw it and bought a scale, fitness watch, some basic exercise equipment, etc. I haven't felt this healthy and energetic since I was a teenager and feeling that way literally eating all of the foods I've been told my whole life are bad for me or only good in small quantities. A typical day for me foodwise is: Breakfast: black coffee Lunch: 4-6 eggs (different styles,) 2-3oz cheese, and 1/4lbs of bacon, "bullet" coffee Dinner: 10oz NY strip, a cup each of sauteed mushrooms and vegetables, and a bottle of dry red wine Even with all of that I still haven't stabilized and am still losing weight. %90+ of my medical issues are just gone and the rest are much milder. If this is "unhealthy," I am *fine with that*. I don't believe that though... the unhealthy part.

@@Sybaris_Rex It's great that you're feeling better. But a whole bottle of wine every day? That pauses ketosis while your liver filters out the alcohol content. Also, what kind of chili do you eat? I'd imagine you make it yourself, because even chili with no beans from the supermarket has loads of carbs and a lot of them even have trans fats, which we need to stay FAR away from.

They all ready have changed. This guy is a dinosaur.

Until you die prematurely, whole food grains beans nuts fruits and vegetables and soy too which is a legume that fight prostate and breath cancers,

How is green veggies and berries keto?..they dont have any fat.

Mung Bean i get the fed state part, but why protein? Your brain runs on glucose

Exactly! Who cares if you lost weight, reversed diabetes or cured cancer by eating keto? Are you going to listen to your own insignificant anecdotal experience or the official vegan science??

IAmAgainst Glad you agree! We want to know what the science says, not random anecdotes from people on the internet!

Yes, let the science speak and be put out there. No issues there. Let the scientist have a ball doing their thing with the numbers, but when one person puts a certain lifestyle such as keto (Which is a whole food diet that includes lots of veggies contrary to what people believe about keto) "to the test" on their body and sees real solid results (As verified through testing with their primary care physician) on weight loss, type 2 diabetes reversal (See Sarah Hallberg clinical trial), reduction in inflammation, etc. etc. that they haven't been able to achieve with anything else, then don't rain on their success and throw the term "anecdote" out there at them. They are having real success, and it works for them. It may not work for everybody, but works for them. Cheers!

To be fair... Dr greger said its a treatment for the sick, not a diet for the general public. Your case truly falls into the former. also, you should continue to educate yourself. It sounds like you avoid symptoms but ignore the underlying cause. This will bite you sooner or later. Look up gojiman - a channel on gut health from a guy who could only eat like 2 foods because his gut was basically destroyed from antibiotics. There might be something you can learn for your problems.

Interesting! I had a very similar experience when I went vegan for a few months. The grains spikes my arthritis so bad to the point to where I could barely walk (And I run half marathons quite frequently). I couldn't tolerate the legumes either. So I switched to keto, and was able to achieve things that I couldn't achieve with any other diet. Cheers!

Why do so many people assume a WFPB diet _requires_ grains and beans? Sure, that route is easy and inexpensive, but all plants have _some_ protein, even cabbage. And the protein needed by an adult is relatively low. And if you need more protein, eat seeds. There are a lot of "pseudo-grain" seeds: quinoa, wild rice, buckwheat, millet, etc. And hemp seeds are high in protein, as is nutritional yeast.

If you ask your question directly on his site, nutritionfacts.org, someone on staff will respond to you there : )

Dr. Greger has a series coming up on fasting. Autophagy will almost certainly be covered.

True, vegans have scientific evidence, ketogenic fans just have dogma. (Except for proven short-term weight loss. But a whole food plant based diet also promotes weight loss.)

YEAH KETO CREW IS BAD! VEGANS ARE GOOD! VEGANS HAVE EVIDENCE! WE'RE BETTER! THEM BAD, US GOOD! LET'S GET OUR IDENTITY WRAPPED UP IN OUR DIETARY CHOICES! Bunch of egoic idiots in these comments.

@@broddr ketogenic dogma? im curious then why was ketogenics used to treat patients with epilepsy? why is the US military using keto esthers for their navy seals? why is keto the MOST searched diet in google? why do most people who research and follow it properly lose more weight then eating a vegan diet, have a better quality of life due to being able to do more then having to feed every couple hours like most vegans, but last do you even understand what a keto diet is? cuz a lot of people have this impression of what it is and they are 100% wrong.

D Scholtz -- a ketogenic diet for epilepsy has a 40% drop out rate. That's for people (mostly children) for whom this diet can literally be lifesaving. For the average person, the dropout rate is much higher. And after they go back to their previous eating habits, they gain all that weight back. And scientific studies, both controlled feeding and observational, show that the ketogenic diet and a vegan diet have essentially identical weight loss results. And you do realize that anyone eating three meals per day and a snack or two is "eating every few hours." That's not unique to a whole food plant based diet. And the Navy is using keto esters to combat oxygen toxicity from extended deep dives. Not as a diet, or even as a regular supplement. Nice try at over generalizing. A plant based diet has hundreds of scientific studies that show many significant health benefits. Other than "bro science" the only positive scientific results for a ketogenic diet are fewer seizures for epileptics (are you an epileptic?) and short term weight loss. No doubt _some_ people who try a ketogenic diet keep the weight off. But that's true of any diet that moves people away from the high fat, high sugar standard American diet.

Yes, fasting certainly does help kill cancer (or stop it's growth). Keto is the only diet that truly facilitates intermittent fasting for longer periods.

I see what you did there😏

Do you have any studies that show that keto is good for cancer patients?

@@happygimp0 I'm not the person you should be asking. I would suggest you refer back to Dr David Jockers, who has the studies you want

@@happygimp0 I don't think that that is within the scope of his claim. Greater clarification is required.

@Lysander Dusseljee Nutritionfacts claims that there is no evidence showing that keto is good for people with cancer. David Turner says he disagrees and that some forms of the keto diet are good for cancer patients, so i want to see evidence for that.

@@happygimp0 I see your name precedes your purpose. Are you really that lazy? Cough up with the dosh and put your money where your mouth is