Hey y'all, thanks for watching the vid! A few supplemental thoughts... I will absolutely cop to going with an oversimplified and provocative title here. Sometimes it's easy to sum up a 13-minute piece of content in a few words that people will actually want to click on, and sometimes it's not. You usually either need to sacrifice nuance or clickability, and anyone who makes content for a living constantly struggles with the reality that you can't inform anyone if you don't get their attention, and you can't express your entire piece in a headline (because if you could, there'd be no reason to keep writing beyond the headline). But, if you've watched the video, I think you'll understand that the basic message is this: If you're a typical over-fed First Worlder (like me), any diet that gets you out of caloric surplus and replaces junk foods with nutrient-dense ones is probably gonna be great for you. The sense in which I'm calling keto "stupid" here is very narrow - many (most?) people who think they're doing keto aren't actually eating few enough carbs to be in ketosis, and there is not (yet) scientific literature proving that keto has therapeutic benefits for metabolic syndrome beyond those conferred generally by losing weight and eating less junk. The sense in which I'm calling the raw diet "stupid" is narrow - many of its proponents call it a more "natural" diet, which is in conflict with the weight of anthropological opinion, they often fail to consider reductions in bioavailability of nutrients from raw foods, and they often fail to consider the safety implications of eating raw. The sense in which I'm calling paleo diets "stupid" is similarly narrow - many of its proponents call it a more "natural" diet, which is in conflict with the weight of anthropological opinion. I think the science and history behind all of that stuff is interesting, and I thought you would too, so I made a vid about it. That's all!

I was disappointed to learn that the keto diet is not one based entirely on ketamine

This is why I'm on the Pleistocene Diet. Walking all day while foraging for greens, nuts, fruit, and eggs, and intermittent high speed cardio sprints when chased by predators. Fun times!

One time I went to a raw food presentation and the lady was like "I'm so healthy, guess how old I am" And I guessed 50... she was 50 and got mad.

I worked at costco for a while and saw "keto" on so many packagings that i thought it was just a food company

Why I’m on the white wine diet and not the paleo diet

“Why I digest my food in my pot, not my stomach”

I’m a firm believer in the Cooking Hypothesis. Our relatively weak jaws, small digestive tracts, and gigantic energy-consuming brains basically REQUIRE cooking to get enough calories.

I’m an undergrad chem and micro bio student. One time a vitamin store lady tried to sell me “liquid ketons” for “supporting a keto diet” while trying to convince me my creatine was killing me. I told her to go back to school.

"Why I eat my meal raw and then throw myself in the oven."

The problem with a raw diet is that they didn't dial it back far enough. You have to eat your meat while it's alive.

I was tired of being fat so I decided to change my life. I didn't really follow any well known diet out there, neither went to a nutritionist (which is not recommended), I only stopped eating processed food, gluten and refined sugar. I started to eat fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs, and I started doing exercises everyday. I lost 55lb and I am feeling really good with myself. People should stop trying to do "the perfect diet" and just start eating healthier, it is not that complicated.

I come from Ghana and I use to eat salad and I didn't have to hide anywhere to eat my salad. We also eat raw wild mushrooms called tweahrodo. We eat raw tomoteos by grinding pepper with the tomoteos and some salt which serve as sauce for our dear kenkey

I heard a nutritionist once say "The best diet is the one that you can see yourself following for the rest of your life" and bruh the way that hit me. Like, I can't give up pizza, lord knows it, but I can limit it to every second saturday. That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I like sugary coffee but only one cup before 12 also sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The way to eat healthier is maybe to just, you know, eat healthier.

"Cooking is an inherently social act." Me in my kitchen at 3 in the morning making a grilled cheese sandwich by myself in my underwear: Doubt

I got diagnosed with IBS a year and a half ago, realized my gut really hates gluten and since i cut out eating bread, pasta and junk food i lost like 20 lbs. Not a fancy diet or expensive supplements that do nothing long term. Once i stopped eating things that made me feel ill i naturally started to lean towards eating healthier and more balanced meals. I dont really exercise much aside from walking around at work. The change in eating habits is really the only thing i can attribute to my weight loss.

One of the biggest benefits of keto is the knowledge of where carbs are sneaking in all over the place. It also forces you to cook more and exert more control as a result. Completely cutting the habit of sugary drinks for a few months can allow you to actually enjoy unsweetened beverages like sparkling water. These days I bake fresh bread everyday, but doing low carb for a while was enlightening.

She seems very well-educated and interesting, but someone named Dr. Ham talking about a cooking hypothesis is on of the funniest things I’ve ever heard in my life

Cooked food feeds better in minecraft, that's the science. No apologies

Keto is dumb because, "let's face it, pasta and bread are pretty cool." Sound dietary logic there, I'm sold.

I did try a keto diet a couple of years ago, i eventually stopped due to not being able to deal with the restrictions, but honestly? I felt amazing during that time. My body just doesnt really like those short chain carbs like sugars and starches,they make me feel like crap- Still i've been eating like that forever now.

re: the paleo diet, the local healthfood store carries a very delicious brand of paleo/vegan ice cream, it's wonderful but like, I'm certain no caveman ever enjoyed a bowl of salted caramel ice cream :)

“Why I season my stone club and not my mammoth steak”

While I would agree in calling raw and paleo stupid, seems the justification for calling keto stupid was pretty inconsistent.

I think maybe the notion that raw food = healthier and more natural in some people's heads might come from the fact that they associate "cooked" with fried and/or otherwise processed. I never went on a specific diet but I had this episode when I felt like a big portion of what I was cooking was just things thrown into hot oil in a pan, not to mention what I was eating outside home. But the key to solving that is, more likely than cutting out all "heat processed" foods, simply making yourself aware of that fact and eating more things like broths, stews or oven baked foods and limiting the pre-packaged processed junk. After all, with today's non stick pans it's very possible to get your food golden and crispy with minimum grease

Adam: gets a brand new kitchen remodel Also Adam: cooks outside with a campfire

Expert: “cooking is a social act” Me: “if everyone doesn’t get out of my kitchen right now I WILL stab someone!”

Honestly, i'm a full-blown keto nerd/advocate, but this video is 100% spot on. Most people just cannot stick to a 60/35/5 ratio of fat/protein/carbs (at 1600 daily cals, that's only 20g carbs per day. that's difficult unless you obsess over it). It's pretty hard to eat that way long-term if you don't have a taste for it. But I've found that, for my specific body, if I *do* stick to that macro ratio, I shred weight like nobody's business. All of that being said, I've never actually consulted with a physician about any of this. My dad *was* a very rotund man (5'7 and pushing 250lbs) and doctors told him to switch to full-time low-carb. And it worked wonders for him. He got to 150lbs in like 18 months and he's still trucking. Luckily i'm made of half his genetics so it works for me as well lol. And to add another caveat, I only do strict keto when i'm trying to cut weight. If i'm just maintaining or if i don't care, then i'll eat moderate carbs but I always make sure they're "complex" and coming from something like whole grains or beans or actual vegetables

Keto may not be necessary nor particularly achievable, but I definitely benefited from going low carb/ high fat in an attempt at keto. I lost all the aches and pains in my joints within about 3 weeks. The reason it wasn't sustainable for me is that I also lost 15 pounds in about 2 months, which at a starting BMI of 19, I could not afford to lose. It could definitely be good for someone trying to lose weight to simply aim for Keto, even if they just achieve low carb/high fat.

So this just confirming what I've always known. Soup is king. Long live soup

If I were in Ghana and surrounded by all those stews, fresh food, home cooked meals and ripe fruit, I would NOT be missing my salads.

I have fibromyalgia and I thank God for Keto. Not only does the diet change drastically reduce pain but because it became popular creative home cooks have come up with amazing recipes!!! Especially considering what an average person was coming up with in the beginning. Then stores stared carrying almond and coconut flour, now they have cassava and tiger nut flour- I can find cassava spaghetti or bow tie, etc noodles, it’s just fantastic and I’m so grateful 🙏🙏🙏

The point about some diets being good because they limit your intake of fast food reminded me of the origins of homeopathy. It was a complete health plan where you stopped doing a lot of unhealthy stuff and started doing a lot of healthy stuff (including drinking a lot of water and dropping alcohol in times where drinking clean water wasn't as easy as it is now). So of course it had a lot of positive results. People nowadays sell only the "dilluted poison" part of the diet, which unfortunately is by far the less useful part.

Some beans are actually toxic if not cooked.

Also food actually tastes good after you cook it.

I had a cousin on keto demand (and get by another family member just to shut her whining up) a trip to the store for a new Caesar salad with no croutons. I'd brought one as my dinner contribution and she refused to pick out the croutons as the crouton dust touched the romaine🤦‍♀️ Last time I brought anything for dinner.

Here's a part of this that nobody talks about. What if you're on one of these diets for a couple years, and you find yourself in a situation where you can't follow it anymore? Like, you can no longer afford fresh vegetables, or meat in the case of keto diets. All of a sudden, your body has to get used to everything being processed and canned. It happens to people all the time.

“Coffee aint allowed in raw or paleo diets which is reason enough to call them stupid.” .... Amen Adam.

“Cooking is a social act” I get anxious if someone comes into the kitchen while I cook

This video reminded me of a fitness myth that in some places is still relevant, the idea of eating raw eggs to get more protein from them, when in reality your body absorbs more if you cook it.

My dog is evolving, I buy him a pack hot dogs and he prefers them cooked now. I used to give him a little of both, but now if I give him a raw one he won't eat it. So I cook it and my sister started putting a piece of cheese on it and now he wants that as well. My neighbor has a dog like that as well he gives him chicken nuggets but won't take it till you dip it in the sauce.

I find it funny how her name is Dr. Ham when she's talking about food

I've always found paleo (the worldview, not necessarily the foods people eat on the diet) ridiculous because a) it imposes a single, global diet on human ancestors who lived in vastly different climates without global supply chains, and b) it assumes that our bodies haven't evolved over millennia.

Honestly it's way easier for my brain to go "don't eat carbs" and stick to that for my cuts than for me to just cut junk food, way easier to justify a burger king stop when I'm hungry and not on keto as my job is mainly on the road as apposed to just saying nope to all of it

Imagine being the first dude to cook a bird. People like “omg, Grog, what are you doing? Wait…that smell bomb! Pass the hot sauce”

So what you're telling me is *Don't* take a huge bite out of a raw chicken breast? Unfortunate. There goes all of my plans tomorrow.

Well this ought to be an interesting comment section

Thanks for clearing this as i've been doing LowCarb for a year now. Will choose as much as i can the natural cooked foods and less of ultra-processed foods. And see how my body reacts. Thanks

Overall: finally someone I can agree on KZfaq about the fads that periodically sweep the globe under various names! It was getting frustrating coming across those Drs and coaches just to catch them on errors they shouldn't make. THANKS!

Since I've taken up home cooking, my pants have become very noticeably looser. Haven't even been going to the gym or anything, I just started cooking my own food with fresh ingredients. Good stuff.

This channel started with a video on pizza and now is informing me on history, agriculture and anthropology.. Amazing

"Cooking is an inherently social act." As I am eating the food I cooked for myself with no one else around. 😅

This channel reminds me so much of Good Eats and I love it! Awesome research man, keep it up

As a Keto recipe channel. I'm not offended at all by this video.

i tried your galette recipe today replacing the strawberries with mangoes. it ended up replacing the cake for my mom's birthday. it was absolutely delightful.

I love that he says that coffee not being allowed is reason enough for these diets to be stupid. I couldn’t agree more! Coffee is amazing and massively underrated for the great benefits it has for our bodies (in moderation of course)

I personally never liked the idea of restricting myself to only one diet. What has worked for me is just eating the same foods I always eat, but with a calorie deficit. 6 pounds in 4 weeks so far, hoping to go down more soon. Sometimes it really is about portion control. Update: I've gone down from 156lbs to 139lbs over the last few months but honestly I'm just miserable because I miss eating a lot lol, but that's just a me thing.

Why i eat my meal raw and light my self on fire

I appreciate how you're not just a recipe channel, but a more science based all-things-food type of channel. Keep up the good work.

Hello Adam! I am very fond of your videos and watch many of them with great pleasure. I appreciate greatly that you go through the trouble of researching the science behind them. This time, however, while I agree with some of the points you make in the video, a small mention of the benefits of low-carb nutrition would have made your entire point more nuanced. For people with insulin-dependent diabetes, for example, be it type 1 or 2 but especially type 2, adhering to a low-carb diet may improve their situation greatly (similarly to the calorie in - calorie out priciple, you could also argue there is a carbs in - insulin needed principle). By reducing the total amount of carbs, we also reduce the amount of insulin needed, and since insulin stores sugar, we also reduce the total amount of sugar stored in the body. A low carb diet works for lots of diabetics. If you are interested in knowing more about the topic, my boss and a colleague of mine are researching this topic intensely (I am merely repeating the inexact gist of what I have heard from them) and I could ask them for more exact references on this topic (they are both clinical nephrologists involved in research). Please keep up your good work!

I basically eat raw because I can't be bothered to cook all the many carrots I eat.

I love it how he says "Keto actually works but people are stupid".

In Ghana we do have our own version of salads, though it's much richer. That picture also doesn't do us justice but I won't deny that there are villages like that here.

I would like to share my personal experience with keto, I tried to do it at the start of the [what was current world event] and actually did fine for a couple of months, but I generally live with family and got tired of having to not eat some of the things they made, granted I also knew how raw unhealthy some were, like pancakes and syrup, yes tasty, but so much carbs and sugar. Regardless I just got tired of trying, then one year passes, and I want to try it again, but realize I need to do a lot of research to actually convince some family members, that yes this is good for me, and yes we should have vegetables in the house. Then, a while later I get a standard health check-up, the one where they weigh you, and I was like 430 pounds if memory serves, it was not a place I wanted to be, over 400 is just kind of the limit for anyone rational, and I knew a diet I had researched quite a bit about, deeming that yes keto would do the job for me, and after some mess of 6 months, I did in fact lose 100 lbs in 6 months, and I was doing a very scuffed version admittedly, it could have been way better, but regardless, I did it, and still am on it, as it works for my body, and will continue to do so, to reach even lower numbers. Heres to the future.

As a carnivore I encourage you all to follow Adams instructions to eat mass production grains, homogenised dairy, and very tasty fully or semi-processed foods… that way my meat prices will be lower … don’t feel bad about eating natures cardboard (wheat/rice) and help the Dow Jones index out by consuming your favourite corporate edible products.

Also: let's not make our diets our identities. It takes away the flexibility to try new things and listen to our bodies

Adams biceps are either getting larger, or he's buying smaller shirts.

I dunno, I dived a bit into Keto only because I was a terrible sugar addict and I really want to get away with that

I once tried keto for one month. And in the last days of that month i literally dreamed of slice of white bread. I craved for that.

I walked into a coffee shop and got a coffee without sugar. The barista asked me if I "was keto". Honestly, I was just trying to avoid added sugar. That stuff kills.

"[M]ore can be dedicated to other activities, like designing ziggurats or new and terrible ways to kill each other..." Aztecs: "What do you mean, 'or'?"

woow, I never considered cooking as pre-digestion, thats actually eye opening :)

I’m already very thin, but I want to eat better to feel better. Sugary and oily foods (canola and other seed oils) make me feel good at first but make me feel sick later, so I’ve been eating less of those and listening to my body. I also eat less highly processed foods. Notice I say less, and not completely cut it out. (I love my Tillamook ice cream on occasion) I don’t follow a specific diet because it feels too restricting. I have ended up eating more food in quantity because I’m already skinny and need the extra calories from low calorie food. Foods like chips and soda are gross to me now. It’s crazy how much your taste changes when you eat better. I ate a taco bell taco because a friend had brought them for a picnic and it tasted so oily and gross.

Me watching this while munching on my 4 frozen Thin Mints: "Yeah, you tell 'em, Adam!"

A friend of mine suffers from epilepsy esince her childhood. She tried various meds, nothing helped until she started a keto diet about a year ago. And like you said, Not what most people think of keto. No she really needs to meassure everything extremely acurate. She needs to cook every meal by herself and cant buy something from a store or restaurant. It is a lot of work, but it really helps her!

Pretty good video. Though I think the keto diet plan is a little weird. I know people who have tried it and that you should keep below 20g of carbs but you don't need to have such a strange eating plan. You can also combine it with intermittent fasting for better results which means you can eat more sensible portions in 1-2 meals. Personally I find adding cream to coffee is a great way to increase fats for the day or use more cooking oils or healthy meats. I am trying a keto diet myself starting next week.

As a former custodian, I am an expert at sweeping generalizations, too: 218# to 168# and avoided T2DM with LCHF.

"Cooking is an inherently social act." - Me, staring at the microwave while listening to this video: - 'Kay.'

Adams been keeping us informed and getting jacked at the same time. Quarantine well spent

I follow accidentally a paleo diet. I am intolerant to many grains (cereals, maize) and some legumes (particullary soy). Also, I have fatty liver, so I try not to eat sugar, fruit, honey or alcohol. Also, I dont eat vegetable oils (I am from Spain and here is considered disgusting, we used olive oil or pork fat, despite restaurants and industrial companies use it, like sunflower, corn, soy or canola). Sometimes I eat potatoes. Therefore, the only non "paleo" food I eat is milk (which I am not intolerant to surprisingly). I even dont eat vegetables or fruits because it feels so hard to digest for me. I have several gut issues. I had been following this plan for three years (since I was 26) and I am so good, but is introducing vegetables, grains, fruit, alcohol, legumes or sugar in my diet and then I die of gut issues. The only thing that works for me is meat, organs, blood, eggs, dairy products, fish, olive oil and maybe some spices or chocolate.

I can really tell when Adam's journalism expertise comes out. Videos like this have a great balance of narration, interjection and interviews, much like a good documentary

As a Ghanaian, I think that Dr. Ham is going slightly too far by saying "food in Ghana is considered to be cooked." She correctly notes that Ghanaian meals are cooked, but to use a syllogism: while all meals are food, not all food is a meal. It's common in Ghana to eat fruit raw. Fruit on its own isn't considered a meal, but we do commonly eat mangos, avocados, bananas, pineapples, etc, without cooking. To my mind, most cultures around the world eat raw fruit when it is available. Which makes sense, since compared to vegetables they have relatively more simple carbs and fewer complex carbs, so a lot of their stored energy is available prior to any type of processing. I don't want to be nitpicky with this comment, as Dr. Ham is pretty close to being right. A lot of the Ghanaian diet is stews, soups, and cooked starches legumes and vegetables. Especially compared to the diet of someone in, say, California, we cook our ingredients a lot more often. But we do enjoy raw fruit as well. : )

I’ve tried them all, mostly, and Paleo works the best for me. Stomach flattens down and I never feel bloated. I think it’s best to use the term “paleo” lightly, and just consider it a low-carb, grain & legume-free diet. You’re basically just eating meat and vegetables, which is inherently healthy and almost impossible to gain weight on

My favourite line, it's not the diet you're on, it's the calories you consume. Wanna lose weight, eat less calories

I'm a general practice P.A. here in the U.S., and when the topic of weight loss or food choices comes up, the first thing I tell my patients is that even the "nutrition experts" can't agree on what's actually right. I tell them to look for the things that are in common among several of the more successful dietary models, and that always brings us to getting rid of sweet beverages, greatly reducing or eliminating stuff that we all intuitively recognize as "junk foods", dropping the starchy side dish off your dinner plate most of the time (or keeping the portion size no bigger than an egg), avoiding sweet stuff in general, eating a bigger variety of veggies and greens than you have been, drinking more water than you have been, trying to get more deliberate sleep time in bed than you have been, and adding some form of deliberate exercise to your weekly routine (doesn't matter what it is, as long as it gets you a little out of breath and sweating for a good 20-30min or more, and is just for the health of it, SEPARATE from your normal daily activity). It's real easy to overthink things.

Everyone in my household wanted to lose weight and we decided to just go for it together on New Years so we can all eat the same meals and no special shopping or tempting things, we tossed around the idea of keto, among other things, but looking it up so many advocates made it all seem so complicated and extreme. But ultimately just settled for getting rid of the processed frozen foods, take-out, and refined carbs & sugar- no bread, pasta, white rice, pancakes, etc. and no sodas or juices except some crystal lite with dinner. We'd still eat fruit, yogurt & cottage cheese (homemade, no added sugar), oatmeal, legumes, nuts, seeds, and lots of veggies so we got plenty of nutrition and healthier carbs. We didn't restrict meat, not in portion or in type, or fats, but honestly without all the refined carbs & sugars we didn't eat as much of them; seems putting stuff on bread, rice, pasta just causes you to eat more of it overall, IDK why. Long story short, we have all lost weight, one person lost 16 lbs. Last weekend we had a birthday party so we had our old carby foods and cake, but after we finished them a few days later we all just wanted to go back to keeping the white flour/refined/overprocessed/sugary foods out of the house. It's nice for a holiday or treat occasionally but we all just feel better overall without it every day. I think the best "diets" are not to think of them as temporary but as a permanent lifestyle you can manage.

nothing beats eating, training, fasting, sleeping and having fun as a hunter gatherer

I lost a bunch of weight on the Atkins diet (basically Keto), but it's pretty much impossible to stick with. No bread, pasta, or sugar. It gets old quick. Just a good way to lose a quick 20lbs.

When she talked about Ghana I was reminded of another fact that makes cooking instrumental to human welbeing, especially in tropical regions. Raw food, especially different meats are often carrying parasites. Thorougly cooking and seasoning food makes it much safer to eat. This maybe one reason why peoples in warm climates tend to have develpoed cuisines that are much heaver flavoured than in colder climates. This may also be the original reason for pigs being forbidden to eat in middle Eastern cultures.

You know you’re living the high life if you can use your garden hose water for cooking.

I remember a friend of mine in college decided to junp on the raw diet, he looked awful after a couple months, he was sick constantly (flu, colds, indigestion, food poisoning etc.) he gave up after about a year or so and as soon as he went back to cooked food most of his ailments went away

As someone who did a keto diet and validated it with blood strips tests, it wasn't particularly difficult to stay on ketosis. If I ate plenty of fats, I can eat up to 50g of net carbs and still be in ketosis mode. 50g is a decent amount. A burger with buns has about 35 net carbs. The trick was to eat plenty of fats. You don't need to be OCD to stay on keto. You just have to plan several meals you love that are low carbs. For me, that was stir fry meats with veggies, hot pot, both with lots of pork/beef belly meat. They were delicious and I didn't feel like I was missing out from the lack of carbs. For your assertion that the only scientific benefit of keto is seizure control in children, there are many known benefits for mood and energy. Check out the book Brain Energy by Chris Palmer, a Harvard psychiatrist

The notion that our ancestors didn't eat grain or legumes before agriculture never made any sense to me. Are we to assume that, out of the blue, people started cultivating plants they had never eaten before? I seriously doubt it. Surely they started cultivating plants that they had been eating all along.

As someone from the UK, it was shocking to me just how many foods in the US had additional sugar crammed into their list of ingredients. Bread was noticeably sweeter. High fructose corn syrup seems like a standard additive in many processed foods. And very sugary drinks are consumed by grown adults as a sort of regular staple! I think there's something about the output of the US food industry which is especially lipogenic. So any diet, fad or otherwise, which results in people eating significantly less sugar is going to be a good thing.

This is interesting. Especially seing this like 6 months after I took almost 6-9 month of keto like diet to lose weight. I went to doctor, who weighted me, and I found myself to be 110kg. Given my size and corpulence, a more healthy weight would have been 90kg. But this triggered something in my brain "it's time to stop". Especially since I had back pains due to chronic disease. So I thinked that I really loved to much eating stuff (especially sweetened ones... come on chocolate cake, i'd not kill for you, but ALMOST)... I saw my wife take a keto diet and lose much weight, so I told myself that I should do it too. But I know this would be REALLY hard especially that when I'm down (which happens to everyone, but happened quite a lot to me) I really like eating some sweet stuff. This is not really healthy, but it really helps me at the end of the day to get myself a treat. It's like saying "your day is over, you did your best, here is your reward". And let's just say that even if I sticked to "only on the evening", some days, I had to be doing this earlier... The fuckening you know. Thus I knew that I could not stick to keto properly if I was not replacing theses treats by something else. Thus I did not start the diet right after. I kept eating the same, AND trying to find meals and "sweet things" that I could eat on the evening, good enought to reward myself, but not enought to break the diet. I has also the habit of drinking juice with nutella toast on the morning since I was like 6 ? Thus I needed to replace that too. I started trying keto pancakes but I found soon that it was meh... Thus after some time i'd swap back. And one day I found a good thing that I could eat both on the morning and on the evening. Then I though that I could not make the swap brutally or i'd fail too. Especially, it was on the point I could not drink water before getting my juice. Thus I started to move slowly : one day water. Then juice again until I could reach 1/2 juice, 1/2 water. From there it was easy to stop juice. I just started to stop buying, and I had no choice. I think the main reasons why almost all diet are so hard to stick is that people want do it brutally, then go back to old habits. Changing habits is REALLY hard. I think, even though that means you still get weight a bit, it's better, and easier to keep doing the old stuff, while trying to find "new healthy things" that we like, and then slightly swap to the diet. It's way easier to stick then, especially when the results kick in, and you're not on so "hard time" because of the diet, because you have a bad day, or because you're hungry. If I have one other advice to say to people : don't go buy groceries when you're hungry. It will help too.

I knew someone who had really good results on keto. I lived and worked with him for several months (team truck driving) and he was right, when he was in full keto mode he only slept like 4 hours a night and was always full of energy. It was weird, I was super skeptical at first but it really worked for him, for whatever reason.

It took me 30 years, 2 intestinal resections, and years of pure hell to realize, *I HAVE TO EAT COOKED FOODS !!!* Thank you for verifying my GUT instinct.

Dr. Ham that teaches cultural anthropology? Hot damn, that's perfect

Calling cooking pre digesting made me want to go on a raw diet

I only watched this video because of the keto aspect. I personally, think the keto diet is one of the best "Diets" out there, and isn't a fad... if you know what you are doing that is. You are very correct in the fact that it is very hard to do properly, and maintain. Most people don't even know how ketosis affects electrolyte imbalance, and makes you lose all excess water if you are doing it right. It makes it easy to get dehydrated. They also don't understand the concept of micronutrient management. But if people actually do their research, ketogenic diet is super beneficial if you have conditions like insulin resistance and are overweight. It is a hellava lot easier as a fat person, to transition to, than learning to work out 3 times a week plus cardio. Keto, also decreases your appetite by a ton. If anyone decides to give it a go, I very much recommend meal prep first and foremost. For supplements, take potassium citrate and magnesium citrate to help with electrolytes. As well as berberine, to aide in the transition. Learn about MCT oil, and why it's the best thing ever. Get organic meat, oil, butter and eggs. All vegetables should be green. 90% of your carbs will come from dairy, but you have to know what is good and what isn't. Be very careful with milk. You can eat things like tomatoes, but use a calorie/carb counter. It really is about the obsessive impulsive management in making it work. It becomes your entire focus. There is also the cyclitic keto diet which you can also look into. Where you eat carbs once every 7 days. (just make sure they are healthy).