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A human body enjoys ketones. Glucose is a fuel source for the human body, but ketones is even better.
Ketones are acids that your body makes when it breaks down fat for energy12. They are a backup energy source when your cells can't get enough glucose, which is the primary energy source32. When your body produces ketones, it enters a state of ketosis, which means it is burning fat instead of glucose1. Ketones can fuel your brain and body in the absence of glucose3.
I tried the keto diet, and after a few days felt weak. Maybe it's for younger people :)
You have to eat animal fat to replace the sugar carbs for energy.
I like the carnivore diet better. And, plenty of energy. Plus, you can eat as much as you want and always stay at a perfect weight. It's a life saver.
Just started carnivore today.
Congratulations! It'll change your life. 👏
And watch your protein synthesis slowly shut down as carbs are still needed to maintain and build muscle. There's a reason why athletes who try to be carnies don't stick with it for long, the longest I know of is a bodybuilder who kept it up for two years until his progress hit a wall and he could no longer grow and perform efficiently without at least a small amount of carbs in his diet, otherwise his energy and testosterone plummeted. If carnivore was the be all end all then you'd see if endorses by athletes everywhere and most of Mr Olypmia competitors would be doing it as well.
If you just want to be scrawny and struggle to lift your own body weight then carnie is for you.
Agreed
Only if you have a very small stomach to begin with. Carnies need to stop pretending that conservation of energy somehow doesn't apply if you don't eat any carbs, calories still matter and I have gained weight myself from eating multiple steak and chops a day, tracking calories is the only thing that has worked and the math doesn't really care what you're eating.
Very few people don't lose weight or reach an ideal weight with carnivore. You have to tweak it for yourself though. If you eat beef and salt only you will achieve your weight goals. Then add back some dairy if you want and see what happens.
My guess is you were eating more than just meat. Or your eating way too much fat (hard to do but maybe) or you didn't give it enough time to work.
Carnivore diet is strictly meat right? I eat lots of meat, little cheese, little bit of everything else. Idk if i can stick to a carnivore diet. I love soup and make soup every few weeks and freeze the batch for later consuption.
Yes way stricter than keto which is a major reason I don't do it, it looks boring AF and if it was so great then why are it's adherents so scrawny while none of the natural (and "enhanced") bodybuilders and athletes that I follow are doing it? It also doesn't help that the Carnies act as cultish as Crossfitters much of the time acting like it's the be all end all and everyone needs to convert to their thinking.
A high-protein diet is good for you, keeping your carbs in check is a healthy thing as well, much of what we've been told about fats are wrong as well. Also no one diet fits everyone's unique body, I know of some who built impressive physiques on high-carb diets but they were not eating tons of sugar they stuck to complex carbs and resistant starches. Sugars are carbs but not all carbs are sugars.
Carnivore is meat and dairy only. If you love your diet and feel good no need to change what you're doing.
I found the carnivore diet works best for me. It's not for everyone as it's pretty restrictive. People who are working on weight issues or have chronic disease have found it works wonders for both.
This makes me wonder if Eskimos were on a carnivore diet. Did they eat anything besides fish, blubber and snow?
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I don't think so. Most carnivores eat red meat primarily. Many will include all kinds of meats and all kinds of cuts. Many carnivores also include eggs and some dairy and even coffee in the their diets.
Ketones don't fuel your body or brain entirely. You create new glucose from protein on ketosis, enough to survive (good macros) or too much that kicks you back out of ketosis (too much protein).
You can never drop glucose in the body to zero.
Also, entering full ketosis can take a few days so you were likely feeling the effects of low glucose while not in ketosis.
It takes dedication to get into and stay in ketosis, it's definitely not for everyone. But if you do stick with it, you definitely should feel a lot more energetic.
The first time I entered full ketosis I had too much energy to sleep for a week.
Maybe it's more for the young :)
And a lot of other vitamins, expect to become folate deficient rather quickly like I did.
True enough, but my understanding is that ketones are a alternate pathway for fueling a body that is under stress and can't use the preferred glucose pathway. Living under stress and existing by compensatory means is, as a rule, not a good way to go.
Not saying pure sugar is good. It needs to be accompanied by other nutrients to allow the body to properly make use of it. Of course, as you say, cancer cells can take advantage of it too, so there is that.
Yep, take a look at the diets of the world's oldest people and the common factor is they were high in animal protein but nowhere nearly as low carb as keto.
If the human body preferred to run on ketones then it would run on them all the time, not have the liver only manufacture them when it runs out of glucose. Ketones are the emergency fuel.
You are misunderstanding what ketones are and do.
You have glucose in your body at all times. This is a non-starter argument. Your brain needs glucose.
If you do not have enough glucose in your body, your body synthesizes it via gluconeogenesis from protein.
Excess protein (read: grossly improper macros) can actually kick you out of ketosis because your body will synthesize too much of it.
Ketones also aren't strictly "better" on their own. Sugar in excess is simply bad for you, but the key is "excess".
Ultimately ketosis is a newfangled diet that has a ton of benefits, but it is not -- and has not been -- the norm for basically the entirety of civilization. There have always been source of sugars in our foods.
Where keto wins is escaping a lot of the excess sugars in our foods, because all of that excess sugar makes us hungry, sore from inflammation and lethargic -- more than likely a function of the insulin release than sugar itself.
But it should not be mistaken for ketones themselves being better than glucose, because your body simply needs a certain amount of glucose and it creates it whether you want it to or not.