Chad wrote:The next step is putting myself in ketosis. I'm probably fairly close right now (usually supposed to eat less than 25g carbs per day), but I won't know until I buy the proper stuff to test it. I don't know if ketosis will work for me or not, but I really like my current diet which is close. Also, it might just be too much of a pain in the ass to follow, but I'm interested to find out.
brute finds it not that bad. basically he just had to cut out rice, and brute was eating a lot of rice before (with WD).
chad can still eat almost all vegetables (just not the starchy ones like potatoes). some people eat berries, but brute thinks berries are a waste of time, more a dessert than real food, so he's too lazy to buy them.
brute is also very excited about the next few years in nutritional sciences. there are many interesting things being studied with regards to ketosis, and many of the prevalent myths about ketosis have been disproven in recent studies. for example, it's now been shown that in elite endurance athletes (who used to "carb load" all the time), they can actually perform just as well on a ketogenic diet - one just needs to give them a few weeks to adapt to ketosis. previously, it was thought that humans needed carbs to perform athletic feats. turns out, the studies were just badly designed, because they only lasted a few days.
the effects of ketosis on other conditions like some types of cancer, diabetes, blood pressure, depression, sleep disorders, and more, is also interesting.
brute really believes that many humans are designed by evolution to run on ketone bodies for large parts of their lives - be it through intermittent fasting throughout the day (Warrior Diet), eating mostly animal products in the winter when no plants would grow, or just generally being a hunting-focused culture.
quite clearly many people run fine on carbs. and others tolerate them very well, or at least some types of carbs. but seeing how many people react when they switch to keto, it's a total "a-ha" moment where it seems like a lightbulb is going off - "oh, this is how the body's supposed to work! no more hunger, no more cravings, no more acid reflux, no more insomnia, no more depression".