Anyone here on ketogenic diet ?

Somehow I find it hard to see Neanderthals, who lived up to 40, to be role models for present humans. I would not be surprised that their short life span was also caused by illnesses due malnutrition and poor diet lacking vegetables and fruits which are predominantly made of carbs. I don't believe that they avoided carbs. Those living closer to the equator surely devoured bananas and pineapples - the same way apes do to this day. Those living further from the equator, during harsh winter, perhaps went keto but it must have been miserable for them.

 

My understanding is that a healthy person in ketosis does not go into a hypoglycemic state unless they are significantly physically active for long enough that they burn up the free sugars in the bloodstream.

This is called 'crashing.' Your body simply cannot create blood sugars fast enough to sustain more than low to moderate physical activity when in ketosis.

Even when you are in a carb-heavy diet, your body cannot keep up with high levels of physical activity for long. The difference being that when you are NOT in ketosis, your liver acts as a 'sugar battery' for your body, and can supply hours of sugar for high levels of activity, but once the liver is empty, you will crash. Marathon runners, long distance bikers, and endurance swimmers can tell you all about this.

 

Our ancestors died of old age much younger than us because they had no meaningful understanding of health care at all.

Compare human longevity to medical advances, and you will see startling parallels.

 

That's good, I'd hope that worked for everyone, although there seem to be mixed results with it, based on the individual, which is why it's a medically supervised diet, conventionally. In the topic about hypoglycemia, I was referencing more info, where they mention that "starvation hypoglycemia is frequently seen", and "similar accelerated starvation occurs in lean compared to obese individuals, in adult women compared to adult men, in children compared to adults, and in pregnant and lactating women compared to non‐pregnant women". This may not be the norm, but it doesn't seem to be uncommon either.

 

My point is that human beings are living the longest, and perhaps relatively the healthiest at present time. I think that part of it has to do with food accessibility. Even as recent as a century ago, in western civilization, having food on a table was not taken for granted. Advances in food technology eliminated hunger at the cost of obesity and all the illnesses that come with it. Imagine that we are all going paleo or keto - reject grains and starches - food would become scarce again. The problem is with eating habits and lifestyles that changed forever. In 1920s, working class fathers of four or five performing menial work for 15 hours a day did not have problems with obesity, neither their kids. Having bread and butter on their table every day was blessed and a good thing.

 

Tge examples provided are only common sense. Obese people have more stored energy than lean. The female body is designed to survive environmental extremes and times of shortage that men will not. Children use a lot more energy per unit body mass because they are growing. Pregnant and lactating women are feeding a growing child as well as their own dietary needs.

The ketogenic diet is NOT for everyone. However, it is a natural state for us. In modern times, in industrialized nations, it is a state that most of us only enter voluntarily.

 

Was this common sense? I don't know, but it cracked me up.

 

If you are on a very low carb diet, this can have an element of truth.

 

Yeah... not pooping regularly is no fun and cannot be healthy.

 

So on the one hand you don't want to poop too much, but on the other you should poop enough... hmm, I think I'll wash my hands.