Ketogenic style diets are not wonderful, they are extremely difficult diets to follow if you are doing them correctly and that is why you see so many people unable to sustain them consistently. But, if you are just sitting there eating buckets of "keto" branded junk and making "keto" recipes, then you will have a great time doing "keto", because you are not following a ketogenic diet correctly and it's showing at the fat mass (ass).
For you to be able to drop your carbohydrate grams to very low levels, on a daily basis, you need to give up traditional foods that you grew up on and are used to. Some of these foods may be a cultural custom, part of a religious doctrine, a family tradition, etc. Changing these dietary habits takes monumental effort and dedication, because dietary habits are one of the most intractable habits that a human being has. People can change just about anything in their lives, long term, except for dietary habits.
2. Can carbohydrate restriction help with infertility?
Unlike other blogs out there, I don’t overreach into subject matter that I’m not read thoroughly on. This blog is exclusively for metabolic health. Maybe if others took this same approach, better advice and information would be available instead of quackery.
Fertility issues should be discussed with a fertility expert. Improving your metabolic health through proper nutrition and taking control of conditions like metabolic syndrome/diabetes/obesity, will increase your chances of successfully combating fertility issues, since many of these issues are the direct result of metabolic conditions. But no, low carb is not the cure for infertility. It is only meant to be a metabolic treatment.
3. I can have any item that is sweetened, as long as the sweetener is artificial.
Studies have produced conflicting results when it comes to the release of incretins via taste, though I tend to believe there is a connection. On this blog, we side with caution as sweeteners have been shown to promote obesity rather than curb it, even in people who are carbohydrate restricted. This means something is going on with sweeteners and it hasn't been positive. It is unclear as to what that "something" is. There can be multiple issues that can be at play:
- Sweeteners may stimulate appetite causing the person to eat more overall, disrupting blood glucose further.
- Sweeteners may trigger cravings for more sweetened foods, so the person eats more often, disrupting blood glucose further.
- Sweeteners may interfere with hypothalamic function, because of the chronic taste of sweet, disrupting blood glucose further.
- Sweeteners may interfere with dopamine regulation, because of the chronic taste of sweet. This particular one has been well studied in research of how sugar affects the brain. Dopamine disruption, disrupts blood glucose further.
- Sweeteners may cause the body to go into a heightened fat storage mode, because of the taste of sweet. More fat storage, disrupts blood glucose further. This would explain why sugar is particularly obesogenic and why it causes weight gain irrespective of caloric intake, while other carbohydrates do not.
As of right now, the only positive thing artificial sweeteners have achieved is that they might allow a diabetic to live for another five years instead of just two. For this reason, on this blog, we advise on no sweeteners. Stop sweetening foods.
4. Insulin resistance causes fat cells to be less responsive to storage, making you lean not obese.
That is a misunderstanding of what insulin resistance is. Insulin is the "hormone of leanness" to a healthy, athlete or bodybuilder, who is using it to build lean muscle mass, along with help from drugs, but not for the insulin resistant.
Insulin resistance is not an overall body condition. It occurs in stages and different tissues and organs succumb to this resistance at different levels and rates. Usually, insulin resistance manifests as a condition that occurs at the organ, tissue, musculoskeletal level, not the fat mass. The fat mass does not become insulin resistant. It becomes super insulin sensitive instead.
No one yet knows exactly how this occurs but if your metabolism is under a starvation adaption, it would make sense for the fat mass to develop super insulin sensitivity, since it's trying to grow.
We know, that in general, fat mass does not become more resistant to insulin, as the person ages, like other tissues and organs do, but this super sensitivity is not a part of normal aging. Some believe that this expanding fat mass is trying to protect the body from storing fat, where it doesn’t belong. So, as your entire body becomes insulin resistant, at different rates, fat mass becomes more insulin sensitive as a "protective mechanism". This causes an overexpression of fat storage at the fat cell. I personally believe it is simply a metabolism that is trying to protect the person from starvation. A starvation that is obviously not occurring but the body believes it is due to chronic abnormalities in blood glucose. That is why this adaptation is pathological. It is useful when needed but deadly when not.
This is why fat people only get fatter. Once this process kicks in, it becomes easier and easier to accumulate more fat. The obese are also extremely sensitive to any metabolic state that promotes fat storage, such as metabolic thrift.
When the fat mass does not expand in this way, the person with insulin resistance becomes thin on the outside/fat on the inside (TOFI) and displays the most aggressive form of insulin resistance. People who are TOFI suffer serious disease faster than people who aren’t.
5. Can bread be eaten "seasonally"?
"Seasonal" foods do not include items like grains and sugar. Those items should be eliminated from the diet.
Seasonal foods only include whole food items that require restriction like fruit and starches. Starches are tubers, squashes and roots.
6. If I mix carbohydrates with other macronutrients, can it improve my blood glucose readings?
The only carbohydrate that betters blood glucose readings, is the carbohydrate that is absent. You cannot "hack" your way to better blood glucose regulation. You can manipulate, hide and influence single blood glucose readings but your blood glucose regulation will continue spiraling downwards over time until a consistently adhered to protocol is followed.
This is why fat people only get fatter. Once this process kicks in, it becomes easier and easier to accumulate more fat. The obese are also extremely sensitive to any metabolic state that promotes fat storage, such as metabolic thrift.
When the fat mass does not expand in this way, the person with insulin resistance becomes thin on the outside/fat on the inside (TOFI) and displays the most aggressive form of insulin resistance. People who are TOFI suffer serious disease faster than people who aren’t.
5. Can bread be eaten "seasonally"?
"Seasonal" foods do not include items like grains and sugar. Those items should be eliminated from the diet.
Seasonal foods only include whole food items that require restriction like fruit and starches. Starches are tubers, squashes and roots.
6. If I mix carbohydrates with other macronutrients, can it improve my blood glucose readings?
The only carbohydrate that betters blood glucose readings, is the carbohydrate that is absent. You cannot "hack" your way to better blood glucose regulation. You can manipulate, hide and influence single blood glucose readings but your blood glucose regulation will continue spiraling downwards over time until a consistently adhered to protocol is followed.
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