I know that a lot of people say that the effect of high blood glucose, from eating protein, is a myth and simply doesn't occur. This leaves people with metabolic syndrome/diabetes scratching their heads because their blood meters are saying otherwise. Just because something shouldn't occur, does not mean that it doesn't occur.
Blood glucose does not rise with protein intake in normal/healthy individuals. This effect is only seen in people with metabolic syndrome/diabetes. The blood glucose rise is real and these people are not imagining it. But there is a reason as to why this is occurring, and no, it's not because they aren't "keto" enough.
Type I diabetics do not make their own insulin. This means that not only are they impaired in getting sugar and nutrients into cells, they also cannot stop the catabolic process caused by glucagon which turns everything they eat, and their body itself, into sugar and ketones. You need insulin to halt glucagon expression. So, Type 1 diabetics must make sure that they dose enough insulin, so that not only are their cells receiving glucose and nutrients, but that their body isn't being broken down into a puddle of glucose and ketones.
Type II diabetics experience a similar issue because even though they have insulin, their insulin is not functioning properly as they have many tissues in the body which are insulin resistant. Non functioning insulin and insulin resistance is like having no insulin. So, Type II diabetics experience the same rise in blood glucose, as Type 1 diabetics, after eating carbs or protein, because they don't have enough of an insulin response to halt glucagon expression and so their bodies are also catabolized into a puddle of glucose and ketones.
The difference between the two is insulin function and what's being catabolized. Type II diabetics lives are not in actual danger from hyperglucagonemia as they still have some insulin function. Type 1 diabetics are in danger as they will turn into skin and bones and eventually die from hyperglucagonemia, since they have no insulin. Type II diabetics will not turn into skin and bones any time soon, because the insulin function they have left keeps their fat stores tucked safely away from all usage, while glucagon catabolizes most of their lean muscle mass instead.
If a Type II diabetic ignores this postprandial rise in blood glucose and continues to eat carbs, they will get sicker over time because carbs disrupt insulin's function further through their long term effect on blood glucose regulation. This will eventually make hyperglucagonemia worse. But, a Type II diabetic can ignore the glucose rise caused by protein because it is not pathological. In other words, the metabolic dysfunction does not get worse with time from protein intake. Instead, it gets better and soon the hyperglucagonemia disappears as the body restores its proper gluconeogenesis function. Protein, unlike carbs, does not disrupt insulin function further as it does not have a long term effect on blood glucose regulation and the insulin to glucagon ratio is not adversely effected. Carbs cause the problem, protein unmasks it.
So, the best way to handle a rise or drop in blood glucose from protein intake, for a Type II, is to divide their protein, across several meals, rather than eliminate or lower protein intake like they did with carbs. Carbs can be eliminated, as they aren't essential, but protein cannot. The Type II diabetic needs plenty of protein in order to restore proper insulin function and replenish the lean muscle mass that glucagon breaks down.
2. All diets, regardless of composition, limit calories to 1200 a day.
All diets put caps on calories in order to achieve initial weight loss. It's not the diet's composition that is causing this weight loss. They promote the composition to make it seem like the protocol is "different" from the rest . In reality, it's the restriction of calories that's causing temporary weight loss. This initial weight loss is what keeps people motivated and makes it appear as though the protocol is working. Of course, reality soon bites.
All weight loss and gain is mitigated by calories through their effect on insulin. All fat loss and gain is mitigated by insulin though its effects on leptin.
For this reason, we do not recommend these protocols because calorie centered protocols do not address the complexity of obesity and are not appropriate treatments as they can't be followed long term and have a negative effect on body composition and metabolic function.
3. You can still add green veggies, pickles and broccoli to your meals on a carnivore diet.
Don't be surprised if you are told to follow a carnivore diet with vegetables. People are being told to eat during a fast. Go figure. The low carb world is ass backwards.
Carnivore diets are meat, water and salt. That is all. Anything else is not carnivore. If you add any other items to your carnivore diet, that are not animal based, then it's not true carnivore. It's simply a mostly meat based diet.
4. If you cook with avocado oil, butter or bacon fat, you should limit them to 1 tbsp. per meal.
Diets place "limits" on all types of things. Some use calories, some use macros and others use both. Protocols must limit fat consumption, in some way, or the person will stall or start gaining weight. If the protocol you are following is actually being honest and limiting the amount of fat you can consume a day, then it's not based on as much quackery as others.
Stay away from protocols that allow fat consumption ad libitum. They are no good. They will cause you to lose some weight, especially if you are significantly overweight, but you will not ever be able to lose enough weight to be lean nor keep it off in the long term.
The goal is not ad libitum consumption. The goal is the gain of satiety. The best limit to ad libitum consumption is satiety. This is why we recommend macro centered protocols to help regain satiety signaling, as that's the only limit that works in the long term and keeps metabolism healthy.
5. One pack of bacon is a proper meal.
That's like saying that one loaf of bread is a proper meal. A proper meal is low in carbs, moderate in fat and adequate in protein. Bacon is too high in fat to be a proper meal. It is also a cured, semi processed, meat. Don't eat novelties. Eating a pack of bacon as a meal is shenanigans.
In order to address metabolic dysfunction and/or obesity you need to eat proper, sustainable meals for the long term. Bacon is a garnish for meals. It can go on a burger or with eggs or crumbled onto vegetables, etc. It is not intended to be a meal in of itself.
6. You can have honey on carnivore because it's animal based.
Honey is not "animal based". It's animal made from the glucose in flower nectar. The magic of carnivore is that it's suppose to be a 0 to low glucose diet with nothing sweet tasting. Don’t mix carbs with a high fat diet. Honey with carnivore = a trendy version of the Standard American Diet (SAD).
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