1. On “keto” you have to stay under a certain amount of protein macros and you should do the same on carnivore.
On a classic ketogenic protocol, for the treatment of intractable epilepsy or neurodegenerative conditions, protein macros are monitored and kept under a certain amount to minimize the body converting protein into glucose, a completely natural and normal process that is highly regulated. Since chronic ketone presence is a strong signal to the body that it is "starving", it tends to ramp up its stress response and convert itself and everything that's eaten into glucose at a higher rate than normal. This stress response will reduce ketone production.
The people on classic ketogenic diets need ketones because that's what they are forcing their brain to use for fuel in order to prevent symptoms. This is precisely why classic ketogenic protocols need to be monitored by a healthcare provider to ensure that the person does not lose lean body mass, develop a deficiency and/or gain weight. Classic ketogenic protocols are not only protein restricted but calorically restricted as well. They are very difficult diets to follow without professional guidance.
Ketogenic protocols for the treatment of overweight/obesity and/or metabolic dysfunction do not restrict protein. These diets induce ketosis through the severe restriction of carbohydrate. Protein macros are followed to ensure you are getting enough protein, since most people do not.
The reason protein does not have to be restricted is because protein is not a macronutrient of concern as it is not the cause of overweight/obesity and/or metabolic dysfunction. Having chronic ketone presence is also not the goal of these protocols because lack of ketones is not the cause of overweight/obesity and or metabolic dysfunction so their presence is not the cure.
Now a lot of people tend to take this information to mean they can eat all the meat they want, since it’s "protein" but meat is not just protein. It is also fat. For this reason, though protein on its own is not restricted, protein as meat is, since you can easily go over your fat macros depending on the type and cut of meat you are consuming. You have to calculate the protein to fat content in your chosen cut of meat when following carnivore, to ensure you are getting enough protein and not too much fat.
2. Too much protein will stall weight loss.
There is no such thing as "too much protein" but there is such a thing as too much fat, which usually comes with the protein. For this reason, you have to make sure you track your macros carefully and stick to your fat macro allotment.
People with metabolic syndrome who have hyperglucagonemia make a lot of sugar after eating anything, including protein, which could stall their weight loss for a period of time until this condition normalizes. This condition only normalizes once you can regain insulin/leptin sensitivity and function. Restricting protein achieves neither.
3. Red meat "stays in your system" for 2 weeks.
False. The body uses protein to build itself, so technically meat "stays in your system" until you are dead.
4. Some low carb doctors discuss cancer because some of their patients have gone into remission.
No one knows exactly what causes cancer to go into remission or why remission occurs to some people and not others. So far, studies suggest that a person’s initial immune response, to the cancer, has a lot to do with their remission outcome.
Many conventional doctors have had their patients go into remission. In fact, the bulk of cancer patients in remission have done so using conventional treatments. Anyone can go into cancer remission and anyone can also die from cancer. Like I mentioned above, your immune response appears to be the main determiner of this and you have no control over it.
As of this post, no cure for cancer has been discovered. We know of some risk factors for certain cancers but, again, they have not been proven to be linearly causative. So a low carb doctor boasting that he has some cancer patients in remission is completely meaningless as any doctor can boast that.
5. "Certain bacteria” causes obesity.
No. What causes obesity is not a mystery. It is well known that obesity is caused by metabolic dysfunction through blood glucose dysregulation which ultimately deteriorates insulin function and leptin expression. This not only leads to overweight/obesity but eventually to diabetes. The accumulation of high body fat, caused by metabolic syndrome, is the result of a complex hormonal interplay exacerbated by certain lifestyle factors, of which there are many.
So, the debate as to what causes obesity has long been settled but for some odd reason, it appears to not have reached the masses. Very few people understand obesity, which is a shame considering that obesity is now at epidemic levels. You can not treat what you don’t understand. I believe it is this lack of understanding that has allowed obesity to spread, unabated, and made it easier for charlatans to sell you “magical cures”.
What hasn't been settled with obesity is its treatment. This is because of the complex hormonal interplay, which I mentioned above, which is extremely difficult to reverse. This is because obesity is a metabolic adaptation and not a real “disease” so there technically is nothing to "cure". Your body is doing exactly what it's suppose to do under the conditions it's been subjected to.
There are microbiome changes seen in the overweight/obese and this is mostly related to diet type and immune function. High body fat affects the immune system. But no, bacteria itself does not make you obese. To be obese you need poor functioning and abnormal insulin which affects leptin expression and in turn deteriorates proper metabolic function over time.
6. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) refuses to tell people that they can “reverse their diabetes”.
This is because, as of this writing, there is no “cure” for diabetes. The ADA has a lot of issues in its organization but quackery isn't one of them. The most the person with diabetes can hope for is remission but long term remission has still been difficult to acquire for most.
I am sure that you may have heard a low carb doctor say he can "reverse your diabetes" but he simply cannot. He can only lower your blood glucose but so can I. On this blog, low blood glucose is not reversal of diabetes. That is the mistake conventional medicine makes when they diagnose diabetes with simply high blood glucose. Their treatment, which is to lower your blood glucose, hasn't really made much of a difference has it? Of course not. That is because diabetes is not a disease of high blood glucose. This means diabetes reversal is not acquired through lower blood glucose.
We stay away from the blood glucose seesaw on this blog. Diabetes is a very complex metabolic dysfunction that involves multiple energy regulating systems in the body. It is extremely difficult to put into remission so avoiding getting diabetes, in the first place, should always be the first course of action. This is why you are never too healthy to follow a healthy lifestyle.
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