Is the Keto diet a meme? I know carbs are fattening but I want to know if this is a meme or not? Pic random as fuck

hardcore keto is bad, but a less rigid high fat diet is better

>less muscle-sparing than a balanced diet.

let's see the proof faggot

I think the literature stated that it's not the lack of carbohydrates that drives the body recomposition success seen in keto users (fat loss, lean mass retention/gain), it's the high amount of protein and general caloric deficit (it's harder to pig out on fat and protein alone).

In other words, the only thing you are doing by drastically cutting carbs is making performance suffer, both cognitively and in your lifting. Eat 40/35/25 (c,p,f) or something close in stead.

You're free to use fucking google if you don't take my word for it.

do you know what insulin does to your fat because it seems like you don't

carbs spike insulin waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than protein and fat

>Eat 40/35/25 (c,p,f) or something close in stead.
A balanced diet is pretty much the worst for health. You should either go high-fat or high-carb,

>making performance suffer, both cognitively
>Gluconeogenesis

>Although most of the brain can use ketones, there are portions that require glucose to function. On a very-low-carb diet, some of this glucose can be supplied by the small amount of carbs consumed.

>The rest comes from a process in your body called gluconeogenesis, which means "making new glucose." In this process, the liver creates glucose for the brain to use. It manufactures the glucose using amino acids, the building blocks of protein.

>The liver can also make glucose from glycerol. This is the backbone that links fatty acids together in triglycerides, the body's storage form of fat.

>Thanks to gluconeogenesis, the portions of the brain that need glucose get a steady supply, even when your carb intake is very low.

do you know that if you're not a lardass with fucked up hormones and thus terrible insulin resistance, and your carbs aren't 100% sugar, this is not a problem at all?

all carbs are 100% sugar

you're also talking in a thread that's about fattening

Congratulations, you managed to google up the fact that the body can SURVIVE on pretty much whatever you feed it.

Having biochemical routes to ensure survival at suboptimal conditions =! optimal performance

And yes, cognitive tests have been performed on people on low carb vs moderate/high carb. The low carb people scored worse.

They've also done life span studies. moderate/high carb people flat out live longer lives than low carbers, which is not surprising considering that having to use extra metabolic pathways is usually more taxing.

>moderate/high carb people flat out live longer lives than low carbers

funny I've seen the exact opposite results

>do you know that if you're not a lardass with fucked up hormones and thus terrible insulin resistance
You assume that you have to be fat to have insulin resistance. This isn't true. My friend's grandmother is really underweight and she still has type 2 diabetes.

Tried Keto once. Lost a lot of fat in 3 months, but also lost my erection. Went back to a balanced diet and everything was alright.

I'd say use keto carefully, use it to get rid of the stubborn fat. If there are no side effects for you, carry on. Maybe I was just unlucky.

One on the left is me

>They've also done life span studies. moderate/high carb people flat out live longer lives than low carbers, which is not surprising considering that having to use extra metabolic pathways is usually more taxing.

Links.
Some bullshit from adventists doesn't matter.

The only reason people lean out on keto is because the removal of carbs puts them in a caloric deficit the vast majority of the time, because people rarely accurately count their calories.

Removing carbs to put self in caloric deficit is mind-blowing stuff for some people

how do i stop insulin resistance, what should my mecro splits be

I tried keto for two days this week. Goddamn keto flu feels like you're dying, I don't care if there are health benefits this shit is definitely a MEME.

Maybe you need to eat less onions. You're talking like a numale.

A keto diet is nonsense, your body should however be able to access ketosis.

Yeah it's weird, the first time I tried keto, I did it for a little over a month and felt good from day one.

I tried it again a couple months ago and felt fuckin awful by day two. Sore throat, very lethargic, brain fog, etc. It was fucked. I didn't do anything differently than the first time, but had very different results.

I find it much easier to IF/OMAD to cut. As long as I eat before I lift, it doesn't seem to affect my workout at all, and I can sprinkle in mini-fasts on the weekend to make it go a little faster.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC303494/

keto is extremely muscle sparing sorry bub

>do you know that if you're not a lardass with fucked up hormones and thus terrible insulin resistance, and your carbs aren't 100% sugar, this is not a problem at all?

same thing my retard cousin believed. always bragging about his "high metabolism" because he's skinny, laughed at fat people and kept eating cookies, fast food, and drinking pepsi. now the dumb fuck has t2 diabetes and carries around a pill case like an old woman.