Someone just told me that her family member had struggled to give up alcohol right up until doing keto.

He'd chosen the diet to lose some weight but found it easier to quit the addiction.

I remember reading this paper last year about this topic. Wild to hear it in real life.

Last night for dinner I had a serving of diabetes, cancer & heart disease 🙄

OPTIONS

Many clinicians tell anyone with any condition 'here's the Eatwell plate, good luck'

This is neither evidence based nor patient centered.

sad 😔

'mechanistic, preclinical data, and even some RCT studies suggest that carbohydrate-restricted diets may be beneficial in improving moderate kidney dysfunction and in reducing progression of CKD'

Dr Bernstein started measuring his blood glucose levels in 1960 - long before most people.

He quickly realized the key to normal blood sugars as a diabetic was limiting starchy/sugary foods

So he wrote to all the medical doctors. Nobody was interested.

That's what made him…

Mike LCHF Dietitian When we ask Dr David Unwin surgery ‘is it more expensive to eat low carb?’ They say no it’s the same because I don’t buy snacks, take away & expensive sugary coffees etc. Eggs, butter etc still relatively cheap foods & if you learn to cook cheap cuts of meat…Ally Houston book…

This raises an important point:

how is it possible that in supposed first world countries some people cannot afford food that can healthily sustain them?

Instead they are forced to purchase food that is not only deficient in nutrients but health damaging.

And we act like…

Beef shin cooked for 4-5hrs over the camp fire 🏕️

Having Type 2 diabetes isn't just a little sugar problem.

Genes also have little to do with it because food pulls the trigger on the condition.

➡️Diabetes damages all tissues in your body.
➡️Diabetes alters all of your other hormones, causing sexual dysfunction and thyroid…

Weekend wild camping + cooking 🔥🏕️

Japanese schools with zero obesity:

no ulltra processed food is allowed

Western schools:

Strawberry jelly counts as a portion of fruit, chocolate milkshake is dairy and don't you dare eat meat.

And yet, in the West, we'll blame anything other than the food 🤦

Some people think I talk about low carb simply because I picked a tribe and that's that.

The reality is whenever I eat starchy/fibrous things I get: bloating, distention, erratic bowel movements, GI pain, reflux, nasal congestion, rosacea and eventual violent sneezing...…