Puzzles has been trying carnivore and is like “omg it’s so much harder to poop”
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getting through that ketosis is not fun 🤣 get some keto chow as a mineral supplement. My 2 sats - carnivore is a great way to kickstart change, but likely not sustainable in the long term. Overall probably best to _minimize_ carbs, not eliminate them.
Isn’t ketosis just a fancy word for basically starving?
I think ketosis is just the body using fat for energy which is starving technically lol our bodies don’t like to ever use fat but we haven’t evolved to live with an abundance of food.
Sounds miserable. Especially is the person already is low on fat
All forms of food must become glucose at some point. Carbs are the simplest way to get them, and require almost no work from digestive organs. Fats and amino acids must be converted by the liver to glucose, while also consuming glucose to do the "conversion". Body is not great at storing excess amino acids from proteins and mostly wasted if consumed in excess. To maintain stable blood sugar muscles have to deplete stored glycogen (which takes a long time to recover, many days if depleted completely). This eventually causes a loss in lean muscle if not maintained heavily.
She showed me some studies where male athletes that depleted their muscle glycogen (hard training or event/performance). It took those with low carb diets (for 25 y/o males under 200g/day) almost a week to hit 80% recovery (which is normal range during training) and over a week to hit 100% with reduced physical activity (no training). Which meant little no muscle tissue recovery, reduced energy, reduced strength and so on. For those that had a "normal" carb intake for their metabolism (usually over 350g to 450g / day) their 80% glycogen recovery was somewhere around 1-2 days. In the end I learned that low carbs often means you're body maintains a "low energy" state since all of your daily energy is coming from glycogen stores, which the muscles are very reluctant to give up, beyond that any exercise is, at best, maintain muscle.
Apparently I didn't save the PDFs she sent me so I can't share them with you all. Sorry.
As with anything nutrition/diet related, there are always studies on most sides that show promising results depending on who's reading it. This is the education I received and choose to work with it :)
This actually reflects my experience fairly well. When I workout, I eat a lot of carbs the next two days. I crave them more than meat. But after the second day, I don’t crave it as much. When I was a pure carnivore, I always felt low energy, weak, and skinny. I never understood why glucose is so bad when your body converts fat to glucose for brain energy. Your brain needs glucose. Cutting out seed oils is the most important thing.
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