If you try keto, you love it, and it’s working for you, then more power to you! I’m not about to try to stop you. However, the typical advice when people run into roadblocks with their keto diet is to ‘eat more fat to raise ketones’ and ‘keep calm and keto on’. Oxidative priority To …
Read moreKeto Lie #12: If in doubt, ‘keep calm and keto on’.
This is perhaps one of the most seductive lies that I fell for in the early days of my low-carb/keto journey. I kept hearing the keto gurus say that I should simply ‘eat fat to satiety’. Apparently, fat was the most satiating macronutrient and the best thing I could choose to eat if I wanted …
Read moreKeto Lie #11: You should ‘eat fat to satiety’ to lose body fat
Over the past few years, people in the fasting/low-carb/keto communities have been told that: insulin toxicity is the root cause of the majority of our western diseases, insulin is public enemy number one, and reversing ‘insulin toxicity’ is the key to weight loss and health. Is fat really a ‘free food’ because of insulin? However, …
The Carbohydrate – Insulin Hypothesis is one of the cornerstone beliefs of many who subscribe to low carb and keto diets. The theory is that because carbohydrates raise insulin the most and insulin is related to fat storage, eating more carbohydrates will lead to more fat storage on your body. Hence, dietary fat should be …
Read moreKeto Lie #5: Fat is a ‘free food’ because it doesn’t elicit an insulin response
Perhaps the biggest differentiator between keto and every successful version of a lower-carb diet (e.g. Atkins, Paleo, Bernstein, Banting, Carnivore, etc.) is the misguided fear of ‘excess protein’ to keep ketones high, insulin low and avoid gluconeogenesis. Ever since Jimmy Moore discovered that protein could convert to sugar via gluconeogenesis and therefore lower your blood …
Read moreKeto Lie #4: Protein should be avoided due to gluconeogenesis
One of the most common responses to any weight loss stall in many keto groups is that you should ‘eat more fat to get your ketones higher and burn more fat’. This lie is seductive because it is partly correct, as well as delicious! High-fat foods are highly palatable and provide a dopamine hit that …
Read moreKeto Lie #3: You should eat more fat to burn more body fat
It may feel like you’re in a time warp or a bad diet-wars nightmare, but Kevin Hall just published YET ANOTHER study pitting the high-fat keto diet against a very low fat plant-based diet. Social media is enraged again – it seems we’re living in a world where only controversy gets clicks. I shared a …
Many people believe that they need to be ‘in ketosis’ to burn fat. Because ketones rise when someone is burning their body fat, they think that fat loss is due to the ketones, regardless of where they are coming from. Hence, they assume that more ketosis is better, especially if you have body fat to …
Read moreKeto Lie #2: You have to be ‘in ketosis’ to burn fat
If keto is about anything, it’s about ketones. One of the most confusing things about keto is the concept of ‘optimal ketosis’. Many people believe that a higher level of beta-hydroxybutyrate (also known as β-hydroxybutyrate, BHB, or ‘blood ketones’) is better. While this belief was based on the best information at the time, as more …
Trends and fads come and go. Ideas rise in popularity when someone discovers something that works. A few people apply this initial idea and get great results. In time, entrepreneurial people realise there is money to be made and scramble to sell things to make it ‘easier’ and ‘more enjoyable’. Often these marketers play fast …