babies are developed with ketones, not glucose!

Wait. Which one of you got Alzheimers?

Healthy Ketogenic diet is really a great thing.

Thought id check in, its been a while miss wholesome

I have a full bottle of mct oil waiting to saturate my brain.

the mct oil seems to be essential. or at least cook with 38 grams of coconut oil daily.

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OP, my father died from Alzheimers. Was diagnosed in his 50's.

I'm 54 and two years ago I began to develop terrifyinh memory problems. I began to research 12 hours a day for weeks and found the solution for me. The answer?




Ketones. Exactly as you share. You see, the brain loses the ability to use glucose as fuel and the brain cells die off and cannot be replaced fast enough. Why is this? BC people in the US went from eating 4 pounds of sugar a year to 134 pounds of sugar a year! Insulin does not pass the blood brain barrier but glucose does. The brain does have a chemical to mitigate high glucose levels but it is not designed to handle the carb heavy diets of the Standard American Diet (SAD) diet.

Once I switched to a healthy fat diet with very limited carbohydrates, my memory and sharpness came back! Praise God!

I now eat things like: Avocados, olive oil, fish, meats, vegetables. My carbs mostly come from fruit smoothies. I'll eat limited quantities of rice occasionally or pizza once in a while but I'm careful to limit my exposure to foods that convert to glucose quickly.

Thank you for posting and I hope this helps other GLP family or their family.

Interesting video OP, thanks for posting it. Over the last 5-7 years I have been doing water fasting occasionally. First it was a couple days, then it was a week or two, and then my last one was 41 days. Each time my body got better at living off of fat as an energy source. On my first fasts I was extremely cold and had almost no energy. My body just didn't know how to utilize fat for energy very well, because I had rarely been in ketosis ever throughout my life until that point. By the time I did my 41 day water only fast a couple years later, I had about 60-70% of my normal energy, and I was up and doing things the entire fast. I dressed warmer than normal, but I wasn't cold as long as I did that. I even went to a bunch of garage sales on day 40.

As my body slowly gets better at utilizing fat for energy, I find myself naturally starting to like the smell and/or taste of sugary foods less and less. My body still wants and feels like it needs carbs, it just wants more complex carbs. One of the carb foods my body likes the most right now is pearled barley. That has a very low glycemic index compared to many other things.

so why are carbs the main source of nutrition in mother's milk?

carbs act on the growth hormone.

ketones are for nervous system.

I'm so sorry about your dad! there are so many things I wish I knew about health when my grandmother was alive. I'm sure you wish you knew what you know now then too.

You are doing great to keep yourself healthy and sharp! I'm being proactive too.

exactly what you share about losing the ability to process glucose is in the video too.

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Fat is a back up source of energy. And that alone. The keto diet is just putting your body into starvation mode. It's like forcing your body to only run on fumes, forever.

I never ate carbs as a child. My family used to make fun of me because all I ever wanted to eat was the blubber from the meat they cooked, and lots of salt. I was active and healthy and thin, I remained in ketosis for most if not all of my growing years. I had no idea at the time but all my family was overweight except for me. I also drank apple cider vinegar by the cap full straight out of the lazy Susan when I felt a craving, I was never hungry.

it's not, 50-60% is fat.

babies need fat for brain development.

I don't feel hunger, how can I be starving? I felt hunger many times a day when eating the standard american diet.

no it's not. it's around 3.5% fat. where do you get your numbers from?

On wikipedia it says 4.5%

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Human milk contains 0.8% to 0.9% protein, 4.5% fat, 7.1% carbohydrates, and 0.2% ash (minerals).[37] Carbohydrates are mainly lactose; several lactose-based oligosaccharides have been identified as minor components.

But I think what we are talking about is what percentage of calories come from fat.

And 50-60 percent might be right, but I don't know

Um, given that fat is more caloric dense, that would make sense.

But that doesn't mean that an infants diet is the diet we should all eat.

Adults are not babies.

if one has some metabolic issues can use ketosys to manage them but living only out of ketones do ages you as much as eating too much carbs.

babies and young people are plump because of glycogen. It's a sign of health, of hydration of tissues and energy stored.
First you use glycogen than turn to protein and if burning proteins for too long you switch to ketones.

Slow unrefined carbs in the right ammout are not bad especially after physical work. Meat muscles contains carbs as well. Also fat must be in the right amounts. There is not natural food that is 100% fats.

what is bad is void calories like sugars which require more vit c, thiamine, magnesium and enzymes. They rob you of nutrients necessary for a myriad of processes.

Babies don't have the same energy requirements as adults.

And that is why it is only newly born infants who rely on breast milk.

Because they're babies. And they don't need any energy.

Because they're babies.

They are babies.

OP needs to understand this.^

Exactly. The whole entire point of the keto diet was to lose weight. That's what is has always been used for... But in reality the key is to healthy a healthy diet.

What the keto diet serves to do is make people lose weight, while allowing them to still eat unhealthily.


It's just a stupid weight loss hack/fad.


And since the people who use that diet don't get the right energy, they are becoming dumber and stupider by the day.

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keto diet was developed to cure epilepsy, a neurological problem. alzheimers is a neruological problem too. this thread isn't about weight loss.

I don't do keto for weight loss, if I lose anymore weight I'll look like a crack whore, not offense to the crack whores. I maintain my weigh and eat as much as I want whatever I want daily.

really? they are way more active when you calculate according to their size.

vegan babies on high carb diets are not plump, they are malnourished and extremely unhealthy. They don't even look like babies, they have older looking faces.

I didn't find anything having to do with the percentage of calories from fat on that page?