I just started it. I think it is ok for older people but not young.
Basically found that when I sleep my organs shut down, and I wake up with very bad hypoglycemia. My usual reaction was to eat. But all I needed was wake up my organs with a glass of water and a work out.
Amazingly, waking up at .5 in sugar and going for a run after see it climb to .8 because my body is drawing energy from wherever it can on itself. Eating in the morning at the moment I wake my system ccould yield to a fight between the body drawing from its fat cells and rushing to store breakfast food to the fat cells.
It screws up everything and can cause glycemic roller coaster and that “insulin resisance”
It is not insulting resistance imo but the body getting confused.
When young this is fine because the metabolism is so high, but when older eating strategies must be modified.
All the keto does is keep fed with proteine so the body does not got after it’s own muscles for energy. The low carbs are essential too imo because they are the number one cause of the system fighting itself and signals and getting out of tune.
I’d rather stay at .9 sugar levels after eating low carbs than risk shooting up using carbs at this point.
The energy source is fat not carbs.
Babies are born in a state of ketosis. Our children are displaying T2D and insulin resistance at younger and younger ages, not to mention rampant obesity. Of course the Keto lifestyle can be appropriate for young people.
Certainly, young people without insulin resistance can support cheat days without the major effects. But those who have insulin resistance/T2D should not have cheat days. As mentioned in another post, a cheat day for those people is similar to an alcoholic or drug addict having a “cheat day.”