[ConservativeMind]

Promising news. It does seem AD affects people with chronic carb intake while having little physical activity.

[cdcdawg]

InB4 anyone confuses the Atkins Diet with the first two weeks of the Atkins Diet.

[Deaf Smith]

So if I eat more beef fat, I can continue to drink beer (carbs)?

Bacon grease helps too?

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The real value is twofold: dropping carbs has benefits, but it’s also the autophagy that actively renews the body and cells. Fasting has the same results, but keto diet is less painful. But you must carefully watch the 25% protein ratio to obtain the benefits. Also eating foods that promote hormones that produce autophagy is a good idea.

Keep in mind though, keto diet is basically just disguised starvation. You’ll have problems on the long run and should quit when you’ve dropped all your weight.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Bonemaker]

“...In a pilot study of 14 older adults ...”

Oh that’s a conclusive sample.

[dfwgator]

We may eventually see the same beneficial effects by adding a ketone supplement that would make the diet easier to follow," says Jason Brandt, Ph.D.

You can't beat nature. Let your body do the work, it will pay off.

[dfwgator]

Atkins is not Keto, Atkins allows for more carbs than pure-Keto.

[BobL]

Welcome to the club. People have been screaming about the health benefits of Keto for over a decade (and related diets much longer), whether it’s this, or diabetes, or simply losing weight. But we keep being called kooks.

But no longer

Finally Big Medicine and Big Carb are being dragged into accepting us, although they were certainly in no hurry to get people healthy - that’s for sure.

[logi_cal869]

Oh, God: Please stop with the keto BS.

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[pepsi_junkie]

Using brain scans that show energy use, researchers have also found that ketones—chemicals formed during the breakdown of dietary fat—can be used as an alternative energy source in the brains of healthy people and those with mild cognitive impairment. For example, when a person is on a ketogenic diet, consisting of lots of fat and very few sugars and starches, the brain and body use ketones as an energy source instead of carbs.

This has been proven many times previously and should not be in dispute. Why waste time reproving the known? The results on cognition sound like good new work though.

[HamiltonJay]

I don’t buy this study..

My experience on very low carb, is that mental acuity is dulled a bit.. Perhaps in older/octogenarians this is different... but definitely not my experience.

[eyedigress]

Stop eating bread people.

[Jane Long]

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