Slow and steady...weird.
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It's probably more due to that it's slowly destroying your brain. Fasting is often noted as having the same "feel great and focused†effect too, but it becomes starving if you continue it long enough.TunaFishKid wrote:I honestly think there's something about the switch from glucose to ketones in my brain that makes me feel amazing and that's why I keep going back to it. My brain sort of wakes up and I feel focused and energized. But it only lasts for a few days
I agree with you on this.Bushranger wrote:Having a reasonable serve of rice or bread or whatever each day isn't bad at all. Eating starches for the main portion of every meal though is asking for trouble in my opinion.
Here we disagree. I can't get into a debate about it, since I'm packing for vacation (YAY!). As Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up".No carbs on the other hand is technically impossible unless you are willing to go deficient in a billion minerals and elements and slowly kill yourself. You would have to cut out even most vegetables to achieve no carbs. You may be able to pull it off if you consume a lot of offal and organ meats, but would you? Most people couldn't get close to enough of those to make up the deficits they lost from cutting vegetables.
Did you even read my post before you replied? The second article you linked supports my point about the organ meats and offal being required for removal of vegetables from the diet to be viable, which is obvious since those are the cuts where most of the minerals and nutrients are from. It's also apparent, to me at least, that most people today would have a hard time eating that much organ meat as they simply don't like it and have been spoilt on choice cuts of meat. The fact that most of these organ meats should be eaten raw for maximum benefit is another reason it's unlikely to be done correctly by most people. I didn't say it can't be done, simply that most people would never be able to do it properly. Most of the people who try these diets eat too much muscle meat and nowhere near enough of the offal and organ meats that they need for it to be healthy and viable. I apologise if my original post wasn't clear.TunaFishKid wrote:Here we disagree. I can't get into a debate about it, since I'm packing for vacation (YAY!). As Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up".No carbs on the other hand is technically impossible unless you are willing to go deficient in a billion minerals and elements and slowly kill yourself. You would have to cut out even most vegetables to achieve no carbs. You may be able to pull it off if you consume a lot of offal and organ meats, but would you? Most people couldn't get close to enough of those to make up the deficits they lost from cutting vegetables.Here's a good place to start - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
http://blog.plantpoisonsandrottenstuff. ... ts-scurvy/