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0 pointsbonniemuffin8y ago0 comments

For me, my mental energy and alertness levels are more stable, because I'm avoiding the blood sugar roller coaster that I get from eating sugar/carbs.

When I eat carbs, most of my day is either "I'm so hungry I can't think", or "I just ate, food coma", and I'm only alert and maximally productive for the brief time after the food coma wears off and before I get hungry again. With keto, hunger and fullness are less distracting feelings that don't impact my attention as much.

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lhuser1238y ago· 1 in thread

Where can I read more about that type of diet ?

jinglebells8y ago

Dunno if it helps, there's a lot of discussion over at https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/

wastra8y ago

People often say this, but I'm not yet convinced it has a fully or even partially physiologic basis.

One way to do an experiment would be to fast someone for 48h (about when you completely run out of glycogen, and ketones start to ramp up from fat catabolism), and while fasting, infuse glucose, blinded, into them. I wonder whether people could tell whether they are getting IV glucose or IV saline, just by how they feel. Maybe someone already did this experiment.

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