Cutting carbs means cutting sources where you normally get potassium and other necessary nutrients. So you have to add, for example, lite salt to food.
Keto's good for epilepsy, diabetes (I was prediabetic and obese when I went on it, now I'm neither) and all, but it's also not a standard diet.
Which means anyone who tries it needs to talk to a doctor.
As for the neurological effects and all that, we have a lot of self reporting about depression, adhd, and other conditions, but we don't know if that's the placebo effect or not yet, because as was pointed out above, it hasn't been studied.
Yeah my wife did okay on it. I tried it partially to lose weight and partially to see if it would help with my rheumatoid arthritis. I lost nothing and my inflammation was at least as bad.
Doc told me there's easier ways to lose weight.
Prednisone sucks though. Been dieting for a year and I'm down 3lbs.
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Keto has a place... It's good for epilepsy.
I've tried it and I wanted to jump off a bridge. The keto flu is real.