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I have doubts about a couple of the assumptions implicit in this statement. - The "Keto" diet particularly works. Last time I checked, the research suggested i

I have doubts about a couple of the assumptions implicit in this statement. - The "Keto" diet particularly works. Last time I checked, the research suggested it worked about as well as any other elimination diet, or vanilla CR. - The reason it works. Given that it works about as well as any other elimination diet, it's probably important for practitioners to adhere strictly, rather than continuing to consume the foods that made them fat; but successfully avoiding carbohydrate intake enough to trigger some particular level of ketosis is probably not a part of how it "works".

whatshisface 7y ago
Neither of those assumptions were implicit in the statement. The keto diet is simply evidence that glucose elimination is possible for some people without an inpatient treatment. The context of this discussion is glucose elimination for cancer, not weight loss.
- firethief 7y ago
  (There is a fad that people attempt to do X) + (the observable result is orthogonal to whether they successfully did X) => not very strong evidence that doing X is achievable