3 ms·

Go into any autoimmune or chronic illness forum on Reddit or Facebook and you’ll find countless people that resolved or improved symptoms, including brain fog,

Go into any autoimmune or chronic illness forum on Reddit or Facebook and you’ll find countless people that resolved or improved symptoms, including brain fog, by changing diet. Getting rid of most carbs and other inflammatory foods is the general theme of some diets. AIP diet in particular.

this_user 3y ago
Not only is that purely anecdotal, but it's also subject to survivorship bias and the placebo effect. The idea that carbs are somehow bad is ridiculous just from a purely biological POV of how the human body works. Glucose is an important fuel source for anaerobic energy generation. Try doing endurance exercise without any carbs, and you are going to have a really bad time.
- spirit557 3y ago
  > Try doing endurance exercise without any carbs, and you are going to have a really bad time. I prefer to only do my endurance exercises in a fasted state, anywhere between 12-24 hours. The only thing i ingest is some salt, magnesium and potassium and water. I have no problem and I feel great. 30 minutes on the bike with resistence turned up or jogging 2-3 miles. Ketones burn cleaner than glucose with less reactive byproducts. There is a study on pubmed that found when the brain has the choice between glucose and ketones in the bloodstream it chooses ketones. You don't need dietary carbs, your body can make its own glucose from proteins if it needs. There's plenty of research on this.
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago
  It appears that fully keto adapted folks do just fine running on ketones.
taeric 3y ago
Change is unreasonably effective at getting differences. I'm personally of the opinion that cutting sugar is a good idea. That said, I can't discount that anyone that crests the motivational hump to make a change, is also as likely to push through in other ways, as well.

3 ms·

Go into any autoimmune or chronic illness forum on Reddit or Facebook and you’ll find countless people that resolved or improved symptoms, including brain fog,

by treeman79 3y ago

this_user 3y ago
Not only is that purely anecdotal, but it's also subject to survivorship bias and the placebo effect. The idea that carbs are somehow bad is ridiculous just from a purely biological POV of how the human body works. Glucose is an important fuel source for anaerobic energy generation. Try doing endurance exercise without any carbs, and you are going to have a really bad time.
- spirit557 3y ago
  > Try doing endurance exercise without any carbs, and you are going to have a really bad time. I prefer to only do my endurance exercises in a fasted state, anywhere between 12-24 hours. The only thing i ingest is some salt, magnesium and potassium and water. I have no problem and I feel great. 30 minutes on the bike with resistence turned up or jogging 2-3 miles. Ketones burn cleaner than glucose with less reactive byproducts. There is a study on pubmed that found when the brain has the choice between glucose and ketones in the bloodstream it chooses ketones. You don't need dietary carbs, your body can make its own glucose from proteins if it needs. There's plenty of research on this.
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago
  It appears that fully keto adapted folks do just fine running on ketones.
taeric 3y ago
Change is unreasonably effective at getting differences. I'm personally of the opinion that cutting sugar is a good idea. That said, I can't discount that anyone that crests the motivational hump to make a change, is also as likely to push through in other ways, as well.