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There’s a very major caveat of jumping off keto abruptly (having a cheat day): https://www.everydayhealth.com/ketogenic-diet/cheat-day-on-keto-diet-may-harm-blo
by WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
There’s a very major caveat of jumping off keto abruptly (having a cheat day): https://www.everydayhealth.com/ketogenic-diet/cheat-day-on-keto-diet-may-harm-blood-vessels-study/ https://www.everydayhealth.com/ketogenic-diet/cheat-day-on-k...
Sudden jump off keto may cause inflammatory damage to the endothelium of your blood vessels, and while in that one study, effects had been “transient”, I wouldn’t risk cheat days without a very gradual reintroduction of carbs, and surely not repeated cheat days. (My personal fat diabetic ass says it had a lifetime of carbs, though, so that’s not happening for me until at least 20 kg later.)
I know it’s just one study, but I would rather be safe than sorry until we know more. Case in point: the study subjects were all young and healthy, and most people who really need to go very low carb are not.
- johnyzee 3y agoThanks for the link, I think there is something to it. I have personally experienced, on multiple occasions, getting rather sick if I eat anything very sugary while on keto. So a 'cheat day' should probably be more like eating some wholegrain bread, lentils, some raw fruit of choice, or stuff like that. If you're on keto, that will almost feel like eating candy anyway :)