| Kaneman! said: a) Yes, I understand that. But you should not just class food with high carbohydrate value as "carbs". Because obviously carbohydrates in itself can't contain vitamins, minerals, etc. But food high in carbohydrates includes fruit, dairy and nuts, and I presume those don't fit into the aforementioned "carbs" group. I also understand that you point out refined carbohydrates, which is a slightly misleading word, because some of those are natural as well, which brings me to point b) I agree with that. Large quantities of anything is unhealthy, including carbohydrates. But if anything, then each human's nutritional needs are specific - so overconsumption can be a problem for people misjudging their food intake. From my experience I can tell you, that carbohydrates are necessary for me, as they're the fastest source of energy. But I don't eat a lot of food daily, and have kept my weight at a consistent level for about 10 years, without doing any nutritional planning. That being said, it might well come back to me negatively in a few years. c) I'm not talking about ketoacidosis, that would be far exceeding the pH levels I was talking about. It was just a comparison to what you termed as "poison". Obviously neither carbohydrates, nor ketones in itself are poisons. But higher amount of ketone bodies does lower the pH value of blood, that's what I was alluding to. |
Absolutely, I agree with you. I mainly talk about refined grains and sugar. Those are without any doubt unhealthy. There are of course good foods with a high amount of carbs, like fruit. But fruit is good not because it has carbs, but because of the high content of vitamins and minerals. However, carbohydrates as a macronutrient are simply not a necessity for the body. You may feel tired or dizzy if you suddenly cut your carbs, but that's simply because your body is not used to using fat as fuel. There's a fairly well known phenomenon known as "keto flu" that happens when one starts a keto diet. You basically feel like crap because your body is deprived from the glucose it had used until then as energy but doesn't realize that fat is there to be used as energy yet. Little by little, the body adapts and you finally feel better than before when the body starts using fat as its primary source of energy instead of glucose. This is called "fat adaptation". However, I personally didn't experience keto flu, maybe because I did everything gradually.
As for blood acidity, it is possible that a ketogenic diet can lead to that, but I personally find it a little hard to believe. The amount of ketones that is released when in ketosis is not very high and if you provide your body with what it needs to wash away those ketones efficiently there will probably be no problem at all. But I plan to have some general analysis in the near future to see exactly what ketosis is doing to my body. This is part of the experiment after all :P
Anyway, I just found a very interesting article about blood acidity and ketosis in general. Again, I'm not reccommending doing a ketogenic diet, especially if you're a healthy individual, but it looked like you were interested in this subject.
https://drjockers.com/ketogenic-diet-acidic/
