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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 787077" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>Coming to this topic late and from a t1 perspective, my observations/summary consist of the following:</p><p></p><p>Those who are seeing little progress with LCHF may already find it is too late to fix their issues with diet alone due to too much beta cell degeneration. </p><p></p><p>LC from a T1 perspective makes it much easier to maintain relatively flat, low deviation glucose levels and hugely reduces the insulin requirement that we have. (You can use Bernstein as the scientific source for this) </p><p></p><p>If you don't stick to an 75-85% fat calories ratio, gluconeogenesis takes place and protein in the diet is used to replace glycogen, affecting the ability of the body to run purely of fat energy. Note that diabetics (t1 especially, less research for T2) are more likely to generate glycogen from protein intake so eating too much on an lchf diet is very likely to kick you out of a ketosis state. </p><p></p><p>As has been mentioned, there are hidden carbs in everything and to actually eat few enough to get in to ketosis requires planning and discipline. 30g per day is tough even when eating green veg! </p><p></p><p>That's my take on it. I think it is harder than people realise to properly go lchf and there are a number of physiological factors that you only have to be slightly wrong with to stop it working.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 787077, member: 30007"] Coming to this topic late and from a t1 perspective, my observations/summary consist of the following: Those who are seeing little progress with LCHF may already find it is too late to fix their issues with diet alone due to too much beta cell degeneration. LC from a T1 perspective makes it much easier to maintain relatively flat, low deviation glucose levels and hugely reduces the insulin requirement that we have. (You can use Bernstein as the scientific source for this) If you don't stick to an 75-85% fat calories ratio, gluconeogenesis takes place and protein in the diet is used to replace glycogen, affecting the ability of the body to run purely of fat energy. Note that diabetics (t1 especially, less research for T2) are more likely to generate glycogen from protein intake so eating too much on an lchf diet is very likely to kick you out of a ketosis state. As has been mentioned, there are hidden carbs in everything and to actually eat few enough to get in to ketosis requires planning and discipline. 30g per day is tough even when eating green veg! That's my take on it. I think it is harder than people realise to properly go lchf and there are a number of physiological factors that you only have to be slightly wrong with to stop it working. [/QUOTE]
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