Walking Girl
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
Their body gradually switched into a more efficient way of working: called metabolic slowdown. This is a very sensible bodily strategy for keeping you alive through a food shortage. The trouble is that your body has no means of knowing that the food shortage is deliberate! I hope this helps...
This (maybe) can occur after long-term severe calorie restriction, which is why that is not recommended when dieting. Although, there isn’t universal agreement that it occurs at all (look up the myth of starvation theory). And, although a terrible example to have to use, anorexia would not exist if metabolic slow down was a common adaptation. However, if it does, it would be true with ANY long term weight loss diet, including LCHF and keto.
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