A few Ketogenic diet quotes from Dr. Longo…
“A lot of the ketogenic diets out there are artificial ones and they impose an artificial condition, which is high animal fat and high animal protein (butter and bacon). You can very quickly go from something very good to something very bad, which doesn’t appear as very bad when you first do it. It could be that when you do it you lose weight and you think,”I feel good. I’m losing weight.” And then eventually you could start having kidney damage, (negative) effects on IGF-1, atherosclerosis, plaque formation, etc… A lot of these ketogenic diets come from nowhere, but they (keto promoters) are able to convince hundreds of thousands of people to do it.”
“The Fasting Mimicking Diet allows the natural process of starvation (autophagy, protection, stem cell regeneration) to occur. You don’t interfere with the natural process. That’s a key of the Fasting Mimicking Diet. In the case of the ketogenic diet, you are trying to force the system into doing something that it has never evolved to do… It’s very scary and almost guaranteed a failure. Even if it’s a good thing for 1-5 years, eventually the body is going to have problems… When you introduce an environment that the body has never seen before, sooner or later it is not going to be able to function in that environment.”
“If you take exogenous ketones and eat a fairly normal diet it is a recipe for disaster… you are pushing the body to do two metabolic strategies at the same time and that could be problematic.