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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1621328" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>I think you are absolutely right.</p><p></p><p>I am still interested in this debate though. My understanding, from reading about this nine months ago at diagnosis (when, admittedly, I was terrified and confused) went something like this:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moderate low-carb, very-low-carb: fairly standard options that work well to lower BG for quite a few of us. (Well, when I say "standard," they are still not routinely "prescribed" by national health structures including the NHS or in America, where I am.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Keto: an extreme diet, starting at something like 20g carbs/day. Theory is that the brain cannot normally function without carbs. When you enter ketosis, a strange mechanism takes over that can provide adequate energy to the brain, without originally ingesting carbs. Whether or not you are in "ketosis" can be checked (IIRC with home urine tests).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wild controversy about "ketosis" and whether it is safe, or sustainable in the long term.</li> </ul><p>Does this sound about right, or did I get the wrong end of the keto-stick?</p><p></p><p>There is another issue which is that there is a life-threatening condition called "Diabetic Keto-Acidosis" (DKA) which as far as I can tell, has no connection with "ketosis" as defined above. I suspect that this partially explains why health-care professionals are not terribly keen on "keto" diets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1621328, member: 438800"] I think you are absolutely right. I am still interested in this debate though. My understanding, from reading about this nine months ago at diagnosis (when, admittedly, I was terrified and confused) went something like this: [LIST] [*]Moderate low-carb, very-low-carb: fairly standard options that work well to lower BG for quite a few of us. (Well, when I say "standard," they are still not routinely "prescribed" by national health structures including the NHS or in America, where I am.) [*]Keto: an extreme diet, starting at something like 20g carbs/day. Theory is that the brain cannot normally function without carbs. When you enter ketosis, a strange mechanism takes over that can provide adequate energy to the brain, without originally ingesting carbs. Whether or not you are in "ketosis" can be checked (IIRC with home urine tests). [*]Wild controversy about "ketosis" and whether it is safe, or sustainable in the long term. [/LIST] Does this sound about right, or did I get the wrong end of the keto-stick? There is another issue which is that there is a life-threatening condition called "Diabetic Keto-Acidosis" (DKA) which as far as I can tell, has no connection with "ketosis" as defined above. I suspect that this partially explains why health-care professionals are not terribly keen on "keto" diets. [/QUOTE]
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