Alright, I've only just started paying attention to Ted Naiman and PE. My initial thoughts after watching a few interviews and lectures on YouTube, and skimming this thread, is it doesn't all quite hang together yet for me. I will do more review and see if it makes sense, but he seems to want to topple a lot of principles in low-carb/keto eating, but doesn't necessarily have the science to back it up. Of course I could be wrong, and I will keep digging.
My biggest concerns is it seems to consider fat and carbs as equivalent, which I dont believe is true for a T2 diabetic. It also seems to be circling back to the "calories in/calories out" model by taking a "mechanical engineering" approach and ignoring all the endocrinology.
I think that within the constraints of an already low-carb diet, it may be defensible that protein should be higher than is typical in a keto diet. I also think that vs the SAD, it's a clear improvement. But as a new theory of everything, I dont think it meets the burden of proof. Some of the interviews and lectures are pretty smug, and talks about keto as if it's a fad that has already passed. I find that a bit off-putting, although he seems pretty welcome in the low-carb community, so it might just be me.
Again, just first impressions.
You approach things the same way I do, it took me months to eat high fat yogurt.
The science is there, over feeding protein studies result in better metrics. This is a sort of reference where Alan Aragan confirms more protein equates to better composition / metrics (he is a peer reviewed publisher who has worked with professional athletes):
Protein is scientically expensive to breakdown (thermic effect). Body builders use protein to obvious effect, so we have decades of practical visible knowledge also. This is not new, Protein Power was out in 1996, Eric Westman and Amy Berger say to priortise protein first.
Ted, does knock Keto and also does not give a free pass to the diets beginning with "V". I know this is about religiousity (consider his background at loma linda). His preferred foods are pasture raised eggs, shell fish, fish, grass fed beef, no seed oils, and low sugar fruit such as strawberries and avocado, this is definitely keto / carnivorous wholefoods which will produce ketones. He is consistent on these options on both his Instagram and Burn Fat Not Sugar website. I think Ted hates fat bombs, keto treats type keto.
I saw a recent interview where he said "keto" would be dead soon. I think that was ill advised, I would hope he as he said it is about the decline of internet searches.
Whilst he has a book, he has a practice where he takes pleasure in changing diabetic status, he really has earned his way to any remuneration he gets now. Equating fat and carbs as almost the same is context specific, I would like to see the evidence as he works within a context of net 100 grams of carbs; I don't agree with this for the majority.
