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Low-carb diets have become extremely popular today.
Mostly, people like low-carb and ketogenic diets because of the quick weight loss.
That weight loss comes at an incredible price, but that’s another newsletter.
The other reason many people like them is that they believe that these diets will make them healthier.
The thought is that if you cut carbohydrates, you will save your heart, arteries, and even your brain health.
Supposedly you will be healthier with a low-carb diet overall.
But this is where that high cost leaps out and grabs you — these diets are dangerous, not healthier.
If you go very low carb, you will avoid most starch and most sugar.
Your body becomes a ketone burning machine.
The body turns fat into ketones, and so a diet that is very low-carb is called a ketogenic diet.
You’ve probably heard of it.
Or you may know it as the ketones diet.
But if you’re considering it, don’t do it.
This is a brand-new and SHOCKING study that shows a huge downside to these very low-carb ketogenic diets:
Researchers put mice on a low-carb diet and observed them.
After only two months, they found that the mice had clear, significant brain damage.
The mice suffered severe damage to their brain function.
We found that the ketogenic diet aggravated neurodegeneration.
Sure, these were mice, but there were some very interesting findings that applied to you and me.
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As carbohydrates fall, the brain cells begin creating more mitochondria.
Mitochondria are the tiny little miniature powerhouses in the cell that are responsible for breathing, energy, and life.
Many cells have many mitochondria.
Muscle cells have thousands of mitochondria personnel.
Nerve cells have mitochondria too.
This is where ketogenic diets start to cause long-term health issues for the brain.
It seems that a low-carb diet causes the nerve cells to produce mitochondria in runaway quantities.
The increased mitochondrial therefore drains the energy reserves further, accelerating the neurodegeneration.
That is disturbing in itself.
But what is also even more disturbing, is that many of the changes caused by a ketogenic diet increase the “cancer metabolism.”
You read that right, the problems can cascade into an incredibly increased risk of cancer!
For example, cancer feeds on amino acids such as glutamine.
A ketogenic diet appears to lower glutamine receptors.
The body isn’t equipped to use the glutamine, and it just lays around until some cancer cell gets hungry.
I have already shown you many important studies that show low-carb diets can cause insulin resistance and diabetes.
Trying to increase fat and lower carbohydrates, while avoiding white sugar, can have serious health consequences.
And then we come to this study I’m showing you today, and you realize that it’s worse than diabetes.
It’s nerve and brain damage, and it’s cancer, too.
Wow.
So, what should you do now?
I would suggest that most people pursue a high-carb, low-fat diet.
Focus on especially minimizing the PUFA fats — bad fats such as vegetable oil and fish oil.
In this same study, researchers found especially bad effects from polyunsaturated fatty acids, the kind in vegetable oil and fish oil.
One of the primary PUFA fats in the human body was shown in this study to cause:
enhanced mitochondrial proliferation and damage.
So… yeah.
My suggestion is to avoid low-carb, high-fat diets.
http://www.neurobiologyofaging.org/article/S0197-4580(16)30173-7/fulltext
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