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by sethryclaus 2808 days ago
Eating too much protein and not drinking enough water seem to cause more problems on keto than standard diets.

You must read about ketoacidosis as that seems to easily be the most dangerous risk. Diabetes is the main trigger for this.

The distinction between MCT (coconut essentially) and LCT based keto is very significant - especially since the MCT diet can be pretty much vegetarian.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of assessing other things on their own merits and by their own rules since the majority of nutrition isn't about macros. For example, eggs can become a bigger part of your diet on keto so it's important to research eggs - which in my case resulted in salmon as a source of omega 3.

I don't have any difficulties staying on keto but I'm also a good cook and every supermarket in my country is more like Whole Foods than a normal US supermarket, according to friends who have been there (I have no idea what they're talking about).

Finally, checking citations of various articles both for and against has just lead me to ignore anything other than papers (and even then with a grain of salt - @ajaxaddicted's sheet is a cool way of doing it).