[Fezzik]

Not related to cancer, but the general consensus in the medical community seems to be that keto is NOT a healthy diet. Though it can help with weight loss it contributes to poor heart health and just generally mucks up your cardiovascular system (that’s my medical term, not a doctor’s). I gained a few pounds during Covid and my GPs first, unprompted, advice was to avoid keto at all costs. Additional anecdote: my uncle recently lost a good amount of weight on a keto diet (5’8”, was 220 now about 168) and he promptly had a heart-attack. Doctors said he had “diabetic arteries” and that the keto diet was at least a contributing factor.

[adrianN]

I think getting any clear results in nutrition is essentially impossible because you can't conduct the studies necessary to get rid of all the confounding factors. Consequently it's probably a bad idea to follow an extreme diet. Of course that doesn't mean that keto (or other dietary interventions) can't be beneficial for certain illnesses like cancer. I'd be interested to hear about studies.

[otabdeveloper4]

Our modern standard diet is very extreme by default.

I'd guess practically any other diet would be better.

[adrianN]

I guess it depends on your culture what the "standard" diet is. I don't think my diet is particularly extreme.

[otabdeveloper4]

The one that has white flour/rice and sugar as the main staples. You know what I mean; it's cross-cultural now, like tobacco smoking.

[adrianN]

The diets in the "Blue Zones" feature those as staples as well. I somehow don't think that they're terribly unhealthy. Grains have been staples for millennia by now.

[otabdeveloper4]

The bread we eat now and the bread we ate 150 years ago are very different breads.

The modern stuff is refined flour and sugar.

[agumonkey]

Thanks, it's funny how you can hear just about everything about diets. I just saw a video about a doctors review of someone doing one meal a day / keto saying their internals were in better shape than most young adults.

It's true that tapping in alternative energy path is risky, that's why I ask for others informations before jumping into a sharkpool.