[asveikau]

> It's weird that there is such a stigma surrounding keto.

I'm always curious about health topics, having lost a lot of weight in 2017-2018 almost by accident and getting curious about how all that works. (For me it was: stress reduction, smaller portions, daily walking)

So at one point I got a YouTube recommendation that turned out to be keto-aligned, but was phrased as just scientific material about metabolism. As I followed that rabbit hole a bit, I had to stop when it got rather cult-like. They made a lot of claims that all ailments are caused by gluten, carbs, and lack of vitamins. Keto was the solution for literally every problem. Some of the same people promote stuff saying that psychiatry is 110% quackery and that if you take antipsychotics you should stop. Once you adopt a mindset that modern medicine is failing everybody all the time and that there's a silver bullet solution to everything else, the door is open to other such conspiracies.

My own weight loss story involved daily pasta intake. Conspiracy theories about gluten and carbs are just that. I'm sure that not everybody who's into keto is that culty, but man the ones I saw are scary.

[polishdude20]

I feel like if you go down any nutritional / medical rabbit hole deep enough, you'll find videos making outrageous claims. And that's not because one topic or another is true or false or bullshit but it's because that's how people are able to make money. By making these false amazing claims, more people watch and give views. Outrageous claims are made because they are the optimal solution to the problem : making money.