>>48155964Aside from being a meme, keto works by inducing a state called ketoacidosis, where the ketones your body produces out of desperation to metabolize things you refuse to provide for it alters your blood ph, making it more difficult for blood to pass through cell membranes and actually supply your brain, organs and tissue with oxygen and nutrients.
It's a condition that can occur naturally and spontaneously in type 1 diabetics and is immediately life-threatening for them.
The 'keto' diet essentially seeks to induce this state artificially in an otherwise healthy individual through deliberate malnutrition, and as a result of the lower absorption coefficient between their blood and body, they end up peeing out most of the nutrients they eat rather than actually feeding their cells. The result is basically starvation while your stomach feels full, exactly the same process that causes untreated diabetics to shed weight catastrophically as they die. While it's billed as a miracle diet because it can achieve short-term results, the truth is that unevenly starving your organs with acidic blood and malnutrition causes unpredictable and permanent damage, and as soon as you 'finish' your diet, you will immediately relapse because you haven't actually changed anything about your impulse control, physical activity or eating habits and instead just starved yourself for a few weeks. It's about as healthy and legitimate as those old 'diet pills' from the 90s that were just sponges meant to make your stomach feel full so you eat less.
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It subsists as part of this whole 'health and wellness' grift targeted at upper class west coast americans that will fall for absolutely any fucking scam if it sounds trendy and can be used as a status symbol
