Battling Illness With A Ketogenic Lifestyle
The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is becoming increasingly known for helping individuals who are keen to address their chronic inflammation issues. Many diseases today are believed to be rooted in chronic and prolonged inflammation in the body, so it's no surprise that a growing number of people would be seeking to make changes in their diet, in an effort to try and reduce that inflammation.
Researchers have suggested that there are a variety of foods out there that can help to fight inflammation in the body:
Millions of people today are suffering from digestive-related illnesses and I believe that this plays a big part in why we are seeing more interest growing for diets like the Paleo, Primal, and Keto diet, and other food trends. It's not just for people who are looking to lose weight, but it could also be people who are looking to reverse current symptoms to try and promote better overall health for themselves.
Researchers have also suggested that the keto diet might be so effective that it could possible one day be used to help treat those with neurological issues, to treat stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma, and more.
Individuals have been consuming a low-carb keto diet not only recently, but for thousands of years. And despite the many critics, it's a health regime that has the support of a number of doctors who allegedly not only stick to the diet themselves, but also recommend it to their patients and family.
In one recent case report, from the Harvard Medical School's McLean Hospital, a psychiatrist there has admitted that he witnessed the keto diet help better the standard of living for two patients there who allegedly saw a meaningful improvement with their schizophrenia and depression-related symptoms; it helped to stabilize their mood. Those results though have been criticized and there are many medical professionals out there today who would warn going on the diet at all, let alone going on it to try and fix or remedy some physical or mental illness.
However, if people are finding the results that they are searching for: weight loss, reduced inflammation/symptoms etc, a feeling of improvement, then we can expect that not only will they try to stick with this diet/lifestyle, but that they will also promote it to their friends, family, and others. It's likely that in the years to come then we could see this niche space grow significantly.
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The information that is posted above is not intended or implied to ever be used as any substitute for professional medical advice, or diagnosis or treatment. The above is posted for informational purposes only.
Sources:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/foods-that-fight-inflammation
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/ketogenic-diet-schizophrenia-treatment/
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/keto-diet-key-to-brain-inflammation-treatments
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/keto-diet-bhb-ingredient
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-the-ketogenic-diet
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wonderful information @doitvoluntarily to avoid from inflammation we should avoid from eating junks foods specially but in this fast age to eat fast food has become the new trend that is falling our health.
well is there any possible immediate treatment of inflammation?
You drive, but do you av-a-car-do?
Sorry, this was a serious post and that was a dumb pun
lol!
ying/yang is same as the Yoni/phallus is it not. Oh wait i have to reply about the post here...ill get back to you if you get back to me..............seriously
Thank you Kindly
I am on a keto-vegan diet. I was on the ketogenic diet for about 6 months. I wasn't ever overweight, but I felt heavy at 64kg... I am 5ft 6".
I suffered from bloating after food and just feeling tired and sluggish. I also had pain in my joints. However, on the keto diet I felt energised, very alert, the bloating disappeared, and the pain has eased considerably. I also dropped to 59kg and feel just right.
The only problem was that I did eat quite a bit of cheese and the red meat etc bumped my cholesterol up. Apparently it is inherited. I loved the keto diet, so I combined it and became a keto-vegan. Perfect! I feel really good now. I found that it was carbs that caused the bloat and the pain.
I don't feel restricted in any way. It isn't a difficult diet, and I don't miss sugar, cakes, biscuits etc at all. All my food is fresh and natural. You can't put a price on good health.
Doctors are mostly just intent on pushing medication down our throats. But they only mask the problem not deal with the root cause.
great to hear :)!
I thought ketogenic diet had to be meat and day, like paleolithic. Would love to find out more about keto-vegetariam 😊 Any good links you have about it?
Just noticed your comment about doctors, which I disagree with. Let me tell you about patients instead: all they want to have pills prescribed, if you start talking diet their eyes glaze over
No. Ideally yes, it contains grass-fed beef, pork etc, but I felt sluggish eating pork cooked any which way.
I have elevated cholesterol, which is apparently inherited, and I was eating lots of high fat foods, especially cheeses. I love cheese. My cholesterol shot up. But I loved the rest of the diet, so I kept that. I eat very little to no carbs.
I eat vegetables, mainly raw, or slightly cooked, fruit, smoothies, veg juices, nuts . I also cut out sugar. I eat oily fish too.
So I took the best of each diet and combined them. Since then I have found a few others on Steemit using the same combination.
I guess I just must have come across a raft of doctors who routinely prescribe pills for everything. They tried to ply me with Nsaids and really strong and dangerous drugs. I didn't want to go down that route. I did extensive research on these drugs and found they totally exacerbate the condition making it worse. They erode cartilage, plus cause so much other damage. They were all so annoyed that I refused the drugs, but a few reluctantly had to agree. They wanted to try out experimental drugs..... I am not a Guinea pig.
The change of diet has changed everything. But each doctor bar one was displeased that I discontinued the drugs. Unfortunately I have found doctors here all too willing to hand out "magic pills" rather than investigate and treat the root cause.
Great post ! Full of awesome information to share on my @momskitchen blog with all my very diverse foodie followers ! Thanks @doitvoluntarily for sharing as well with all of us ! 👍💕👍💕👍
sweet!! :) thx!
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Thanks for sharing@doitvoluntarily, Our food intake contributes to our health, many people feel that maintaining our diet is too costly but there are some natural foods we can afford that is good to our health, mostly vegetables
I try to eat different foods, not only useful. I love chips, but also like salads and fruits. Everything should be in the right ratio.
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Thanks man, i'm about to start a diet period so i was looking for posts like this!
@ohmano Don't call it a 'diet'...call it what it has to be, in order to be effective long-term...
Let's say it together:
LIFESTYLE CHANGE
Prayers that you stay on the 'wagon'! Best success...
Peace.
Good post and I agree, but those fries are looking freakin good... :D
Followed and uppd! ;)
Fantastic information that I really needed to see I needed more information for the diet I just started so I thank you very much 😊