He has tried a ketogenic diet, and he did not enter ketosis
Options:
Ketosis Resistance
Too many carbs? Did the diet wrong?
Didn’t stay on the diet for a long enough? Less than a month?
Drank lots of water, diluted urine test?
If he can rule out the other options, and he didn’t lose any weight, it might be ketosis resistance.
By the way, metabolic disorders are usually a sign that a person will get diabetes at some point.
There is this thing called Ketosis Resistant Diabetes Mellitus. At least one person has fixed it using diet.. I’m pretty sure that this paper is describing a previously known diet-based insulin sensitivity improving procedure, although it’s hard to tell without access to the full paper.
I’m not sure whether the ketosis resistance and the diabetes are linked, or whether both ketosis resistant and ketosis susceptible people both acquire high insulin resistance at equal rates, but the interaction matters if you want to use ketosis for weight loss.
I doubt Eliezer Y. has full blown diabetes yet, since it would have been diagnosed already, but since metabolic syndrome is usually a diabetes precurser and a sign of insulin resistance I consider it worth looking into. Diabetes type-2 proper is just the extreme end of the insulin resistance spectrum coupled with the pancreas not compensating properly.
(Disclaimer: my field is neuroscience, not medicine. I just idly read about metabolism sometimes because it’s important for brain things, and because people I care about have diabetes.)
Options:
Ketosis Resistance
Too many carbs? Did the diet wrong?
Didn’t stay on the diet for a long enough? Less than a month?
Drank lots of water, diluted urine test?
If he can rule out the other options, and he didn’t lose any weight, it might be ketosis resistance.
By the way, metabolic disorders are usually a sign that a person will get diabetes at some point.
There is this thing called Ketosis Resistant Diabetes Mellitus. At least one person has fixed it using diet.. I’m pretty sure that this paper is describing a previously known diet-based insulin sensitivity improving procedure, although it’s hard to tell without access to the full paper.
I’m not sure whether the ketosis resistance and the diabetes are linked, or whether both ketosis resistant and ketosis susceptible people both acquire high insulin resistance at equal rates, but the interaction matters if you want to use ketosis for weight loss.
I doubt Eliezer Y. has full blown diabetes yet, since it would have been diagnosed already, but since metabolic syndrome is usually a diabetes precurser and a sign of insulin resistance I consider it worth looking into. Diabetes type-2 proper is just the extreme end of the insulin resistance spectrum coupled with the pancreas not compensating properly.
(Disclaimer: my field is neuroscience, not medicine. I just idly read about metabolism sometimes because it’s important for brain things, and because people I care about have diabetes.)