Acid–base safety during the course of a very low-calorie-ketogenic diet

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#1

I saw this on /r/ketoscience and thought that people would be interested.

(bulkbiker) #2

I have no idea what most of that was about but the conclusion seemed to be keto won’t kill ya?
Am I right?

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #3

Mark, of course it kills ya, we are all ketozombies around here. :smiling_imp:

Conclusion

During the course of a VLCK diet there were no clinically or statistically significant changes in glucose, blood pH, anion gap and plasma bicarbonate. Hence the VLCK diet can be considered as a safe nutritional intervention for the treatment of obesity in terms of acid-base equilibrium.

What is interesting to me is, aside from my fasting days, I do not eat a very low calorie keto diet, I am usually between 1550 and 2000 calories, because you know bacon and macadamia nuts. I don’t consider myself on a low calorie diet at all, even including the fasting days. As I am a petite older woman, most calculators want me eating 1100 to 1200 cals, that is low calories to me.

(Allie) #4

Just the title contradicts itself as keto is not low calorie.

(Sjur Gjøstein Karevoll) #5

Any diet is ketogenic if it’s low enough calorie. The diet they used for this study proves this as it was basically just protein, and actually had more carbs than fat yet achieved deep levels of ketosis.

#6

The exciting thing about this paper is that we can point to it and say: “no worries about ketoacidosis” at least in non diabetic people.

(bulkbiker) #7

Missed that completely… I must have read it as Low Carb… I guess I just assume anything sensible is these days…!