I love thinking about this! When my first child was born, it just seemed normal to have her on me most of the time, a natural extension of the pregnancy. My mother worried that she wouldn’t become independent, but she was happy and I was happy, and she nursed whenever she wanted. Around 4 or 5 months, she got REALLY wiggly when I was holding her and not moving - wanted to be moving around more on her own when she was awake -and by 8 months she just stayed on the floor near me and would come crawling back when she needed to touch base. She knew perfectly well what she needed and had a beautiful timeline for that separation.
Born in Ketosis
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(L. Amber O'Hearn)
#43
Yes, exactly: fasting entails ketosis, but ketosis does not entail fasting in humans.
Some people do advocate for seasonal cycling of ketogenic vs glycolytic modes, because one is associated with building and the other with tearing down (autophagy) and it’s recognised that both are useful. I don’t necessarily think that’s harmful, but I don’t think it’s necessarily beneficial either.
One thing about eating ketogenically in a state of maintenance or growth rather than caloric deficit (as is the case with non-human animal models in reach in ketosis) is that you do get a fed state every time you eat. All of those anabolic processes come on. It’s just that now you can cycle between those on a daily basis instead of taking days to get back into ketosis the way you would have to for e.g. intermittent fasting with a high carb diet.
I’m skeptical that we can extrapolate IGF data from high carb contexts to the low carb one.