My grandmother was talking to me earlier about how she can only sleep 4 hours a night, and that reminded me of something her old friend had said on the local keto group that I had created. “I lost 24 pounds, and I sleep better. I used to sleep between 4 to 6 hours, now I can sleep 8 hours.” is what she said, so I quoted it.
She didn’t reply, instead stared at her phone like I said nothing. Mind you, she said in her 30’s she tried a higher fat diet, she was obese (and still is, but got weight loss surgery and dropped some weight, but is now gaining) at the time and I don’t think the diet was low in carbohydrates. She eats, and has always eaten not so good food --with plenty of trans fats-- and had a mild heart attack during that time. I would assume what I said went straight out the other ear.
Later on, after getting off her phone, she mentioned her other old friend tried keto with her husband, but they both had to go off because one of them had ebola as a child, and the other has a pacemaker and heart stents put in, and his doctor told him keto is making him worse and that he could only have 1 egg a week, but not the entire egg, just part of it.
30 minutes later, she mentioned that the place she goes for supper every evening with my grandfather serves soup, but she can no longer eat much of it because the sodium content of the broth, because of her high blood pressure. I mentioned that my dad got off his high blood pressure medication and now eats 2 times the amount of salt as before, dropped some weight after already being pretty lean, and has better cholesterol levels. I believe my grandmother still has high cholesterol, but I brought that last part up because my grandparents brought up how my dad probably has to half his meat portions and not salt his food anymore (before they were aware that keto helped him.) My grandma also has T2D, and they say T2Ds can’t do keto. I’m not sure if that’s true, because a lot of people here talk about reversing it.
Another one is my sister’s dad. He has had high cholesterol, until recently (thanking it on the statins his doctor put him on.) Eats quite a bit of meat, fried in margarine or PAM spray, but almost always with bread or in a sandwich. Lots of soda, he will not touch vegetables, and I’ve seen him eat bags of bite brownies before at night. He also has Parkinson’s disease, is obese, has chronic pain, and has many other problems… poor guy has a lot going on and is living off meds day to day.
I’m curious, can everyone benefit from a ketogenic diet? Or at least the majority of people, like the ones I’m talking about above. Can some people benefit greater from eating whole grains, low fat and low cholesterol? One part of an egg a week? Margarine over butter, like the people I’m talking about use? I know that’s a stupid question, but I’m asking it more for the sake of seeing how people will reply rather than asking it for an answer, if that makes sense.
