Cognitive Dissonance

(Miss E) #35

also itchy, guessing that’s something to do with blood maybe.

#36

hmmm - I wish I had some special insights for you. Some folks do well with mostly keto and then some “carb-ups.” Have you seen posts about that?
Also it’s possible that some of your gassiness, headache etc had more to do with what form the carbs took (grains?) than with the actual carb gram count.

(Jo O) #37

Checkout Healthy Pursuit, Leeann Vogel’s podcast/youtube. She has been dealing with a lot of issues. Her approach to Keto might help.

(Bunny) #38

Fascinating stuff!

  1. How to change your blood type without even trying:

Blood types were once thought to be with people for life. And, in almost every case, they’re still thought to be with a person for life. But there is one patient whose blood type actually changed. A liver transplant, apparently, has a shot of changing a person’s blood type.

There was once a simple time in human history when everyone had just one blood type, and that blood type was O negative. It wasn’t called O at the time, of course, because even if anyone was looking at it, it would just have been blood to them. But life kept up its usual trick of evolving, and suddenly, on the surface of the lovely, smooth, red blood cells were little agglutinations of protein. There was what’s now known as the Rh factor, the thing that turns O negative blood into O positive blood. Then there were other little clumps of protein, which separated Rh positive blood and Rh negative blood into A and B types. For the vast majority of history, only the Rh factor caused any bother. The system of an Rh negative woman who became pregnant with an Rh positive baby could see the infant’s blood type as an outside body, and attack it. This was such a selector that today eighty-five percent of people are Rh positive.

Meanwhile, A and B types only began troubling humankind by the time blood transfusions and organ transplants were happening. (Before that, any human blood or organs entering the body generally came via the stomach, which isn’t that fussy about blood types.) Again, the immune system would attack the strangely bedecked blood cells and cause medical problems. Type O patients, roughly forty-five percent of the population, could give out their blood and organs, but couldn’t receive anyone else’s. The Rh factor of the blood depended on what type of medical procedure was being done. …More

  1. The Basics on Blood: What’s Your Type and Can It Change?
  1. Scientists Discover an Enzyme That Can Change a Person’s Blood Type
  1. DIETARY LECTINS: BLOOD TYPES & FOOD ALLERGIES
#39

I gave a bone marrow donation to my sister with leukaemia.
She changed from her O+ to my A+ blood groups, but also inherited my allergies (including coeliac disease, which she was less than thrilled about)

(Rob) #40

The gift that keeps on giving… :flushed:

3 Year Keto, but gaining back weight fast
(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #41

Getting a liver transplant so I can eat more red meat based on quackery seems a bit drastic, but I’m not the best judge.

(Adam Kirby) #42

Blood type diet is complete BS idea. Listening to a dietician is quite possibly bad for your health.

(Miss E) #43

that’s a shame to hear considering I’m contemplating the career :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m not just going by what she said, I’m going by what i feel and how I’ve felt previously.

(Candy Lind) #44

Oh, PLEASE! Become a dietician who supports LCHF & keto! We need more of them! :heart_eyes:

(Adam Kirby) #45

I totally agree. I don’t despise all dieticians, there are LCHF ones who get actual results from their clients. The more of those that can redeem the profession the better.

(A ham loving ham! - VA6KD) #46

I’ve now had my family doc and a dietician remark at my progress by going keto. Both have said quietly to keep on doing it as they can see no reason to stop, but they can’t say it out loud else they’ll get in trouble from their respective college/associations. The dogma is strong with these folks!

(PAULA GRAINGER) #47

My dietitian had not heard of Ancell Keys. I had to tell her. How can a dietitian become one without knowing the history of hclf? Am I wrong?

(Allie) #48

That does seem strange…

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #49

Doesn’t seem that odd. Keys didn’t start LFHC. There were contemporaries and predecessors. And there was Pritikin and McGovern. If they hadn’t heard of Piritikin, that’d be odd.

(Miss E) #50

It’s only odd if they were taught it and she didn’t know. There would be so much to remember un that profession that those names may not take precedent.

(Allie) #51

You’d expect anyone with an interest in dietary matters, especially a professional interest, to be aware of the origins of the current guidelines.

(Miss E) #52

Not necessarily, people learn and retain information in different ways. They may be more interest in the future than origins.

(PAULA GRAINGER) #53

Oh…well,I hadnt heard of the other two either…altho I am not a qualified dietition. But it is Keys whose advice the West adhered to all of these years wasn’t it?

(PAULA GRAINGER) #54

The concept derived from the name.