@David_Stilley started this topic yesterday and it is proving to be quite popular and insightful. Thank you, David, for broaching a controversial topic!
The topic prompted me to ask: How exactly does a ketogenic diet accomplish what at face value seems to be a contradiction? That is, how does eating more fat burn more fat? We have lots of experiential evidence that it does so. But exactly how? That’s what I want to know.
Just to be clear I want to say up front that eliminating carbohydrates as a useful source of energy is obviously the primary prerequisite to the process. So please don’t tell us that you can eat so many carbs and stay in ketosis. That’s a different issue and if you want to talk about that, please start another topic for it. My intention here is to discuss the science of ‘eating more fat to burn more fat’. How exactly that works.
As I find articles/papers/studies, etc that seem pertinent I will post links here along with any comments I think helpful.