Is the mourning over? When can we discuss the pandemic in a keto context?

long-covid
#1

Too soon?

Did we all get through unscathed?

Did the pandemic change what you did/do with your keto lifestyle?

It’s a question of resilience of a way of eating through a testing time.

#2

I forgot about the whole thing years ago… There was the first 1-2 years when the topic was on my mind a lot but it was so long ago. And it barely affected me or my family so IDK what it could have done to my diet, probably not much, I need a good diet to feel right and I never could stick to keto anyway so off times are inevitable.
I guess for people who suddenly had to stay home (or got extra stress due to the pandemic. my family didn’t, well only a minimal amount), it was a good time to be able to stick to keto more - unless the siren song of carbs interfered. Things could go either way depending on the person in question and the circumstances. And many other factors for sure.

(Ohio ) #3

I actually have just started a thread on my long term covid issues. I don’t mention keto anything because it’s the bodies natural state and don’t talk with anybody else outside of that wavelength. Even doctors.

(Hugh Walter Jennings) #4

I wasn’t doing keto at the time but I did catch covid in the fall of 2020. I recovered at home and didn’t test positive for it. Doctor told me to stay at home and recover unless I needed to go to the hospital and to come in to the office after 72 hours without a fever. He tested me for antigens a month later and they tested positive for covid.

That bout with Covid did scare me enough to deal with my obesity, COPD from smoking, hypertension, diabetes. At that time my doctor told me I wasn’t a good candidate for ketosis. After I lost a lot of weight by switching the whole foods and a whole lot of walking I asked him again and he told me to go ahead and try.

Still took me a couple years to get into nutritional ketosis. Took a 32 hour fast to do it and three 24 hour fasts since to stay in ketosis.

(Bob M) #5

Any idea why your doctor said that?

(Hugh Walter Jennings) #6

Probably all the meds I was on combined with the fact that I had just progressed from pre diabetic to type 2.

Ketoacidosis and all that. I didn’t know anything about keto at the time but from what I gather now, high levels of blood ketones and high blood glucose don’t mix well.

I also had too high cholesterol and too high tryglicerides at the time.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #7

I just carried on with my keto/fasting eating habits. I did catch covid almost 3 yrs. ago. Having had shots, it was not as bad as some of my sinus issues during hay fever season. I tested clear after 4.5 days. I’m pretty sure I caught it in the TSA security line, they made us take off masks and stand by another person, who had no mask but did have slight cough. No issues afterwards.

#8

Too soon? That joke is a distant memory. 8 wks of not having my gym, and a couple months of nice traffic at work. Oh ya, and some sniffles and a sore throat for like 3 days. It literally changed nothing for me except killing DC commute traffic, which made my life easier at work.

#9

Jokes on the doc, because he doesn’t know why he said it either :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

#10

It broke my heart, but not my resolve. I ended up with a worse heart condition that I’m taking a few years to repair by using nutritional ketosis as one aspect. The pandemic just made the saying, “Don’t wait to get sick to start getting healthy”, a bit more real. Many of us didn’t realise that we were quite unhealthy at the start line.

#11

That’s all of us my man! Stay the course! You should look into the Heart Peptide Bioregulator Chelohart, I’ve never used that one myself, but used the eye on (Visoluten) and didn’t need my glasses for for a few years after. I wasn’t blind or anything, but driving at night was hard and I’d get headaches and had high eye pressure as well as it being hard to focus. All gone after Visoluten. The Bioregulators are nuts!