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For your gut issues, you should try the FODMAP diet. It worked for me until I could get my SIBO under control using the antibiotic rifaximin in the form of heliotherapy.

If you're trying to build muscle, particularly if you don't care too much about putting on fat - bulk like a bodybuilder. High-carb/high protein/high intensity workouts is the way to go - this is time tested, and basically keeping your insulin up is the best way to ensure nutrient delivery to muscles in hypertrophy. I should note that my keto story started long after I began lifting and basically hit my natural peak. On the way to the peak - I went through multiple bulk/cut cycles where in the bulk I'd drink 1 gallon/milk per day and eat lots of meat, and I didn't much count carbs (this was back when protein powders generally all tasted like shit). I remember a lot of PB+J or honey sandwiches too. Then the cut would be all egg whites and chicken breasts.

I tended to eat very clean on the keto diet. Lots of whey protein (cause the powders got good finally), tuna, chicken... And I was doing it years before "keto" became a more mainstream idea. In fact, I only learned about keto from some people who were on the Keto (TM) diet, and they noticed I tended to avoid carbs in general. So I just call it "keto" because that's what everyone can recognize, but you're right - the term has gotten so broad as to mean something like what I did vs. some asshole slamming burgers and bacon and drowning it in oil cuz "muh keto." So it's not like I went seeking to follow a keto diet; rather, I tailored my diet and ended up on something resembling what would be called "keto." I recommend everyone do something similar to find their own path (which it seems like you're doing). Keto or something like it might not work for you, but giving it conscious thought is important, and that's more than what most people do.


Yes and no - more yes than no. I think about the Food Guide Pyramid. The foundation just happens to be the cheapest, easiest, most mass-produced shit. Now, just 100 years ago, grains and cereals made sense because people were just more active. So we got really good at mass producing grains and cereals (10k+ years of agriculture aside). Times changed, but the industry didn't want to (because it's cheaper not to). I don't think it's too much more complex than that, but there may be nefarious intent somewhere. But aside from that, idk what "mainstream diet advice is" outside of the USDA (or maybe the WEF pushing bugs, but that doesn't seem mainstream). I don't think there's a "big paleo" or "big keto" industry out there pulling too many strings - I think mostly people just want an easy/simple answer to a fairly complex question, and fad diets (for lack of a better term) offer that.

Calories in vs. calories out is a great place to start though - that's the real foundation of any food guide pyramid worth a shit.

You seem to be the latter

Breaking 300 lbs. in bench and 400-500 lbs. in squat and deadlift (I assume those are your rough numbers, but you may be a chicken-legged bench freak), especially weighing in the 170-190 lbs. range (where I lived as a non-manlet over 6'), isn't something to scoff at, nor is it something that happens accidentally (assuming natty). Though you manlets drive me nuts with your smaller ROM and better leverage for lifting heavy shit; I've got big ol' gibbon arms. Great for climbing trees, not so much power lifting.

I've never heard of any adrenal issues associated with ketosis. Kidney stones is about as close as I've heard, and that's just proximity. Lungs... yea maybe, but still, I've never seen any research suggesting adverse effects. Might as well say eating carbs "puts a lot of burden on the pancreas." Like yea, you'll have to produce more insulin than no-carbing it, but... it's well within functional parameters generally.


Thought I made that clear. I mentioned I sac'd some lbs. in the weight room, but that comes with any calorie-restricting diet basically. I wasn't keto when I put up my biggest lifts, but I was keto when I put down my fastest distance times, including as short as 5k (low 18s IIRC; I remember it "felt" like a sprint).

I also recall reading some research that a keto diet can help fight cancer - tumors much prefer glucose as an energy store, and cancerous tumors need a lot of energy in fast. So when you restrict sugar, you help to starve the cancer. Can't find it, not gonna look for it, but the reasoning checks.

I knew plenty of guys who didn't go keto - my roommate, e.g. But he could barely run a mile too. I just found that, as I dialed in my diet to meet my physique and athletic goals, I got closer and closer to something that could later be called "keto."

And cortisol, you forgot to mention cortisol is needed in gluconeogenesis

Overeating Fructose can also lead to liver cirrhosis.

If you drink fruit juice at all you'll be spiking it more than enough. Fiber can help counteract the hfcs that's put into everything.

Sugarcane is meant to be eating with its fibrous fronds, but humans can't digest it well.

Our bodies are evolved to the natural world, not processed foods.

Cola is deceptive because the bitterness masks the sugar and makes it easier to over consume. Plus the body can build a tolerance to sugar. You may have your full, but a ham planet still wants more.

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No pinko - round my house it's homemade therefore an 'expresso'. Ya dumb fuck.