Alan Aragon
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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You really have to look at the quality of the diet in order for it to be cardiovascularly healthy.
if you're going to engage in, let's say, an 80-85% fat diet for the rest of your life, there's going to be very different effects if that 80-85% are from land animal fats versus from nuts, avocados, olive oil.
Very different cardiovascular effects going on there.
And so,
That's the other caveat with the keto diet.
There's a Mediterranean type of keto diet that is healthy.
It is one of these cardiovascularly protective types of diets that you can engage.
Whereas if you just do beef, bacon, and butter from here on out, then you don't have the best cardiovascular risk trajectory.
The short answer is yes.
And the nuanced answer is you still can gain muscle on keto.
The body is really resilient and quite genius at manufacturing the carbohydrate endogenously or from within the body.
So your body can make carbohydrate out of lactate and fill at least partially your muscle glycogen stores.
And so going on a zero carbohydrate diet doesn't necessarily...
end up with the type of results that you might imagine for somebody who's completely avoiding carbohydrates.
And in the research comparing strength gains from a high carbohydrate, low fat diet versus a keto diet, the keto folks, as long as they're equated with protein and total calories with the control diet, they've got similar strength gains.
It's quite an interesting phenomenon.
Muscle size gains is a different story, interestingly.
Almost always there's some advantage to the high carb, low fat control group compared with the ketogenic diet group when it comes to both gains in lean mass as well as retention of lean mass during dieting.
And one of those things is more or less obvious.
It's like you simply carry...
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