Peter Attia

Well, I think the most common reason would be weight loss.

Meaning you think you're at 3,200?

So what's the efficacy then?

So why do you think a ketogenic diet works?

Do you think it works because under conditions of caloric restriction, it's more satiating than diets that are high in carbohydrates?

So when I stop eating carbohydrates and ramp up my fat... By the way, I do want to go back to, sorry, one other point.

You keep saying high protein.

Can you define high protein in this context?

Are you talking high by the standards of...

the RDA?

Or are you just saying one gram per pound of body weight?

Is that sort of your guidance?

But that's hard for people, I think, sometimes.

I mean, you can obviously back calculate into that by the calories, but do you find it easier to just say, look,

Keep your carbs at 50 grams and try to get them from high fiber carbs.

Get your protein to X grams and then limit your total calories to whatever, 3,000 with fat filling the rest.

In other words, what is it typically working out to in terms of grams per pound of body weight in protein?

At that level of protein, you're not undergoing so much gluconeogenesis that you're making too much glucose that's offsetting the ketone process?

The RDA for you is 80 grams.

Exactly 80 grams.