Hi @bsb ,
Here's another article from us: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/low-carb-diet/art-20045831

At the end of the day, any diet plan a person chooses to follow should be discussed with their health care team; ideally a registered dietitian. It is important to consider not only research, but someone's medical history, preferences, values, and goals.

It is also hard to understand what people are referring to as true "keto". This definition is quite loose in the world of the internet. A low-carbohydrate diet can be done in both healthy and unhealthy ways.

thanks for saying what I was about to say. I am waiting for a response to come from the Mayo Clinic because I too know that Keto is not a NEW FAD or a Johnny Come Lately diet craze. I've only been doing it for nearly 3 months and I'm close to my lowest weight now in decades. The only thing I'm wondering about is how much of my almost 10 lb weight loss is water and how much is actual fat? I don't know my stats from when I started (i.e. fat to lean body mass) so I'm not sure I'll ever know. My clothes DO fit a little looser but not as much as I'd think with 10 lbs of weight loss if it had all been fat or even mostly fat. BUT I am tracking METICULOUSLY my macros and while I haven't bought a breath or blood test kit I feel that I MUST be in ketosis because of the strict way that I am meeting my macro goals daily for the past 84 days. Caveat: I'm 5'3 1/4 - an inch and a quarter less than I used to be. So perhaps my current weight of 127 (starting weight on keto was a136.7) isn't showing much change in how my clothes fit because of the water weight lost? IDK. I didn't have much weight to lose but what I DID have and still do to some degree is a lot of GUT weight which I never had before. It's shrunk a lot. BUT there's still a good layer of fat that hasn't disolved yet.

But I do feel like I have more energy and more brain clarity. I'll be 75 in a few days and I'm a member of a djembe drumming group (and in the elite portion of that 50 member orchestra of drummers after only 3 years). I also created our facebook group and I create all of our marketing content including flyers, posters, and recently (like the past 2 months) I'm teaching myself 3 different software progams that allow me to download our videos from our director's youtube channel, then extract the audio track and attach that to a flat image that then becomes a "video" lasting as long as the audio track and I'm using another program to add effects to that and posting them as REELS on Facebook Instagram and TikTok. So my brain is working like it did 30 years ago!

What I wonder, though, is how it's affecting my kidneys and liver. I'm unconcerned about my lipid panel because I've never had any issue with high cholesterol and the things I'm reading lately about the fallacy of high cholesterol being villainized are making me wish that there was a lot more transparency in our medical system. I fear that given the stronghold of BIG PHARMA on our healthcare, we may never know the truth about so many things.

I highly recommend the book A STATIN NATION by UK doctor Malcomlm Kendrick. He discusses low carb high fat and all the fallacies around cholesterol and how studies are skewed and how their not even correctly peer reviewed any longer because the reviewers aren't given the raw data to analyze...but simply a SUMMARY of the results.