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Polycythemia Vera and Nutritional Ketosis
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Wow! This is very interesting information. I have been eating more of an Atkins style diet since mid summer. My hematocrit has stabilized a bit, although my next labs are this week so it might be too early to celebrate. But I feel so much better eliminating carbs. My energy level has returned and I actually want to do more than just sit on the couch and watch tv. And the upside is that I am slowly losing weight which is wonderful. Thanks for the posting.
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That is outstanding. As of yesterday, I have been on carnivore for 19 months. My phlebotomies have been reduced to every 6 months. My bloodwork is normal, A1C, normal, hematocrit was in the normal range, cholesterol is up (a good thing as long as you don't have a bunch of sugar in your bloodstream). Total cholesterol is a hair over 300. However, cholesterol protects from strokes, makes vitamin D, CoQ10, testosterone (wonder why men on statins need the little blue pill?), estrogen, and so forth. Among the side effects, you have more energy, and less brain fog, since your brain is made mostly of fat and cholesterol.
It appears, from my research, that this entire fiasco is being caused by big pharma wanting everyone on one or more prescriptions, then selling us other 'scripts to manage the side effects of the first set...Lather, rinse, repeat. And the food industry makes several orders of magnitude profit on processed, carb-laden, sugar loaded foods, especially since sugar is 30x more addictive than cocaine. It is also the reason that Type 2 diabetes is such an epidemic.
Oh, and if you want to take weight loss to the next level, try fasting 1-2 days a week. I have been for the past 3 weeks, and have dropped an additional 10 lbs.