[STUDY] The relationship between the ketogenic diet and depressive symptoms: A call for participants

Keto alone is very incomplete. It is simply stepping back from the most unhealthy diet the world has ever seen. We don't walk anywhere, so we don't need the carbohydrates to power our bodies.

That alone makes me feel much better, but we have so many other issues. Inulin is a prebiotic soluble dietary fiber, it is one thing to consume nutrients, another to absorb them.

The bacteria that digest it produce some HDAC action like Valproate acid. Notably, beta-hydroxybutyrate, a ketone body, also does this. If you slowly climb up to 15 grams per day (everyone needs about 15 grams of fiber extra in their diet), you start seeing more clinically relevant effects. Such as butyrate binding at FFAR3 to induce neuropeptide Y. NP Y has various effects such as: increasing food intake and storage of energy as fat, reducing anxiety and stress, reducing pain perception, affecting the circadian rhythm, reducing voluntary alcohol intake, lowering blood pressure, and controlling epileptic seizures.

It also has it's counterpart that cannot cross the blood brain barrier (which butyric acid improves). PYY works by slowing the gastric emptying; hence, it increases efficiency of digestion and nutrient absorption after a meal. Research has also indicated PYY may be useful in removing aluminium accumulated in the brain.

Butyrate actually pushes PYY which pushes NPY, and butyrate enhances NPY action at the same time.

All from either picking foods with inulin in it, or by taking it as a fiber supplement. It has .2 carbs per teaspoon.

That is just what one prebiotic soluble fiber can do. This is not mentioned at all in the keto diet, but it needs to become permanently welded to it due to it's synergy. Then follow a lifestyle that improves HDL (which only Niacin, beta-hydroxybutyrate and butyrate can do) then you are golden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density_lipoprotein#Diet_and_exercise

That in essence, is the complete basic ketogenic diet. And it's not unnatural, the first mention of eating a plant in literature was Horace eating chicory, or they analyze bones from hunter-foragers in native America and say they were eating up to 135g of inulin per day.

This is the natural diet, over half the world is lactose intolerant and carbohydrates are unhealthy, especially if you don't move, but if you do move, still sub optimal overall.

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