Fasting and low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets carry a lower risk of unknown adverse effects than the risk of severe outcomes from not intervening in metabolic disease. — Whalespan
Fasting and low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets carry a lower risk of unknown adverse effects than the risk of severe outcomes from not intervening in metabolic disease.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“but if you suddenly change you know bring an intervention like fasting or low carbohydrate diets ketogenic diets or whatever there's a risk of doing it sure we don't know what the risks are but you know the risk of not doing something and that's the virtual certainty that you're going to in ten years go on dialysis or something like that right that's not an insignificant risk it's actually a huge risk compared to doing fasting which has been done for thousands of years”