I’m no food scientist or dietitian, but I won’t be surprised if Keto and Carnivore diets are confirmed to accelerate high blood pressure and heart disease.
TLDR Metabolic health is mostly impacted by poor diet, excess glucose and carbohydrates (which directly become glucose). Reducing elevated glucose levels has direct and measurable improvements on blood pressure and CVD risk.
Everything I’ve seen about keto is that it helps with reducing blood pressure. I’ve not gone full keto but I’ve cut out carbs significantly (alongside intermittent fasting, only eating 11a-7p) and it curbed my blood pressure issues over about a year.
I’m no food scientist or dietitian, but I won’t be surprised if Keto and Carnivore diets are confirmed to accelerate high blood pressure and heart disease.
You would be very surprised! The effects of low-carbohydrate diets on cardiovascular risk factors: A meta-analysis
TLDR Metabolic health is mostly impacted by poor diet, excess glucose and carbohydrates (which directly become glucose). Reducing elevated glucose levels has direct and measurable improvements on blood pressure and CVD risk.
A strict ketogenic intervention is so potent that people taking blood pressure medication have to be very careful and monitor their blood pressure when starting to reduce their medicine so they don’t faint from hypotension… i.e. Cardiovascular disease risk factor responses to a type 2 diabetes care model including nutritional ketosis induced by sustained carbohydrate restriction at 1 year: an open label, non-randomized, controlled study
Everything I’ve seen about keto is that it helps with reducing blood pressure. I’ve not gone full keto but I’ve cut out carbs significantly (alongside intermittent fasting, only eating 11a-7p) and it curbed my blood pressure issues over about a year.
Carnivore I wouldn’t be surprised about though.
Carnivore is just keto.
No it’s not. Keto allows you to eat low carb plants whereas the carnivore diet eliminates all non-animal products.
Yes, but its a ketogenic eating pattern. Zero carb.
Carnivore is a type of keto, and gets all of the benefits we see with keto