Thoughts and analysis for a new dietary paradigm

I’ve been wrestling with how to frame this post for the past couple of days. Given my recent writings on low-carbohydrate diets, there’s a palpable risk of being misinterpreted—as if I’m against them, or that I condemn them more than I do. So, let’s get this straight.

First off, various forms of low-carb diets are indeed decent interventions. For the severely obese and especially diabetics, they’re a godsend. For Type 1 diabetics, it’s more about long-term management than a quick fix. But here’s the deal: just because a ketogenic diet works wonders for epileptics doesn’t mean everyone should jump on that bandwagon. That’s just bad logic.

Low-carb for life management of Type 1 diabetes? Sure. But to suggest it’s the universal diet because it works great for T1s? That’s asinine.

So, let’s dive in.

I’ve been doing some number crunching with AI assistance. Here’s what’s up:

Low-carb diets have been around for ages, but they didn’t really hit the mainstream until Dr. Atkins published his seminal work in 1972. Interest was lukewarm at first, Congress went apeshit but what’s new? but then the Paleo movement in the mid-2000s gave it a significant boost.

Now, if low-carb was the golden ticket—the cat’s meow, as they say—you’d think after 52 years, with all the opportunities it has had to prove itself, the dietary debate would be settled by now. Most folks would be on some form of low-carb diet.

But that’s not the case, is it?

So with that, I’m going to invite paying members to get their heads better around all this.

1. What are the numbers Grok crunched for me in terms of LC adherence (hint: dismal)?
2. Why do I think that even having had decent results (better than with most diets), very few folks stick with them?
3. What’s the even bigger telltale that LC itself keeps knowing it’s doomed?
4. What’s The Newcastle Protocol for an 80% documented success rate in Type 2 complete remission (requiring zero intervention), and what does it tell us about the character of the LC movement?
5. What really causes Type 2 (no, it’s not “excess” carbohydrates; it’s NOT)?
6. Then how do you cure it; I mean really cure it?
7. What are some ways and combinations to get to a cure over a period of time that’s comfortable enough to become a sustainable, long-term lifestyle many more people will stick to?

This is an introductory post and I expect to be writing about it substantially over the next months as a re-found interest. I pulled away from most of the dietary stuff for a good many years because I saw very little progress being made among the people who need it the most and saw most efforts to “help” them to be little more than hocking more products, selling more snacks, and getting people even deeper into obsessive data gathering (glucose, ketones, and on, and on…).

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