The Sugar diet is making the social media rounds.
This is a no fat, high carbohydrate diet.
Just like the rice diet : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_diet
The potato diet, and the McDougal diet, the fruitarian diet
From what I can tell the principal mechanism of action is avoiding Randle cycle cross inhibition (not a cycle) which avoids systemic inflammation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_cycle
In this video Jesus goes over the reported effects of the high carb no fat diets and plausible mechanical effects in the context of muscle gain.
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Why the Sugar Diet
Dr. Jesus Vega discusses the controversial Sugar Diet, exploring its potential benefits and drawbacks. He shares insights from Mark Bell's protocol, which restricts other food types while allowing fruits and sugars for a limited period each week. The conversation highlights how this diet aims to promote fat burning while minimizing muscle loss. Additionally, he cautions against relying solely on this diet for long-term health, noting possible negative effects on insulin sensitivity and metabolic health, as well as the need for balanced nutrition.
Key Points
Introduction to Sugar Diet
The Sugar Diet has gained popularity, with Mark Bell promoting a specific protocol. The discussion highlights that this diet includes consuming fruits, fruit juices, honey, and some candies over several days to push the metabolism into fat-burning.
Benefits of Sugar Diet
The Sugar Diet may help with weight loss without significant muscle loss. The diet aims to promote fat burning by limiting fat intake and allowing the body to use stored fat as energy, potentially making exercise easier during sugar fasting.
Difference from Other Diets
Unlike the Keto diet, which trains the body to burn dietary fat, the Sugar Diet relies on sugar and internal fat stores. This can lead to less muscle loss than traditional fasting, but there are potential long-term consequences.
Hormonal Effects
This diet could balance between fat-burning and muscle retention through hormonal influences, specifically increasing fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) but potentially decreasing insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), impacting muscle growth.
Caveats and Risks
Despite short-term benefits, the long-term sustainability and health impacts of the Sugar Diet are uncertain. Concerns include metabolic flexibility, insulin sensitivity, nutrient deficiencies, and the risk of developing unhealthy eating patterns.
Call for Research
The Sugar Diet lacks extensive scientific testing to support its claims. Dr. Vega emphasizes the need for more data on its long-term effects and the importance of not neglecting overall health in favor of short-term results.
It's ironic because I just watched this video
Wow that video is talking directly to me.
I was drinking Soylent for about 2 years. Almost exclusively. So that's a type of veganism, but supposedly engineered to hit all of the daily requirements.
Now I'm carnivore. Straight out of that guy script. It's amazing
I can absolutely say that doctor's in the carnivore and keto space, absolutely want to see structural change in the guidelines, in the medical community, in the practicing procedures
Earthling Ed references "thousands of high quality studies" to dismiss the benefits of keto and carnivore, thats just lazy.
The core problem with Ed's thesis is it relies on his assumptions to be unquestioned and correct, and being incredulous of anything outside of Ed's views. Painting everything as Cognitive dissonance and the right wing radicalization pipeline, its hardly a objective analysis of data and outcomes of different protocols. Thus Ed is dismissing carnivores as Right Wing conspiracy nuts and conveniently doesn't need to look at their data and outcomes.
At 20:40 he says "Anecdotes are the weakest form of evidence that exists" Yet the "thousands of high quality studies" he alludes to earlier, are very weakly powered, low associative hazard ratio, epidemiological studies which are only qualified to be hypothesis generating, and not "high quality" science. If we are being generous we would call such studies very weak evidence.
I do agree Paul Saladino is a clown, never practiced medicine in his life, doesn't do research. He is more a influencer then a medical practitioner.
Ed does fall for the "no true scottsman" logical fallacy dismissing people's vegan experiences.
I really dislike his politicizing dietary protocols, that is just dirty pool. Plus his ending video hook that the right wing wellness carnivore people only want to sell you stuff.... is very much incorrect. A keto/carnivore protocol doesn't require buying anything from anyone, there is no supplement needed... everything can/should be purchased locally from the grocery store/butcher. No subscriptions or influencer peddling is necessary.
Since I watched the video and wrote my rebuttal here, I thought I'd just make it a post on the [email protected] sub.
https://hackertalks.com/post/11246395