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A keto diet sacrifices long term health by altering cell metabolism.

A keto diet will force your body to use protein and fat for fuel. This is usually an adaptive response our body uses when glucose is insufficient and increases catabolic hormones.

Cortisol released will raise blood sugar (when you don’t feed the cells sugar), but at the expense of your lean tissue – breaking muscles, bones and glands down to find glucose to maintain life. The mere presence of ketone bodies from a keto diet is known to exacerbate insulin resistance.

Ketones are produced as a result of metabolic stress. If your liver is extremely good, it can store enough glycogen for a day, but chronic, frequent, stress (present in a keto diet) will damage your liver’s ability to store glycogen.

Cells prefer glucose for fuel. When fat is used for fuel it is inflammatory, catabolic and anti-metabolic. Keto diets encourage “losing weight” at the expense of damaging your metabolism (becoming hyperadrenaline and hypercortisol). We can use fat for short term fuel, it is an adaptive, survival mechanism in the body, it’s not supposed to happen continually.

In summary, you're putting your body in a catabolic (degenerative) state for so called "health benefits" and "weight loss".

Pic related, left, Jimmy moore. famous keto diet pusher. on the right, durianrider, fruitarian.