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  • Ok, I never really got a answer to this question so its been sitting in the back my of my head for a long time. I’ve stumbled across a plausible explanation

    The Randall cycle : A cross inhibition between glucose and fatty acid metabolism in every cell. When both high glucose levels and high fatty acid levels exist at the same time the Randle cycle causes the cell to rapidly fluctuate between both method, which does cause stress and inflammation in the cell… now some handwaving… this is manifested as insulin resistance (i.e. the cell can’t update more glucose because of the Randle cycle inhibition)

    Now… this is a CROSS inhibition… so if you remove one of the sources (glucose, and fatty acids) then the Randle cycle just stays in one mode and you don’t get the seesaw inflammation.

    This would account for the all starch diet being able to fix insulin resistance (no free fatty acids). It’s a mechanistic explanation that works for me. i don’t understand it fully, but it seems to fit.

    Obviously going all glucose isn’t super healthy, and I wouldn’t recommend it, but it has been a puzzle on why it works in some circumstances.

    i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsjnLMANDQ




  • Here is my current understanding

    For some external reason you are prejudiced against zero carb. In the heat of the moment you thought you would punch down on a tiny community by saying it’s dangerous that it exists, invoking the paradox of tolerance, implying it’s a Nazi type of thing.

    When asked why a diet is something causes intolerance by tolerating it you realized you didn’t have a good reason for that statement. You have attempted to leave gaps for others to infer your reasons because stating them explicitly would show how inconsistent they were.

    This entire comment thread has been a demonstration of avoidance.

    If I’m wrong, please disabuse me of my conclusion.






  • my trigger here is you stated there is a reason the paradox of tolerance would apply to zero-carb, but will not state the reasons. You leave it up to me, the reader, to infer your biases, context, and motivations. I wish to understand the actual argument, and not till at windmills.

    Obviously I don’t think zero-carb is intolerant of other diets, hence my request for you to enumerate your rational. If you insist on me divining strawmen arguments… I will, but I’d much rather hear your actual logic.







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    i get the impression your externalizing some previous conflict onto a group of dieters.

    There is a difference between people expressing their dislike (downvoting) and being intolerant. I’m fully aware lemmy has about 4 active zero carb posters, we are a tiny group. I’m not worried about people not liking my community, that is fine, I am promoting the community to find other people who actually want to talk about and interact with the diet.

    people THIS opposite

    I’m very surprised that people see a diet as a political thing, and I’m sorry we are stuck in that discussion. Some people define themselves by their intolerance of others, and I think that isn’t great for lemmy.