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She first began losing excessive scalp hair 15 years earlier when she went on a low-carbohydrate diet (<40 g daily). She stopped the diet and the excessive hair loss also stopped. Four years earlier, she went on the Cambridge (liquid) diet along with salad and additional protein and lost 30 pounds in 30 days. Once again, she began to lose scalp hair. She also had palpitations and was very tired. A medical work-up at the time revealed mitral valve prolapse. She stopped the Cambridge diet after 2 months, but continued to note intermittent excessive hair loss.

Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Some people, particularly those with insulin resistance, experience better blood-sugar control with a low-carbohydrate diet. • Supplements >• Chromium (picolinate, aspartate, or polynic-otinate), 200 to 1,000 meg per day. Chromium may help control blood-sugar levels more effectively when niacin (30 to 100 mg/day) is also supplemented. > Vitamin C, 1,000 to 3,000 mg per day. > Magnesium, 300 to 600 mg per day. > Vitamin E, 400 to 800 IU per day. >• Vitamin B6, 50 to 150 mg per day. >• Biotin, 10 to 20 mg per day in selected cases.

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Both diets were matched for fiber content (25g/d) and were low in saturated fatty acids. The low-carbohydrate diet was rich in monounsaturated fatty acids. Mean peripheral insulin-mediated glucose disposal was slightly higher on the diet with lower carbohydrate and higher monounsaturated fatty acid content.52 It appears that for some, if not all, subjects with insulin resistance, a suggestion to follow a low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet, even if this is a high-fiber diet, should be weighed against the cost of sacrificing monounsaturated fats.

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Research published in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine reported that "over 24 weeks, a low-carbohydrate diet program led to greater weight loss, reduction in serum triglyceride level, and increase in HDL [good] cholesterol level compared with a low-fat diet."426 For this particular study, participants were permitted unlimited amounts of animal foods (meat, fowl, fish, and shellfish), unlimited eggs, 4 ounces of hard cheese, 2 cups of salad vegetables (such as lettuce, spinach, or celery), and 1 cup of low-carbohydrate vegetables (such as broccoli, cauliflower, or squash) daily.

Last year I went on a low-carbohydrate diet, cutting out wheat and pasta, potatoes and starches. Within a week my horrendous flatulence was gone. I changed jobs and now work closely with others. I also go out dancing, dating, and exercising and feel like I have a new life. Although it is true that swallowed air may contribute some gas to the overall system, it is usually trapped in the stomach. Farts, especially the smelly kind, generally originate in the large intestine. Experts estimate "that almost three-quarters of the flatulence is made of bacterial gases.

They reported that "carbohydrates may be a precipitating factor for GERD symptoms and that other classic exacerbating foods such as coffee and fat may be less pertinent when a low-carbohydrate diet is followed."386 Follow-up research has produced more provocative data suggesting that a low-carb approach reduces acid splash-back into the esophagus and eases GERD symptoms for overweight patients.387 Treating Heartburn The saying goes that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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But on a low-carbohydrate diet, supplemented with healthy oils and adequate protein, all of these symptoms reverse: triglyceride levels fall, bad cholesterol drops while good cholesterol rises, and heart murmurs and other symptomatic disorders often vanish. It seems that the best dietary strategy for a healthy heart is one that avoids refined carbohydrates and includes healthy oils. Unhealthy oils like hydrogenated oils, on the other hand, can actually harm the heart, and I will be discussing these in more detail later in this guide.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

The women were placed on either a very low-carbohydrate diet with unrestricted calories or a low-fat diet that was calorie-restricted. The low-carb group lost significantly more weight and, more importantly, more body fat than the low-fat diet group. (Interestingly, after the study, both groups of women wound up maintaining their weight loss on about the same number of calories—1,300.) This last study is particularly interesting for a couple of reasons.

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This feeling was aided and abetted by the low-carbohydrate diet craze. It is important to remind patients that countries whose populations have traditionally consumed high-carbohydrate diets—such as Asian countries, where rice and noodles are dietary staples and meat and dairy consumption is much less prevalent than in Western countries—have historically had very low diabetes rates. You can also help patients ensure nutritional adequacy by asking them to take a daily multivitamin.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

If you don't currendy have kidney disease, a low-carbohydrate diet is actually an ideal way to help control the blood sugar levels that can eventually lead to kidney disease. Of course, just to be safe, you should check with your doctor to make sure you don't have any undiagnosed kidney impairment; but if you don't, you're sure not going to develop it from being on a low-carb diet. / was warned that going on a low-carb, high protein diet would make me lose calcium from my bones. Yet my last two bone scan screenings showed just the opposite— af age 50 I have the bones of a 30-year-old! —Ada K.

Ketosis is a term used to describe what happens when the body switches to fat as its main source of fuel, which is exactly what you want to happen when you're using a low-carbohydrate diet to lose weight. When fat is the main source of fuel, there is an increase in the number of ketone bodies made as a by-product of fat metabolism: ketones can be measured in the urine by means of ketone test strips. It was absolutely amazing to me when I really studied ketosis and found out that almost everything I had heard about how dangerous it was was utter hogwash. —Dana McG. Is Ketosis Dangerous?

As you have seen in this chapter, all of them are related to insulin, and virtually all of them improve substantially on a low-carbohydrate diet. How a Low-Carb Diet May Help Prevent—or Even Reverse—Diabetes Dietary treatment for diabetes is currently one of the hottest topics of debate in the diabetes community. Some factions are passionately holding on to the old recommendations of a high-carb diet, while other clinicians are making strenuous arguments for lower-carb, higher-fat, higher-protein diets!

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For example, the activation of fat production and of fatty acid synthesis is brought about by switching from a highfat, low-carbohydrate diet to a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet.14 Eating a high-carbohydrate diet is definitely accompanied by an increase in circulating insulin levels. It appears that increased insulin levels increase the transcriptional rate that produces fatty-acid synthase and activates other lipogenic genes.1516 Insulin is a powerful effecter on gene expression. Insulin treatment results in a rapid increase of fatty-acid synthase, mRNA, and gene transcription.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Switching to a Fat-Burning Metabolism: The Meaning of Ketosis When you go on a low-carbohydrate diet, you restrict the amount of sugar coming into your system. That's a good thing. But what happens when there's a severely reduced amount of sugar coming down the pike? What does the body use for fuel? The body does have basic glucose (sugar) requirements. The brain, for example, needs about 150 to 200 grams of glucose daily.

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He recommends a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Things begin to look brighter until your skin breaks out two months later for the first time in over fifteen years. When your synchrony is off, there's a disconnect between the right and left sides of your brain, between your mind and your body. In extreme cases, schizophrenia results—literally, a split represented by two distinct personalities. On the physical side, serotonin deficiencies can cascade into alcohol abuse or, worse, liver disease as you continue to self-medicate in your attempts to get yourself back on track.

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And in a low-carbohydrate diet, the body makes needed glucose from noncarbohydrate sources (like protein), a process called gluconeogenesis (see chapter 2 for a full explanation of this process). During gluconeogenesis, B6 levels are depleted from muscle, another reason for supplementing with B6 while on a low-carb diet. As with B5, I recommend that if you do supplement with B6, you take it at a different time than you take your B complex vitamin. A good amount is 50 milligrams once a day, as long as you are also taking your B complex. Vitamin C Vitamin C basically helps almost everything.

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Some doctors treat hypoglycemia with a low-carbohydrate diet. The theory is that, since carbohydrate is what stimulates the release of insulin, a low-carbohydrate diet would keep insulin in check. The problem is that when carbohydrate is taken out of the diet, you are left with mainly protein and fat (in the form of chicken, fish, beef, and eggs), which cause worse problems. In addition, low-carbohydrate diets may cause the body's ability to handle sugar to deteriorate even more.

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Eat a low-carbohydrate diet with high levels of protein from vegetable sources and fish. Do not eat grains, seeds, or nuts, except for well-cooked brown rice. These foods are hard to digest, resulting in bloating and gas. Also eliminate dairy products, red meat, sugar products, fried foods, spices, and processed foods. 01 Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables. These are good sources of vitamin K. Obtaining this vitamin through diet is especially important for people with intestinal disorders. 01 Eat garlic for its healing and detoxifying properties.

One very popular diet, the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, is controversial because it can produce a state of excess ketosis (a process whereby the body bums stored fat for fuel) due to the absence of carbohydrates. Vital electrolytes, especially potassium, can be dangerously depleted, placing you at high risk for heart arrhythmia or heart attack. In excess, ketosis is thought by some experts to put the body in a state of starvation—it turns to its own tissues for fuel, robbing even vital internal organs.

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The first doctor Tom saw had put him on a strict high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, and Tom was diligent about everything he ate. He lost ten pounds in a month and a half. He slept okay when he took a pill, but he still didn't feel right. His sweating persisted, even when he was relaxing. He surprised himself by falling off a ladder at work. He broke up with his girlfriend when he was confronted with his sexual dysfunction. That's when he looked me up. In my office, the Braverman Nature Assessment identified Tom's serotonin nature. And he did reveal one important concern: alcohol abuse.

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However, what is true is that by eating a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet your appetite decreases. The reason for this is simple. By having more protein in a meal and less carbohydrate, your blood sugar level doesn't go shooting up, so your body doesn't have to make more insulin to carry the excess sugar out of the bloodstream, which would then get dumped as fat. Blood sugar is the key to appetite and to weight control. There are, however, easier, less restrictive, and healthier ways to reduce insulin secretion and control blood sugar.

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The Eskimos who ate only fat and protein never had any cancer in their population until a high-carbohydrate diet was introduced. Why don't we ever hear of cancer of the heart? Probably because the heart uses almost all fat for energy, thus cancer does not have a chance to develop in those cells. Theories on why refined carbohydrates lead to cancer There are other theories that help explain refined carbohydrate consumption leads to cancers of the digestive system.

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The theory is that, since carbohydrate is what stimulates the release of insulin, a low-carbohydrate diet would keep insulin in check. The problem is that when carbohydrate is taken out of the diet, you are left with mainly protein and fat (in the form of chicken, fish, beef, and eggs), which cause worse problems. In addition, low-carbohydrate diets may cause the body's ability to handle sugar to deteriorate even more.

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However, the benefits of a low-carbohydrate diet for people with epilepsy (especially the regulation of blood sugar) and the increase in number of low-carbohydrate, high-fat cookbooks offering a variety of palatable options may aid in compliance. Important when adopting a ketogenic diet is vitamin supplementation to replenish the body of essential nutrients that are not provided by the foods in the diet. Today a modified form of the ketogenic diet incorporates MOT (medium-chain triglyceride) oil, a substance that helps induce ketosis.

The high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet contributes to the production of ketone bodies, or a state of ketosis. Although the body is experiencing ketosis, it burns fat instead of glucose, thereby helping to prevent dangerous fluctuations in blood sugar. Because such fluctuations can ttigger seizures, the fat-burning element of the ketogenic diet is one explanation for its effectiveness. Another explanation credits a reduced intake of seizure-triggering allergenic substances. There are a number of iterations of the ketogenic diet.

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Anderson's Amazing Diet For decades, the low-carbohydrate diet was the standard prescribed for virtually all diabetics. It seemed to make good sense: If you couldn't process carbohydrates normally, avoiding them seemed like the thing to do. Well, what sounded great in theory turned out to have its shortcomings. Although the low-carbohydrate diet seemed to help keep the blood sugar in better control than typical diets, diabetics also were experiencing far higher rates of heart attack than nondiabetics. Enter James W. Anderson, M.D., a professor at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine.

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As you will see in Chapter Eleven, the diet is particularly useful if you are coming off a low-calorie liquid meal replacement plan or one of the newly fashionable low-carbohydrate diet plans, or weaning yourself from a weight-loss support group. When I learned of research in England that showed significant changes in brain serotonin after dieters spent only three weeks on a relatively low-carbohydrate diet, I understood why so many of our subjects began to gain weight within two weeks of ending a diet. It was not because maintenance techniques weren't working.

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Taubes had lost weight himself on the Atkins low-carbohydrate diet. The lead paragraph said: If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution and Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along.

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Some nutritionists promote a low-carbohydrate diet. There are nutritionists who endorse a raw fruit, vegetarian or lacto-vegetarian diet. Each authority says that his is the best diet. I respect every scientist's views in the field of nutrition. He or she has come to these conclusions by study, research and observation. I believe that it is impossible to lay down absolute nutritional laws except when it comes to eliminating the dead, devitalized, demineralized, processed, sprayed and empty-calorie commercial foods of our present day civilization.

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Don't let him dissuade you from going on a low-carbohydrate diet, but do make sure he monitors the progress. It will be a learning experience for both of you?perhaps in this way more and more medical practitioners can learn the true benefit of carbohydrate restriction. Second, remember that it takes time for the body to adjust and to correct physical imbalances that took years to occur. All too often people expect instant results, but time is necessary.

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