Low Carb High Fat Diet

[windyrider]

Anyone following this way of eating and essentially running on fat as their fuel source. The term is Keto adapted.
Have been reading alot about it, especially in the endurance running circles, so guess it would work well on the bike for long days in the saddle.

 

[uclown2002]

I don't follow this diet but I do ride fasted every day. Typically 50+ miles without any fuel before or during except liquid. No adverse effects and can maintain a fast pace throughout.
Might take a few weeks before your body adapts though,

 

[Racing roadkill]

In my opinion, It's a very bad idea. It will work in the short term. However the (as yet) unquantified side effects, arising from the production of unnatural levels of certain hormones, and the possible effect on the internal organs ( the liver and heart in particular) would ring alarm bells for me. I'd steer well clear of doing this, until proper robust academic studies have been carried out, into the long term effects of doing something, that sounds like such a bad idea. I think I'll just stick to the method of fuelling, which has been developed over thousands of years of evolution, and pass on yet another 'fad' which seems to have more to do with selling books / plans / whatever, to people who would probably lie down in front of a speeding train, if it was marketed as a new 'miracle weight loss regime' etc.

 

[midlife]

Isn't that just the Atkins way of thinking ?

Shaun

 

[vickster]

There's a great long thread already if you search

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/low-carb-high-fat.163780/

 

[Flying Dodo]

In my opinion, It's a very bad idea. It will work in the short term. However the (as yet) unquantified side effects, arising from the production of unnatural levels of certain hormones, and the possible effect on the internal organs ( the liver and heart in particular) would ring alarm bells for me. I'd steer well clear of doing this, until proper robust academic studies have been carried out, into the long term effects of doing something, that sounds like such a bad idea. I think I'll just stick to the method of fuelling, which has been developed over thousands of years of evolution, and pass on yet another 'fad' which seems to have more to do with selling books / plans / whatever, to people who would probably lie down in front of a speeding train, if it was marketed as a new 'miracle weight loss regime' etc.

There are lots of robust academic studies out there. You may not be aware that a LCHF diet has been used for nearly 100 years to successfully treat epilepsy for example. Plus of course groups like the Inuit have survived on that way of life for a few thousand years. And bear in mind before the widespread use of agriculture about 8,000 years ago, pre-historic humans lived that way for millennia. Humans haven't properly evolved to survive on carbs.