A Critical Review of the Ketogenic Diet

What People Get Wrong, and What the Science Gets Right.

Intro!

The Ketogenic Diet (Keto) is a relatively old diet first proposed to treat epilepsy, in recent years however it’s been “elevated” to the status of a weight loss fad diet. The idea behind Keto is a simple one: reduce glucose to the point at which the body begins to burn adipose (fat) tissue. To this end it seems to work with the very large caveat b…