Well this has become a lively discussion! From all I've read, this is a very divisive subject, akin to religion or politics. For every page/link one side uses to prove their point, there are others that disprove or clarify the suppositions.
For example, the
National Swedish Board of Health and Welfare... reached their conclusions in 2008, it was the opposite of what the dieticians had hoped: the board put out a report stating that treating patients with a low-carb high-fat diet was well-supported by science. This has sparked a revolution in the Scandinavia.
There is growing evidence that what we have been told for the last 40 years is incorrect and is likely the cause of the obesity and cardiac disease problem!
First, there is a clear link between high fat, cholesterol, and heart disease. The problem is there is absolutely NO evidence that high dietary fat CAUSES coronary heart disease. In fact, the evidence strongly suggests that a high carbohydrate diet is the cause. If you don't understand the metabolic relationship of sugars/starch, insulin, and fat, I suggest you read about it. To me, it all becomes quite clear at that point.
Indeed there are unhealty forms of ketosis, but there are also people who have survived quite well for decades on such diets with no ill effects. Consider the Inuit people. Despite a diet of almost exclusively fat and fish, and almost no carbs, they have almost NO cardiac disease. By the way, the Inuit feed the meat to the dogs. If they eat too much they get "rabbit sickness."
The African Masai people have a similar diet of milk, blood, and cows.
A high protein diet is, indeed very bad for the kidneys. And for someone in ketosis, it causes the rabbit sickness mentioned above.
My reason for this diet that I want to get off of the BP meds and statin. I also have a high inflamation level due to oxydative stress. All of these symptoms are addressed by a LCHF diet. I'm already off the bp meds, and I just stopped the statins. I'm quite certain that my next blood test my cholesterol will still be down, as will my c-reactive protein. Fat metabolism is uses only 70% of the oxygen of carbs. That's why at 90% hr max I was breathing normally.
And there is no lactose buildup in Ketosis. The reason is that fully keto-adapted muscles efficiently metabolize lactic acid in the absence of glucose.
I think it was beastrider who said in his post "I have enough with other medical issues..." Perhaps they are related to the current "high carb ,low fat" craze?