my thought on the ketogenic diet:
although I can't prove it and have minimal evidence to support it -
i hypothesize that ketosis' benefits mainly come from avoidance of the foods that put you out of ketosis such as carbohydrates and many of the processed foods which people eat not from the ketone's themselves
a study would compare people in ketosis to people taking exogenous ketones
if there's no difference, and participants using exogenous ketones maintained ketone levels just as high and consistently as those with endogenous ketones, it would imply that the ketones are not what's driving the benefits, but more the elimination of terrible food and avoidance of glycolysis
here is my interview with Jamie Andrews, project manager for the viral control studies project. We discuss the basic methodology of viral culture research and the reason why growth medium can produce viral like particles. These viral cultures underpin all of virology as a science.
His data shows that it is the starving of the cells that produce the images of viruses that we have been shown since we were little children.
When a cell is dying because it is starved of nutrition, it expels its contents as it dies.
The process of isolating a virus involves adding a sample from a "infected human" to a cell culture, seeing the cytopathic effects while the cell is also starved on a low nutrient medium, and then isolating the debris and sequencing it. If the debris comes from a starving cell, it puts serious doubts on the idea that the sample from an infected individual caused the cell lysis.
Audio of interview:
video:
Viral control studies posts:
probiotics are amazing at restoring damage gut micro biome which helps when you get sick:
*42% reduction in antibiotic use.
*24% reduction in experiencing at least one respiratory infection.
*Shortened duration of symptoms by over a day.
to get the same effect with foods, you need to incorporate fermented foods such as yogurt, kimchi, kefir etc...
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006895.pub4/pdf/full