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Actionable Insights
1. Avoid Junk, Sugar, Refined Carbs
Prioritize avoiding junk food, sugar, and highly refined carbohydrates as a general nutrition strategy, as this is considered a far better approach than deliberate ketosis for most people.
2. Individualized Nutrition Approach
Recognize that all questions of nutrition are highly individual, making one-size-fits-all or one-stop-shop approaches difficult and often inappropriate.
3. Ketosis & Fertility Caution
If a woman is trying to get pregnant or experiencing fertility issues, exercise caution with nutritional ketosis, as elevated ketones in a calorie-restricted state can suppress reproductive hormones (FSH and LH).
4. Ketosis & Pregnancy Caution
Avoid deliberately inducing ketosis during pregnancy, as its optimality is not clear and it is generally not considered the best strategy, despite ancestral mothers potentially experiencing ketosis.
5. Ketosis & Children Caution
Do not implement a ketogenic diet for children unless there is a specific medical reason, such as managing seizures.
If a woman has metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, or type 2 diabetes, a ketogenic diet might improve overall health and potentially fertility by addressing inflammation and metabolic abnormalities.
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