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Keto compared.

Analyzing keto against popular diet trends.

There can be only one.

It's the iconic quote from the only good Highlander movie, referring to the

eternal battle immortal Warriors wage across time

to become the last of their kind and gain special powers over all lesser beings.

I won't say there can be only one perfect diet, but it is fun and illustrative to compare and

contrast different diets. Not so much as a contest but as a method for

winnowing out the differences and giving readers and listeners an idea of what might work

for them. Today I'm going to compare the keto reset, my particular primal brand of the keto

diet, to other popular diet trends. First, what is keto all about?

The ketogenic diet first gained popularity in the early 20th century,

when it was discovered that feeding children with intractable epilepsy,

a very high-fat, low-carb diet could reduce the intensity and frequency of their seizures.

Those children who responded to the diet by producing the most ketone bodies, an alternate fuel

source made from fatty acids, had the best results. More ketones, fewer seizures. Thus, the diet was

dubbed the ketogenic diet. Fast forward a century and regular

people with and without serious medical conditions are using the ketogenic diet to lose body fat,

improve metabolic flexibility, manage type 2 diabetes, reduce inflammation, increase injury

...