[ramblerman]

It seems OP did it in ketosis, and then slowly experimented with adding healthy carbs back in limited amounts.

Unless otherwise mentioned, I assume your friend added a bunch of eggs to his existing diet, which is comparing apples and oranges.

[tyleo]

What I’d like to get across is to check in with your doctor if you take on a strange diet habit.

I disagree with the point that this is apples and oranges though. Both consumed mass quantities of eggs. If the only difference is ketosis, I’d say that’s a fair comparison and the exact sort of thing a doctor could advise on.

[Bender]

I would only add to be careful when talking to doctors. There are still doctors that talk in terms of good and bad cholesterol rather than taking a lipid panel and getting a graph of small dense to large buoyant particles within the cholesterol. To make matters worse many of them in the USA have been corrupted by financial incentives to push statins and that is another deep and endless topic all in and of itself.

[timschmidt]

He's right to point out the difference. Human metabolic pathways for processing carbs and fats are capable of functioning independently and lab animals used as human analogs can live happy healthy lives exercising either. But they seem to interfere with each other when both are operating simultaneously, even in the lab animals, and that results in obesity and decreased quality of life outcomes.

[amy_petrik]

another point worth mentioning is some substances the body cannot synthesize: vitamins, amino acids.

cholesterol.. cholesterol is not one of them. the body happily synthesizes as much cholesterol as it likes. so diet this and diet that associate with high cholesterol, sure. but also genetic. if the body synthesizes cholesterol, there will be population variation in how much cholesterol or how little cholesterol a person makes. And yes, some people do have super duper high cholesterol and go on statins automatically. so if someone says me "this person had high cholesterol, this one low, what's with that, we have not disproven a genetic contribution in the first place not to mention a gorillion other confounders

[jasonvorhe]

I've had several doctors, some with a general approach and some more specialized on fitness and nutrition regarding questions about vegan/vegetarian/OMAD/intermittent fasting and I can't remember them being in agreement on anything. Felt like talking with an overly confident LLM more often than I'd like. Might be different in other countries but in Germany I'll just stick with trial and error and be my own doctor until I break a bone or something. Pairing multiple LLMs for these questions brought great results though, as long as you dedicate the time to research and make sure you're not just blindly following instructions you don't understand yourself. My trust in Western medicine has suffered already around 2016-2017 but ever since 2020, it's obvious this system isn't working at all.