It is very common that I read questions or statements from new Atkineers saying, “How come I feel so tired?” “Why do I have such a headache?” “I have no energy what is this diet doing to me!” One of the problems is no one forewarned them about Induction flu. Induction flu is simply the body burning its last remaining glucose and stored glycogen for energy, and suffering withdrawal effects. It is very similar to what happens when runners “hit the wall” and cyclist “bonk.” In addition to the physical withdrawal symptoms there are the mental symptoms as well. Think of drug addict, are they necessarily pleasant to be around or in high spirits even though they are doing something good. Well the carb addict has the same reaction; I personally was irritable for the first 2 or 3 weeks as I had to figure out how to eat, exert control over what entered my mouth, and regain new comfort foods. It is a dramatic change, and some people resist change. The good news is it is just temporary. It typically only last a few days, but for some the mental effects might last longer. It also shows you are on the right path and making true progress on getting rid of the excess fat. The silver lining is indeed that by the end if you continue the follow the plan you will be burning fat for fuel. You’ll have to watch the video for my suggestions on how to lessen the effects.
Atkins Diet: Induction Flu: Signs of Progress or Problems
June 17th, 2010 by libertees
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@wazzzupdude13 your probably a medical assistant. General doctors don’t have much knowledge about dieting. Once I told my doc what I hate for breakfast and he told me I was eating about 2,000 calories. The truth is that the doc was stupid because all I ate was 2 eggs with 2 tablespoons of oil, the most this can be is about 400 cals if not less. The atkins the best diet. Medical assistant is not all of that. It is a fact that cutting all sweets, tortillas all high carb will make u lose weight.
wazzzupdude 13 mentioned everything from atkins exposed . org /
@wazzzupdude13 – what if the real truth be… your currently watching the football and are not at medical school. I know you like everything proved, so prove to me your training to be a doctor! At 20 you would have just finished your 3 A levels which you start at 18, and would not of even done a year at medical school, even if you were trainning. In some ways you sound smart, but it is trying the low carb diet that beats all what man proves, coz science is disproved later! Try a paleo diet!
@bowulf One less ignorant doctor prescribed a low carb (40g), high protein diet for a person who could not get rid of gout on his home grown veggie diet. He ended up going back on beef steak and his gout went, so did his gnawing hunger! you probably know, gout is linked to fructose and high insulin levels that raise uric acid or inhibit excretion of uric acid, respectively. Normally, I have found if a doctor/dietican says its bad/dangerous it is the go-ahead its healthy? LOL!
@Catherine8raw You are very welcome. I entertain or endure these attitudes by detractors as they often force to re-examine what we think we know to what we can prove. The fact that he claims to be a med student only makes me hope the courses for evaluating the research and respect of one’s peers / patients are still to come.
Something tells me however given the trite, oft-repeated myths that all was not right in the scenario.
@Catherine8raw Yes, but don’t you know no doctors recommend low carb? Or that all the science PROVES low carb approach is dangerous?
I appreciate STUDENTS who think they know everything based upon their research from a textbook and will rail against reality when it conflicts with their view. Sarcasm off – you are doing excellent job in confronting the myths and misinformation attempted to be perpetuated.
I am grateful to bowulf for helping support the low carb community. Some of us have no nurse/doctor or health system that has worked and when we get called psychologically ill or whatever, or hyperchrondriacs or people with low will powers. Reading wazzzupdude13 attitude towards bowulf pisses me off! They don’t teach compassion at medical school either!! The low carb diet has worked for so many people, its changed their life, its the way we use to eat, before agriculture/industrial revolution.
@wazzzupdude13 – Do you think medical school has the answer for everything, what a joke, even scientific literature has not given us a diet yet that works for long! I had to find my own way to sort my self out as usual! I have lost >10 stone alone on a low carb diet & worked! Medical school doesn’t teach much nutrition, you don’t want to cure us, just fill us with drugs, support the big pharma and then you call us ignorant! Your very big headed and think you know it all, you’ll be dissapointed
@wazzzupdude13 – no lots of people have ran on nuts/fatty meat. Using fat for fuel feel great!! The person burns fat for fuel, various high fat, low carb tribes do alot more than a marathon, they burn fat for fuel;
1. African pastoralist culture is the Kalenjins of kenya. Raw and fermented dairy products form the bulk of the diet.
2.Masai: Milk, meat, blood.
3. Sambura tribe of Urganda: 400g saturated fat a day.
4. Pakapuka and tokelau 35-55% of saturated fat of diet of coconut.
@wazzzupdude13 – You need to prove to us it is dangerous. I am not a supportr of dairy, but animal fat/prtoein from grass fed animals and plnty of low starchy veggies and nuts was what we use to eat. What diet are you reccomending, and one person that says a diet is bad might be wrong. Nature gives us veggies and animal/fish protein, it was agricuture that provided the grain. We have to cook bean for it has so many posions in. Medical school is not nutrition.
@bowulf Yes precisely, Richard Bernstein would of been dead 30 years earlier if it were not for low carb!!!
@wazzzupdude13 – so can surgery and weight loss drugs and diets that don’t work, so person ends up fatter. Look at the low carbers like Bowuld before and after, can’t you use your logic to figure he is healtheir now. People go from eating white sugar/bread and junk all day and eat protein and fat and some veggies, nuts. Grass fed animals are best. We like are vitamins A, D, E which travels in saturated fats.
@wazzzupdude13 well journals, professionals, peer reviews, science/no science. I came from 26 1/2 and got to 13 1/2/ stone on this diet after years of really suffering, on all those STUPID diets professionals reccomend. I am not a rabbit, needing loads of veggies or a chimp needing loads of fruit. I am a carnivore like you, my eyes are in front of my face. Atkins works!
@wazzzupdude13 If the medical professionals would admit that they aren’t so the sole arbiter of the truth and would listen to the growing amount of scientific evidence supporting the low carb lifestyle, maybe the medical profession would gain some credibility back. There are many doctors who actually agree with this approach for all their patients.
To portray this diet as one of non-science simply ignores the many studies and scientists that are out there. I would suggest you do your research.
@wazzzupdude13 “It is literally impossible to run a marathon without carbs so why would you think your body is healthier without them? ”
Since I have ran 3 full marathons and many more half marathons without them, I have proven your statement completely false. How does it feel to be proven so wrong by someone else’s experiences. When reality confronts your presuppositions and proves them false, you can do two things – bury your head in the sand or change. Which will you do?
@wazzzupdude13 Hmmm, because a lot of the material coming from Harvard scientists lately like Harvard Nurse’s Study and Penelope Green point to Low Carb approach being more effective at weight loss and being associated with lower heart risk factors.
@wazzzupdude13 More repeated thoughts… How many times do you have to refer to the same individual? I could certainly speak to Jeff Volek, Stephen Phinney, Eric Westman, Bill Yancy, Richard Bernstein, Mary Ross Vernon, and many other doctors and Ph.D. All who support the low carb lifestyle. Does majority equal right or correct, or does it simply equal group-think and people unwilling or unable to challenge the norm?
@wazzzupdude13 @wazzzupdude13 Yeah that is why there are multiple studies in:
NEJM
Annals of Internal Medicine
Nutrition and Metabolism
Nutrition Research
amongst many others all documented in my videos, but that would require you to actually validate what you think you know.
But alas, I can already tell you’d rather stay in your ignorance.
@bowulf the Chair of Harvard’s nutrition department went on record before a 1973 U.S. Senate Select Committee investigating fad diets: “The Atkins Diet is nonsense… Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice.”
@bowulf The warnings from medical authorities continue to this day. “People need to wake up to the reality,” former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes, that the Atkins Diet is “unhealthy and can be dangerous.”
@bowulf A 2003 review of Atkins “theories” in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition concluded: “When properly evaluated, the theories and arguments of popular low carbohydrate diet books… rely on poorly controlled, non-peer-reviewed studies, anecdotes and non-science rhetoric. This review illustrates the complexity of nutrition misinformation perpetrated by some popular press diet books.
@bowulf A low carb diet is recommended for diabetics. But not everyone in the world is diabetic. Please tell me how running a marathon went without any carbs? I would love to know because as a collegiate athlete who never had to lose 200+ pounds to be healthy I know the importance of carbs especially in long aerobic activities such as marathons. It is literally impossible to run a marathon without carbs so why would you think your body is healthier without them?
@bowulf I am currently in medical school, so please don’t lecture me on health or nutrition. Group think has no place in the medical world, new research is wholeheartedly welcomed by the scientific community so long as it is backed by sound scientific evidence. The problem with the atkins diet is that it isn’t, and it is people like you who think they are smarter than medical professionals who are putting people in jeopardy by playing off the ignorance of the masses.
@wazzzupdude13 The number diabetes researcher in the world recommends a low carb diet. The studies prove over and over the dramatic health improvements on a ketogenic diets. Specific health people who refuse to acknowledge the benefits simply highlight to their own ignorance.
@wazzzupdude13 Not losing, lost weight (211 pounds) 6 years ago.
Not only did I lose the weight, my cholesterol went down, my blood pressure went down, my resting heart rate went down, my blood glucose went down, my triglycerides went way down, my liver and kidney went UP, my length of time doing cardio went way up, my max weight lifted went up, and my race times from 5k to marathon went down. By any definition of health, I have it.
My own doctor is extremely pleased with my state.