Does Ducan not know that eating foods rich in complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber () also creates a feeling of satiety? In addition, it maintains a stable blood glucose level between meals and a smoother insulin profile, which in turn reduces hunger and the desire to eat a kilo of cookies or cake in creepy roses at a time.
Food proteins are digested, breaking down into individual amino acids, then the body’s own proteins are built from them. Proteins are not stored in the body, they are used as much as needed for working cells. Excess proteins are converted into glucose and stored in the form of glycogen, or becomes fat in fat depots, the kidneys remove nitrogenous residues.
Gritting your teeth, you can try to eat protein for the rest of your life (although it’s not clear what the benefit is: 1 g of protein gives the same 4 kcal as 1 g of carbohydrates). But “” (quote from the book “Biochemistry: Textbook for universities”, edited by ES Severin., 2003).
– this is an additional option for energy supply. Glucose is synthesized from amino acids during the breakdown of muscle proteins, lactate and glycerol. It is still not enough, and the starving brain begins to use ketone bodies. Due to a decrease in the level of insulin (which not only regulates the flow of glucose into cells, but also the synthesis of muscle proteins), this very synthesis slows down, and is activated – the breakdown of proteins. Metabolically active tissues are lost, basal metabolism decreases, which is generally characteristic of any significant decrease in calorie intake, restrictive and mono-diets. I will not even mention the deficiency of water-soluble vitamins and fiber, the hard work of the kidneys due to the breakdown of amino acids – this is obvious to everyone.
Almost all this simple information is from the textbook of biochemistry for the 2nd year of the medical institute, the alphabet, one might say. If “doctor” Ducan doesn’t know it, he is not a doctor. If he is aware of, and deliberately misleads patients, risking their health and life, especially not a doctor, medical ethics interprets this unambiguously.
You need to be a very healthy person in order to withstand such a diet for a long time without significant consequences. Low-carb diets (previous incarnations -) appear, then, disappointing the public, disappear from the horizon. A number of clinical studies have shown that they do not provide a stable weight after the end of the diet, as, indeed, any popular diets and nutrition systems that completely ignore the physiological laws of weight regulation. On the contrary, within two to five years after the end of the diet, the vast majority of those who are losing weight will return the lost kilograms and bring new ones with them. Diets, and the large fluctuations in weight they cause, directly contribute to the ultimate in weight gain.