High Fat, High Protein Diets: Exchanging Your Vitality for Temporary Weight Loss

Every decade or so, there comes along a fad diet which takes the world by storm. Celebrities of all sorts - in an effort to optimize health and maintain a healthy, youthful appearance – take the plunge, following these diets without doing the necessary research, without apprehending the consequences that come with following such a diet. Today, it is the high-protein diet that has attracted millions of desperate individuals looking to shed a few pounds. Many snake oil salesmen, such as Dave Asprey, founder of the Bulletproof Executive, a for-profit organization claiming to have discovered the best diet known to date, are preying on the ignorant – the people who know not a smattering about health and nutrition. According to this businessman, who prefers to think of himself as a health guru and “biohacker,” Asprey claims, “Fruit is unhealthy, as it has loads of fructose; instead, eat plenty of grass-fed butter and grass-fed beef; load up on the saturated fats and also drink my Bulletproof Coffee; you will become so much healthier!” His advice has helped thousands of individuals shed fat off their bodies at an astounding pace. But it comes with a price: your health, and possibly your life. It is our goal at Mont Belvieu Clinic to do whatever we can to wake people up from this fraud, to make sure that nobody falls for Asprey's chicanery and artifice ever again. Asprey has also interviewed, and commended, many advocates of the “Ketogenic Diet,” a diet that causes the body to make ketones by dramatically reducing one's intake of carbohydrates, and which substitutes the carbs with a limitless supply of fat and protein. Carbohydrates are the body's primary fuel; by starving one's self of carbs, the body turns to fats from foods and from body fat as its main source for fuel.

Byproducts of this particular metabolism are incredibly acidic substances, known as ketones. This is where the Ketogenic diet gets its name. Practically everyone on this diet loses weight, as the diet allows the body to starve itself, while at the same time, reduces hunger pangs, making it much harder to detect the deleterious effects of the diet. High protein, high fat, and ketogenic diets are commonly associated with thyroid issues, as well as a host of other problems, such as hair loss, tooth decay, lassitude, and even heart palpitations. The diet is dangerous, and should be avoided at all costs. At Mont Belvieu Urgent Care, we beseech the world to do more research on these fad diets before being taken advantage of. People like Dave Asprey are very good at what they do – lying and tricking people into following their particular protocol. Please speak with a licensed nutritionist prior to committing to anything this dramatic. Your future, healthier self will thank you for it.