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Great point, plus the body can make glucose on its own if it's needed, so those keto people still have glucose, it's just 99.9% of the body is burning fat, so there isn't much demand for that glucose.

Bonus fact: the emerging literature is linking long term neurodegenerative diseases (dementia, Alzheimer's, parkinson's, etc) to impaired brain glucose metabolism... I.e the more insulin resistant someone becomes the more energy starved their brains are, but even in those people ketones feed the brain without impairment

Yeah, bread is carbohydrates and your body turns all carbohydrates into glucose in your blood, however high blood sugar isn't great so the body releases insulin to get blood sugar back to normal.. the insulin forces your fat cells to take in all this new glucose (that's how it lowers your blood sugar)...

Therefore - bread makes you fat.

some small human studies, people who ate a protein-restricted diet for several weeks lost weight and fat mass, and saw improvements in their fasting blood sugar—even though people on these diets tended to eat more calories.

Fgf21 will do that, but is it a long term benefit in humans? We have other ways of reducing human blood sugars while eating more calories (keto).

The actual papart they are talking about https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpblue.2026.100079

Conversely, a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet was recently shown to be less effective than a moderate-protein diet in lowering blood glucose, improving glucose tolerance, and promoting prediabetes remission.[38]

And if you follow reference 38 you will see low carb is 45% energy from carbs.... No where near a fat based metabolism, which is what most people will think from "low carb"

These seemingly contradictory studies leave many wondering what the optimal amount of dietary protein is for healthy aging

It's not contradictory, the epidemiology they use and the one off 45% energy from glucose study they call low carb - don't control for underlying metabolism. Yes in the context of a high glucose diet consuming low protein will activate fgf21 increasing metabolic rates by 20ish% showing blood glucose improvements... But that isn't the only lever, and quite frankly if you want better control of blood glucose maybe a glucose free diet should be considered by the authors.

Good for you, but the discussion in this comment thread has always been about his politics

No... it has been about mullvad being a great browser that just acts like a browser.

that is literally what the first reply to your comment in this chain was about.

and i've addressed why that hot take is just a whataboutism and purity testing doesn't belong in open source discussions.

Don’t engage in the first place if you are so unwilling to discuss it.

Same to you buddy! This is my thread your badgering me on.