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Dr. Chris Masterjohn on Keto, Carnivore Diets, Vitamin D

David Gornoski

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The Average American Is Never Truly Entering the Fasting State

The fed state is mediated partly by calories and partly by carbohydrate. The average person on a perpetual keto diet is never truly entering the fed state. And I would point to the fact that just from an evolutionary perspective, at the equator where we evolved, there was has always been abundant carbohydrate foods. We were always eating carbohydrates at least because even people who were living in temperate zones and going through winter would be eating as much carbohydrates as they could get their hands on also.

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