Ketogenic Benefits

JessicaFit89

I have been on the Keto diet a few times. Unfortunately, my emotional and life situations have caused me to stop wanting to be healthy. Each time I re-enter ketosis, I immediately feel relief of arthritic pain, my skin clears up, I feel satiated throughout the day, earwax levels go to normal, bloating dissipates, and weight drops. Is anyone else currently on a ketogenic diet? I’m hoping to make this a lifestyle change for good.

maureenkhilde

Hi, there is a Lower Carb Forum Group here on MFP. Look under home and you should see it. There are lots of threads about Keto there, recipes, grocery lists. And discussions, more so there than here on the main board. Good Luck.

iheartmyyorkie

psychod787 wrote: »

I think it cures HIV, warts, and feeds the homeless.... No.... its just a tool.

No way. Keto saved my marriage, healed an ingrown toenail, and resolved my outstanding credit card debt.

kimny72

Wait. Serious question. Carbs cause excess earwax? How?

Luke_rabbit

It's wonderful that you are having a good experience with a keto diet. Many people do. Based on your symptoms, it's possible that this diet eliminates a food that you have a serious intolerance or allergy to. That's something you may want to explore with a medical professional. Good luck keeping it going long term. Definitely find keto friends here on MFP and try out the low carb group. ♥️

MPDean

Changing from factory to office based work did wonders for my earwax. I must admit I didn't control for carbs so maybe not relevant to the current discussion.

psuLemon

I am following a ketogenic diet right now, but I didn't go in with any health issues. For me, it just satiates me enough that i can get leaner. So far, its worked very efficiently.

It seems that there are a subset of individuals that see much more benefits from it, like my wife. It seems that if a person has some hormonal or insulin issue, that they respond much more.

MikePTY

bold_rabbit wrote: »

It's wonderful that you are having a good experience with a keto diet. Many people do. Based on your symptoms, it's possible that this diet eliminates a food that you have a serious intolerance or allergy to. That's something you may want to explore with a medical professional. Good luck keeping it going long term. Definitely find keto friends here on MFP and try out the low carb group. ♥️

Yeah my guess would be that the OP has a food allergy to something they ate on their non-ketogenic diet that goes away because they are no longer eating it when they are drastically restricting carbs. As far as I know, some of the benefits the OP is mentioning aren't benefits that are mentioned by even the biggest of Keto pushers.

AnnPT77

kimny72 wrote: »

Wait. Serious question. Carbs cause excess earwax? How?

Y'know, even though I'm going to get a flurry of "disagrees" on this, I think I've seen differences in earwax under different conditions of health and diet. Didn't have anything to do with carbs as far as I know, and I'm not even going to try to pin it down. Personally and only in retrospect, with the admission that it may be purely coincidental stuff, I had drier earwax (which tended to build up) over the period when I had undiagnosed cancer, and softer after treatment in remission; and there seems to be somewhat less buildup during periods when my diet is overall more balanced (not sure if that's actually about quantity produced vs. how much sticks around, or even just imaginary).

The human brain likes to see causation where there's only really coincidence-based correlation, and pretty scant correlation at that. Ear wax is a bodily secretion. Is it affected by diet in some way? Probably, it seems to me. Can one draw any conclusions from it? I'm thinking not. Quick search finds no relevant research, but I didn't try very hard.

This is a really weird thing, IMO, to claim as a benefit of keto (or any other diet). How much earwax should we have, and of what nature?

kimny72

AnnPT77 wrote: »

kimny72 wrote: »

Wait. Serious question. Carbs cause excess earwax? How?

Y'know, even though I'm going to get a flurry of "disagrees" on this, I think I've seen differences in earwax under different conditions of health and diet. Didn't have anything to do with carbs as far as I know, and I'm not even going to try to pin it down. Personally and only in retrospect, with the admission that it may be purely coincidental stuff, I had drier earwax (which tended to build up) over the period when I had undiagnosed cancer, and softer after treatment in remission; and there seems to be somewhat less buildup during periods when my diet is overall more balanced (not sure if that's actually about quantity produced vs. how much sticks around, or even just imaginary).

The human brain likes to see causation where there's only really coincidence-based correlation, and pretty scant correlation at that. Ear wax is a bodily secretion. Is it affected by diet in some way? Probably, it seems to me. Can one draw any conclusions from it? I'm thinking not. Quick search finds no relevant research, but I didn't try very hard.

This is a really weird thing, IMO, to claim as a benefit of keto (or any other diet). How much earwax should we have, and of what nature?

Yeah, I went down the rabbithole in my head, but just asked the one question here. Nobody talks about ear wax. I have so many questions. I'm sure my GP will be thrilled with all my ear wax questions at my next checkup

corinasue1143

For me, ear wax from allergies kinda correlates with nose. Runny nose=runny ear wax. Stopped up nose=stopped up ears.
No allergies=no problems, ear or nose. Allergies worse + lots of sugar = even worse allergy problems, ear wax on pillow and in hair in the morning, nose runny all night long.
Makes sense to me that a food allergy would cause more ear wax. (Or food intolerance).

AnnPT77

kimny72 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

kimny72 wrote: »

Wait. Serious question. Carbs cause excess earwax? How?

Y'know, even though I'm going to get a flurry of "disagrees" on this, I think I've seen differences in earwax under different conditions of health and diet. Didn't have anything to do with carbs as far as I know, and I'm not even going to try to pin it down. Personally and only in retrospect, with the admission that it may be purely coincidental stuff, I had drier earwax (which tended to build up) over the period when I had undiagnosed cancer, and softer after treatment in remission; and there seems to be somewhat less buildup during periods when my diet is overall more balanced (not sure if that's actually about quantity produced vs. how much sticks around, or even just imaginary).

The human brain likes to see causation where there's only really coincidence-based correlation, and pretty scant correlation at that. Ear wax is a bodily secretion. Is it affected by diet in some way? Probably, it seems to me. Can one draw any conclusions from it? I'm thinking not. Quick search finds no relevant research, but I didn't try very hard.

This is a really weird thing, IMO, to claim as a benefit of keto (or any other diet). How much earwax should we have, and of what nature?

Yeah, I went down the rabbithole in my head, but just asked the one question here. Nobody talks about ear wax. I have so many questions. I'm sure my GP will be thrilled with all my ear wax questions at my next checkup

If you learn anything useful, please report back. I'm already hectoring my GP about a couple of issues that I personally actually care about, so I can't afford to use my 15 minutes up on ear wax questions right now.

middlehaitch

OK so silly story time.

When my younger sister was 5 and had just started school a child in the class yelled out ‘look at all that yellow’

30+ small children start looking, then hunting, around the classroom trying to spot the yellow.

Eventually the teacher gets them all setttled down and asks the child where the yellow is.

Child points to neighbours ear ‘in there, in there’ he/she says.

When my sister, with great excitement, told us all the story at home we, for some unknown reason, found it hilarious and would call on ‘look at all that yellow’ at strange times to get us giggling for a couple of years after the event.

Fast forward 60 years.
3 mid 60’s sisters, 1 90+ mother, and one, trying to ignore all the chatter, brother in law driving us from Scotland to England.

Nice green fields are admired by all then mum, in all innocence, chirps up ‘look at all that yellow’ pointing at a rape seed field.

Well that hit us all the same way and we started laughing so hard we were crying.

Smart BIL pulled over at a nice country pub so we could all run to the toilet then settle down and enjoy a drink while explaining the whole story to him. (He doesn’t drink)

End of story.

Just to note, I live in Canada, one sis in England, one sis in Scotland, so the gang of us doing a road trip is a rare and enjoyable experience.

Posted this just so I can follow the ear wax developments.

Cheers, h.