Reddit reviews Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life
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Brain Maker:
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> I couldn't imagine staying on keto for the entirety of my life. Low carb yeah, but keto, while awesome for weight loss, is ott for maintenance imo.
You should take a look at what carbs do to your body, in the short term and over time. Those books listed on the keto calculator page are not just different variations on "cut carbs, lose weight." This is not "Read one, you've read them all." The historical context of why we have been told to eat lots of carbs and limit fat, despite so much science to the contrary, is complex and cannot be covered in a single volume. The depth and domino effects of the problem are still being figured out.
I'd start with The Big Fat Surprise as a contextual basis for Grain Brain, which in turn prepares you for Brain Maker. Big Fat Surprise meticulously pieces together the origin and evolution of the carbohydrate boom, and Grain Brain and Brain Maker explain how to get yourself out of its path. Judging by the perspective that you appear to be coming from, the first chapter of BFS will probably drop your jaw. And it just keeps going like that. This is a seriously deep rabbit hole.
>I'm also critical of the possible long term health implications, scurvy, immune function etc.
I'm not sure I understand. I could not carry in my arms the variety of vegetables that are abundant with Vitamin C. As for immune function, low carb is pretty well-established as a positive contributor. Like I said, domino effects. It's all in those books. How did we get vitamin C before the adoption of vegetables and fruit into our diets? Again, it's in the books.
You don't even need to buy them. You can probably borrow them from your local library, in either physical or e-book form. My library even loans its e-books through Amazon, so they go straight to my Kindle. It's a pretty slick system.
There are neurons in your guts. It is often likened to a second brain. And the gut flora do release chemicals that can affect you in many ways. An unhealthy gut biome can lead to anxiety and ADD symptoms.
There is a book you might be interested in called Brain Maker where a doctor writes about his experiences helping people's gut flora to help their overall mental and physical health. As a caveat though, he is very anti-wheat (his first book Grain Brain is about how the modern form of wheat is not healthy). Ignore the accolades from Dr. Oz, it's a good book.