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At Day 8 of the 30-day series, Dr. Mike stepped on the scale up 0.5 lb, but he'd just had 32 oz of water on the commute, so he wrote he was still about where he started. One water-heavy morning reading after 160 burgers isn't a verdict on eating burgers every day weight, it's a data p
Key takeaways Keto and triglycerides usually move the same way, and that way is down, while LDL cholesterol can climb in the same month. Pooled randomized trials point one way for triglycerides and another way for LDL in lean people. Keto and triglycerides usually move the same way, and that way is down, while LDL
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Key takeaways Here is the honest answer to the Day 15 Keto Project question I get most: there was no halfway blood draw. The book lists four testing points, and none of them sits at the midpoint. Here is the honest answer to the Day 15 Keto Project question I get most: there was no
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Dark kitchen, one lamp, meter beeps, number is up. You ate nothing. Welcome to the club. A fasting glucose in ketosis often reads higher than it did on carbs, and in a lean, fat-adapted person that is usually a change in fuel priority, not a disease. Two things stack. Physiological insulin resistance, where muscle stops
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Training on an all meat diet felt worse before it felt boring, and the nausea arrived before the fatigue did. In the middle of the burger month, Dr. Mike was walking into hard sessions already sick, and the honest answer is that a full gut and a half-built fuel system are a bad pair. The
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On day 6 of the 30-day burger experiment, Dr. Mike ate all 20 patties in one sitting to see if he'd get the so-called meat sweats, and instead spent the next several hours with a hot face and no appetite. What he was demonstrating, on camera, is protein induced thermogenesis: the extra work you
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Key takeaways The burger 300 halfway point is Day 15 of 30, and it was the worst of the month: three hundred patties down, three hundred to go, and nothing in the data pointing upward. The book's journal for Day 15 has him waking twice in the night with urgent bathroom trips and writing that
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I needed a subject who could read his own labs and finish the protocol, so a fit doctor eats 600 burgers instead of an average eater. Dr. Mike Brandon came in with a trained baseline, which let the experiment isolate the meat itself rather than measure someone going from unhealthy to worse. The film
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Saturated fat on keto cleared the federal ten percent cap on day one of this experiment, and it was never close. A fit doctor, Dr. Michael Brandon, ate twenty plain fast-food patties a day for thirty days on camera, and the film shows his own on-camera count of fifty grams of saturated fat inside a
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Key takeaways Day 20 of The Keto Project was a short, ugly entry: Dr. Mike woke with nausea, a headache and a stomachache, then got an unusual burst of energy at midday, two-thirds of the way through eating 600 burgers in 30 days. Day 20 of The Keto Project was a short, ugly entry: Dr.
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