Does Keto Cause Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)?
Ketogenic therapy is an effective treatment for many health conditions from metabolic dysfunction to type 2 diabetes to neurological and psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia. It is important that individuals get accurate information about how a medical keto diet might influence their long-term health outcomes. Unfortunately, sometimes poorly designed studies are a source of misinformation that can cause people to fear medical keto unnecessarily.
In this video, Dr. Bret Scher shares an example of a misleading article from 2019 published by the American Heart Association that suggests a correlation between low-carb diets and Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), a heart condition that causes palpitations and can even lead to heart attack or stroke. For anyone interested in a keto diet, it is critical to note that there is a difference between a low-carb diet and a ketogenic diet. The therapeutic properties of a medical keto diet are due to the physiologic state of ketosis, not simply from eating a diet that is relatively lower-carb when compared to the Standard American Diet (SAD). Participants in the study ate far too many grams of carbs to be consistently in a state of ketosis, and the study had confounding factors that could easily skew results.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:02 What is atrial fibrillation?
2:24 Why do people think keto causes AFib?
3:20 Flaws in the study design
4:33 Ketosis is a physiologic state, not a diet
5:09 Conclusion
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