The experience has also shown me how ignorant we still are in terms of nutrition and medicine. My surgeon basically gaslit me, and handed me 5 different prescriptions. Hopefully we get to a place where nutrition is taking seriously, and we get proper tools to evaluate our body’s health
I would like to add that _all_ of my blood markers improved to completely normal levels when doing keto. Except for cholesterol, which improved too (HDL and LDL) but not to "normal" levels. I've been on statins before (up to max dose over ~15 years) and it did nothing except to cause muscle pain as the dose went up, which caused me to stop them, because the heart is a muscle and a serious (if seldom) side effect of statins is to cause muscles (including the heart) to do things they shouldn't. In an arm muscle it's painful. In a heart muscle it's deadly.
Same experience with gaslighting from most doctors. Not helpful at all. I figured this all out through experimentation and internet research. What triggered it for me was getting migraines worse than drinking 10 bottles of sweet wine from a 333ml bottle of alcohol free beer. A long research period that also explained a lot of previously just weird experiences. And none of the doctors helped at all.
My current GP is awesome though in that regard. She doesn't know much about this stuff either but she's curious. She googled with me, prescribed the blood tests needed etc. Just awesome!
This might just be anecdotal evidence but my body was definitely broken. My gut was b0rked and I was in a cycle of eating more and more carb-y food to not feel hungry/cravy/fatigued all the time.
What getting on the right probiotics and doing keto did for me was what I think is to restore the natural state human bodies should be in again. I finally am able to feel "full" again and eat when I'm actually hungry vs. just eating three meals a day (plus 'cravings').
Now I don't subscribe to any religion but I do think that any religion that includes a "fast" does right is to basically do something akin to keto. I don't believe in any of the religious aspects of fasting but I do recognize that the easiest way to get a large populace to stay healthy is to subscribe them to a religion and then let the religion dictate things that keep them healthy and happy.
E.g. I don't eat breakfast any longer. I just don't need it. I don't feel hungry in the morning any longer. I oftentimes don't even feel hungry at lunch any longer and only do so around maybe 2pm. Not being bound to traditional meals and customs around eating helped me with this. I just go scour the fridge at 2pm to find some cheese and eat some almonds. Maybe some peanut M&Ms (at the office - at home it'd be say raspberries with cream). I can totally recommend peanut M&Ms with cheese actually! Awesome combination!
As you can see in my comment history some people have asked before after comments like this one from me. What I did was try a lot of different probiotics but what I think helped in the end is Garden Of Life - Primal Defense. You don't have to use that brand but what I think did it is the Bacillus Subtilis included in it, which wasn't part of any of the other probiotics I tried. I'm sure there are others that have that one. I started off with 1 a day, then 2 a day, then 3 a day and I felt like crap for a few weeks. Then it all went away and I felt awesome. I'm still on those to make sure I maintain a healthy gut flora but I'm down to one in the morning and one in the evening and I also made Sauerkraut from it (i.e. empty a capsule into your Cabbage and let it ferment).