When you talk about a keto diet, it means a low-carb
and high-fat diet. And compared with the baseline diet,
the low-carb diet did not cause subjects to experience an increase in fat loss.
It lacked a control for comparison, and while the baseline diet was designed to keep
participants at about the same levels of
energy burn they experienced outside of the study, the participants started to lose weight on that diet too.
But they didn’t, which he thinks suggests that
the regulation of fat tissue storage in the body has to do with more than just
insulin levels and their relationship (...)