Articles tagged with "keto"

The 2025 Keto Mice Update

29 September 2025

Some recent research has pointed to some potential health impacts for those on the keto diet long-term. I wrote about the keto diet in the newsletter in May 2023, so I was interested to see this update as we are sorely lacking long term data on the impacts of this diet on healthy people. Although the diet has been used since the 1920s as an intervention for some specific health conditions such as epilepsy, I am more interested in whether it is an unnecessary risk for those who do not have a specific medical condition.

What the research says about the keto diet

1 May 2023

The ketogenic (keto) diet is based on reducing carbohydrate intake drastically, usually to less than 50g a day, and increasing protein and particularly fat intake.