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The title of this paper is so deliberately misleading that I flagged the submission.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that the human response to ketosis would be at all similar to that of rats. And rats are what they studied.

As long as rags like Nature keep publishing this garbage, hacks will keep producing it. Sad state of affairs all around.

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While I agree they should be more clear that the main focus of the study is about rats, reading the study suggests they did link it to human patients with atrial fibrosis. AF patients had higher β-OHB concentrations than healthy people, which is one of the by products of a ketogenic diet. Not a direct link to KD, but certain a point of interest. I think this study is a decent case for follow up studies at the very least.

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