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I don't know if you've read Brain Energy by Chris Palmer MD, but you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced.

I used to be ketogenic, but ultimately moved to consuming more simple sugar from fruit juice etc per Ray Peat.

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There's a very, very low chance that consuming fruit juice will improve health.

Consuming fruit, sure.

Juice goes (almost) straight to the bloodstream and messes up an entire range of things (digestion, liver, glycation stuff, etc).

This is a belief that I held for years, leading me to avoid all of that stuff, yet increasing juice intake has been very helpful for feeling good and functioning well.

Then increase fruit instead and get the best of both worlds.

Note: Ray Peat is a crazy person who Twitter bro-science picked up, the kind of guys who were previously into keto and supplements that don't do anything.

They're similar in that they love saturated fat and red meat, and think vegetable oils are bad, but he also wants you to eat ice cream and sugar.

The ice cream part is possibly correct: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...

More-or-less, I guess. The methods work well for my feeling good and functioning well. e.g., no more migraines, reduced intensity of springtime allergies, more energy, better resistance to stress, etc.

"you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced."

So, bias confirmation? That is the opposite of scientific.

I did use the bad word "confirmation", but I don't think it's harmful to look at scientific dialogue which aligns with what one experiences so as to understand that experience better, from new perspectives, find caveats, etc.

If we believe that our personal experiences can be an ingredient of real knowledge about the world, etc

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