Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

Could not help but marvel at Rick's post today about these two....

We just started the high fat diet sunday, have lost four pounds already. Not too much change in symptoms but hey, we're on day three and yesterday there was a small slip (ate an eggroll, oh no!), so I think, so far, so good.

In researching this diet, one thing I read was that many years ago, we ate foods that were high in potassium and quite low in sodium. Humans did quite well on that diet. But now, as we all know, that is reversed in exponential amount. We eat a ton of salt, it's in everything, and very little potassium. Some quick research on these two and you see how the balance reversing in this way is not good.

One of the things about the high fat diet is it is naturally lower in sodium than a normal diet, which probably explains the initial weight loss (water) from less sodium being eaten. My humble opinion, of course. But perhaps this is one of the ways that it helps, besides throwing the body into ketosis, it gets the body closer to the natural potassium/sodium balance it should have.

This high fat diet, by the way, is not really compatible with the "Minding My Mitochondria" diet we were doing. That diet is very high in veggies and fruits: with the high fat diet, you eat one fruit and you've blown all the carbs you get for the day. Forget about a fruit smoothie. Since the high fat diet is and has been used with some astonishing success for epilepsy, and at least one study of PWP showing 43% improvement after only 28 days on the diet, we are going for the high fat diet and going off the high veggie/fruit one. For now. Will keep everyone posted as we go, I have read this diet is very hard to stick with.