+1! Prayers, Curious!My grandmother has Parkinson's and I told her to talk to her Dr about helping her with a keto diet to manage her symptoms and he told her he wouldn't, and that keto diets are "only for epileptics." So it's great to hear someone actually trying what research is showing to be beneficial! Best wishes!

Thank you.I am sorry to hear about your grandmother's doctor.  🙁  I do not see my doctor often, but he is pretty mainstream.  I have not even discussed this with him, and probably won't.  I have been on the lookout for a new doctor, one who is maybe on the Paleo or Primal doctor networks AND who is covered by my insurance -- and so far, I don't think one exists.  So I am on my own with this.That realization that we are pretty much on our own -- that is why I am doing this.  I've had 2+ years of abnormal test results with no answers.  No recommendations, no sit down and let's discuss this, just a very impersonal call from a nurse to let me know that they want to take another piece of my body that I will never get back.  I wanted to let you know that I emailed Dr. Thomas Seyfried personally, and he actually responded.  He emailed me a "kit" of information, which has a list of doctors who are experienced in using the ketogenic diet for cancer.  Lots of great links and info there.  For those who don't know, Dr. Seyfried is a professor of Biology at Boston College, and author of:Cancer as a Metabolic Disease:  On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancerhttp://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413820548&sr=8-1&keywords=thomas+seyfried

Would you say your BF% is high? Over 15%?RB

My body fat is 40% maybe more.

I remember a podcast where someone, maybe it was kiefer, said that people with higher BF % can benefit from a refeed period longer than every 7 days. I have heard of people having a CN every 10 or 15 days. Maybe someone else can chime in with the right information.RB

+1 yep

I just did 6 weeks of strict Keto. High fat, moderate protein, low carb. I was inspired by Peter Attia's experiments and thought I'd try them. I had everything dialed in and was in Ketosis the entire time. I kept my workouts reasonable and consistent. supplemented sodium etc… I felt literally amazing for the first 4 weeks, especially weeks 2-4. Incredible mental energy, I got quite lean, sleep was great etc. I should add that I started this diet at roughly 12%Bf, so my main goal was to have more energy. Unfortunately between weeks 5-6 I noticed a distinct change. It was definitely metabolic slow down. My entire system felt down-regulated. My strength went down. Low libido. Appetite was nil and I just felt generally lethargic and bored. I made the decision to do a sensible carb refeed. I did three short spikes. Had a few sweets but nothing insane. I never got sick or felt ill from the sugar and I woke up the next day feeling great. All the metabolic stuff was gone. Muscles were full and I felt leaner. I was back in ketosis in 2.5 days. Honestly I think the carb nite every 7th day is arbitrary. For some, like the above poster it serves more of a psychological benefit. There are so many individual factors(training, age, BF%, genetics etc) Some may only truly NEED a refeed every couple weeks. Some need one multiple times a week. I do think that a lot of the excess junk people eat on CNS is unnecessary. It helps do understand there are sensible refeeds and then are cheat meals. This is just my experience. You should eat carbs, when YOU need to eat carbs.  I loved the way that strict keto felt for those first 4 weeks but I don't think its a reasonable approach for most people. I t requires way too much tweaking and I didn't like being that hyper-vigilant about my macros.  In other words, its very easy to get Nutritional Ketosis wrong and its a pretty binary state. You're in or youre out. I think Kiefer is absolutely right, I just think that the CNS/CBL both require a lot of individualization. It takes time figure out what is right for you.For now I will eat keto and just do refeeds when my body tells me to do them, not every 7 days no matter what. Just my experience

I think Carb Nite is really based on how you feel.. like an auto-regulating thing on a weekly basis.What I've come to terms with doing throughout the last two years has been this.Carb nite would be a Friday. I'd check my weight in the morning on a thursday. If I lost weight, I'd go another week of ULC. If I stayed the same or gained weight the following thursday, I do a carb nite the following day.If at any moment you start to feel something ain't right with the body.. I'd have a mineral enriched meal that may have more carbs than advised (similar to a carb backload).. and the next day or so I'd stick in a HIIT regime. But I seldom hit rock bottom like that.. I used to do it a lot more earlier in the diet.To prolong my ULC so I don't suffer any thyroid problems or have any hormonial imbalance.. I take a multi-vitamin supplement that contains Selenium.. a Thyroid supplement that contains iodine (150 mg is used to create thyroid response.. but greater than 450 is too much). For heart palpiations, I carry around a container of salt substitute (potassium chloride).. 1/2 a teaspoon with sea salt (sodium chloride).. 1/4th a teaspoon.. and a supplement of 400mg of magnesium.You can by-pass supplementation if you take whole foods.. which I don't. Mainly because there are veggies that do have carbs in them.. and it can be expensive paying for them everyday.When playing around with multi-vitamins.. you have to find two supplements where it doesn't contain common ingredients.. so that it's non-interferring. Thankfully I found a multi-vitamin supplement that gives me everything I need.. and a thyroid supplement that only provide iodine and very low dosage of other minerals.