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StakeMeOutTonight59 karma

This intrigues me. I expected you'd get asked this on reddit, but your answer suggests people ask you this IRL. Frequently. Really frequently.

Huh.

StakeMeOutTonight23 karma

Technically I am allergic to sugar, but you can't stop consuming sugar due to an allergy to it because you would die.

Does the amount of sugar in your diet matter? If it does, have you ever tried keto or another extremely low-carb way of eating, like zero carb, to see how it would affect you?

I personally am zero carb (meaning I eat no plant materials except in spices and stuff, but that could be cut out). Sort of like the traditional Inuit diet that was exclusively animal flesh and fat. I'm just wondering how something like that would affect your condition because I'm certainly not in danger of dying over here from not eating sugar, lol.

edit: Since this is upsetting people, I'll elaborate. OP said you can't stop consuming sugar or you die. That's patently not true - there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate for consumption. Essential amino acids, yes. Essential fatty acids, yes. You do not need to consume carbohydrates or face death, which is what OP said. Your body will produce the minimal amounts it needs from gluconeogenesis and remain in a ketogenic state. Hence my question of whether the AMOUNT of sugar in her diet matters. Allergy responses can increase or decrease in relation to the amount of allergen present. So I was curious if that was the case here, and a diet without consumption of sugars was helpful at all to her condition.

StakeMeOutTonight10 karma

Oh, of course, even while in a ketogenic state your body will perform gluconeogenesis for the parts of your body that require glucose... But OP said you have to CONSUME sugar or you die. I certianly don't agree with that, or else the Inuit would have gone extinct a long time ago! And I was asking if the amount of sugar in her diet affected her. Some allergies do depend on the amount of allergen you're in contact with. If she were in a ketogenic state and not consuming sugar, I was wondering if that would improve anything for her. Just curious.

StakeMeOutTonight10 karma

All I eat is animal products. (So there are some eggs and a bit of dairy in there, plus some spices.)

It's fine, people freak out about it, but the Inuit and Maasai tribes with traditional diets didn't exactly go extinct. They're extremely healthy, in fact.

StakeMeOutTonight5 karma

Many people who adopt a ZC diet tend to like their meat more and more raw as time goes on, with plenty ending up consuming only raw meat. I'm finding I like my steaks rarer and rarer.