We’ve been doing low carb diets wrong for 100 years.
Viva Longevity’s mission is to find scientists who can cut through the fog of misinformation.
PAPERS:
Low-Carbohydrate Diets of Varying Macronutrient Quality and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Three U.S. Prospective Cohort Studies by Binkai Liu and Qi Sun et al.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12635889/
Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03570-5
Harvard: Different Dietary Fat, Different Risk of Mortality
5-Year effects of a novel continuous remote care model with carbohydrate-restricted nutrition therapy including nutritional ketosis in type 2 diabetes: An extension study by Virta Health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39433217/
Long-Term Effects of a Novel Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A 2-Year Non-randomized Clinical Trial
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2019.00348/full
VIDEOS:
Harvard says Red Meat is WORSE than Junk Food
Influencers vs Epidemiologists: Money & Fame vs Science
HARVARD: Red Meat Raises Diabetes Risk 62%. INTERNET: Nope.
0:00 Protein, fat & carbs
1:45 Harvard Study: Low carb diets and diabetes
5:50 Losing weight
7:31 Why Harvard studies nurses
10:27 The Virta Health study
12:05 Food frequency questionnaires
15:24 The four low carb diets evaluated
16:42 Potatoes & resistant starch
19:31 Red meat
25:46 The causes of type 2 diabetes
30:32 Exercise & weight loss
34:32 My conclusion