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Source: edinburghnews.scotsman.com<\/p>\n

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The ketogenic diet – or ‘keto’ for short – is a high fat, low carb, restrictive eating plan that promises to help you lose weight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It has also been deemed effective in treating epilepsy, but has been widely criticised by nutritionists for being restrictive and extreme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now a study published in\u00a0Frontiers in Endocrinology, warns of another concern – keto may have an unexpected side effect of weakening athletes’ bones during intense training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Athletes on keto diet showed greater signs of bone breakdown<\/h2>\n
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Researchers from the Australian Institute of Sport and Australian Catholic University looked at 30 elite race walkers (25 male and five female) over three and a half weeks of intense athletic training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About half of the group were assigned to a low carb, high fat ketogenic diet, getting between 75 and 80 per cent of their daily calories from fat. The other half stuck to a high carb diet. Both groups consumed the same amount of calories, relative to their body weight, and both groups ate a moderate amount of protein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The team found that the athletes on the keto diet showed greater signs of bone breakdown than they had at the start of the study. Athletes on a high carb diet, however, showed no significant difference, according to the test results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After reintroducing carbs into their diet, the keto athletes saw some improvement in their bone health, but they weren’t back to full strength, the researchers found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These results suggest that the ketogenic diet somehow sped up the breakdown of athletes’ bones during intense exercise, and inhibited recovery, although it’s not exactly clear how.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Criticisms of keto diet<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The new findings come alongside other criticisms of the diet, with experts suggesting that keto is only safe and effective over a short period of time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some experts have even warned that a longterm keto diet can damage the heart muscle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We believe that the keto diet may affect bone metabolism due to the downstream effects of low-carbohydrate availability on certain hormones, along with other factors,” said Louise Burke, lead author of the study and head of sports nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not clear from this study how the keto diet will affect bone health over a longer period of time and whether athletes may be able to adapt the diet to reduce symptoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3069,3070,139,83],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-gain","tag-bones","tag-injury","tag-keto-diet","tag-risk"],"yoast_head":"\nFollowing a keto diet could weaken your bones and increase your risk of injury - MyMedicPlus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/following-a-keto-diet-could-weaken-your-bones-and-increase-your-risk-of-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Following a keto diet could weaken your bones and increase your risk of injury - 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