I'm a bit more skeptical of the CIM than I was in the past, but the EBM to me just seems hilariously inadequate to explain the obesity crisis.
It's like if a patient came to their doctor complaining of water retention, and the doctor said "well clearly you're drinking more than you're excreting" and sent the patient home with instructions to drink less and pee more.
My hunch with the CIM is that a human in good health can pretty effortlessly maintain a non-obese weight without much regard for things like macronutrient balance, but that some fairly widespread factor has disrupted that regulation mechanism in a large fraction of the population.
That in a sense a keto/low-carb diet is a workaround for a mechanism that's broken in a lot of people, rather than some platonic ideal of how everyone should be eating.
As to what broke it, there are some interesting hypotheses here [https://slimemoldtimemold.com] but no clear answers.
I do personally feel a bit better eating a lower glycemic diet (from the standpoint of consistent energy levels), but I haven't achieved any weight loss that way (BMI hovers just under 25).
It's like if a patient came to their doctor complaining of water retention, and the doctor said "well clearly you're drinking more than you're excreting" and sent the patient home with instructions to drink less and pee more.
My hunch with the CIM is that a human in good health can pretty effortlessly maintain a non-obese weight without much regard for things like macronutrient balance, but that some fairly widespread factor has disrupted that regulation mechanism in a large fraction of the population.
That in a sense a keto/low-carb diet is a workaround for a mechanism that's broken in a lot of people, rather than some platonic ideal of how everyone should be eating.
As to what broke it, there are some interesting hypotheses here [https://slimemoldtimemold.com] but no clear answers.
I do personally feel a bit better eating a lower glycemic diet (from the standpoint of consistent energy levels), but I haven't achieved any weight loss that way (BMI hovers just under 25).