Episode 16 – A Call to Reason in the Dialogue Around Health with Tyler Cartwright

My guest today is Tyler Cartwright, Tyler is one of the founders of Ketogains, an organization dedicated to helping people not just lose weight, but also, in their words, pursue physical excellence via ketosis. In my opinion they’re one of the best organizations out there in the keto community, summed up nicely as part of […]

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My guest today is Tyler Cartwright, Tyler is one of the founders of Ketogains, an organization dedicated to helping people not just lose weight, but also, in their words, pursue physical excellence via ketosis. In my opinion they’re one of the best organizations out there in the keto community, summed up nicely as part of their mission statement: “chase results, not ketones”, and another part which states “always follow the science”.

As it’s gained popularity, the dialogue around keto has gotten pretty divisive and vitriolic in my opinion. People have begun treating a high fat diet as the cure to all ills, disregarding all contrary evidence in the process. This type of blind faith and disregard of the evidence is the antithesis of the science-based reasoning that brought myself and many others to keto in the first place. The conversation I had with Tyler is VERY different from the one I expected to have, and I’m quite happy with that fact!

In this chat Tyler and I discuss his own story and how he went from 505 pounds to his current 225 with keto, the importance of the context of ones own life on how they should structure their macronutrient requirements, how to have a civilized debate, the pros and cons of the “citizen scientist” movement, and far more than I could summarize here!

So enjoy this wide ranging and insightful conversation with Tyler Cartwright, co-founder of Ketogains.

Notes and resources:

Ketogains website: https://ketogains.com/

Ketogains FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ketogains/

Ketogains Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketogains/

Tyler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cartwright2

Outline:

5:10 – Tyler’s story, how he came across keto and how it impacted his life

7:10 – His weight at his heaviest (over 500 pounds!)

12:10 – The approach he took to diet when he was coming back from his heaviest weight

14:00 – The effect this diet had on Tyler’s mood and need for antidepressants

17:40 – The impact his weight had on his mindset and how it let to these antidepressants

19:55 – The importance of making dietary choices within the context of your own life, activity levels, and genetic predisposition

24:35 – The importance of maintaining a stance of reason in debate, even when the opposition is arguing from emotional grounds

29:50 – Why the types of carbohydrates consumed by athletes may be causal in their diabetic and neurological issues down the road

34:30 – The pros and cons of the citizen scientist movement

31:00 – The scientific approach of the low carb community that drew many people in, and why many engineers and statisticians are becoming vocal members of the community

43:50 – The nuance around how to properly debate an idea, and the de-evolution of debate as a result of social media

51:10 – How the “social media thought bubble” has caused more divisive arguments and less discussion, and why we should celebrate people who admit when they’re wrong based on new information

57:10 – How extremist dietary ideology is formed as a result of the beneficial effects the change had on someone’s health, and how it can cause them to crucify people with more moderate (read: rational) viewpoints

1:09:40 – The protein leverage hypothesis explained

1:12:30 – How the “too much protein is bad for your kidneys” idea came to be so widely accepted

1:17:10 – The danger of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” when it comes to poorly conducted scientific studies

1:21:05 – How completely fictional studies can gain traction in the media, and why we all need to be more diligent in checking the sources of the data we learn from and share

1:25:10 – The damage caused by the proliferation of inaccurate information by the uninformed

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