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The Ketogenic diet has grown exponentially in popularity in recent years especially among the lifting population. In layman’s terms, the Ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet plan based on the concept of using ketones for energy. Whereas carbohydrate consuming individuals run primarily off the glucose derived from carbohydrates, Keto adapted individuals use ketones, which are produced in the absence of carbohydrates, for energy. Sensing that I am massively out of my wheelhouse, I willll happily point readers over to Barbend’s detailed, and decidedly more scientific, evaluation of Keto, found here. Moving back to matters of history, it is notable that numerous lifters, sprinters, and athletes of various disciplines have appeared to have dabbled in Keto from one time to another. The past decade, in particular, has witnessed a remarkable increase in the diet’s popularity. Scroll online and you’ll read seemingly miraculous weight loss stories based on the Keto diet. You’ll hear of increased caloric intakes with no ramifications and you’ll come across a variety of Supraketo Keto Pills based supplements.

Keto, like vegetarianism and, more recently veganism, has become a trendy way of eating. However, this was not always the case. In fact for many decades, a Keto diet was only associated with the fringes of the lifting community, only indulged in for brief periods of time and for extreme circumstances. It was not the lifestyle it has become today. With this in mind, today’s article looks at the history of the Keto diet, from its early origins in the nineteenth century to the Joe Rogan fueled times of today. Before delving into today’s post, a few qualifications are in order. In its strictest sense, Keto diets, as used in the medical setting, are defined as high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrate eating plans. When dealing with Keto in the bodybuilding and lifting community, more leeway is usually found in eating plans, so long as carbohydrate intake is kept low.

We’ll be focusing on the decidedly less scientific world of Keto as found in the gymnasium and training facility. The Ketogenic diet, as we understand it, came about first through medical texts, but we’ll be exploring popular understandings of Keto as found in the fitness community. As will become clear, Supraketo Keto Pills the Keto diet, or at least the habits inspired by it, have been popularized at several points over the past century. Editor’s note: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed herein and in the video are the author’s and don’t necessarily reflect the views of BarBend. Claims, assertions, opinions, and quotes have been sourced exclusively by the author. Strangely, given its later medical importance for those suffering from epilepsy, one of the original low carb diets originates with an English undertaker named William Banting. Weighing over two hundred pounds in 1862, Banting was, by his own admission, at a complete loss about how to improve his health. I could not stoop to tie my shoes, so to speak, nor to attend to the little offices humanity requires without considerable pain and difficulty which only the corpulent can understand.

I have been compelled to go downstairs slowly backward to save the jar of increased weight on the knee and ankle joints and have been obliged to puff and blow over every slight exertion, particularly that of going upstairs … A complete overhaul was needed and that’s what Dr. William Harvey suggested when he met Banting in August 1862. An ear, nose, and throat doctor by speciality, Harvey suggested a low carbohydrate diet focused on fatty meats alongside small amounts of fruit and the occasional piece of toast. It wasn’t the high fat, avocado infused diets of 2019, but it was among the first times that a low carbohydrate diet was prescribed for weight loss. Banting’s subsequent account of his weight loss, which approached fifty pounds, became an international best seller (3). Such was Banting’s influence that in some countries the term ‘banting’ still refers to low carb diets. Thus, low carb diets for weight loss had begun.

The early 1900s witnessed the birth of bodybuilding and lifting culture as we understand it. As detailed on Barbend, this was a time period when ‘physical culture’ emerged as an acceptable form of exercise. Understood to mean activities related to dumbbells, barbells, gymnastics and calisthenics, physical culturists were the bodybuilders and nutritional coaches of the age. Despite their ingenuity when it came to training - just check out George Hackenschmidt’s exercises - physical culturists tended to be quite reserved when it came to nutrition advice for lifters. Others, like Eustace Miles, prescribed a strict vegetarian diet, while the Saxon Brothers were notorious for drinking copious amounts of beer during their workouts. These men helped establish our modern lifting communities (5). Despite this, their dietary advice was either conservative i.e. proteins and vegetables or questionable i.e. beer during sets. The ‘science’ of weightlifting was evolving, but food was still seen as a secondary concern.