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It is pretty clear there is WIDE individual variation in response to low carbs.
Low-carb and paleo forums are full of people who eat none or very little sugar and their lipid panels horrify mainstream doctors. See e.g. this or this.
My physical and mental performance improved when I went from VLC to a more moderate 150ish grams a day. My HDL, Triglyceride, and c-reactive protein numbers are great, and my total cholesterol is 220, which is right in the middle of the lowest risk group. We see pretty much every hunter gatherer group using tubers extensively, along with some fruit, as a carb base.
As far as I know going VLC will (typically) push both your LDL and HDL numbers up and will drastically lower your trigs. CRP is an inflammation measure, not part of the lipid panel.
You mean "We see pretty much every tropical hunter gatherer group". The Inuit/Eskimos obviously don't.
The Inuit are a fairly large outlier in dietary makeup.
Then it is all the more important to see how well or badly they do on their diet.
My experience also. I formed the view, based on how I felt, that if I stayed on very low carb for much longer I would die, and a little bit of clean starch really made all the difference.
Indeed. Healthy nutrition is not a matter of making a single choice, and individuals vary greatly in their responses to foods and drugs. (As one example: Green tea puts my blood pressure -up-, quite a lot, up to 12 hours later).
Lustig is making two main points I think:
Carbs aint carbs. Fructose in its various forms is more like a saturated fat metabolically than a carb.
The safe dose of fructose is pretty low for most people.
I haven't heard him advocate VLC.
The most important point is that carbs aint carbs.
True, but then fats ain't fats as well -- different fatty acids have rather different effect on humans. Which is also true of different amino acids...