Alicia Mackey Huber explains why strict keto for 6-8 weeks straight raises cortisol, tanking sleep and causing hair loss. She recommends cycling in carbs periodically and taking green-tea extract to keep hormone balance while staying in ketosis.
I found that for most guys if they do omad the one meal a day so they're doing relatively long intermittent fasting and they're doing keto without a break that they usually about six, eight weeks they start seeing cortisol levels go up and up which feels good at first because cortisol and adrenaline are energy sources but then you start waking up and you're like sleep quality just went to hell and your sleep score is no good and then you wake up without a kickstand and then your hair gets a little bit thin. These are all like high cortisol things. Um so I've, I always that's one of the reasons my recommendations were maybe you should cycle in and out of ketosis. Also SHBG goes up on a keto diet over time right? And so that was my one hard thing with the bulletproof stuff is why is SHBG so high and green tea extract EGCG will lower it to a certain extent so will having some carbs already so.
