Healthy Hunter-Gatherer

 Ashley caught COVID-19 in November and was hospitalized. She was never intubated but had serious respiratory issues.  Even after returning home, she has had to have oxygen and even then is not able to keep her saturation high enough to even do simple household chores.   After returning home Ashley researched diet options and decided to try a fairly strict ketogenic diet due to it's reported benefits for being anti-inflammatory, boosting the immune system, and losing weight.  She used ketone strips to test if she was in ketosis and also included ketone salts. Her diet is high fat and low carb already and she's taking Vitamin C & D supplements. Ketone salts are not as fast-acting or concentrated as ketone esters. Ashley got a small bottle of KE4 ketone esters from KetoneAid.com . She already has a spirometer and before taking the esters demonstrated what she was able to blow, which has been stable for weeks. After taking the ketone esters any benefit was very slight.  Her re

 Suzanne Freeman caught COVID-19 back in mid-September 2020.  She was having severe fatigue, some loss of taste, smell, and worse of all breathing issues.  Suzanne was diagnosed with viral pneumonia and tested positive for COVID-19. The lung issues were bad enough that she went to the emergency room twice but luckily her oxygen levels were good enough that she didn't need to stay.  Suzanne recovered from the virus but continued to have fatigue, brain fog, and respiratory issues.   Suzanne is my younger sister and had been following my wife Ana's case in the ICU.  At Ana's funeral in December Suzanne complained of still having lingering "long covid" symptoms. I suggested a strict ketogenic diet based on my own improved health with a low-carb high-fat diet and my wife's drastically improved oxygen levels after trying ketosis induced by fasting after her doctors gave up. Suzanne had tried "keto" before but had issues with "keto flu" and hunger

 I've been eating a fairly consistent ketogenic, high-fat low-carb diet for over 5 years now.  I've seen several definite improvements in my health that happened in both the short and long term.  Here's a list of what I've seen so far and some explanation. Short Term Benefits Respiratory Issues Disappeared Exercise-induced asthma issues went away. I no longer had chronic coughing and breathing issues for much of the year as I had throughout the first 53 years of my life. Immunity In five years since starting a ketogenic diet I haven't been sick with any viral or bacterial infections with the exception of COVID-19.  Even when I had COVID-19 it was just a fever and chills for one night and felt lethargic for 2 days. Zero respiratory issues. The majority of the immunity benefits seemed to kick in within the first few weeks. Energy levels improved Stopped feeling tired later in the day. More consistent energy level and clear thinking throughout the day. Sleep improved S